Weinergate continues to become exponentially more absurd: “Weiner’s Office Calls The Police After CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer Asks For An Interview.”
A Washington Democrat kicking CBS out of his office? That has to be a first:
Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.
So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.
You’ll never believe what happened.
Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.
Kramer walked in to Weiner’s office, announced herself as being from CBS 2 in New York City and said she’d like to see the congressman. Those few words created quite the stir. Doors slammed and people pretended she wasn’t there.
Finally, brave press secretary David Arnold arrived. The following is the exchange Kramer had with him:
Kramer: “All I want is for him to say something to his constituents, the people who have to vote for him.”
Arnold: “I don’t think you can say he hasn’t said anything to his constituents. He spoke for nine hours yesterday.
Kramer: “But not to anyone in New York. You know, this is the sort of in-the-bunker in the capitol, not to anyone in New York.”
After Kramer left Weiner’s office, his staff called the Capitol Police.
Police officers asked for identification. One cop told Kramer that if she went into Weiner’s office and didn’t leave if she was asked, she could be arrested.
“If you go to an office and are asked to leave, you can be placed under arrest,” Officer Michael Miller said.
Kramer responded, “But I wasn’t refusing to leave.”
Kramer was never asked to leave Weiner’s office, but the fact that the cops were called is a clear sign that the stress of this so-called “Weinergate” controversy is taking its toll. House Minority [sic] Leader Eric Cantor became the first member of House leadership to go after Weiner.
Not surprisingly, Ace is having lots of fun with this latest twist in the Weiner saga: “BREAKING: ANTHONY WEINER CALLS POLICE TO REPORT GROSS INVASION OF PRIVACY.”
This latest development finds Hot Air’s Allahpundit in high spirits as well:
He can’t claim that his staffers didn’t recognize her. Kramer’s been on the air in NYC for more than 20 years at CBS. She’s surely interviewed Weiner before. If they’re throwing her out of the office, it’s because they really, really don’t want to say anything more to the media that might keep this story alive. In which case, it only makes sense to … try to have a reporter arrested, thereby guaranteeing another full day of sensational coverage. Fancy thinkin’.
I think we’re finally ready to move past the “Weiner is horrible in a crisis” narrative and embark on the exciting new “Weiner has a barely disguised professional death wish” narrative instead. Speaking of which, the mother of the woman who received the now-legendary tweet joins the rest of America in wondering why he won’t just ‘fess up already, since the lingering mystery has left her daughter to twist in the wind:
The furious mom of the Seattle college coed at the center of Weinergate yesterday demanded that the cocky congressman come clean about the lewd photo.
“I’m really upset. I feel like he’s a person of power and influence, who can make a statement and make all this go away,” Carol Mizuguchi said, blasting Rep. Anthony Weiner for his continued snarky sidestepping.
“As her mother, I’m really upset,” Mizuguchi told The Post. “I’m pissed off at that.”
I know I speak for all of us when I say: Why is Mrs. Mizuguchi trying to distract America from income inequality?
Not to mention the grave national security implications that Weiner hints at in one of his turns impersonating Charlie Sheen’s free-associating verbal bebop manic-depressive hipster dexterity:
“This was a prank intended to derail me or distract me, whatever it is. It is not a federal case. Now maybe it will turn out, maybe it will turn out, forgive me, maybe it will turn out that this is the point of Al Qaeda’s sword and that this is the effort that is going to, this is where it’s going to begin…”
And even before Weiner’s CBS freakout, Power Line’s Scott Johnson noted how much Weinergate is starting to resemble a small but perfectly formed version of its namesake predecessor: “Weinergate: The modified limited hangout.”
Finally, just for fun, the gals on The View go into conspiracy mode once again. First 9/11, then the Moon Landing and now — wait for it — “Joy Behar’s Vast Conspiracy: Someone ‘Is Out to Get’ Weiner:”
According to Joy Behar of ‘The View,’ someone is “out to get” Anthony Weiner because “they don’t like his politics.” Behar and her co-host Whoopi Goldberg advanced a conspiracy theory on Thursday and included the possibility that the Congressman could have been at a beach and had an innocent photo digitally manipulated. Meanwhile, Barbara Walters pronounced dead the political goal of the politician to one day be New York’s mayor.
So far this week, the person most out to destroy Weiner’s political career is the congressman himself.
But hey, once again, the things you learn from Joy Behar never fail to astound. As does, in retrospect, this statement by Frank Rich of the New York Times from back in 2008: “In our news culture, [Joy] Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow.”
Of course she does. In exactly the same way that Anthony Weiner looms as the new FDR.
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