Another, umm, shoe drops in the Anthony Weiner story, as both Andrew Breitbart and Radar Online release additional incriminating tweets and photos. The later source reports:
RadarOnline.com and Star magazine verified that the account where the messages originated does belong to Weiner (see below).
He told the woman he had a “ridiculous bulge” in his shorts and asked if she “wanna see” it — almost three months before a photo of an erect penis in tight fitting briefs appeared in the pol’s Twitter stream.
It’s a sensational twist to the scandal plaguing the embattled New York congressman. This new woman is middle-aged and from Nevada.
Before this material was release, Moe Lane speculated on what the end game is:
On the other hand, possibly Weiner will decide to keep his trap shut, hunker down, and wait for the media to find a new target. That is in fact a workable solution, at least in the short run: as it stands now I don’t think that Weiner has actually broken any laws*, and he [belongs] to the political party (that would be the Democrats) that [doesn’t] demand accountability from its members, as a look at the Democratic leadership will quickly make clear. So he could survive.
Survive, sure… but he’s also broken. Anthony Weiner wanted to be mayor of NYC. Well, he probably still wants to be, but that dream has gone up in smoke. New Yorkers might have tolerated a guy sending out pictures of his genitals – particularly if there was a good story attached to it – but they generally won’t tolerate a guy who won’t own up to it, and they don’t like having their intelligence insulted. Weiner had an impressive war chest and could have parlayed his quiet feud with NY party bosses into a genuine insurgent’s bid; now, he’s not going to make it out of the primary.
Meanwhile, his reputation on the national level is likewise wrecked. Anthony Weiner was one of the Democrats’ attack dogs… only he turned out to be a badly-trained attack dog that was all bluster and bark; the first smack in the muzzle and now he cowers and whines. Seriously, are Republicans supposed to be afraid of this guy? Do you think that our TV people are still thinking to themselves “Oh, God, I’m going to be going up against Weiner tonight!” Nope: now they’d be thinking “Oh, boy, I’m going to be going up against Weiner tonight!” Which the Democrats know full well, which is why Weiner won’t be making quite as many of those media appearances as he has in the past. Or any at all.
In other words, from a certain point of view we’re in the endgame now.
Ace notes that one prominent Democrat may want to accelerate Weiner’s demise: “Steny Hoyer Getting Ready To Cut Weiner Off At The Gut?”
He’s setting up a paradigm: Weiner said his account was hacked. We proceed from whether or not that’s true.
Or, as he says: “Mr. Weiner says that his account was hacked, and as a result we’ll have to see how this plays out.”
Much from Ace on his homepage. Just keep scrolling.
And at the Tatler: “Update: 200 explicit facebook messages?”
Related: In an essay presumably written before the above items broke, Howard Kurtz, employed by the network that built a show around Elliot Spitzer, is more than ready to move on, as protecting beleaguered Democrats is much more important to CNN than getting ratings and breaking news.
Related: Is Rep. Weiner’s Wife “In Background of Naked Chest Shot He Sent to Young Female Admirer”?
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