Dropping later.

He can't survive.

VerumSerum tweets: #Its1159inYourCareerIThink

Press Conference: For 4 PM.

Resignation? Or rehabilitation?

Thanks to DrewM.

Oh My: Barbara Walters opines the picture was intended for his wife.

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From Caleb Howe, an AOL insider (supposedly) says the deal is terrible.

Dissension in edit. The editorial team is miserable and views Arianna as unpredictable and her leadership unsteady. Several editors are racing to close book deals to be write the “Devil Wear’s Prada” of the digital age. Others are aggressively pitching unflattering profiles to New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the LA Times. The lack of maturity and loyalty among editors is stunning – even those close to her are extremely negative behind her back – which is surprising because she has done a great job taking care of her people.

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Fear and paranoia. Large parts of the org recognize the strategy is bad for the business but everyone is afraid to speak out. Arianna is rumored to have created an enemies list across the company and has directed her loyalists to collect dossiers on other managers across the company and report back on conversations. Her list includes several key business, sales, technology, and marketing executives she wants to eliminate and replace with her people. Anyone who disagrees, even if backed by data and clear rationale’s – goes on the enemies list. Facts don’t matter.

Speaking as an Internet Person (sadly), I would not in a thousand years put a bunch of Internet People in control of a company. You need someone on top of things running herd, and I don't think on-top-of-things type people accumulate in great numbers on internet content sites.

Some. But you're going to get a lot of flighty, do-I-have-to-bother-with-work-work-? types.

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BigGovernment. Another knife.

Ahem. Notice the picture on the right behind him? It appears that is his wife and Hillary Clinton.

Yeah, he doesn't survive this.

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I can't be sure of this, but I believe Radar has some other source.

Because I know Weiner did not get "cold feet" about sending pictures in the case that the Big Blogs are discussing.

In this case, he stopped from sending the pictures.

Weiner, 46, wrote to the woman, "ridiculous bulge in my shorts now. wanna see?"

She responded: "Yea! can u send a pic?"

"jeez, im rushing. let me take a quick pic," Weiner answered."

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The woman told us the married politician never sent her the nude photo because he "got cold feet."

My belief is that Radar had these for a while and didn't publish for whatever reason, and now is rushing to print.

Yeah, I'm going to say this ends tomorrow, and I hope it does. This is just awful, even if he's kind of a dick.

Actually I'm changing that. I previously said tomorrow. Now I say today, this afternoon.

This is just pretty bad right here.

I'm ready to see this stop now. This is brutal.

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Just a quick break. You can get back to your Weiner shortly.

Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer has a knack for catching the enviroweenies lying. Or maybe it's just that they do so damned much of it.

Of course their immediate reaction is to try to hide the decline in their credibility by shutting him up:

Josh Fox has responded to valid journalistic questions about his documentary Gasland by stifling the freedom of the press.

I travelled to Chicago for a Q&A where Fox admitted hiding facts from his documentary that contradicted his scaremongering about drilling for natural gas.

And Fox's response when we posted the video on YouTube - he got his lawyers to have YouTube pull it down.

As they say, read the whole thing.

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Posted by: andy at 08:35 AM | Comments (63)
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That's how I read it.

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."

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Posted by: Ace at 08:28 AM | Comments (53)
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67 years ago.

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

~ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Looking back it seems so clear that once Fortress Europa was breached, the power of the Arsenal of Democracy would roll across the continent and rid the world of the scourge of Nazism. But on that stormy June night before, it was far from clear success would be ours. It was so unclear how it would turnout that Ike prepared a statement announcing the failure of the invasion and accepting full responsibility for the defeat. Thankfully this short statement is simply a historical curiosity, for a world in which is was issued is simply too awful to contemplate.

67 years. If a soldier was 18 when he stormed one of the beaches or jumped from a plane into France, he'd be 85 years old now. I saw something yesterday that there are about 1.6 million of the 16 million WWII vets left and we are losing them at faster and faster rates. It's the nature of life and time but as someone born in 1969 when everyone's grandfather was a vet, it's hard to believe there are relatively so few left. When I was a kid WWI seemed like ancient history that a few ancient men lived through. Now, it's the deeds of the The Greatest Generation that seem so long ago.

Thanks to technology and a national reverence for what they did during 3+ years of hell, we'll never forget.

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Oh, okay. Right. Sure.

Could the Net be killing the planet one web search at a time?

Gun to my head? Uhhh... no, no it could not be.

Good question, though. Like "What if Benjamin Grimm got bitten by the radioactive spider?" It's a thinker.

Picture caption:

Every Facebook update and LOL cat you post contributes to global warming, due to the server industry's dependence on coal-fired electricity.

Um... wait, you were serious?

It's Saturday night, and you want to catch the latest summer blockbuster. You do a quick Google search to find the venue and right time, and off you go to enjoy some mindless fun.

Meanwhile, your Internet search has just helped kill the planet. Depending on how long you took and what sites you visited, your search caused the emission of one to 10 grams of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

Sure, it's not a lot on its own — but add up all of the more than one billion daily Google searches, throw in 60 million Facebook status updates each day, 50 million daily tweets and 250 billion emails per day, and you're making a serious dent in some Greenland glaciers.

How many polar bears did this article kill?

Must be some. Even a fraction of one, right?

So... like, are you stupid? Why did you just murder a polar bear?

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You know, since the media does not seem to include very many people who have spent any time at all in the company of human beings, or, you know, who have ever had sex, if they want to bring me in as a special consultant on this kind of story, I can be had for a price, and that price is Yoohoo & Smirnoff. Like, six cases of each. More of the Yoohoo because I like it sweet.

Just One Minute gives me the kind designation of Ace of Savants, and notes what he calls the "funniest" take on Weinergate yet.

Well... I think Howard Kurtz has the girl beat -- brevity is the soul of stupid -- but this is pretty good as long-form comedy.

Is she really this dumb, or does she just need us to believe she is, in order to spin this properly?

She begins, as Tom says, by implying "if we don't think a forty-something woman would email suggestive photos to a college guy, we shoudln't think a forty-ish guy would email suggestive photos to a college girl." I'm not sure she implies that. I don't know what the hell she's trying to say initially, except... I think she's trying to play the double-secret reverse sexism card, claiming that if we wouldn't demand such answers of a woman, we shouldn't demand them of a man, either.

But... wouldn't we demand answers of a woman?

Or use Tom's gloss. I have no idea what this woman is talking about, and I suspect that is one thing she and I have in common.

But that's just the set-up, the premise if you will, for the extended comedy riff to follow.

Here’s what we know: Someone tweeted an intimate photo, allegedly of Weiner, in his underpants. Yes, his name is Weiner—and yes, it’s pronounced WEE-ner. Ho, ho, ho. The woman who received the tweet says she does not know him; he says he does not know her. He says someone hacked into his Twitter account to pull a prank. He immediately deleted the tweet as soon as he became aware of it.

Unfortunately, it did not end there. The media demanded to know: Were those his private parts beneath the fabric of the underpants? Weiner—perhaps too honestly—rhetorically shrugged, saying he could not say with "certitude" that it was not a photo of him. That was the congressman’s mistake, although it was an understandable one in our YouTube, tweet-crazy, cell phone camera-stalking world. He should have paused, displaying an appropriately appalled face, and told the voyeurs--oops, I mean, media representatives--that it was none of anyone’s damn business whether he or anyone close to him had taken an intimate photo of him. But he frankly held open the possibility that someone had done so, and then the media went into overdrive.

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WeinerÂ’s used to the jokes about his name, undoubtedly having heard them since the sixth grade. As he pointed out, maybe if his name were "hamburger," the photo might have been different. HeÂ’s joked quite hilariously himself about his moniker, rhetorically asking Speaker John Boehner (who pronounces his name BAY-nor) why he doesnÂ’t just embrace the name, and call himself BOH-ner. After all, Weiner said in a very amusing address at a press dinner, he doesnÂ’t try to pass himself off as WAY-ner.

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But the behavior of much of the media toward Weiner is inexcusable. If he harassed a woman by sending her an inappropriate photo, that is indeed worth looking into. But no one, including the woman in question, has alleged such a thing, and itÂ’s doubtful someone as savvy as Weiner would do something so supremely stupid, anyway. Weiner has declared himself a victim of Twitter invasion, and certainly, heÂ’s a victim of an outrageous invasion of privacy. If someone (His wife? An old girlfriend? Himself?) took a photo of him in his skivvies, thatÂ’s his private business. And if a woman had been violated in such a way, her underwear photo sent to a Twitter follower, she would rightly be afforded sympathy, accompanied by outrage for the person who humiliated her. Weiner deserves the same consideration.

No matter how he pronounces his name.

She's buying into the "This only happened to me because I have a silly name people make jokes about" defense.

Yes, I understand why she should buy into that; that was always the strongest of all his many strong defenses.

This too-funny-for-Cracked laughaganza was published June 2nd, which, if I can subtract properly (and I probably can't, I always get this wrong) was last Wednesday, after our Presentative Representative had given several godawful interviews in which he all but admitted the picture was of his dingus. Update: I'm told it was Thursday. See? I got it wrong, precisely as predicted.

But this is your media. True believers, diagnosable cretins, hacks, flacks, and dedicated Kos readers.

It's called "The Scoreboard." This is how we keep track. Your analysis, versus that of your "clear inferiors."

Just a thought: Maybe if you fucking idiots cut a half hour out of your Kos, HuffPo, Gawker and Wonkette reading time to read conservative media or blogs, maybe you'd know some additional facts, and maybe you'd be familiar with some analysis that casts doubt on the "smoking gun" proofs at Kos and LGF.

Just a thought. Since you're supposedly giving us a thoughtful take and you're sort of paid to read stuff. Since you're paid to read stuff, maybe skip Perez Hilton once in a while and read a conservative blog.

Latest Pic: Apparently using a witty "pussy" double-entendre when photographing himself with cats.

It looks like gay porn. Really, really, really bad gay porn.

Since this is now an official WeinerGate post, I'm adding the obligatory Elvis song, in addition to the Ramones song.

See, I could do the Ramones song, because this didn't start as a pure Weiner post, but a related post. But now it's both, so I have to put in Elvis.

CNN: Hey, Did The Media Go Overboard in Reporting the Weiner Story? Yeah, yeah, totally overboard.

Nothing here! 'Twas always obvious. Dry hole. Nothing to report. Nothing to see here, folks, move along, move along.
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This is really horrible. The media left is often forced to dismiss the millions of long-time unemployed, as they represent a political problem for Obama, treating them as if they don't matter, no big deal.

That jackass "Ali" basically took that position in telling Jim Geraghty his silly unemployment stats were meaningless.

No dice. This is bad.

About 6.2 million Americans, 45.1 percent of all unemployed workers in this country, have been jobless for more than six months - a higher percentage than during the Great Depression.

The bigger the gap on someone's resume, the more questions employers have.

"(Employers) think: 'Oh, well, there must be something really wrong with them because they haven't gotten a job in 6 months, a year, 2 years.' But that's not necessarily the case," said Marjorie Gardner-Cruse with the Hollywood Worksource Center.

The problem of course is the economy, but some industries, especially certain manufacturing jobs, are not ever expected to come back. Experts say unemployed workers need to be prepared to change careers.

He was told his "Stimulus" was non-stimulative. He didn't care. He used it as an opportunity to just throw money to favored Representatives' districts and generally bloat government spending. Not even caring he was tossing away a trillion dollars on bike paths and bee mating rituals.

Miserable Lines: This depression may be deeper than a normal recession, but, on the other hand, it's also far longer.

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Flaming Shorts thanks to George Orwell

Pic exchange? Sure why not.

An Even More Accurate Picture: Truth p-shopped in, thanks to Zakn for posting. Justin Hart did the p-shop.

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BigWeiner:

A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely Rep. Weiner’s explanations that he was the victim of a “prank” or a “hack.”

The detailed new information suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs.

What Is The Endgame? Moe Lane speculated about the endgame, in the previous fact -scape.

And Debbie Wasserman-Schultz chose the wrong time to call this a "personal matter," and blow it off just because he's a Democrat.

She's robotic. Personal matter, personal matter, personal matter. That's okay for some podunk Congresswoman but she's supposed to be head of the DNC.

Latest Update: Hiya!

Little non-EC song for ya.

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Here's a good question: Will Debbie Wasserman-Schultz survive this?

Both via Instapundit. Thanks to backhoe.

That's Eric Allie's work.

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