1 Ace, rest well, and come back more fired up than ever!

2 "Anthony Weiner" was the #1 "hot search" when I checked Google trends about five minutes ago.  I understand the frustration, Ace, but despite the best efforts of the MFM and the Establishment Conservative media, the story is getting out there.  Thanks for the great work!

3 Don't worry. Anthony Weiner, sucker of cock, will have a very public tantrum soon.

4 Open blog, for a while. Will be back later.

Ah F*. OK Drink it off...I want to hear Levin before I start drawing conclusions. If the mainstream oped guys can get something going we might get some real satisfaction from this flaccid thing yet. Give it 18 hours, this story may rise again, and you can get right back on that hobby horse and ride away.

5 He's said its a prank but has he even said it's not his Gleaming Cock of Liberal Equality?

6 Ace. Dude. You're breaking this story. That's awesome, and not something to get pissed off at. I just watch Wolf Blitzer basically say that Anthony Weiner is full of shit to that hack Jeff Toobin. Also, notice this interesting diary from Daily Kos. Written like a true moron, but at Daily Kos! I wonder why...almost as if there is a moron posting over there. http://miniurl.com/111555

7 You know members of the State Media normally love weiner stories IYKWIMAITYD

8 When I see a reporter actually went to interview Ms. Gennette, in person, than I will know the media is taking the story seriously.

9 Twitter has the IP address of (1) the person who sent the dick tweet; and (2) Weiner's subsequent hockey tweets.  Although not 100% conclusive, a comparison of those two IPs would almost certainly reveal the "hack versus dickslip" question.

10 As I mentioned in another thread, the posters at NRO are jumping all over the guy who wrote the rather tedpid recap of Weinergate.  There's an audience for this story.  Too bad the MFM is being tepid as well.  Anyway, NRO sucks.....

11 Daniel Foster at NRO falsely claims that the idiot Nathan Goulding's ramblings about "what we know now" dealt only with the "technological" aspects. Really? Opining that the recipient's story is believable deals only with technology. What is wrong at NRO?

12 We will have to ask the victim about "positions" I would suppose.  They must have talked about that somewhere along the line.  Isn't that the way tweet sex works?

13 If he was compromised on this, should he sit on committees overseeing companies that now kinda-sorta have leverage over him?

Like -- if my suspicions are correct, and there is no "hacker" -- wouldn't Twitter know that and have evidence of that?

Wouldn't that put Twitter in a rather good position in future meetings with Rep. Weiner?

Just asking.

Come on, now Ace.....

Are you suggesting that companies would partake in some sort of extortion scheme to get government 'assistance' with things from Democrats?

Surely you jest.

14 CNN may be barking us this tree because they need the ratings.  They are desperate for a scoop.

15 Off to celebrate my b-day with the family.  Keep up the good fight Weinerists.

16 I don't want to mention it but NRO has been posting better now. I don't want it to sound like I moved them. I have no idea what happened. I don't want to be the guy that pressured them. But they are now posting on it.

17 This is a story that soon turn into a bigger story, because the dic pic is just the tip of the iceberg. This motherfucker has been trolling for tail on Twitter, chatting it up with porn stars and high school students for God's sakes. That behavior isn't going to stop just because he let his weenie slip once. The guy is a perv and sooner or later it's going to come back and bite him on the ass. Look, how long did the media hold John Edwards' water? Holy shit. It tooks years before that fucker finally got his comeuppance. But he did, and Weiner will too.

18 It's almost like someone tapping their foot in the stall of an airport lavatory.

19

As I posted before: 

The MFM believes that someone who you expect to be a lying sleazebag (cough, Democrat, cough), caught acting like a lying sleazebag, IS NOT NEWS!

20 Keep up the great work on this story, Ace. You have played an important part in driving this story. 

21 Take a break Ace, we're not "conservative media", and we actually find blood in the water invigorating and not intimidating when it's a commie fuckstick.
This guy has been begging for a public flogging for quite some time now.

I enjoy the idea of this somehow ruining Upchuck Shumer's day as well.

Go ahead recharge dude, this is just starting to get good.

22 Ace, you've done awesome work on Weinergate.  I missed everything over the weekend, and it's been wild catching up.

Don't get down.  Take a break, have a cocktail, and chill out for a while.

23 Two very OT comments:

1. On Animal Planet, there is an ad running for a new bigfoot series. In the ad, a guy says "There's a squatch in these woods." Doesn't that sound dirty/ creepy, or is it just me?

2. Jello Pudding face commercials. Once again, kind of creepy. Makes me not want to buy Jello, since it kind of seems their ads are being done by serial killers.

/thank you, back to your regularly scheduled Weiner programming.

24 I mean Ace continueing to talk about this . . .

25 Yeah, they're posting on it now Ace, no doubt in part because of you, but, for the most part, NRO's posting is shit.

26 Not really safe for work, or anything else. But stuff like this happens, every day.

27 I think you've done a great job on this thing, Ace. If these empty nutsacks that call themselves conservative journalists are too chickenshit to report it, that's on them, not you.

28 Welcome to the (Pepsi/Coke) party, pal. Snark aside, I sympathize.

29

I'm torn on this one. It would be awesome for this shit talking jackass to get nailed. On the other hand I hate to think how much his ego is getting stroked by the debate about his dick.  Plus you just know that somehow the slimy bastard is going to get laid out of the deal by somebody if for no other reason than to satisfy her curiousity about whether or not it is indeed his dick.

 

Can't win!

30 Hey, where did Ace go? What's he up to now?

31 Like -- if my suspicions are correct, and there is no hacker prankster coked-up staffer having an epileptic fit and randomly dialing Weiner's passwords with his tongue -- wouldn't Twitter know that and have evidence of that?


373 If the wifi and IP address are paid for with government cash (our cash) someone can file for a FOIA. He can't claim it's topsecret.

Posted by: madamex at May 31, 2011 03:50 PM (ice9D)

Also, some left a link to Twitter like FAQ's and it basically says they can notify law enforcement if they detect fraud independently. And can't FBI initiate investigation on their own especially given that a congressman's accounts have been hacked?

32 Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns is demanding an investigation into cybersecurity issues raised by #Weinergate, saying it is vital to “ensure our national security.”

“Although this particular incident is a matter for law enforcement, it clearly indicates that hacking is a serious problem and as Chairman it would be appropriate for the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to examine the issue of cybersecurity to protect our privacy and to ensure our national security,” Stearns said in an email to The Daily Caller.

Stearns is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce CommitteeÂ’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, a committee on which Weiner sits.

33 I like the way Ace bails out on a story. The same way a Honey Badger cuts a Cobra some slack!

34 Just askin? Okay, I'll answer from another thread on the endlessly same subject here on the sit: This story's not pinin'! It's passed on! This weiner story is no more! This weiner wagging twitter tale has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! The story's a stiff! Bereft of life, it wilts in peace! If Ace hadn't nailed it to his blog it'd be pushing up the daisies! This weiner's metabolic processes are now 'istory! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! The weiner story's fuckin' snuffed it!..... THIS IS AN EX-weiner story!!

35

Imaletyoufinish Rep Weiner, but Sen Alvin Greene was the best pusher of photos of his junk of all time.

ALL TIME

36 Hey Ace we got your back and feel your pain. But just a suggestion? I wouldn't go around calling this an "emotional Things" when it involves Weiner's Dick? But that's just me

37 ace sure seems obsessed with this Weiner guy. Am I off the hook?

38

From twitter:

DanaBashCNN what @repweiner didnt answer: Is pic of you? Why you hire lawyer? Why not let law enfrcmnt handle?Why following  21 yrold college student?

She is the Senior Congressional Correspondent for CNN.  I tweeted her and told her I'd start watching CNN again if she got some answers.  Show her some love. 

39
I hate to think how much his ego is getting stroked by the debate about his dick. 

Adam, he is NOT getting stroked by this. NOT. He's in abject fear and sweating buckets that all this will go away. Hoping like hell his strategy of dismissing it as a juvenile prank will work. Keep him in fear.

40

Ace, I don't always agree with you, but you're 100% right on this. This is amazingly embarrasing on the half of the Conservative media.

Grow a damn pair, ladies.

41 ace, I think you need a vacay dude.  Hope you can take one.  No phones, no computer, no TV.  Go somewhere and just chill out.  Sometimes we need to just walk away from it all for awhile.  You do great work, my day is not complete without coming here but I have noticed you have been kind of testy.  Pls take it as constructive cristisism because it's meant that way.  Or.. you can tell me to go screw myself...

42 I made it my crusade because the bigger stuff is beyond me And we've stuck by you and followed your Weiner posts -- despite not having the slightest interest in them -- because we know you will grow and regale us with your views on energy policy and Medicaid reform.

43 I don't want to be the guy that pressured them.

Posted by: ace at May 31, 2011 05:46 PM (nj1bB)

Why the hell not?

44

People mag (online version) has the Weiner story as its lead  now.  The MSM may have tried to bury it, but they clearly failed.

Good work, Ace!

45 Good decision. You worked hard all weekend and did yeoman's work taking down a truly dishonorable person. Take a rest. The battle ahead is 4 more years just like this one weekend. Long road ahead.

46 Keep kicking the shit out of him!

And stop with the ghey introspection. It won't get you laid.

47 "I made it my crusade because the bigger stuff is beyond me. I understand that. " Ace, it certainly is not. You've got more writing and reporting ability in one hand then the White House press corp for the last 12 years. And you've got passion too. Go for the bigger stuff. You can do it and do it well. You have in the past without even thinking about it. Thinking you've got a "scoop" is always a warning that you may have less than you think you have.

48 I really do love the Andrew Breitbart jokes. Good one. (No, not sarcastic, I really laugh.)

49 This IS a big story. It is emblematic of the ethics of the left. Not the pron part -- the big part of the story is the cover up/lying part. That part of the story is bigger than any Brooklyn boner; and it gets bigger every day as Weiner squirms and his defenders on the left massage the facts to keep his reputation erect. The battle in all elections is for the moderate/independent voter who care about such things as honesty and integrity. Keep it up, Ace. [all puns intended]

50 Charlie Rangel has just said he's 100% behind Rep. Weiner. He says that Weiner is the victim of a smear campaign. So much easier to say than to prove Weiner is not guilty.

51 BigGovernment.com is now wall to wall weinergate. 

52 16I don't want to mention it but NRO has been posting better now.

I don't want it to sound like I moved them. I have no idea what happened. I don't want to be the guy that pressured them.

But they are now posting on it.

Posted by: ace at May 31, 2011 05:46 PM (nj1bB)

 

They're probably posting on it because their audience that actually comments on articles is going nuts over this story.  There's a demand for the story, so now it's time for some supply.  But, NRO still sucks, in a very squishy way. 

53
Ace, go ahead, be emotional. How could you not be? Weiner is a dangerous, ugly threat to this country. The more headlines he gets for his outrageous rants and claims and accusations against patriotic Americans, the worse for . . . me. The worse for the public discourse. For him to progress in his political career is disastrous. I fucking love this country and hate its enemies, among whom I count Weiner. So KEEP ON IT.

54 If I were Weiner, the last thing I'd want is Charlie Rangel's public endorsement, but that's just me. And I'm definitely not Weiner. I buy my underwear at the Big and Tall store in the mall.

55
If CNN actually went after the story, I think we would.

They've actually had two solid stories. I kid you not.

56 Isn't Weiner on the Commerce and Energy Committees?

How does he pronounce nookyoolar? We could get him that way...

Seriously, ace, you're right.  The whole thing sickens me because sooner or later another Republican is going to do something a tenth as offensive, and not only will they be forced to resign, the whole dang party will be painted with the "pervy hypocrite" brush.

57

One minute until Special Report.  I wonder how they will cover this.

58 This statement from Rangel is hilarious and could come back to bite Weiner...

http://bit.ly/kiLLIV

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Rangel, who has been beset by scandalous charges in recent years, says that Weiner is likely the victim of a smear campaign. “It’s some kind of political game they’re playing,” he says. “I don’t know who did it, but that’s what they’re doing.”


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OK, then we must investigage according to Rangel... this is now serious business.

59 Have a Zima , blow off some steam and get back at it . You've never struck me as a giver-upper .

60 11 Daniel Foster at NRO falsely claims that the idiot Nathan Goulding's ramblings about "what we know now" dealt only with the "technological" aspects.

Really? Opining that the recipient's story is believable deals only with technology.

What is wrong at NRO?

Re-read the entire story and you'll find that Foster quotes a commenter who finds Weiner guilty by circumstantial evidence. Just look at Dustin's comment.

61 @DanaBashCNN Just had a surprisingly confrontational q and a session w/ @repweiner. He came out to talk to us, but wouldn't answer unanswered questions

62 Don't read what Nathan Goulding wrote at NRO - you will lose it...

63

This is how you get Capone:

“Although this particular incident is a matter for law enforcement, it clearly indicates that hacking is a serious problem and as Chairman it would be appropriate for the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to examine the issue of cybersecurity to protect our privacy and to ensure our national security,” Rep. Cliff Stearns said in an email to The Daily Caller.

Stearns is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce CommitteeÂ’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, a committee on which Weiner sits. Neither Weiner nor his spokesman Dave Arnold will say whether or not it is Weiner in the lewd photo.

Stearns should call the committe into session to investigate this very hacking attempt and put Anthony Weiner under oath and force him to testify. This is how you play hardball politics on a serious issue of "national security."

The news media need video. If there's no video, there's no realy story. A congressional hearing where Anthony Weiner takes the fifth provides them with the hook they need.

All the conservative forces have to work together to do their part and that means we need Ace doing his part, the political side doing their part and the Congressional campaign chairmen doing their part.

It takes a village.

64 I really do love the Andrew Breitbart jokes. Good one.

Andrew Breitbart? Never heard of him.

65 via Twitter:
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...If we suspect your account has been phished or hacked, we may reset your password to prevent the hacker from misusing your account. In this case, we'll email you a link to where you can reset your password. Again, this link will always be on the http://twitter.com/ website, and we will never ask you to email us your old password.
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Data retention information

Twitter retains different types of information for different time periods. Given Twitter's real-time nature, some information may only be stored for a very brief period of time.

Preservation requests must be signed, include a valid return email address, and sent on law enforcement letterhead. Requests may be sent via the methods described below.

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Law and Harm: We may disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Twitter's rights or property.

66 #62 I have already read it. I stand by my comments, his defense of Goulding is pathetic.

67 And Ace - THANK YOU -

68 Daniel Foster at NRO falsely claims that the idiot Nathan Goulding's ramblings about "what we know now" dealt only with the "technological" aspects.

Really? Opining that the recipient's story is believable deals only with technology.

What is wrong at NRO?

 I made precisely this point in a comment on Foster's post.  I wonder if it will pass the censors, though.  I 've made five or six posts over there this PM and haven't been complimentary.

69 CNN's John King (to CNN Reporter Dana Bash):

King: "There's one way that the Representative could try to put this to rest and that would be to call in the Capital Police or call the FBI and say 'come on in, please launch an investigation because I was hacked.' Why hasn't he done that?

Bash: "We don't know the answer to that. I actually asked Congressman Weiner's Press Secretary about that and didn't get a response. We do know from the Capitol Police and FBI that they are not investigating. There have been no requests that we can detect for a formal investigation."

King: Curious there. We'll keep tracking this curious case, Dana.

Even CNN is unwilling to carry water for this obvious bullshit story that Weiner has put out. That can't be good news for the liberal Democrat Congressman.

http://goo.gl/wIKRJ

70 We might give up Anthony Weiner for you Tea Baggers if you get behind a REAL story with legs (and how).  MITT ROMNEY!!!  Delicious.

71 Twitter is a product not a company.  It is run by a privately held company called Obvious.

72 I think infidelity and perversions are part of a dems resume aren't they?  Tickle parties, rape, chakras, rape.  Reminds me of the line of thugs in "Blazing Saddles."

73 Nah, Entropy convinced me on the other thread that no amount of coverage matters.  Ever. 

74 This is how we (and our supposed conservative representatives in the media and congress) deal with the Left:

http://tinyurl.com/3vydyxt

...and it's becoming tiresome.

75 I made it my crusade because the bigger stuff is beyond me. I understand that. I have tunnel-vision on my own tiny piece of the news here.

I get that.

But it is a story.

Biggest story? No. But pixels are cheap; they won't run out anytime soon.

And I don't understand, at this point, why it is is being treated as almost beneath mention.

I think I need a break.




Captain Ahab, you've been monomaniacal to the point of neurosis.

However,

Your crew is still with you.  Hunt the damn whale.

76 Have always said, NRO Wall Street Journal et al are David Frums in Conservative clothing. They want to be seen as the "legitimate" wing of the Republican Party, hence jumping on this before Weiner confesses, they believe, would put them in the same ballpark as teabaggers. If not the posters, definitely the editors. Look at HotAir, does anyone think Ed or Allah would have laid off of this story prior to being purchased by Townhall? Townhall has nothing on this story, not even a "just shut up". As Ace pointed out, Eds post is weak sauce at best, admission of censorship at worst. Thats not Eds writing or style.

77 Where's Drudge on this?  I agree with Ace that it's perplexing where the so called conservative media is on this story.  It's open and shut.  There's no logical debate to be had.  Hang in there Ace.  Keep your chin up and your powder dry.  You are doing a great job with this.  Don't let others beat you down.

78 But, Ace, old boy...did you not see the amazing crease in Representative Weiner's undertrousers???

Spectacular, if I do say so myself.

Oh house boy, do fetch me another Manhattan...with extra bitters this time, pronto

79 Captain Ahab, you've been monomaniacal to the point of neurosis.

From Hell's heart I stab at thee ...

80

If it helps, NRO had a great piece on the French Revolution's monetary policies today. Guess a few days late on Weinergate isn't so bad in comparison.

/All kidding aside, check it out.

81
It takes a village.
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 06:00 PM

Brilliant. I'm going to write to Stearns. I'll be as forceful and composed as possible.

82 As someone who hates anthony weener to the core... I applaud your relentless pursuit of his demise.

83 Heh. Weinerfacts finally updated.

84 Fuggedit, Ace, it's Weinertown. Population: Douche. I feel for you. If shirtless congressman + Craigslist = tons of press and congressman stepping down, and Sarah Palin + hacked email = criminal trial and huge press, you'd think that the potential for pantsless congressman + hacked(?) twitter WOULD = tons of press, criminal trial, and possiblly congressman stepping down. It is a news coup, a headline that bleeds from any angle. Every journalist should be salivating over this, for multiple reasons. Alas, alack, we live in a world where people are now equipped with the backbones of worms. You are one of the few good men left, Ace, willing to expose the hypocrisy, and I know there's a lot of us that appreciate it.

85 Of course Weiner doesn't want an investigation, this is just the tip of the ice berg.I'm pretty sure old Anthony has been a busy boy twittering to sweet young things. That's what's gonna come out....

86 I don't want to be the guy that pressured them.

???

Because you don't want to be the guy who stood up and did the right thing by insisting everybody be held to the same standard?

Because you don't want to be the big player? Fear of success thing?

Really. We stand in a part of the field out here that doesn't get many balls hit our way. This comes straight at you, you catch it and throw it back to the infield to get the guy who tagged up and you feel like you pressured second base to make a play on a slide?

The MSM would NEVER let this slide for an (R), they would delve into this until they had the exact wireless cell the tweet was sent from. They would drill into this like magma was a commodity. They would have a whole area of study with an accredited degree at Berkeley to investigate an (R) for this. If we won't even try to hold them to a similar standard and make them follow their own rules, we might as well give up this messaging war, because this is blatant and inexcusable.

87 Weenie on CNN now!!!

88 The irony it burns

Eating supper watching stupid local news (owned by the Dem of course). They were whining greatly and showing poor deprived school children who may have to find another school to go to next year because of evil Rethuglicans in the State legislature.

It seems that a bill introduced by the commies to allow local schools to sell bond and borrow money for operating expenses was shot down.  No mention that this has always been prohibited because it is STUPID and a good way to go bankrupt. Also no mention of even the thought of cutting operating expenses.

In the VERY next segment they described a NEW program this summer to provide meals for children who would not get their free meals that were normally provided in school during the school year.

And the announcers are too stupid to note the irony of this shit.  

89 Stupid Sock Puppet

90
Where's Drudge on this? 

Sorry if I'm getting as repetitive with this answer as the morons are with that question, BUT --

Drudge is apparently taking a break from sexscandals. He has not written a single word on Schwarzenegger either.

91

Ace, I don't always agree with you, but you're 100% right on this. This is amazingly embarrasing on the half of the Conservative media.

Grow a damn pair, ladies.

Posted by: William at May 31, 2011 05:53 PM (77TeU)

You talkin' to ME?!?

92 Fine job Nathan, brilliant post.

93

Weiner won’t even deny he uploaded this picture. He won’t deny he is in the picture. He won’t even directly deny he sent the twitter, relying instead on intermediaries to say ‘obviously my facebook was hacked (yes, facebook)’ or ‘it was a prank’.

He could resolve conclusively, quickly, and with no cost, via Yfrog and Twitter, that the IP that uploaded these images wasnÂ’t his. We therefore already know Weiner doesnÂ’t want that aspect settled. We therefore can reliably say WeinerÂ’s account wasnÂ’t hacked.

He instead still relies on those services as though he has no concerns about their security.

And he spends all his time on twitter and youtube making personal insults about teapartiers and their leadership. His entire motif shows he would leap at a chance to prove such a person posted a pervy photo to harm WeinerÂ’s character. He is instead trying to minimize scrutiny and investigation, as though he only talks about serious issues. Just look at his twitter feed from the past monthsÂ… thatÂ’s ridiculous.

It is absurd to pretend we donÂ’t really understand whatÂ’s going on, or that there is a middle ground balanced analysis. DonÂ’t bury the story.

/Commenter Dustin, NRO, as quoted by Daniel Foster

94 CNN NOW!!!!!!!

95 This is why I only tweet pictures of other people's boners.

96 How did the "hacker" get Weiner's passwords and were Weiner's various other passwords, those that give him access to sensitive govt info, similarly available? Were his other accounts on various systems compromised and their info - some of which could affect national security - stolen and even now is being put to nefarious use?

If this is merely a story about a middle-aged man diddling around, then it's just fun to watch him squirm and to speculate on what his wife will do to him.

But by claiming that his secret passwords were stolen, Weiner himself has elevated it into something far more serious. Unless he were to just admit he lied about the hacking that is, and take his lumps.

Someone should really push the "what other passwords might have been compromised" line, cuz it has a logic that compels a proper investigation, no?

97 The muthafucka will not answer a question!!!!!

98 HOly shit. Who saw that segment on CNN? Dana Loebesh TORE into Weiner. Ace, she did a better job than you would have if you were there. Amazing!

99 99 The muthafucka will not answer a question!!!!!

When has he ever? He's made a career out of dishing-out and being evasive in response.

100 Why do these hackers keep posting pictures of my dick?

101 Good for Dana. And she's damn hot too!

102 Macaca. I'm still trying to find out what the ever-loving nutbuggery that means.

103
I just watch Wolf Blitzer basically say that Anthony Weiner is full of shit to that hack Jeff Toobin.

I bet Weiner's all-around arrogance has rubbed a few people the wrong way. Maybe the allies he was counting on in the press are going to melt away.

104 Did Weenie just call someone a jackass???

105 @41: "Ace, I don't always agree with you, but you're 100% right on this. This is amazingly embarrasing on the half of the Conservative media.

Grow a damn pair, ladies."

Hell, they barely care about the Gunwalker scandal, and that has thousands of dead people, criminal acts out the wazoo, and could, in theory, see a decent number of Obizzle's cronies end up in the calaboose.  If *that* doesn't merit coverage, why would a cockshot? 

106 I'll repeat, anyone who hasn't checked out the link to Patterico you should. Weiner was tweeting with another young lovely who just happens to be a porn star. She drones on about her growing crush on Weiner. On her website she has some nice pics of herself in, ahem, interesting positions. Some of the pics show her pointing her cell phone camera at herself.

107 Apparently Weiner whiffed a press conference and then called a CNN producer a jackass?

He's melting down.

108

Dana Bash and Ted Barrett of CNN just put Wiener through the grinder. He will not answer basic questions.

He clearly did this.

Stay with it, Ace.

109

44 I don't want to be the guy that pressured them.

Posted by: ace at May 31, 2011 05:46 PM (nj1bB)

 

Have courage Ace and proudly be that guy.  Those feckless fucks need someone to light a fire under their useless asses.

110
Holy crap, sounds like I'm gonna have to watch CNN. Wonder what channel it's on.

111

ace,

You've done a great job with this.

112 Weiner looked pretty worn out and chagrined (minus the grin part) on the CNN video earlier. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some whimpering going on behind the scenes.
He's a vicious little commie puke, and it would be great to see him done in by his own hand IYKWIMAITYD.

113 @RepWeiner meltdown on CNN. Outstanding television. Major kudos to CNN & @DanaBashCNN. You've got a new viewer. #WeinerGate

114

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at May 31, 2011 06:09 PM (xy9wk)

And been pretty darn quiet about an Illegal War as well...

Even IF the War Powers Act was effective (its not, as no US troops, Land, or Allies were threatened), its still now past the 60 day window... yet we continue to bomb, and are now looking to change the Government of a UN Member Nation, through Force of Arms...

How is that NOT a War?

115 Why isn't anyone talking about me?  I tweeted my tits before Wiener tweeted his teeny weenie.

116 jesus this is at the top of NRO Web Briefing

@JonahNRO: RT @GoodReasonNews: That's so fucking stupid. You obviously don't believe this BS about Weiner, but you lie and pretend you do. Fuck you @JonahNRO

117 Hubby is flying today.  I'll have to ask him if the Weiner stuff made CNN's airport news.

118 OK Fox. CNN has sent you a tweet of their balls. Time to man up.

119 Goulding's article is embarrassingly stupid. He is also getting racked over the coals by some of the commenters.

If this is the quality of NRO reporting then it is clearly no longer a flagship. It's bunch of hacks trying to get the best canapés at the DNC cocktail party.

120
HOly shit. Who saw that segment on CNN?

Are we talking about the one here? Or is there (please God) something even more confrontational out there?

121 How long did Weiner play with his cock to get it that small?

122 Jonah bringing the funneh. JonahNRO6 minutes ago I think Huma's telling Weiner he's going to be stuck with the individual man date for a longtime

123 jmartpolitico 3 minutes ago Relentless RT @JakeSherman: in other news, @danabashcnn @tedbarrettcnn deserve props.

124

Keep plugging away Ace.  Eventually the blackout will collapse.

A core question to ask and the media non-response is providing - is the media watchdogs or guardians of the political status-quo?  So far the answer is - guardians of the status-quo.  They need to go the way of the dinosaur.

125 From the NRO tweet thread >>>>> girthers . heh

126 Goulding's article is embarrassingly stupid. He is also getting racked over the coals by some of the commenters.

If this is the quality of NRO reporting then it is clearly no longer a flagship. It's bunch of hacks trying to get the best canapés at the DNC cocktail party.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 31, 2011 06:14 PM (LH6ir)

It never was a flagship. Sorry to tell you that.

127 If this goes mainstream, Ace can rest well in the knowledge that his 72 hour RedBull fueled marathon got it there.

128 Don't listen to the whiners, Ace.

Everything else gets dropped because there's something bigger, until everything has been dropped, and I'm sick of that shit.

There are 500 other stories that shouldn't have been dropped but they were, because it was "not a big deal" or not big enough or Democrats never get punished anyway.

It's like not bothering to vote because your vote "doesn't count." Of course it doesn't, you didn't vote.

129

When Ace gets back lets tell him CNN and Al Jazeera broke the story and credited Chucky Johnsosn.

shhh  Nobody tell.

Here we go

 

130

Also fronted an hour ago in The Corner (NRO) was this comment (the commenters are keeping the gatekeepers honest):

"Weiner won’t even deny he uploaded this picture. He won’t deny he is in the picture. He won’t even directly deny he sent the twitter, relying instead on intermediaries to say ‘obviously my facebook was hacked (yes, facebook)’ or ‘it was a prank’.

He could resolve conclusively, quickly, and with no cost, via Yfrog and Twitter, that the IP that uploaded these images wasnÂ’t his. We therefore already know Weiner doesnÂ’t want that aspect settled. We therefore can reliably say WeinerÂ’s account wasnÂ’t hacked.

He instead still relies on those services as though he has no concerns about their security.

And he spends all his time on twitter and youtube making personal insults about teapartiers and their leadership. His entire motif shows he would leap at a chance to prove such a person posted a pervy photo to harm WeinerÂ’s character. He is instead trying to minimize scrutiny and investigation, as though he only talks about serious issues. Just look at his twitter feed from the past monthsÂ… thatÂ’s ridiculous.

It is absurd to pretend we donÂ’t really understand whatÂ’s going on, or that there is a middle ground balanced analysis. DonÂ’t bury the story.

Go. Fight. Win.

131 Ace, she did a better job than you would have if you were there.

Way to cheer up the Head Ewok, Jason.

132 Weiner was tweeting with another young lovely who just happens to be a porn star.

He's the Charlie Sheen of Congress.

And he parks his car (or whatever) wherever the hell he feels like it.

133 That wasn't my junk, that was just a Microsoft Word document I was saving for Dan Rather.

134 Hey I hate to be a downer, and it would be GREAT if Weiner goes down--Down goes Weiner, Down goes Weiner, Down goes Weiner ( channeling my inner Cosell), but some other Liberal asshole will just take his place. This is NYC after all.

135 Ace, it's your house.  You can rant and rave all you want.  Some may say its the price to pay to hang out here.   Others may say its the reason to stop by in the first place. 

136 Really. We stand in a part of the field out here that doesn't get many balls hit our way. This comes straight at you, you catch it and throw it back to the infield to get the guy who tagged up and you feel like you pressured second base to make a play on a slide?
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at May 31, 2011 06:05 PM


Well done.

137 weiner on fox special report in a couple of minutes

138 weiner on fox special report in a couple of minutes Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (B/FNw) Weiner or Weiner's weiner?

139 I sympathize with you, but the issue with NRO and The Weekly Standard is how they view themselves. They think of themselves as serious people who write about serious issues and thus are "loathe" to touch these icky "tabloid journalism" stories. They very much shy away from any personal life type stories until they are completely resolved, the most you'll get is a little mention about how other people are reporting on these types of stories. Why Fox News hasn't jammed this down the throat of CNN and MSNBC yet mystifies me though. The natural progression of this story should be bloggers->Brietbart&Glenn Beck->Fox->MSM->NRO&TWS with some wildcards like tabloids (they broke the Edwards deal for instance).

Maddening as it is, NRO and TWS will barely touch and link this stuff for a good while. They just don't like to delve into personal scandles the way pretty much all other media do now. The difference between the MSM laying off and NRO laying off is that NRO would still be laying off and just lightly reporting on the reporting even if it was a (R) instead of a (D) while the MSM would be shouting it from the mountain tops, enjoying the takedown with relish.

140 So is Arnold the Spokes-Weiner going to be on Fox?

141 Of course Weiner doesn't want an investigation, this is just the tip of the ice berg.I'm pretty sure old Anthony has been a busy boy twittering to sweet young things. That's what's gonna come out....

Posted by: Donna at May 31, 2011 06:05 PM (bdE9c)

I think you're right. I think it'll just be a matter of time until one of them comes out publicly and acknowledges it. The prospects of 15 minutes of fame is a big pull for some people.

142 This is getting confusing.  We're slapping weiner around then we aren't slapping weiner around?  We've gone too far, have to keep slapping that weiner.  IMHO.

143 Ah, c'mon, Ace.  Did George HW Bush cave on new taxes?  Did McCain back down on criticism of Barach Hussein Obama?  Did George W Bush give up on capitalism to fix the banking crisis?  Didn't Scott Brown afix himself to conservative values?  And didn't Boehner ram through huge spending cuts?  All is not lost here.  Chin up.

144 repeating this as: USA said : It is emblematic of the ethics of the left. Not the pron part -- the big part of the story is the cover up/lying part.

This IS a big story. It is emblematic of the ethics of the left. Not the pron part -- the big part of the story is the cover up/lying part. That part of the story is bigger than any Brooklyn boner; and it gets bigger every day as Weiner squirms and his defenders on the left massage the facts to keep his reputation erect. The battle in all elections is for the moderate/independent voter who care about such things as honesty and integrity


ace, chin up guy. don't let the lying- darned media  decide what's fit to print. hell at that rate we'd just have nothing but Obama the Messiah and All His fellow travelers are  wonderous every.minute. for. the. next 2 years !

145 If it was a non-story, the Weiner wouldn't be going around to the news organizations and discussing his weiner.  Great job Ace!!!  You've got the creepy bastard on the run!

146 Ha, FNC refered to the dic pic as "one small picture".

147 Is it me or does Anthony Weiner remind you of Beaker from the Muppet Show?

148 If it helps, NRO had a great piece on the French Revolution's monetary policies today.

Their stories about things where no one in the story is their book editor's ol' frat roomie at Columbia and their sister-in-law's godmother's boyfriend and their source Senator's assistant deputy document shredder are still OK...about half the time...if they're not about British royalty, the Vatican, music, art, books, Ayn Rand, poor people, Jews, libertarians, Kennedys, black people, '60s leftists, technology, Kissinger...

That one was OK. For a blog post.

149 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

150 Of course Weiner doesn't want an investigation, this is just the tip of the ice berg. I prefer to call it my Towering Mandate, but the tip is just the beginning.

151

Dana Bash was relentless in that confrontation. You could tell that it took everything she had not to tell Wiener he was full of shit.

Weiner had "that look" of his career passing before his eyes.

I wonder if Eliot Spitzer is going to cover this on his show tonight. Wiener should go on that show to see what his future looks like from the original Client #9.

152 Tehheh - Big Tony is no "big pull" IYKWIMAITYD.

153 Levin's on it hot and heavy. Beautiful.

154 Good for Mark Levin. His default position now is that Weiner sent the dic-pic.

155

Ace, you may have found the first break in the MBM wall.  If we cannot keep this story alive then alternative media is of little use in the coming collapse.  The American public will want trusted sources of news when the majority finally discover they have been lied to all these years.

OK, too serious.  Weiner is still a creepy suckerofcock.

 

156 tomorrow is a new day Ace, something might turn out of the blue and or white

keep up the good work

157 Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2011 06:10 PM (TMB3S)

Ace covered that one this weekend.

158 The prospects of 15 minutes of fame is a big pull for some people.

You don't say.

159 weiner on fox special report in a couple of minutes
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (B/FNw)
Weiner or Weiner's weiner?

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (i6RpT)

It was that douchenozzle Carl Cameron.

...fucking useless

160 Ha.  Goulding put an "update" on his post telling his commenters that their reactions were not those of well-bred and deep-thinking people such as himself.  What a loser.  In the future I will skip anything I see written by him.

161 Is it me or does Anthony Weiner remind you of Beaker from the Muppet Show Horseshack?

FIFY

162 George Orwell, yeah anthony sent it.  Simplest and most logical explanation.  He wanted to thrill a certain someone who was not his wife.  Instead of doing a DM, he Tweeted all his followers.  That is when his CYA brain reared up on its hairy hind legs and squawked, "I Wuz Hacked!"  If he had said "I had goofed", no one except his wife would probably care.  But he tried to Teddy Kennedy his way out of the jam, now he finds himself trying to make his CYA go away.  He dug himself a nice hole for him and his tent pole.

163 >>Good for Mark Levin. His default position now is that Weiner sent the dic-pic. Who's isn't? Which makes more sense, Weiner sent a pic of his dick to a chick or some mystery hacker who Weiner doesn't even care to find hacked into his account and did it? This could really hurt Weiner's political and personal life and he doesn't even care to find out who did it let alone see them punished? Doesn't pass the laugh test.

164 I'd be surprised if low level drone sat Twitter or Facebook haven't already peeked at the tweet metadata, nevermind our national security folks. Blackmail potential alone should have Weiner and Dem leadership scrambling to exonerate him in any and all ways possible. Seriously. Like duh. Even all the young Twitter bimbos mutually following Weiner understand that. I think I get why Ace is so torn up about this. Yeah, Weiner's a sleazy, slippery motherfucker, and deserves some vicious turnabout more than 99.9% of the asshats in politics, but at the end of the day, this "scandal" is really juvenile, almost frivolous. And, in our "modern" world, that's all the more reason for Weiner to have been laughed off the stage by now. Establishing the basic facts of this incident should have taken a few keystrokes and mouseclicks, thus proving or disproving everyone's contentions in two or three minutes max. The "did he or didn't he" part of this story should have been settled by now, and we're sooo fucked as a country, if it drags on for more than another day. We should be debating the essence of the scandal, whether or not he should resign because of this misconduct, not chasing our collective tails like idiots. Weiner's continuing non-denial denials only serve to insult everyone's intelligence, and the media's heel dragging only makes a mockery of us all.

165 Derit, I meant in the way that things always seemed to explode for Beaker. 

166 Weiner's continuing non-denial denials only serve to insult everyone's intelligence, and the media's heel dragging only makes a mockery of us all.

And don't forget Congress.   One of the more interesting dogs that didn't bark is that no one even thought to say "Hey, America's elected and married representatives wouldn't be exposing themselves to college co-eds!"

Nope.  No one is surprised that a member of congress did something like this.

167 Nope.  No one is surprised that a member of congress did something like this.

Posted by: Popcorn at May 31, 2011 06:38 PM (OOehk)

 

Yup.  The so-called Overton Window has been moved.

 

 

168

@154: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

See!!!! I told all of my generals that National Socialism would triumph! I told them that Germany would prevail!!!!! But noooooo......they were all "Mein Fuhrer, we are outnumbered...Mein Fuhrer we have no more tanks.....Mein Fuhrer, we have no more fuel or ammunition...Mein Fuhrer, the Allies have total command of the air....."  They simply overlooked that "we win" follows "they fight."  Verdammte cowards, the lot of them.

169

168:  That should be everyone's default position.  Presumption of innocence is for criminal court, not day-to-day life, and certainly not in the media. 

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.  It's on Weiner to prove to us that he's not full of shit.  It's walking like a duck at this point.

170

Who's isn't? Which makes more sense, Weiner sent a pic of his dick to a chick or some mystery hacker who Weiner doesn't even care to find hacked into his account and did it? This could really hurt Weiner's political and personal life and he doesn't even care to find out who did it let alone see them punished?

I doubt it would have much impact on his political career.  He's a Democrat; it won't matter if ironclad proof that shows him to be a liar is uncovered- he'll still be re-elected.

Yeah, there'd be a couple days of jokes by late night comedians, an apology... and that's about it.

171 It is not as big as 200 other stories.

Ace: I never took you for a "size-ist"; it's not the size of the ship, but the motion of the ocean. Weiner can't help having a small Weiner.

172 Not kidding one bit...

Daniel Foster over at NRO has posted the latest video on Bash and Weiner...because he's sees left wing bloggers starting to pull away from Weiner

NRO is teh suk

173 When Anthony's career tanks, can we say - Auf WeinerShine?

174 >>I doubt it would have much impact on his political career. He's a Democrat; it won't matter if ironclad proof that shows him to be a liar is uncovered- he'll still be re-elected. He doesn't want to get re-elected, he wants to be the next mayor of NYC. There are bucket fulls of liberal assholes in NYC, they don't need to fight for one who send dic pics to college kids.

175 Did someone say dick pics? I've got a dick pic right here: http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/CharlesJohnson.jpg

176 Still wrong. So - let's assume the pork product is genuine 100% Ant'ny. What, one asks, would that have to do with job performance? Favre chose to bob and weave and got away with it because he was on the way out the game's door anyway; he's left to explain it to his wife and the hogs on his farm. Lee chose to exit toute de suite because the weightlessness of the Congress career he'd accumulated to that point was such it could never survive the slightest pervy wankitude. But Weiner is different than either of those: he's already got an established pol career that's heading towards mayor of NYC or the Senate or maybe even Speaker, and he's still closer to the front of it than the end. Meanwhile, Barney practically flaunts his frankfurter daily around the news pole, and there isn't the sliightest hint that it will, or should, have the first thing to do with his qualifications as a pol. What really Ace wants after is whether Weiner is lying or misleading the public, not whether letting Roger out for a stroll or dangling it in front of some twinky who's sleepless in Seattle is appropriate conduct to represent a NYC district. Meanwhile, just formalizing the investigation into what superficially is and what may well be a puerile frank prank risks encouraging the one or two or ten million or so wannabe frank pranksters this guy and his name and his politics and his ambitions are bound to foster. So, Ace is not credible in asserting that the choice actually made amounts to a tell, or anything like it. What Ace is after is frankly, or rather frank, envy ... but, of Dana freaking Bash? Of the single biggest evidence that what FN does still qualifies as news? Man, that is some low stooping. I don't envy Weiner's dilemma (or the dilemma of that weiner either; so really pathetic looking), but how is this coverage different than towel snapping outside the boys shower, or droopy-grabby inside it? I realize Ace is trying to BRAND Weiner with this - but in the bargain, he is risking branding his own.

177 GO ahead and speak for Ace but not me, Rex. Cowardly Pervy jerks like Weiner don't deserve power, and I won't give him any that's for sure. I'm sick of people announcing how unimportant it is that a man needs or solicits narcissistic and other supplies from young starstruck women easily pushed over. I hope he's a punchline the rest of his life because contempt is all he's worthy of.

178 Pls continue to pour it on. Congressman sends a crotch shot to a barely legal coed on the opposite coast. It goes worldwide viral. Regardless of one's take on the morality of it THIS is a big story. Not as big as the economy, jobs etc, but BIG. ACE is playing a leading role on the Right. People much more technically savvy than me will ferret this out. Someone inside Weiner's camp with an axe to grind/money to make will come forward. Weiner's going down. ACE is a rally point.

179 Been watching your dic-pic coverage all weekend. You are doing a great job and it is both interesting and funny. Take a well-deserved break and swagger back into the fray refreshed and full of Weiner blood-lust.

180 Listen, if I was giving a speech to 45,000 people, and someone in the back of the room threw a picture of my johnson on the stage, would I stop to talk about that?

181 Weiner Gets Prickly.....first headline on NRO. I like it. Maybe this WILL go somewhere. Good Lord, I hate that little sawed off weasel............

182 No, this is a big story. It's a big story because everyone knows if this were an R instead of a D involved, he'd be hammered mercilessly and forced to resign. This would be on the evening news, and there would be talk everywhere about Republican hypocrisy and "so-called" family values until he hung his head in shame and vacated his seat. Keep jumping ugly. Let's sauce up this gander, bitches.

183 House rejects debt limit increase without cuts

184 Story just showed up on O'Really's intro.........(the crowd cheers!!!) ACE ACE ACE ACE.......people ARE talking...thanks Ace! Not quite Value-Rite & puddin' time, but I think it may be time for a little smile, huh??

185

Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 07:25 PM

Here's why this is a big effin deal.  This isn't about some wide stance or Barney love or  happy hooker time.  This is about a guy Twitter following girls half his age, at least  some who are still in high school.  What if this was before the internet and he was talking to them on the phone or sending notes?  Would we have ifnored it?  Now I don't know about you, but if a local councilman got caught doing that, let alone sending a pic of his boner, he'd be tarred and feathered.  Weenie is no different.  How many parents of these girls are now wondering exactly what their daughters may have received from the slimey Congressman?  We should be able to at least trust our leaders with our children. 

186 Horshak

187 Ask him directlyÂ…Â…hmmm dats better Â…wat do u sayÂ….

Weiner Facebook Account, twitter account, email Address and all

Anthony David Weiner websites Â…..

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