May 31, 2011
— Ace Did I not just say we were entering the "please respect my family's privacy" phase of this?
Looks like that tantrum of mine was utterly unnecessary, eh? CNN had the bomb and was about to blow it up.
Of course, no Democratic sex scandal is complete until Amanda Marcotte embarrasses herself. Like, claiming the NYT -- which actually spun for Weiner claiming that maybe he had a "staffer malfunction" --- was sexually harassing him by blaming the victim.
Her headline is that the NYT is picking on Weiner for wearing a skirt that's too short. See, like a rape victim.
The New York Times really takes the cake this morning by demonstrating that anyone, even a man, who is victimized by sexual harassment is eligible for victim-blaming. Their argument is that Weiner brought the sexual harassment onto himself (and this poor young woman, apparently) by wearing his opinion skirt too short. Also, by being a social networking slut.
...
I wish I could say this is the first time that I've heard that victims of sexual harassment deserve to be abused because they dare to have a presence online and they aren't ladylike or mincing. Granted, I never thought that the person accused of slatternly use of social networking bringing sexual harassment onto zirself would be a dudely congressman from New York, but okay. It just shows that "she had it coming" is incredible versatile.In a way, it makes sense. Much of the mainstream media, and especially much of the New York Times, views Democrats as symbolically female. Therefore Weiner can be dinged, in their minds, for unladylike behavior. But still, it's kind of strange.
And of course, the closing paragraph is about how, even though the victim has been punished by a cranky old asshole who uses sex as a weapon against people he doesn't like, the victim isn't going to learn his lesson, roll down his skirts, cross his legs, and shut the fuck up.
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Unabashed! Unashamed! Weiner is such a slut. Doesn't he know that Democrats who don't keep their opinions to themselves deserve to be buried under penis pictures?
I suppose we should be grateful, at least, that the author of this piece, Ashley Parker, didn't blame the other victim in this, the young woman who received the penis picture.
Mm-hm. That's a perfectly reasonable reaction to this story: Anthony Weiner, rape survivor.
Exactly, Ms. Marcotte. Nailed it, dude.
I Believe In Weiner: Democrats circling up the wagons to guard the rape victim.
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Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 04:58 PM (D+phB)
Another textbook example of how Democrats close ranks when one of their members is revealed as a scumbag, and the media kills the story by not covering it.
They have it down to a science. This is why 0bama will be re-elected- Republicans lose in the press every time. No balls for the fight.
Posted by: Jones at May 31, 2011 04:59 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 05:00 PM (G6cxw)
Posted by: Uncle Mikey at May 31, 2011 05:00 PM (umot9)
Posted by: Dr Spank at May 31, 2011 05:00 PM (k0TKJ)
After that comes sharpening of the gelding knife and updating her little black book.
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 05:00 PM (2dbd9)
Considering the lefties are running the scoreboard, yes, the right is the functional equivalent of the Washington Generals.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:01 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2011 05:01 PM (UsjBj)
Sex incidents are resume enhancers if you're a Democrat.
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 05:01 PM (6IReR)
Posted by: ace at May 31, 2011 05:02 PM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at May 31, 2011 05:02 PM (npr0X)
Posted by: sig94 at May 31, 2011 05:02 PM (aswfl)
No, the Washington Generals at least were intentionally lame and hilarious.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 31, 2011 05:02 PM (sf+iw)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at May 31, 2011 05:02 PM (jU2vI)
Posted by: jewishodysseus at May 31, 2011 05:03 PM (IQujk)
Wow, we can just sit back and let him take over. #WeinerFollowingYou?? lol
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 31, 2011 05:03 PM (9eDbm)
Are you fucking kidding me, Big Tony? We have seen you on the floor of the House. You don't do silence.
Posted by: Choo-Choo Biden at May 31, 2011 05:03 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 08:57 PM (gTe3Y)
Yes, I often get weiner in the end.
Posted by: Comely Coed at May 31, 2011 05:04 PM (kUaEF)
I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair!
Posted by: Huma at May 31, 2011 05:04 PM (SwkdU)
Paydirt Brudda.
Good bloggin' and sloggin'!
Posted by: ontherocks at May 31, 2011 05:04 PM (HBqDo)
Posted by: mama winger at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (KDX07)
Posted by: Travis at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (9WkMB)
Posted by: Dr Spank at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (k0TKJ)
How come us men never get victimized by vagina pictures?
Posted by: CoolCzech at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (UsjBj)
I'd like to thank Amanda Marcotte for outstripping even the great Andrew Sullivan to develop a new paradigm in utterly incomprehensible lefty gibberish.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (gDbxE)
The insanity goes to 11 right there. How is a (supposedly unsolicited and undesired) cocksnap the fault of the receiver? Variations on gift horse / mouth will not be relevant or necessary, morons.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at May 31, 2011 05:05 PM (qvify)
Just be sure to leave a deathcard on the body.......
Do I have to say it? That's a metaphor, not literal.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2011 05:06 PM (eyh2h)
Ace and company kept it alive, CNN took it mainstream, and now we see where it goes next.
I for one look forward to what comes next.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:07 PM (DKV43)
What's up next?
A. IT WAS DEMON RUM THAT LED ME DOWN THIS PATH TO PENILE RUIN!
or
B. I HAVE FOUND JESUS!
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:07 PM (gDbxE)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:07 PM (gTe3Y)
And WE'RE the ones "waging war on women"?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 05:07 PM (0vDuM)
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 05:08 PM (2dbd9)
Posted by: Delta Kappa Epsilon at May 31, 2011 05:08 PM (le5qc)
Posted by: cackfinger at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (b8bAO)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (pTznA)
I'd like to thank Amanda Marcotte for outstripping even the great Andrew Sullivan to develop a new paradigm in utterly incomprehensible lefty gibberish.
Yeah, but it's authentic incomprehensible lefty gibberish.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (eyh2h)
Posted by: Popcorn at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (MyZgA)
What's up next?
A. IT WAS DEMON RUM THAT LED ME DOWN THIS PATH TO PENILE RUIN!
or
B. I HAVE FOUND JESUS!
You're reading from the wrong party's playbook; that's the (R) edition. Both lead to exile.
From the (D)
A. Deny
B. Obfuscate
C. Apologize, but don't confess - leave plenty of space for spin
D. Profit
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (G6cxw)
Posted by: Dr Spank at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (k0TKJ)
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (pl1+G)
Technically, you solicited this.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (0vDuM)
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 05:09 PM (2dbd9)
Posted by: Laura at May 31, 2011 05:10 PM (C1iA+)
Posted by: toby928™ at May 31, 2011 05:11 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2011 05:11 PM (TMB3S)
Posted by: jewishodysseus at May 31, 2011 05:11 PM (IQujk)
Posted by: Amanda Marcotte at May 31, 2011 05:11 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: Bob at May 31, 2011 05:12 PM (4DoFz)
What sucks about this story is how the conservative media let the Right blogosphere twist in the wind until, best I can tell, this afternoon.
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 05:12 PM (pl1+G)
What do you want to bet one of the pornstars releases there DM's with Weiner.
Pornstars are notorious attention whores, and common whores as well, they will do anything for attention and money.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:12 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: JohnJ at May 31, 2011 05:12 PM (1JFtF)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:12 PM (gTe3Y)
EUPHEMISM RED ALERT
AGAIN EUPHEMISM RED ALERT
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:12 PM (gDbxE)
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at May 31, 2011 05:13 PM (uwljR)
"That's a perfectly reasonable reaction to this story: Anthony Weiner, rape survivor."
Posted by: Ace at 08:56 PM
Hope the NYPD preserved the evidence from the rape kit.
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at May 31, 2011 05:13 PM (cwFVA)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2011 05:14 PM (SB0V2)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2011 05:14 PM (UsjBj)
Posted by: Amanda Marcotte at May 31, 2011 05:15 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at May 31, 2011 05:15 PM (Pzf4N)
The bitch set him up.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at May 31, 2011 05:15 PM (XHnKF)
Posted by: Jim Treacher at May 31, 2011 05:15 PM (X3KAb)
Checks have gone out already I'm guessing.
Tiger's whores got stiffed so they went public.
Weiners Angels are gonna get rich.
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 05:15 PM (2dbd9)
Posted by: Cheri at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (BA8k3)
... because Huma knew she wasn't the intended target, and more importantly Huma wanted to keep her options open. As, I have to assume, does Hillary.
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (pl1+G)
How many of these flash mobs and random gang fights, such as in the headlines at Drudge, will it take before we are all begging for Obama to institute a civilian national security force?
I'm seriously becoming unglued because there is a genuine part of me that wonders just how fucking random all this shit really is.
Posted by: Clueless at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (piMMO)
Someone named Daisy (Daaiiiisy) over there is trying to think logically.
Soon she will be beheaded and crushed by the psycho lefties.
I think they're claiming Brietbart (BRRRIETBART!) did this, somehow, some way, for some reason...
That's nutbag thinking.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (s5aNX)
wiener silent
dm girl silent
media left to...umm..dig
wiener forgotten about tomorrow
ace co. get to sulk
wiener gets to gloat
everyone's a wiener baby
Posted by: goshPA at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (W9alw)
Posted by: yoda hates jarjarbinks too at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: nostradamus' 401k at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson at May 31, 2011 05:16 PM (N2yhW)
So, now his answer to why he was following the dicpic receiver is that he asked all his followers (thousands) if they wanted him to follow them? WTF would a congressman do that?
Keep digging pipsqueek. You're on a roll.
Posted by: Steph at May 31, 2011 05:17 PM (AkdC5)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2011 05:17 PM (TMB3S)
Checks have gone out already I'm guessing.
So we have to wait until the checks clear before they ratfuck Weiner by going public. Should be just in time for when the MFM start to wind down their coverage.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2011 05:17 PM (eyh2h)
Yeah. That's her. Marcotte, curiously, always ends up defending women abusers as victims of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, and she never seems to realize it until it's far, far too late (and hilarious).
Poor gal.
Posted by: Good Lt at May 31, 2011 05:17 PM (A/VBC)
Posted by: ontherocks at May 31, 2011 05:18 PM (HBqDo)
Posted by: ace at May 31, 2011 05:18 PM (nj1bB)
I definitely don't see Weiner resigning. I do see him being a little dinged by all of this, though. Hopefully, enough that he won't be able to run for Mayor of NYC. Or even enough to make him shut his piehole for a while.
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 05:18 PM (ihSHD)
That said, if Weiner is a reverse beard (merkin?), and it is eventually proven, I will laugh until my lungs bleed. I still won't forgive his dorkshot trespasses, but I'll at least understand.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:18 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 05:18 PM (YZISw)
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 09:12 PM (pl1+G)
Yup! One of the benefits of this is to expose who is REALLY up for the fight...not many but it's always that way in big struggles.
Posted by: NfromNC at May 31, 2011 05:19 PM (kR57Q)
Posted by: ginaswo at May 31, 2011 05:20 PM (OUBcB)
This could not have happened to a bigger weiner by the way.
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at May 31, 2011 05:20 PM (uwljR)
But sacred honor and fear of STD's prevent it. Mostly fear of STD's.
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 05:20 PM (2dbd9)
I mean am I really supposed to stop when she starts yelling no after I take my hand off her mouth?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 31, 2011 05:21 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: ginaswo at May 31, 2011 05:21 PM (OUBcB)
Posted by: Steph at May 31, 2011 05:21 PM (AkdC5)
Posted by: elliot m at May 31, 2011 05:21 PM (zPich)
I mean if he can take time off form infowars and trying to tie completely unrelated events together to show America is descending into blockwars from Judge Dredd.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:21 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: maddogg at May 31, 2011 05:22 PM (CFKU5)
Yup!
One of the benefits of this is to expose who is REALLY up for the
fight...not many but it's always that way in big struggles.
Posted by: NfromNC at May 31, 2011 09:19 PM (kR57Q)
Hey, has there been any news this past week? We've been, uh..on a cruise.
Posted by: NRO at May 31, 2011 05:22 PM (bgcml)
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 05:22 PM (ihSHD)
I keep telling people that those things are dangerous,
. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at May 31, 2011 05:23 PM (XHnKF)
The Tea Party gets the same treatment. The GOP will let us Tea Partiers run ahead and find the mines in the minefield, but once we are through they will grandly march in and plant the flag.
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 05:23 PM (2dbd9)
Posted by: Damiano at May 31, 2011 05:23 PM (3nrx7)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at May 31, 2011 05:23 PM (npr0X)
B. Obfuscate
C. Apologize, but don't confess - leave plenty of space for spin
D. Tax and spend
E. Profit
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 09:09 PM (D+phB)
Missed a step!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 31, 2011 05:23 PM (yrGif)
Wouldn't you think a man who desperately needs the collusion support of the media would think twice before calling a CNN producer an "asshole"?
Posted by: creeper at May 31, 2011 05:24 PM (gre5a)
Well to be fair, the Hillary Lesbian rumors are nothing new. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
And yes Huma is good looking, a little too good looking for Anthony "I'm a direct descendent of Fievel Mousekewitz" Weiner
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:24 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: John Podhoreth at May 31, 2011 05:24 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2011 05:24 PM (pTznA)
Posted by: Jones at May 31, 2011 05:25 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (gTe3Y)
sssshhh...THEY'll hear you...
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at May 31, 2011 09:23 PM (npr0X)
I'm a little bit low on funds right now, but if I can help, just tweet me!
Posted by: John Edwards at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (yrGif)
You may be being unfair... to whores.
Ashley Dupre kept silent until the media had already outed her name and destroyed Spitzer. Dupre followed the ethic. Ginger Lee on the other hand wasn't paid; she has no reason to stand for any random guy who follows her around the 'net.
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (pl1+G)
All media gets some cranks, infowars, on the other hand, is explicitly designed for them.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: toby928™ at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (GTbGH)
You know who the real victim here is? It's his wife, Huma Abedin, who has tremendous respect in the media and who has been a Washington institution. She has been irreparably stained by this incident. What could possibly be going on in their marriage that would result in Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner having to seek out internet harlots to show his penis to?
Here she is, one of the hardest working women in Washignton, D.C. and she has to come home and deal with this shit? Some barely pubescent husband with too much bandwidth and not enough maturity to just ake the Cosmo into the bathroom at night and just deal with it?
Huma Abedin is a Muslim. A proud Muslim. Her family name used to mean something. She's a hard worker doing good work for the Democrat Party. Meanwhile, her lazy ass husband is sufring internet skank like some skeevy pervert in a Chris Hanson video.
Shame.
Shame.
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (iIQ0a)
Missed a step!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 31, 2011 09:23 PM (yrGif)
I assumed it was permanently implied? Yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:26 PM (D+phB)
A male politician sends an (apparently) unsolicited picture of his junk to a college student. He gets called on his creepy behavior and...he's a victim of slut shaming?
Amanda Marcotte might possibly be the most idiotic person alive.
Posted by: Lauren at May 31, 2011 05:27 PM (Ekb01)
I love Slaughter's defense of The Weiner. Typical left-wing dogma:
"Ugh, you dumb rubes. Weiner is a Democrat and therefore, is much much more intelligent than any Republican and certainly more intelligent than you dumb knuckledraggers, with your guns and your bibles. Sending pictures of his shlong via Twitter? Pfft. Morons"
That is the Democrat mindset.
Posted by: Olliander at May 31, 2011 05:27 PM (j4xgZ)
There once was a Rep named Wiener
Who thought he was leaner and meaner
He tweeted a lot when feeling hot
And got his ass sent to the cleanersPosted by: flodigarry at May 31, 2011 05:27 PM (/C6HK)
But even if he does survive this and keeps his job, his future in politics is bleak.
How high can he rise after being caught texting a dic pick to a 21 year old girl?
Weiner is an up and comer in the Democratic party, potentially a New York senator or NYC mayor. This will derail that.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:28 PM (DKV43)
What if this girl Cordova was not just some kooky college kid with a crush, but someone with truly malicious intent, who was bent on digging up dirt with the intent to blackmail. The implications of our public officials out-of-control private behaviour are massive.
This story, together with so many of the other recent scandals involving the private behaviour of public officials, goes way above Weiner and whatever consequences he might personally suffer. It will take a Conservative media apparatus to build the case and a genuine Conservative presidential candidate in '12 to make it.
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 05:28 PM (/IW23)
Posted by: a message to our french friends at May 31, 2011 05:28 PM (GTbGH)
It's not about his sex life, it's about destroying an enemy. They would be attempting to destroy one of ours and in the process use that person as a cudgel against the entire conservative movement. It's time to start using their rules against them.
Call Lorena Bobbitt because we have a weiner that needs to be chopped off.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at May 31, 2011 05:29 PM (GEPoZ)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:29 PM (gTe3Y)
Posted by: pep at May 31, 2011 05:29 PM (6TB1Z)
Well I'd give Tony a solid B+ ... you have no idea how bad the problems he inherited are ....
FORE!!!
Posted by: The Prez at May 31, 2011 05:30 PM (opKxg)
Posted by: railwriter at May 31, 2011 05:30 PM (m4hn1)
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 05:30 PM (/IW23)
Ramsey Clarke, James Earl Carter, and John Kerry still draw breath. She's not even on the medal stand.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:30 PM (gDbxE)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at May 31, 2011 05:30 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 09:28 PM (/IW23)
Can I haz some of what you are smoking?
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 31, 2011 05:31 PM (yrGif)
Posted by: ace at May 31, 2011 05:31 PM (nj1bB)
Speaking of Pelosi, she looked and sounded even worse than usual today.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 31, 2011 05:32 PM (8B3iX)
Huma Abedin is a Muslim. A proud Muslim. Her family name used to mean something. She's a hard worker doing good work for the Democrat Party. Meanwhile, her lazy ass husband is sufring internet skank like some skeevy pervert in a Chris Hanson video.
Shame.
Shame.
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 09:26 PM (iIQ0a)
He married a muslim? I thought they did not mind mistreatment and multiple wives? If she does care, then she is a disgrace to the prophet and the glorius allah. May she burn in the sahara for not being faithful and marrying a jooooooo.. /
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at May 31, 2011 05:32 PM (uwljR)
Rep. Louise Slaughter: I, too, believe in Weiner.
“Why would he do a stupid thing like that” Slaughter chuckles. “Anthony's Weiner is as thin smart as a whip.”
Fixed it for that stupid scrunt!
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 05:32 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 31, 2011 05:32 PM (B/FNw)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2011 05:32 PM (pTznA)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:32 PM (gTe3Y)
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 31, 2011 05:33 PM (opKxg)
Posted by: Hammer at May 31, 2011 05:33 PM (hVGDL)
Meanwhile, her lazy ass husband is sufring internet skank like some skeevy pervert in a Chris Hanson video.
And porn! Don't forget the Ginger Lee internet porn!
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 05:33 PM (ihSHD)
Huma Abedin is a Muslim. A proud Muslim. Her family name used to mean something. She's a hard worker doing good work for the Democrat Party. Meanwhile, her lazy ass husband is sufring internet skank like some skeevy pervert in a Chris Hanson video.
Shame.
Shame.
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 09:26 PM (iIQ0a)
Sheesh, it's just a sign of manly vigor and virility.
Posted by: DSK at May 31, 2011 05:34 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 05:34 PM (/IW23)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 05:34 PM (YZISw)
A good example of the difference between Dems and the GOP:
Mountain of evidence against a Dem: GOP is timid to bring it up, Dems circle wagons.
Innuendo against GOP congressman/candidate: GOP scatters like sandtrout in water, Dems demand investigations.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 31, 2011 05:34 PM (uhAkr)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 31, 2011 05:34 PM (B/FNw)
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 09:32 PM (/IW23)
I had this bad moment where I envisioned the Moron horde breaking into a chorus of "To dream the impossible dream".
Putting Valu-Rite back in the cupboard now.
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 31, 2011 05:35 PM (yrGif)
You're blaming the victim because he spends promiscuously!
He's an economic rape victim, not you!
Posted by: Amanda Marcotte at May 31, 2011 05:35 PM (BP6Z1)
Well, in Amynda's defense, her thesis is based upon Weiner's first incredible lie - and not the subsequent contradictory but more plausible lies offered to explain away the first lie - which is easily disprovable with just a smidgen of good faith effort on the Honorable Weiner's part, but which could well expose him to criminal sanction for making a false report.
I think we're all missing a part of this that gives me a giant throbbing schadenboner that cannot be constrained by a solitary bolt of gray cotton. Over the weekend, the Honorable Weiner must have told Huma one of his early lies, believing at the time that the whole thing would be disappeared by Tuesday with an assist from the MBM. Now he's hemmed in not only by his first, public story about having been hacked, but quite possibly by another, different lie that he told his wife but which by now must be quite obviously false as well - or which will be contradicted by his next attempt to explain the incident away. "Look, Huma honey, this is what really happened [insert story that doesn't include something which could be construed by a woman as cheating or preparing to cheat]." Whatever he told her is probably very easy to disprove now, so it is no longer available as a cover story - but neither is the next lie if it contradicts what he told his wife unless and until he admits that he lied to her. Weiner's in a pickle.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 05:36 PM (W0TZi)
Posted by: jewishodysseus at May 31, 2011 05:36 PM (IQujk)
Also Ace and Treacher promoted to hardboiled gumshoes.
Posted by: snookered at May 31, 2011 05:36 PM (jchJh)
A beard has to be hot to be believable.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 05:36 PM (0vDuM)
You guessed it Charles Johnson.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:37 PM (DKV43)
Yeah, we need to go with that from this point forward.
The Honorable WeinerTM
Just to make it official.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:38 PM (gDbxE)
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 05:38 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:38 PM (gTe3Y)
For what that's worth.
Good, I'm sure by the end of the hour after long deliberation Hannity will decide if Weiner is a good american or not.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:38 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 05:38 PM (pl1+G)
Posted by: TMZ Honcho at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (4t9J5)
Tenting.
Loathe to discuss it.
The only reason, the only one, the MBM is picking any of this up is the deliciousness of the names and the verbs.
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (4sQwu)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (UsjBj)
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 09:38 PM (ihSHD)
I know I did, whew!
Posted by: robtr at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (MtwBb)
During this very hard time, I take solace in my favorite passage from the Bible, the 23rd Psalm.
"My rod and my staff, they comfort me..."
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (ihSHD)
"Do these briefs make my cock look fat?"
Posted by: CoolCzech at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 05:39 PM (pl1+G)
You know what we really need is a big picture of Huma Abedin up on the front page ... you know, to show our support for her suffering. Since Anthony won't answer our questions.
Why, here's one.
We could take it down when he answers reporters questions.
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (iIQ0a)
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 09:38 PM (ihSHD)
DNA doesn't survive intense flame very well!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (yrGif)
A caricature, wrapped in a parody, surrounded by black and white photos of these weeds by a pile of bricks.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (gDbxE)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (YZISw)
Posted by: The Chicken at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (0vDuM)
Posted by: Jones at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (8sCoq)
"I would not respond to that pie"
Dear god, you guys understated how epic that interview was.
It was devastating.
Posted by: Ben at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (DKV43)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (ldUCK)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (gTe3Y)
http://tinyurl.com/442ll3n
Looks like doug is working overtime just for you.
Posted by: The Black Republican at May 31, 2011 05:40 PM (RqRzN)
Posted by: huerfano at May 31, 2011 05:41 PM (BeusG)
“I don't know the details. But I know him to be a person of integrity and I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this.”
But he wouldn't agree to call for an investigation.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 31, 2011 05:41 PM (8B3iX)
When four out of every five posts are about somebody else's dick, you've got a problem.
Yes, he's more than likely guilty. Piss poor behavior for any elected representative. Get him replaced! Go for it! Please!
Pursue it, gather proof and evidence. Present the case against him!
...don't obsess over it! You're going OCD, here.
...over somebody else's dick, fer cryin' out loud. (What's the problem? You don't have one, or is his bigger than yours?)
Get a grip.
Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at May 31, 2011 05:41 PM (E7Z1r)
So do I. Plus, I'm sure that Huma recognized it as his within 3 seconds. She's seen those Hanes before, and she's sadly wept at what's under them.
Posted by: Lauren at May 31, 2011 05:41 PM (Ekb01)
I think his divorce messed him up emotionally. When he lost the support of his fellow Cali progressives due to his support of Bush, that was the last straw - he decided to revert back to form.
Very, very sad.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at May 31, 2011 05:42 PM (XHnKF)
Posted by: Steph at May 31, 2011 05:42 PM (AkdC5)
Ace is a B-52: he can carpet-bomb a target area and destroy all living things that reside there. Drudge is a volley of Minutemen targeted at population centers. If he fires, the whole world takes notice.
We prefer Ace, but we need Drudge.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:42 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: Vanderloin at May 31, 2011 05:43 PM (VXBR1)
He had kneesles as a child.
Posted by: toby928™ at May 31, 2011 05:43 PM (GTbGH)
UNDONATE!
Let's hold am unfundraiser for Huma Abedin to get her home internet connection downgraded to 56K dial-up!
We could start with $100 in the pot, and then start reducing that amount by pledging $1 bills to the various porn stars on Rep. Weiner's Twitter "follow list" until we get down to $9.00 and then we could donate that amount for Huma's home internet connection ... you know, to castrate her philandering wanderer's bandwidth capability.
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 05:44 PM (iIQ0a)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky aka Scarlett O'Hara at May 31, 2011 05:44 PM (FnRYN)
Posted by: The Black Republican at May 31, 2011 05:44 PM (RqRzN)
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 05:44 PM (6IReR)
Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at May 31, 2011 09:41 PM (E7Z1r)
Yes Ace--you need to handle this with care!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 31, 2011 05:44 PM (yrGif)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 05:44 PM (NHeC0)
Ace, keep at it; don't go soft on Weiner.
Posted by: logprof at May 31, 2011 05:46 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 05:46 PM (/IW23)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 05:46 PM (G6cxw)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 05:47 PM (YZISw)
Rex, have you met Amanda?
You kids have fun.
And remind each other about your respective lithium regimens, m'kay?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2011 05:47 PM (gDbxE)
This may be an obvious point but the only explanation that really fits is that he thought he was just sending the photo to this woman, rather than to all followers.
Ooops.
Posted by: Steve at May 31, 2011 05:48 PM (TdLcL)
I haven't been over there since he banned me for daring to criticize him. I had no idea that he has gone completely over to DNC stringer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 31, 2011 05:48 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at May 31, 2011 05:48 PM (B/FNw)
If that's real, it's spectacular on a submarine with a screen door level.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:49 PM (D+phB)
Ace is a B-52: he can carpet-bomb a target area and destroy all living things that reside there
Hmmmm.....
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 31, 2011 05:50 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Big Fat Hank Johnson at May 31, 2011 05:50 PM (DPM1U)
Posted by: razor419 at May 31, 2011 05:50 PM (ag54v)
...don't obsess over it! You're going OCD, here.
...over somebody else's dick, fer cryin' out loud. (What's the problem? You don't have one, or is his bigger than yours?)
Get a grip.
You know, after a while, it becomes the principle of the matter. The MSM hasn't been covering it. Many bloggers haven't been covering it. Those of each who do, generally, make excuses for him. AND it's not Ace's job to gather proof and evidence and make a case against him, although, clearly, he has gone way above and beyond in doing so.
So, in short, if you don't like the wallpaper in this room, go to another fucking party.
Posted by: Clueless at May 31, 2011 05:50 PM (piMMO)
Ma'am, I'm sorry to say that those words may not mean what you think they do.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 05:51 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: David at May 31, 2011 05:51 PM (4t9J5)
218...
It ain't about the underwear pic so much anymore.
It's about him claiming to be hacked but not filing a report with the Capitol Police and FBI... because he can't. He wasn't hacked and filing a false report would be a crime.
It also about him being one of the most smart-ass smart-mouth lying democrats in Congress.
He deserves no benefit of the doubt or mercy on this.
He grew up as a Prick from Brooklyn and still is.
Hell, he probably still needs to remind himself not to grab his crotch and say "Yo" during interviews.
Posted by: Huckleberry at May 31, 2011 05:54 PM (j/Wpi)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at May 31, 2011 05:55 PM (ihSHD)
That's just stupid. Just because the perp-hacker has been identified doesn't make what he did (didn't do) not a crime. And pursuing the matter criminally doesn't foreclose a civil action - in fact, if a crime is proven which contains the elements of a civil cause of action, a civil trial on the merits is often not necessary, and all the Plaintiff(s) need do is prove their damages. e.g. a conviction for battery precludes a trial (a defense, really) as to the fact of the battery, and the Plaintiff proceeds to prove his or her damages.
In a civil case, you may ask the Defendant whether he did such a thing which constitutes a crime and he may refuse to answer and invoke his 5th Amendment Rights, at which point the Plaintiff(s) would receive either an inference that the Defendant did the thing, or the Defendant could be precluded from offering testimony that he didn't do the thing - neither of which is an admission for the purposes of a criminal prosecution.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 05:55 PM (W0TZi)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2011 05:56 PM (gTe3Y)
It is at this time that I am announcing my recent conversion to Christianity. Now if you excuse me, I have a church service to attend.
Posted by: Anthony Weiner, Jew For Jesus at May 31, 2011 05:57 PM (ihSHD)
So I guess that hacked is the same as #Hacked!!
Sounds as if the story is getting legs. A possible congressional investigation. Cops. Breitbart could turn up a few girlfriends.
I'll need to lay in some popcorn, and I hope, some pudding.
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (4sQwu)
Posted by: ontherocks at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (HBqDo)
It is at this time that I am announcing my recent conversion to Christianity. Now if you excuse me, I have a church service to attend.
I highly recommend the redemptive services of Jerry Falwell.
Posted by: Teh N00T at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (D+phB)
204 I wonder what Weiner wrote when he sent the photo of his "package" to that coed?
2 words: Stimulus Package!
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (91Ty7)
One of the reasons this is important is a bit of payback.
How many sex scandals do these sleazy Dems have, ones that are completely fucked up and awful? And how many of those don't get any where...
But then, we have Newt, Bob Livingston, Larry Craig and Mark Foley and numerous others do some minor sex stuff...and what happens? They have to quit their political lives and go into hiding.
Fuck these weasels, throw this simpering ferret-like douche to the wolves, or Mandy Marcottes nether regions, either of which is a bad option.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (s5aNX)
Posted by: Anthony "Tiny" Weiner at May 31, 2011 05:58 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 05:59 PM (NHeC0)
For all those Weiner believers, I suggest a stroll down memory lane.
http://tinyurl.com/42388ba
By the way, does anyone here still have an account at Kos? (I've been whacked twice, and they seem to have higher new account barriers now.) That would be a nice little load to drop into one of the pro-Weiner diaries.
Posted by: arhooley at May 31, 2011 05:59 PM (+/eKV)
Posted by: sartana at May 31, 2011 05:59 PM (/IW23)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 31, 2011 09:57 PM (1yViP)
There's right answers in O-chem.
Posted by: StPatrick_majored in chemistry at May 31, 2011 05:59 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 06:00 PM (0vDuM)
I highly recommend the redemptive services of Jerry Falwell.
I was thinking of a good old fashioned "laying of the hands" by Rev. Genette.
Posted by: Anthony's Weiner at May 31, 2011 06:00 PM (ihSHD)
You're high.
And why the fuck do you keep talking about Breitbart?
Is Weiner going to sue CNN and the LA Times too?
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 06:01 PM (2dbd9)
Posted by: Chuckit at May 31, 2011 06:01 PM (mr6dB)
Posted by: David at May 31, 2011 06:01 PM (4t9J5)
Posted by: Antonio Weineragosa at May 31, 2011 06:01 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at May 31, 2011 06:02 PM (GKQDR)
Posted by: David at May 31, 2011 10:01 PM (4t9J5)
no I like Tebow, poor attempt at snark
Posted by: Jose at May 31, 2011 06:02 PM (WTNJJ)
So then, watch for it: Weiner v Dick coming soon.
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 09:44 PM (NHeC0)
That was almost as dumb as the stuff Weiner is saying. Are you Weiner?
Posted by: robtr at May 31, 2011 06:02 PM (MtwBb)
Dear Rep. Anthony Weiner, here is some advice that should have more weight than what you have been getting from your lawyers.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.Confucious
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 06:03 PM (G6cxw)
Again with the eeeevil Breitbart? What has he done with respect to this issue that suggests he's a part of anything?
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 06:03 PM (D+phB)
You're on a broad spectrum of chems aren't you?
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 06:03 PM (6IReR)
Posted by: Anonymoose at May 31, 2011 06:04 PM (ZgvjV)
Posted by: Jeffersonian at May 31, 2011 06:04 PM (jAADl)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 06:04 PM (0vDuM)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 09:59 PM (NHeC0)
You are about as stupid as weiner's prick. You can't take someone down that hasn't done anything wrong. I wonder why teh weiner hasn't named Breitbart as the person responsible for this if that's what he thinks. He's never been shy about running off at the mouth before.
Weiner left his mark. It was his dicpic on Twitter, and there's no way in hell he wants an official investigation into this.
Posted by: Steph at May 31, 2011 06:04 PM (AkdC5)
Posted by: Beth at May 31, 2011 06:04 PM (5NfIh)
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 06:05 PM (2dbd9)
Now run along back to whichever libtard hole from whence you came.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 31, 2011 06:06 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 06:06 PM (NHeC0)
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 06:07 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Beth at May 31, 2011 06:07 PM (5NfIh)
"Mencken would be proud."
Seconded.
Ace, I hope you know what this means.
And I would add that Thomas Paine is also probably pretty proud of his legacy.
The revolution needs printers (even printers of pixels).
Posted by: someguy at May 31, 2011 06:07 PM (iIQ0a)
Posted by: Bugler at May 31, 2011 06:08 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: Beth at May 31, 2011 06:09 PM (5NfIh)
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 06:09 PM (6IReR)
Posted by: runningrn at May 31, 2011 06:09 PM (ihSHD)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 06:10 PM (YZISw)
You've got your own wing at the psyche ward don't you.
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 06:10 PM (6IReR)
Posted by: Anthony, Doing The People's Work at May 31, 2011 06:10 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 06:11 PM (G6cxw)
Jeebers, Ace is bashing the hell out of Howard Kurtz!
Nothin' but net, @HowardKurtz. I'd follow you into hell you precognitive detective son-of-a-bitchPosted by: Steph at May 31, 2011 06:11 PM (AkdC5)
Posted by: Anthony at May 31, 2011 06:11 PM (VXBR1)
So if this advances to the point where Weiner's so politically bruised, or if it explodes into some large scale scandal involving multiple genital exposures, will a Repub ever pick up this seat?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 31, 2011 06:13 PM (DPM1U)
>>Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 10:04 PM (0vDuM)
As much as I want to believe the story, something's not right with the hair.
Posted by: ontherocks at May 31, 2011 06:13 PM (HBqDo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 06:13 PM (G6cxw)
I laughed out loud.
Posted by: toby928™ at May 31, 2011 06:13 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at May 31, 2011 06:14 PM (Klxrr)
Dish up another platter of truth, justice and thorazine for the good people of the HQ.
You are WINNIN teh hearts and minds.
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 06:15 PM (2dbd9)
Oh, nobody got hurt. Yeah that makes it SO not a crime, or a scandal.
What. The. Fuck.
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 06:16 PM (6IReR)
Alex Leamas @ 256: You're way out of your weight class on this. Invoking the 5th is for criminal implications; if you try it in civil cases, it just results in exactly what it implies - a finding that you committed a crime
Jeebus you are a dumbass, it actually means absolutely nothing and the jury in a civil case will never hear about it. Why are liberals so stupid?
If you want to make a crimminal case out of it you have to do it in crimminal court. That is why everyone goes to crimminal court before they file a civil claim. In a crimminal claim they don't need discovery. They can seize your computer with a search warrant and supeona the logs of your internet accounts. You also don't open yourself up to discovery with that method and you have the advantage of suing a convicted crimminal.
You are really are stupid fuck or average joe. One of the two.
Posted by: robtr at May 31, 2011 06:16 PM (MtwBb)
Actually, dipshit, you can invoke it in any case or controversy, and even - wait for it - when testifying before Congress (that may come in handy for your beloved Honorable Weiner). If you were as smart as you were heavy, you'd have understood that I laid out the available remedies of such inferences and preclusive sanctions for discovery violations (i.e. refusing to answer a question which does not seek privileged or non-discoverable information). The preclusive sanction or inference is itself the remedy (Judge says, "Jury, you are instructed that you are free to find that the Defendant did X, Y, and Z). If you weren't absent the day they taught law at lawschool, you would know that one can't be punished (contempt proceeding in the nature of deprivation of liberty) for invoking a Constitutional Right (against self-incrimination).
Fucking amateur.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 06:16 PM (W0TZi)
WeinerÂ’s latest excuseÂ…
I ran out of gas. IÂ… I had a flat tire. I didnÂ’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didnÂ’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASNÂ’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
cnredd
Political Wrinkles
http://politicalwrinkles.com
Posted by: cnredd at May 31, 2011 06:16 PM (XdXvF)
Has anyone thought to question Weiner's toaster?
LOL. (You were referring to Weiner's lame #TheToasterIsVeryLoyal joke, right?)
Posted by: arhooley at May 31, 2011 06:16 PM (+/eKV)
You are really are stupid fuck or average joe. One of the two.
Posted by: robtr at May 31, 2011 10:16 PM (MtwBb)
I'm sitting here running those posts through my Enigma machine looking for Average Joe's codes as we speak....
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at May 31, 2011 06:17 PM (6IReR)
Most of the NYC-area Reps are not Machiavellian geniuses-they win election because they are the Democrat Machine candidate whose ethnicity matches that of their districts ( see Wiener, Anthony: Forest Hills) or they are socialists who can gin up support from all the progressive hipster douchebags who live in their districts ( see Maloney, Carolyn: Long Island City/Midtown).
Weiner is a machine hack just like all the rest of the NYC reps. Don't be fooled into thinking that because he runs his mouth the most that he is the smartest and toughest of even that weak bunch.
Sit down and shut up, Rex, you dunce.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 31, 2011 06:17 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: toby928™ at May 31, 2011 06:19 PM (GTbGH)
"I'm pretty sure @HowardKurtz is a space alien observing human behavior and sexual interaction for the first time. A dumb space alien."
Posted by: blue star at May 31, 2011 06:20 PM (M23e8)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 06:20 PM (YZISw)
I'm just unsure whether to admit I sent the dick picture, or divert the conservatives attention by admitting I'm a sucker of cock and the democrat party will rally around my predicament.
Posted by: Anthony Weiner, D-New York at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (cwFVA)
"Those who say media give Dems benefit of doubt with sex scandals: Uh, Edwards, Spitzer, Clinton, McGreevey, etc., etc."
Christ, where to begin?
There's the Dunning–Kruger effect--in essence, being too stupid to realize your stupidity. There needs to be a name for a different condition--being too biased to realize you're biased.
Posted by: AD at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (mVDI9)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (YZISw)
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 06:21 PM (2dbd9)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 31, 2011 06:22 PM (1yViP)
I say to myself:
"Why do they hate all us Jews?"
My answer: dick-pics.
It must be racial;
Anti-semitism displayed;
My balls in high-res.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 31, 2011 06:22 PM (D+phB)
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 31, 2011 06:22 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: Gerry Studds at May 31, 2011 06:23 PM (VXBR1)
Coed - "Help me Obi-wan Weiner, you my only hope."
R2D2 - %$%()$!
Coed - "What good is a stupid picture! I need real help!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 31, 2011 06:23 PM (G6cxw)
Posted by: jules at May 31, 2011 06:23 PM (W97xc)
And everybody hated fucking Spitzer, so I'm only giving partial credit on that one.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 31, 2011 06:24 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: USA at May 31, 2011 06:25 PM (YZISw)
The term you're looking for? Graduate (of Columbia School of Journalism)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 31, 2011 06:25 PM (1yViP)
Posted by: Bugler at May 31, 2011 06:26 PM (VXBR1)
Posted by: sifty at May 31, 2011 06:26 PM (2dbd9)
Spitzer's affair was itself a crime. Most of the time, the MBM hides behind the meme that it is standing up against the prurient interests of the Right Wing godbotherers. It's a bit harder to do when the story is about whether the sitting Governor and former Attorney General was committing a series of crimes while in office, charged with enforcing and executing the laws of his state.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 06:28 PM (W0TZi)
Posted by: Dr Gregory House at May 31, 2011 06:30 PM (wPxqH)
Over at AT:
Weiner speaks to press, makes himself look guilty of something
This thing is picking up steam.
Posted by: sTevo at May 31, 2011 06:32 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 06:32 PM (NHeC0)
I got halfway through this, realized there was nothing substantive in it, and quit reading.
Somebody tell me if there was something worthwhile in the second half.
Posted by: AD at May 31, 2011 06:35 PM (mVDI9)
Heh. Shorter Weiner: "I meant to fuck up!"
Posted by: @Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 06:36 PM (W0TZi)
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 31, 2011 06:37 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: kansas at May 31, 2011 06:37 PM (VXVJ/)
Technically, you solicited this.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 31, 2011 09:09 PM (0vDuM)
You should have that looked at. I certainly wouldn't dork that squeekhole. Just sayin' is all...
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at May 31, 2011 06:38 PM (BDH94)
Come on moron - stand up and take credit for this!Posted by: Cheri at May 31, 2011 06:39 PM (BA8k3)
The last refuge of the pedantic ass who did not expect to be dismissed out of hand and sent back to ride his sybian.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 31, 2011 06:39 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at May 31, 2011 06:40 PM (NtTkA)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 06:41 PM (NHeC0)
Posted by: conservative trekkie at May 31, 2011 06:41 PM (m6OUa)
Posted by: David at May 31, 2011 06:43 PM (4t9J5)
See, I even made it to the end that time and, just, nothin...
Basically, "everybody else is wrong because I say so."
I mean, I'd have fun here with the rest of you guys but what's the point?
Posted by: AD at May 31, 2011 06:44 PM (mVDI9)
Posted by: Fritz at May 31, 2011 06:45 PM (AN8d5)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder Dog at May 31, 2011 06:45 PM (agD4m)
Posted by: toby928™ at May 31, 2011 06:46 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: AD at May 31, 2011 10:35 PM
There wasn't anything worth reading in either half.
Posted by: Deanna at May 31, 2011 06:48 PM (yYoNz)
Posted by: David at May 31, 2011 06:50 PM (4t9J5)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 06:50 PM (NHeC0)
Fair enough - let's boil this down to a simple proposition. Can or can not an American Citizen be jailed in a civil proceeding for invoking his right against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution? This question is amenable to a 'yes' or 'no' answer. I put it to you, sir.
Posted by: @Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 06:51 PM (W0TZi)
By which I mean, seriously. There's something wrong with Johnson, and I'd like to know what it is.
Posted by: Zimriel at May 31, 2011 09:39 PM
It sounds corny, but I've done some literary forensic analysis of Charles pre- and post-meltdown, and I call drugs. Or some trauma that induces a sudden, radical mental change or imbalance.
Posted by: arhooley at May 31, 2011 06:51 PM (+/eKV)
Time to make the donuts?
Posted by: @Alec Leamas at May 31, 2011 06:53 PM (W0TZi)
Posted by: Average Joe at May 31, 2011 07:00 PM (liBQN)
Posted by: Dick_Nixon at May 31, 2011 07:09 PM (EN9lz)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at May 31, 2011 07:09 PM (3ESDJ)
It's amazing reading those comments at Amanda's site and seeing the loons who are still clinging to the idea that Weiner's account didn't send that tweet.
"No, see, what happened was a dubious RWer on Twitter made up a phony RT of tweet that Weiner never sent, and somehow that has duped all the media of the free world, except us who read the Daily Kos."
It's basically like saying "the earth is flat" at this point.
Posted by: OscarMeyer at May 31, 2011 07:18 PM (nwrWy)
I wonder what will come out of O'Reilly publicly calling out the FBI tonight on his show?
Approximately nothing. They won't investigate without Weiner requesting and/or approving it.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 31, 2011 07:25 PM (WRW1S)
Posted by: Steph at May 31, 2011 07:45 PM (AkdC5)
Posted by: Thomas at May 31, 2011 09:11 PM (DKC1u)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 31, 2011 09:12 PM (U9jjw)
F**ck all these haters, T. The truth will set us free.
Posted by: OJ's Still Looking for the Real Killers and Someone Who'll Buy Copies of "If I Did It.." at May 31, 2011 09:20 PM (srV3y)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at May 31, 2011 09:47 PM (qvify)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at May 31, 2011 10:53 PM (NHeC0)
Weiner Facebook Account, twitter account, email Address and all
Anthony David Weiner websites Â…..
Posted by: bobby9997 at June 01, 2011 02:01 AM (LG1Sf)
That shoe has not dropped yet. It may not drop ever but it has to have occurred to her or one of her friends. If some enterprising journalist could nudge her to see if she is leaning already, well that's got to be prize-winning journalism, right?
Posted by: Full Moon at June 01, 2011 04:57 AM (m75CK)
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