So here is what happened.

Weiner gave another sneaky statement in which he admitted some things but refused to cop to the timeline.

Then he had his wife read a prepared statement that said "I love him, I trust him, I believe in him" and otherwise flacked for the political husband she married. Political wives are ambitious too -- and when he sleeps at Gracie Mansion, so does she. In fact she might wind up sleeping there more, if you know what I mean.

After some of that crap, he answered a few questions from the press, insisting this was nothing new. Pressed on the issue of the timeline, he said he "thinks" the last sexting episode was "last summer," but he does not state this as a fact, so if he's caught lying again he can just say "I got my months wrong. I thought Christmas snow falls in August."

One reporter asks if the sexting happened after he'd given a "We've patched things up and we're all better now" soft interview story to People Magazine, and he confessed it did happen after that.

Then he left, with reporters still asking questions (he'd answered like two). One of those questions was "Why should we trust your judgment?"

As Emily Miller said, apparently he stopped sexting (per his current revised timeline) only about the time he started running for Mayor of New York City.

We'll see if that story holds.

Here's that People Magazine article, now revealed as a Huge Lie on the part of both Weiner and Huma -- because he said at the press conference she was always aware of everything that was going on in his "healing process," including his continuing, um, challenges.

What's next for former New York congressman Anthony Weiner? Baby's first steps, of course.

"I'm very happy in my present life," Weiner, 47, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview. "The only next dramatic steps I'm planning on are Jordan's first," he says, referring to his 6-month-old son and remaining noncommital on whether he will run for office again.

In his first joint interview with wife Huma Abedin, who is deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the couple address how they survived Weiner's lewd text and photo scandal that led to his resignation, as well as who has diaper duty.

"It took a lot of work to get to where are are today, but I want people to know we're a normal family," says Abedin, 37.

"Anthony has spent every day since [the scandal] trying to be the best dad and husband he can be," she says of her husband, who does all the laundry. "I'm proud to be married to him."

Wow.

Meanwhile, Morning Joe's Mika and Andrea Mitchell offer the exact level of skeptical commentary you'd expect them to show towards Hillary Clinton's protege.

Apparently Hillary Clinton's protege in more ways than one.

Update: The sexting, which went on for six months (and that's just the one we know about!), began one week before Mr. & Mrs. Danger's big "Redemption" interview for People.

More: Oh boy, two more women coming forward, Emily Miller says she hears; and also, he liked to use porn actors' names as aliases.

Apparently Huma is in fact at the press conference, per @verumserum.

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Apparently Politico is to Anthony Weiner what the White House Steno Pool was to Jack Kennedy.

1962: Err-ah, errr-ah, Fiddle and Faddle have got nice, errr-ahh, vaginas. Errr-ah, get them security clearances, stat.

2012: I know some easy turns at Politico.

I Confess My Error:

I see your problem, Ace. You continue to view the media as something OTHER than the White House steno pool.

-- BurtTC

Yup. I totally missed that.

And... Moderate content warning for sexual humor, which is pretty silly stuff and hence not really offensive, but I don't know if your boss is a dick or what.

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He half-confesses, but he gets sneaky and dishonest about it, as usual.

While he admits that the sexts are his, he refuses to confirm or deny the most important part of the allegation: The timeframe. The allegation is that these sexts occurred as late as December 2012, when, supposedly, per his glowing Recovery Narrative in the New York Times and other bastions of leftist propaganda, his Journey of Healing and Self-Discovery was already half-completed.

After all, he pronounced himself cured, and the Journey of Healing and Self-Discovery over, effectively, when he declared for Mayor and announced himself a "changed man."

Now, a December 2012 sext-spree is not compatible with that Official Narrative and Timeline, so he refuses to say if the woman's allegations of the timeline are true -- but he strongly implies they're false, by admitting parts, and then claiming that other parts of the allegations are untrue.

And thus, he confirms the part we already knew -- that he's a faithless sexually-compulsive risk-courting walking $100 millon lawsuit against the city waiting to happen -- and hence won't damage him politically, while denying the truly politically dangerous part, that he was all these things as recently as this past Christmas.

Here's the full, sneaky, mendacious statement:

“I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have. As I have said in the past, these things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from Congress.

While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong. This behavior is behind me. I've apologized to Huma and am grateful that she has worked through these issues with me and for her forgiveness. I want to again say that I am very sorry to anyone who was on the receiving end of these messages and the disruption that this has caused.

As my wife and I have said, we are focused on moving forward.”

The behavior is behind him? Since when? I have Netflix discs out longer than he's supposedly been a "Changed Man (TM)."

A city can survive a sexual-compulsive. Hell, a state can survive one, apparently. So can a country.

But what it can't survive is a junkie. Ever talk to a junkie? They only have two modes of expression: 1, Trying to con you into giving them something (so they can use it to get their next high) and 2, lying about their usage.

It's literally all they know. The Junkie Habit becomes the core of their human drive. Their entire survival mode -- which is about 85% of the critical parts of the human brain -- is geared to Continuing the Junk and Then Lying About It to Everyone.

Thanks to Sexton for highlighting that fact, which I got misled about due to the NY Post's headline (which implies he confessed the timeline).

By the way: I think the story below is too important to get stomped by this news. But this is breaking news, and it's in the comments.

Just don't hold it against me when I bump that NY Daily Narrative story later. I don't want it to be lost in the shuffle.

Oh, and one more thing:

Aren't we all, deep down, in places we don't like to talk about, really Carlos Danger?

Have you ever let your lover see Carlos Danger in yourself?
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Bumped. An important story I'd like to have on top for a while. Carlos Danger posts are below this one. Also, Weiner is planning a 5 pm press conference where, I hear, he will actually achieve full release and splatter the first several roles like a sexually-compulsive Gallagher. There'll be a post up for that, obviously.

Only one problem with their plan: Brandon Darby was on-site and, get this, actually bothered to interview this specific protester, who wasn't even a Moby or Agent Provocateur.

She had no real intent to deceive -- the moment Darby asked her about it, she said she was there to insult the Zimmerman supporters, not actually disguise herself as one of them.

All you had to do was ask her.

This mistake isn't on the woman -- she was obvious in her parody. The headline at Breitbart calls this a "hoax," but it really wasn't: This was obviously an anti-Zimmerman protester. Darby didn't even put up video of her at first, because it never occurred to him someone could think this was serious.

It would take a Special Kind of Idiot to think she was on-the-level.

But the media is filled with exactly that sort of Special Kind of Idiots. And the mistake is on them, not her.

Again: All they had to do was... ask a single question.

Which the media didn't do. Why bother? We know the facts without asking about them. We know that Zimmerman protesters are "Racist & Proud;" what is the point of examining evidence about this closely? We know what the evidence would show, if we had any.

"The media can't resist a good storyline" is of course their only failing, you know.

By the way: The media routinely chides Breibart and the right generally for getting stories wrong. But I don't seem to notice the media itself ever confessing error and apologizing in cases of gross and stupid error like this.

What I see them doing is burying stories, stealth-correcting, or just leaving the error to displace the truth (as happened with IRS Building Bomber Joseph Stack, an avowed communist whom the media still insists was a "Tea Partier" or at least had such leanings).

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At Hot Air, Pelosi says she may attempt a discharge petition, which is a maneuver where you gather a majority of House signatures (218 of them) in order to force a vote on a matter the Speaker refuses a vote on.

Problems: She'd need 18 Republican defectors who, given the fact that the bill would immediately thereafter be passed into law by a subsequent majority vote (and then the President's signature), would be committing themselves, no wiggle room allowed, to the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill.

It is unclear if she could get five such signatures, let alone 18.

On the other hand: the chair of the House Judiciary Committee says he's "open minded" about a pathway to citizenship.

In a C-SPAN interview earlier this month, Goodlatte said he and other House Republicans were “open-minded” to a path to legalization. After obtaining that status, those immigrants could then apply for green cards, and ultimately citizenship, through methods already available to other immigrants.

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After his 2011 fall, the allegation goes.

I'm linking Breitbart, but it was Arizona-based nightlife/gossip blog The Dirty which published the story. That link is middle-level NSFW, as it contains explicit texts.

The part thatÂ’s most annoying is that I was 22 and in a bad place, but if anyone asked him he would say the same thing about himself, yet heÂ’s an adult. This was a bad situation for me because I really admired him. Even post scandal, I thought he was misunderstood. Until I got to know him. I thought I loved him. Pretty pathetic.

Last August he even offered to help me get a condo in Chicago, without me asking. IÂ’ll send screenshots of everything. IÂ’m trusting you to keep my name out of it, because like I said, it was obviously a mistake. I was young and dumb. I just want people to really know heÂ’s lying when he acts like he has changed.

Is it true? Well, as of yet there is no evidence, apart from this source's say-so. She sent some alleged screenshots of a dirty chat, but they are undated; furthermore, it's anyone's guess whether or not it is Anthony Weiner.

Anyone can say they're anyone on the Internet, of course. And all celebrities get impersonated at some point. I just read that Randy Meisner, bassist for the Eagles, had a guy impersonating him in Vegas to get free rooms for a while. My point is you can be a somewhat obscure "celebrity" and still get impersonated. (In fact, I bet it's the less-known celebrities who get impersonated the most.)

So, take progressive celebrity worship with a progressive id borne of loneliness and anger and combine those with dude's ingeniousness and persistence in attempting to "score" (whether really or virtually) by any means fair or foul, and this could just be some guy who realized he could get some cyber if he said he was "putting on his Superman tights" and whatnot.

One detail that cannot be ignored: The guy's screen-handle, whether he's Anthony Weiner or not, is.... Carlos Danger.

Rock on, Carlos Danger. You inspire us all.

There is something that suggests this could be true. Combine Weiner's frequent statements that there might be "more" released about his amorous internet activities, with a "no comment" from his camp about the latest allegation:

BuzzFeed contacted WeinerÂ’s spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, at 7:21 a.m. Tuesday about the postings, which went online Monday, asking whether they are real. She responded before 9 a.m. and then replied three more times that she would respond soon.

I don't want to pre-judge before knowing more than an unsubstantiated claim, but obviously Anthony Weiner knows the full truth of this, and if it's untrue, why didn't he say so straight out of the gate?

Why is his camp promising comment, and not yet offering it? The truth does not need to be coordinated. The truth does not have to be delayed in order to see what proofs the accuser might come up with. The truth does not need a meeting with strategists, lawyers, and crisis control messaging experts to discover itself.

Lies need those things, but not the truth.

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Happy Tuesday.

Sen. McConnell's potential primary challenger is looking for national support. An advisor pulled out the big guns already, declaring, "In the words of Kirsten Dunst, bring it on." Um, okay!

Guestblogger Ben Howe put together a video for BookerFAIL.com demonstrating the Newark mayor's phony PR persona.

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Detroit's 60-Year Decline into Bankruptcy Hell

The 1967 riots weren't the root cause but they were a definite inflection point in the city's decline:

It's hard to overstate the traumatic and lingering effects of the 1967 riots, which for many older native Detroiters forever marked the watershed in the city's downward economic spiral and triggered the mass exodus of its population.

Young wrote in a 1994 memoir, as he was leaving office, that the city never recovered from the riots.

"Detroit's losses went a hell of a lot deeper than the immediate toll of lives and buildings. The riot put Detroit on the fast track to economic desolation, mugging the city and making off with incalculable value in jobs, earnings taxes, corporate taxes, retail dollars, sales taxes, mortgages, interest, property taxes, development dollars, investment dollars, tourism dollars, and plain damn money.

He added that "The money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people who fled as fast as they could." Conservative economist Thomas Sowell once noted that before the riots, Detroit's black population had the highest rate of home-ownership of any black urban population in the country, and their unemployment rate was just 3.4 percent.

And Michael Barone concurs:

When people ask me why I moved from liberal to conservative, I have a one-word answer: Detroit. I grew up there, on a middle-class grid street in northwest Detroit and a curving street in affluent suburban Birmingham, and I got a job as an intern in the office of the mayor in the summer of 1967 when Detroit rioted. I was at the side of Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and occasionally Governor George Romney during the six days and nights in which 43 people, mostly innocent bystanders, died. I listened to the radio in the police commissioner's office as commanders announced, shortly after sundown, that they were abandoning one square mile after another. The riot ended only after federal troops were called in and restored order.

And here are some reasons why Detroit is unlikely to ever recover:

2) Detroit is facing $20 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities.  That breaks down to more than $25,000 per resident.

9) An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.

22) The violent crime rate in Detroit is five times higher than the national average.

And a modest proposal on how to deal with the denizens of Detroit.

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The GOP is determined to do something about "DREAMers," despite your objection, and also, despite the objections from the "DREAMers" themselves.

Because this isn't about DREAMers -- it's about the dream of open borders, and they won't stop until they have it.

That's their compromise.

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