June 06, 2011 04:34 PM
Updated with Video: Rep. Anthony Weiner Admits Sending Pictures
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He managed to grab the podium for about 15 minutes right at the time that Congressman Anthony Weiner was scheduled to have a press conference regarding alleged new photos released by Big Government this morning.
Breitbart claims he has a full frontal shot along with others, supplied by a young woman who sold them.
Weiner has just begun his presser. He is basically confessing to sending the original photo along with others.
Rep. Weiner just admitted that he sent the original photo along with the ones Breitbart published. He apologizes, says he will not resign, says he did not use government BlackBerrys to send the pictures. He says he is embarrassed, ashamed, and apologizes.
Here's his statement:
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And the lesson is....Don't tweet ya tool.
Classic. Your wonderful progressive politician is now tainted. The pharmaceutical industry, insurance industry...all the big lobbies can now get anything from him that they want. He should resign.
Breitbart is a hero and the progressive blogs are now all looking stupid standing there with their dicks in their hands.
Good job.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
...but I am totally pissed at him for legitimizing Breitbart.
he has done nothing illegal. Stupid yes, illegal no... and I hate Breakfart's grubby mitts are all over this.
I know Karoli, that part has me steaming. He gave Breitbart credence and that's so fu*king against everything we all believe in. Especiall since Breitbart had the podium to huff and puff before Weiner spoke.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
now every stupid thing breitbart publishes will get more attention. false equivalence assures that this will be the equivalent of the fall of the republic, whereas john ensign got a yawn.
I believe these anonymous women (if you believe they are women) were paid handsomely for their involvement in this BREIBART set-up, otherwise ask yourself, why take it to Breibart and not the attorney General. They would be forced to tell the whole truth, and you know they can't do that. Weiner's guilty of being stupid, Breibart is still a con-man.
which probably means phone sex
im sure that andy sent out feelers looking for dirt...and in this economy...everyone has a price
I can't help but wonder how much money the woman was paid for the photos. How much was it worth to the shadow money creeps to damage Weiner? I hope she held out for at least several hundred thousand dollars, because you know they'd have paid it.
about broken clocks
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Suess
is that a briken digital clock is never right. Breitbart was supposed to be broken digital clock. Did Weiner learning nothing from the 1990s - do the names Clinton and Lewinski mean anything to him?
How did he do that? Ask yourself why these two women remain nameless and went to a known GOP henchman BREIBART instead of the Attorney General or Police????? Could they be not who they claim to be? We will never know, will we? I believe Briebart deliberately, with malice and fore-thought, entrapped Weiner. Yes Weiner is guilty of being stupid, but he did nothing illegal. And remember, these women were sexting with strangers on social web-sites, and then all of a sudden finds bulging under pants "LEWD".
go to the back of the line and wait your turn like everyone else.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
Why invent a new play, when the old ones work the best?
Did he do something "wrong", or at least inappropriate? Yes.
Did Elliot Spitzer? Of course -- but figuratively hanging him by his own johnson was more about keeping him from putting the screws to corporate America. And if there's one thing we don't allow here, it's putting the screws to our corporatocracy.
Fuck, Weiner should have just come clean at the beginning. Weaseling never works. "Fuck yeah, that's my shit. I'm not ashamed of it!" would have at least robbed smear-merchants like these fuckers of the joy of tarring them with it.
in this special case I will.
My point was Karoli was angry and I shared that anger. Please learn to read.
Call this arrogance if it suits, I haven't a license on the stuff.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
yup , he added a whole lot of fuel to the fire is what he did .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Oh god, why was he so stupid? That's about all I am thinking right now.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
At what point will folks finally get the idea that hardcopy can be destroyed, but the internet is forever? Whatever you put out on the web is going to be on someone's hard drive until the earth ends...
Public figures even moreso... and yes, giving that asshole Breitbart some semblance of legitimacy is as stupid as tweeting the damned photos to begin with.
Democrats and Progressives... quit trying to be so goddamned nicey with your opponents!!!!! They don't play fair and never had... and never will.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
It's really simple, kiddies. Don't photograph your junk.
It never seems to turn out well for anyone.
Well, that kinda goes without saying...
*smile*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
i really like anthony and felt he was one of the strong sensible
guys in the democratic party. why do these guys sabotage
themselves?
now his push to make clarence thomas be
accountable and recuse himself from any heath related
cases before the supreme court is damaged with this
bullshit. is it ego or just plain dick-brain stupidity?
There is something about power -- even simply the power to speak and influence others, much less the power to influence the nation -- that unleashes raw arrogance. The role of politician comes with an ego the size of the room anyway. Put that together with a situation where accountability is nil (a blackberry and a camera, for example) and it's almost irresistible to them.
But in this case, he doesn't appear to have done anything illegal, or anything many among us haven't done at one point or another. It's up to his wife as to whether or not she's willing to forgive and forget (and take the BlackBerry away). It's driving me up the wall to see these really weird false equivalencies pop up, like Spitzer/Weiner, for example. Nowhere near the same thing. Sheesh.
I respectfully disagree.
Both men did *something* that was either a) "morally wrong" and/or b) illegal. More column A than column B -- but both were thrown to the wolves because they were going after people in power.
Spitzer was frequenting a prostitute, which is actually illegal to some degree -- but charging him with the ol' "Black Men Kidnapping White Women for White Slavery" act was just a way of making sure that he would never be in a position to strip Wall Street of its power.
Stupid jerk.
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My wife and I have officially decided that we no longer have hope in people anymore. Of all people, him?! One of the few congressmen who so skillfully articulated the progressive agenda? What a sad day. He's just scum like the rest of them.
I didn't think I could be more surprised after "Mr. Law & Order" Eliot Sptizer was caught using a Callgirl Service.
Edwards, Spitzer, and now Weiner... I'm scared to death not see what Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders might be up to.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Bernie is getting up there in years , hopefully his sex drive doesn't amount to much these days . I think we're alright with Bernie .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
"Anymore"? "People" are no different that they've always been.
I don't know about that , basic human nature is the same yes , one thing is for sure they can't get away with they used to and there was no cyber sex or anonymous chat rooms back when . Morality and what is accepted these days verses back when , has changed a lot , that is an understatement .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Weiner is a fighter and this stupid thing he did has nothing to do with what he stands for.
No one died, got hurt or robbed.
his wife would probably beg to differ . . . as might his constituents, whose representation he has undermined . . . and every time i think of andrew breitbart and the rest of the libral/progressive character assassination machine being vindicated, i get stabbing pains in my chest
If Weiner's wife and family forgive him then it's a non-story...ESPECIALLY BY TODAY'S STANDARDS.
but i will remain steadfast in my genuine belief that our public officials should demonstrate high integrity and good judgment
even if his wife was aware of, approved and/or participated in his online photo sharing, weiner had to have known that much of this country would not and that the revelation of said photo sharing would diminish his ability to advocate for his constituents and end any possibility of his playing a leadership role in the democratic party
and if it's okay for a liberal or progressive to behave with reckless-but-not-unlawful disregard for their constituents, then it's gonna be okay for the wingers and baggers ... i, however, want the right to live up to higher standards of public service
not physically hurt.
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Sad day , yes , but does this make him scum ? No , just human . He didn't have sex with these women , didn't father a child , were no bribes or pay offs to my knowledge , he was stupidly screwing around on the computer and man has he ever paid for it . Can't help but one wonder just how far he'd gone , one thing often leads to another .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
that everyone knew that junk shots don't often work. Still, I'm glad he fessed up. It was both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do if he ever wanted to stay in politics.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
He had no choice but to fess up so I don't give him a whole lot of credit there , whether he can survive politically or not the damage to his standing has been done . A name change might be in order .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
get a grip. He should've said this last week. Now he's said it. So it's done. Move on.
Done, except for the deafening reverberation in the media echo-chamber, that is.
wouldve been done had he immediately admitted it and stated that it was stupid and that he has failings as a husband and a man
but he gave it legs
it wont be done till he steps down...which should happen on wednesday
Zero. Zip. Nada.
You're right. The reason would be credibility and he has "Zero. Zip. Nada."
That's it. Nothing he did touches any policy issue. Not one, damn, stinking thing. If he resigns, the terrorists really do win. Those would be the ones trying to shove women back into the 19th century while getting the vapors over a stuffed pair of underwear.
And there, dear Karoli, is the point of the matter.
By employing Breitbart and the rest of the slugs to do their dirty work, and the talking heads of the "liberal media" to do the rest, the rightwing can sit back and watch the fireworks, knowing full well that it really doesn't matter worth a damn in the grand scheme of things, but if they can focus peoples' attention on the ridiculous, the evil can be slithered in under the curtain.
My anger with Mr. Weiner comes from a point of his loud denials, then "coming clean" after this much time. The right wing seems to have a talent for making ammunition last a long time, with a "news" network openly in their court, and all the rest tacitly so providing them with more.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
One of the few congressmen who so skillfully articulated the progressive agenda? What a sad day. He's just scum like the rest of them.
Puleeez, he sold out on the healtcare legislation after the big insurance companies brought the hammer down on him.
And let this be a lesson...don't have too much faith in the heroes you worship, particularly in politics. They are people...and I have two rules where people are concerned.
Rule One - People generally suck.
Rule Two - Refer to Rule One at all times.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Closet Flamin'-Gay, Breitbart, is just pissed off that he wasn't the very first man to get pic's of weiner's weiner so he could get off.
i'm not sure if he would be offended by such talk, but i am positive that lots of decent gay men are ... and it's the kind of sexual orientation denigration that keeps homosexual americans in the closet
damn breitbart for his lack of integrity, veracity, and real human feeling, not his sexual orientation
So it's done. Move on.
Yeah. Right.
Please don't make me post links to all the threads from last week apologizing in advance for this turd. He NEVER said he didn't do it. That was the first clue.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
At least he seems to be dealing with it appropriately.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Weiner broke no laws. It's not like he paid this woman's husband $92,000 and then fired him and the mistress . .
Just sayin' . .
What good could ever have come from this? If he sent it as a joke he should have said so and had it done with. But nooo... And, that's giving him the benefit of the doubt.
No way should he resign. If Diaper Dave Vitter can have an actual affair and the republicans give him a standing ovation upon his return to the Senate, then Dems can give Weiner a pass.
That said, here's a tip for all you politicians: Don't do anything this fuckin' stupid!!
This is all we need! Another scandal for the scandal ridden right wingers that have cheated on their wives or molested kids to go ape shit over. Anthony Weiner sending pics of his weiner. Great, let the distracting, hypocritical mudslinging fest begin.
Anthony...what the hell were you thinking man?!!
Just so you know, right wingers have no fucking room to talk or sling mud...
http://www.republicansexoffenders.com
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
Well, if you don't want the mud slinging to begin - then how about YOU don't sling mud by posting that shit about right-wingers? Why did you need to post that link?
I'm not a politician. I posted that link to serve as proof of right wing
'Family Values' hypocrisy. That link must have hit a nerve, having
to see all the fucked up people on your side of the political fence
even though you try to play yourself off as anything but the right
wing troll you are.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
Yesterday he was a fucking liar. What's in store for tomorrow?
Also..."So it's done. Move on." - WTF? If this were ANY repub, Karoli, I seriously doubt you'd let it go that quickly.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
...I was shocked that he resigned over sending that photo. Still don't understand it. So rest assured, I let it go. Even Ensign wasn't a target of mine until that horrid report came out.
Rep. Weiner can not be trusted any longer because he lied to us about this incident. If he would of just said that hey I sent the pic then he would not have violated the voters trust.
As far as I know, he's done nothing to deserve being stripped of his committees - why punish his constituents by affecting his ability to do his job?
If the people that voted for him want him in office, that's up to them. If they want to re-elect him, that's up to them.
Weiner proves that he truly is a weiner. What a fool, or a 5th columnist? What is the possible upside for a Congressman to send digital pictures of his cock over the internet?
putz.
Women think with their brains.
Men think with their d!cks.
But women have that penis envy thing they have to contend with...
Lower the retirement age.
dealing in stereotypes. How about this. Post menopausal women should rule the world. They've finally stopped thinking with their ovaries.
I'll give you this -
"Women think with their brains." After menopause. Before that they are as driven and irrational about sex and love as men.
"Men think with their dicks." Pretty much until they are dead. However, I will give credit to guys over 50 who occasionally have learned such difficult lessons by thinking with their dicks that they now actually engage their brains when it comes to sexual situations.
I know. I had to learn that lesson.
As for Weiner, it's not the sexual stuff, it is his idiocy in being high profile and doing that, and for not handling it better right at the start.
I will say this though:
Ensign
Vitter
Craig
Burton
and so on, and so on.
Sum bitch. What little balls we got, just got squeezed even smaller. The timing of him making at least a little headway in getting Justice Thomas to recuse himself is spectacular. Dems are our own worst enemy.
Can Bf post that...? Please? For my own personal research reasons and all.
This just gives Faux Noise fodder for a week or so until another much worse scandel with Reslugs comes out.
This reminds me of the day Clinton fessed up to what he had done. Damn, just disappointment.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
the day eliot spitzer went down. people who could have actually done some good. they never seem to comprehend that regressives have no limit when their interests are threatened.
...because he didn't disgrace the office of president or actually pay hookers to sleep with him. He got sucked into the idea that he could do what almost anyone with a smartphone and a friend has probably done without it coming back on him. When it did, he panicked instead of just owning it. He should've owned it last week.
He hasn't violated voters' trust. If he were taking bribes he might've done that. But he hasn't. Unlike Vitter, for example, who is still in the Senate despite paying hookers to do his bidding, the only thing Rep. Weiner has done wrong was to behave like a teenager and then lie about it.
What an idiot, asperations of being Mayor, now looking at being unemployed. The GOP will be all over this.
One good thing thought, the Dems have their scandal du jour back, never felt right having the GOP caught with women and the Dems caught with bags of cash. Now we got the Dems back in their usual territory, using power to get "babes". Now we can watch the GOP's bank accounts again knowing they'll be back to their scandal of choice, CASH.
I call for him to step down. He was on top of my list of guys who got the job done but if he can't behave like an adult with the trust we put in him then he must do the right thing and resign. He has betrayed our trust and no amount of apologizing will ever rebuild this trust.
SHIELDS UP.
We need to stop acting like elected officials aren't human beings. We all have our flaws, some worse than others. Anthony Weiner getting a little horny and sending pictures of his dong doesn't really matter to me if he's a capable, intelligent man.
So there is that.
I agree that this was a dumb move, but it really has no bearing on whether the guy is a capable leader.
You go ahead and wait for Snow White, I'll be over here with strong progressives like Anthony Weiner.
Weiner is human. So are the millions of men who don't send pictures of their junk on twitter.
I realize it SHOULDN'T matter, but I gave up on that particular piece of idealism during the Clinton impeachment. It does matter.
He should resign. There are plenty of talented men and women who can do the work he is doing, who have a bit more sense and discretion. We should insist on it.
Who is standing up for ACORN and Shirley Sherrod?? That's what I want to know. Or even Van Jones for that matter.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
so why should anyone else? He's better off where he is if he was used as cannon fodder so easily.
Breitbart is a dirt bag. Doesn't that fucktard have anything better to do with his time? I'm more embarrassed for him than Weiner.
Weiner - diminished
Breitbart - emboldened
MSM - busy ignoring real news for who knows how long?
Sheesh..
Who let Jeff Gannon/Guckert into the White House and gave him a press pass to be questioning the President during a time of war?? Did anyone get to the bottom of that one?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
like this really matters, when are we going to get down to brass tacks? what a bunch of sex-obsessed prudes, what goes on in some peoples minds? is weiner catholic or something? perhaps monogamy is not the answer.
We've officially entered the twilight zone. Or the Idiocracy. A leading Congressional Member named Weiner was dumb enough to be sending pictures of his weiner over twitter and had to host a press conference to come clean about it.
Didn't he sign onto the Patriot Act? How could he be so dumb to not know Twitter and Facebook are not private?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"..... to come clean about it."
Appropriate wording....
but you have demonstrated a clear lack of good judgment and character ... you have betrayed your constituents by undermining your own ability to function in congress, and you have fed the liberal/progressive character assassination machine a three-course meal
thank you much for your past service, but please don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out
The timing means one of two things...
1) He's a political idiot, because you don't do this on a Monday. You do it on a Friday or Saturday. Then, it's disappeared by Monday...or..
2) There's more shit about to come out, so he's doing this to reduce the impact.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
He was working too hard and it caused him to stray a little bit. It's not like he divorced his wife while she was in the hospital with cancer or something.
Oh, wonderful. Feingold, Grayson, and now Weiner. I think that brings the amount of progressives that speak out to.. um.. zero.
At least we still have Sanders..?
and perhaps chose the timing specifically for such purposes
but his non-denial kind of said to me that there's something weird going on from his end.
Still trying I see.
What a complete idiot! I really wanted to believe that it wasn't him. You'd think NO ONE, especially in public office, would do something so stupid. He just lost everything he's worked for.
Breitbart's just making a preemptive strike to keep anyone from discovering he couldn't send racy photos of his own wiener because it'd take an electron microscope to find it first.
It doesn't get any worse than you.
... an "Erecton" Electron Microscope.
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No if we could get people to go after the truth of other more important events in our nation's history.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Totally. I've seen two political shows on MSNBC waste over half their shows on this. At least the Cenk Ugart show is dealing with the republican attack on Medicare before the half hour mark.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Oh, wonderful. Feingold, Grayson, and now Weiner. I think that brings the amount of progressives that speak out to.. um.. zero.
I hope you don't believe it was a coincidence.
Two things need to be done if we are ever going to really turn our Party and this country around.
1) We need to take an honest look at who represents us, and purge those that are either tainted or don't promote our agenda.
2) You HAVE to be ready and willing to go nuclear against the enemy. If you don't...THIS is what happens. We had plenty of opportunity to drag down our opponents. Our representatives don't know how to play the game, or don't want to. If it is the latter, it's time for them to GO.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You mean he was trying to get laid by someone of the opposite sex?
Hmmm…
But seriously, did he vote for the 'Patriot' [eyes roll back in head] Act?
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Weiner's refusal to flat-out deny the pictures seemed fishy. Now we see why.
Anthony Weiner, shame on you, you naughty boy. Now go back and pass some good, liberal legislation. It's your last chance, sonny.
Way to go, Weiner. You give legitimacy to that right-wing, alcoholic frat-boy Breitbart by posting nude photos of yourself.
I would have more respect for you if you got busted doing something brazenly illegal to shut up your political enemies. Instead, you get busted doing something entirely stupid and avoidable; something a high school kid would do to his girlfriend.
Spitzer, Edwards, Weiner...all good progressives who kill their own careers because they couldn't keep their pants zipped. Way to go, guys.,. :-(
FOX spends the whole night equating this to Clinton's pecker in 5...4...3...
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
2..1...0 - they just did (blue dress and all).
.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I would say that on the whole others have done much worse with little repercussions.
I am profoundly disappointed in him. What was he thinking when he sent the photo in the first place. He should have known that it would become public sooner or later. What brings him to the level of stupid was thinking that once it became news he could deny it and it would go away.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Suess
At the very end of the presser someone yelled out, Were you totally erect when the photo was taken?
Others were yelling, Where is your wife right now? Were all the reporters from porn magazines.
Beck is already wallowing in the news and earlier Fox news talked to Breitbart to ask him if he wanted an individual apology from Weiner
Weiner created a sink hole and now everything around him is sinking into it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
No, they have too much credibility. They are busy covering things that matter to their viewers/readers, unlike cable news hacks who give us cock when we need to know about things that affect our lives.
Good thing unemployment is at 2 percent and there is no global warming to talk about, whew!
cuz this is funny stuff
I wonder what apology they think Breitbart is owed?
Weiner created a sink hole and now everything around him is sinking into it.
Which is why the asshole should resign.
The arrogance and immaturity of these ass clowns never ceases to amaze me. Regardless of who it is, none of them have the honor to stand up like a man and resign. Nooo...they stand up there and whine like little pussies, begging for forgiveness. "Oh...pleeeease, don't take away my cushy gig. Waaaah!"
Bunch of fucking two year olds.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Jesus, I'm just some dude sitting in my basement eating cheetoes and EVEN I WOULD NOT DO THAT.
Like seriously what the hell?!
I even feel ashamed of myself for thinking about joining an online dating club, never mind the times I go looking for online pictures of ladies in one-piece bathing suits.
OK so I have a thing for one-piece bathing suits IS THAT SO WRONG
http://www.leninimports.com/farrah_fawcett_bi...
It's now spanky.
.
..apparently some consider Weiner an idiot for sending a picture like that. But honestly, who sits around taking pictures of their privates with his/her cell phone . . WTF??
Nyuk
Oog...
A comment deserving of corporal punishment...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
There is a kernel of truth to what he says though.
Apparently you would be surprised to know just how popular sexting is as a passtime. Something like 30% of teens admit to it, and about half say it's no big deal. Hell, even the AARP has an article on their site about sexting in the over-50 age bracket.
The desire for erotica and erotic images is as old as mankind itself. Technology may have changed the method for creating & sharing those images, but it sure didn't change the desire itself.
This is so embarrassing. Breitbart gets to say "I told you so" which makes me want to vomit.
Spinny Liberal
Fascists make me itchy
breitbart is still a slime...this begs the question; Is he a beard for his wife?
Think the voter will forgive him! Most of the children of today have sent out more revealing 'sexting'!
This is stupid! This is not about sex..legal or illegal but about stupid big big stupid!
"Stupid Big Big Stupid." If he owned it last week, it would have been over.
Spinny Liberal
Fascists make me itchy
Tis true, tis pity.
Not that it was anybody’s business last week either, but had he said…
“That’s right, that’s my dick. I sent it to a girl to try to have sex with her. Thanks much, now I’m in big trouble with the wife…”
that would’ve been pretty funny. Off the hook? Maybe not, but better than the non-denials.
funny as hell. "Yup, it was my weiner. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to beg the missus for forgiveness."
Spinny Liberal
Fascists make me itchy
You're overreacting. Breitbart can say that this time, about this one thing. It doesn't give him retroactive credibility, or future credibility.
Don't give me that crap. Tell that to the media and the RW nutjobs who will parade this around like a freak show, and the sheeple will pay to see it. Truth and credibility mean nothing in our society.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Yes, really.
Agree. Even the pope is a fucking liar.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
but he will milk this for all it's worth. And I'm allergic to Republicans gloating.
Spinny Liberal
Fascists make me itchy
As if Breitbart's last two made-up stories (stories which were THOROUGHLY debunked, loudly and publicly, by the way) stopped the 24-hour news channels from giving him airtime. Before, it was just sad; now, they have cover. They're not giving free airtime to someone whose sole purpose is to destroy left-wing causes in America, they're bringing on the credible "journalist" who exposed Weiner.
I could give two figs about what Anthony did in his spare time with a camera and his junk, but legitimizing that p.o.s.? THAT'S the reason I'm mad.
Agree . Man , we did not need this .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Stupid fucking moron... He should just resign, not because he did anything wrong but because that kind of mind blowing stupidity should be unacceptable. This is stupid on the level of a Sarah palin. We know Sarah can't tweet her own thoughts worth a damn, but tweeting a picture of your lower horn? Fucking dweeb... And now breitbart gets to have retroactive credibility even for the shit he got wrong, which is everything.
Resign you dunderhead!
Classic.
This affects the quality of his accomplished works how?
Any articulation he made as to Progressive values are invalidated by this how?
He's un-qualified to take oaths or affirmations because he perjured himself when?
Right, right. I'm sure he's the only public official with a private life he'd rather remain private.
He's the only Congressional representative to have ever erred.
When did we begin to demand our representatives represent only our good qualities?
When did we add that only ascetic celibate monks Constitutionally qualify for office?
When did we become so unforgiving?
When did having a failed or strange consensual relationship become a disqualifier to holding a job?
When did making a human error besmirch someones reputations to the point of ignominy?
Now take into account that I believe John Edwards had the right to a complicated, failed, private personal and sexual life, that his affairs between him and his wife should have remained there between them, and his personal appetites did and do not in any way detract from his politics or message outside of the fact that our media has decided that it matters, and because of it neither him nor Weiner can be elected to enact it in the first place.
By all means, call those with personal failings and foibles scum, sleaze, bastards and whathaveyou without empathizing or forgiving, and me one for defending them. Get angry at them for having the temerity to be failed humans while aspiring to work on your behalf in our government. Swear at them for being human, rather than the saints we demand they be. And for goodness sake, try not to think about how many scummy, sleazy, sexually deviant people surround you, work alongside you, and shake your hand in church.
Lighten up.
And why do the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives berate their elected officials who do one "bad thing..." while the Republicans wear it like a badge of honor while their hypocrite fellow representatives and constituents give them a standing ovation?
(In case it wasn't clear - I agree with you 100%).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gordon
Wiener is compromised and vulnerable to blackmail because he violated our cultural standards, whether right or wrong. He can not be trusted to avoid being compromised by his past actions. Therefore, he cannot represent his constituents.
The United States aspires to democracy, but no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
exposed, pun intended, so nobody can blackmail him for the pictures being out there.
Matthews just asked - How come Vitter [diaper man] is still around?
That's easy Chris.
IOKIYAR
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
nuff said
Yes, yes it is. And what of Tom Coburn? and what of John Ensign? Just to name a recent scandal?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
was heartfelt, and his emotional reaction was real. But I'm having a lot of trouble cutting him any slack, given the chronology of how it happened.
Let us never forget that Weiner lied to our faces for over a week, and only came clean after a spate of other pictures came out - with a promise of plenty more to come. It is a lot easier to show contrition when you are cornered and have absolutely no other alternative. But doing so under those circumstances doesn't elevate Weiner's integrity level one little bit, no matter how many tears he sheds or how many times he admits to what he lied about for the past week and a half.
Bottom line: Weiner is hanging on by the skin of his teeth. If it turns out that any texts or pictures were sent on his congressional blackberry or a congressional computer, he is finished. Even his own party members will see to that.
...is that the Democrats have a little more class and would want to dump the so-called "Bad Democrat..." as opposed to giving him a standing ovation the way the House Republicans welcomed back Diaper Vitter...?
Is their a site around that lists all the self-described Moral Majority of Republicans who were busted for their Affairs and Hooker-associations - Straight and Gay?
~albabe (The Writer/Artist Formally Known As Al Gordon)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gordon
Neither party has any monopoly on dirtbags. There's plenty to go around on both sides of the aisle.
Again, the key issue to me is that Weiner not only lied to our faces, he libeled and maligned the people who were telling the truth about him. You may not like Andrew Breitbart (he obviously is despised in this room). But Breitbart was telling the truth and Weiner, knowing as much, called him a liar publicly. If the new pictures hadn't come out, that is where it would stand even now.
Which is what Andy said he wanted when he hijacked the podium. So who's going to be the big boy and accept the apology, hmmmm?
http://republicansexoffenders.com/
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
Matthews just asked - How come Vitter [diaper man] is still around?
'Cause he dragged his wife up there during the press conference to humiliate her as well. That is what passes for class on the Beltway.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
and his emotional reaction was real.
Yeah, he's all misty about potentially losing that cushy gig of his.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
and your shorts at the same time while you "cry me a river,"
Too bad. Grow up. Stuff you cock in your sock, and suck it it up.
This country is over-run with spineless, vain, sociopathic little boys and girls like you.
We have more important concerns confronting us than your pathetic little porn-tweets.
The Green Party is looking better everyday.
First they ignore us..then they ridicule us..now they are feeding us chicken crap- sign my petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fda-stop-feed...
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Looks like someone's been 'monitoring' you Andy.
http://waronignorance.net/index.html
Caution 'santorum' involved.
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Fighting a War on Ignorance
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Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Oh, do...
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