Congressman Anthony Weiner accused of inappropriate tweet
 

Over the weekend, a female college student in Seattle received a suggestive photograph allegedly tweeted from Congressman Anthony Weiner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...st-cards-image

Another reminder that twitttttter is as dumb as facebooooook.

I saw Weiner's interview and couldn't help but laugh. He was trying to be so "legal jargon" and vague that it was apparent that it was he in the photo. The question would just be how the photo got to her--hacker or did Weiner send it.

He kept changing the question from "is it you in the photo" or "how did the photo come into existence" to "how did the photo (regardless of who is in the photo) get to this woman." That's very wise on his legal team's part.

I just can't stop laughing about Weiner's wiener! I mean really, with a name like that...

My first thought was "With a name like that, what would you expect?"

:mad:

"oh na na what's my name?"

Maybe she can't read and he was just trying to show her his last name in pictures?

This story's really weird, there's some suspicious stuff about the people who provided the info to Breitbart (who are totally reliable journalists, totally) in the first place, but then there's Weiner's weird response.

Also Weiner is like my favorite Representative, he's freaking hilarious, I pretty much agree with all his points, and he had Jon Stewart as a roommate, he's heard all the "weiner" jokes before. I'm withholding judgment on this particular instance until it becomes clear. I'm wondering if the pic was his, but the sending of it (something only one or two people saw, not including the person it was sent to) was a quasi hack.

I would love to have been Jon Stewart's roommate but for completely different reasons.

I know right?

Seriously though, Weiner read a children's book to Congress to try and explain the rules because the rule book was really big and boring. He makes CSPAN worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8yI...layer_embedded

Isn't there a stripper involved?

Or maybe the the Seattle "college student" is the stripper.

No, supposedly one of his followed people was a stripper or something but that's entirely unrelated.

The college student appears to be your typically politically active fangirl who called him her boyfriend. Which hell, I'd hit that, wouldn't lie. His wife might object to that though.

I believe AW's going to be testifying about this and as I don't see him being stupid enough to perjure himself, it should be enlightening

I can't lie, I saw the picture and that combined with how freaking hilarious he is on the House Floor and was like "I would hit it."

I'm pretty sure every time a donger shot is sent to somebody I know, it's been a hacker. When she responded poorly.

When she responded well, that was DEFINITELY me. It's weird how that's worked out - I guess I hope that pattern keeps up, for both me and Mr. Weiner. I also hope the cyber police are working hard to root out those hackers, they sure are annoying. Some of the time.

oh dear. I turned the sound down on that and he kind of looks like one of my exes. eeeeeeeeeps.

LOL

Thing is, the hot girl didn't even see it before it was taken down :(

We don't know how she would have responded so we don't know whether it was hackers or not, yet!

/Schroedinger's hacker...

Well, you could knock me over with a feather - he lied! </sarcasm>

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/...ner/index.html

On my T_witter timeline:

Tomorrow's headline: Like policies, Weiner photo reveals left-leaning bias.

Hey, that's better than what I wouldve written.

I didn't write it. I'm just a RT whore.

The article that AEPhiAlum posted a link to uses the term "bulging underwear," while this one, on the CBS site, uses "bulging crotch." Y'know, there are probably older reporters and editors out there who never thought they'd be writing about stuff like this.............

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...html?tag=stack

The item posted on the CBS site also says

. . . The House Code of Conduct reads in part, "A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." . . .

What an idiot.

He should have just manned up to it from the start. I hope all the lies about his account being hacked and that it wasn't him in those pics end up biting him in the ass.

Dumbass. I don't really care that he was cybering with women online, that's for his wife to care about, or not care about, or whatever. But asshole sent the pics to at least one woman who said that it was harassment and I guess they'd been sent as a prank?

Sexually harassing asshole.

They really need to not write headlines like "Dramatic turn in Weiner scandal." Let's just call him an "embattled NY congressman" - everyone knows who it's about without there being Weiners everywhere.

see how that still works? ;)

I think he will more than likely survive this. The Dems don't eat their own. He has approximately a year and a half of mea culpas before they vote again and his constituents will probably forget (or at least partially forget). His main obstacle is that his congressional seat is in a fairly conservative (by NY standards) district.

Yeah, see, that's the thing. I would probably have been A-OK with it had everyone been a consenting adult and the pictures were solicited. I don't give a shit what gets your motor running.

Unless it's sending unsolicited dick pics to relatively innocent women.

And now I'm torn because when it comes to congress he's pretty fucking awesome still. *sigh* Look, Weiner, you do your job, and maybe I turn around and regain my crush on your brain, but no more of this bullshit.

Meh. Considering in the grand scheme of things, this is nothing when compared to Senator David Vitter (R., LA) frequenting the DC madam...and that involved illegal activity. It generally takes a sociopathic personality to run for public office, hence the bad behavior, but Democrats and Republicans have a pretty equal share of idiots. As for eating their own, it all depends on the climate at the time and the constituency of that particular idiot. Vitter has no viable competitor so despite campaigning heavily on "family values," he essentially got away with THE most tawdry sex scandal of this century.

LOL. You're political bias is showing. Big time. Correct me if I'm wrong but Vitter's scandal involved hiring prostitutes right? Like consenting, paid for a service prostitute? How is that worse than basically being an internet flasher to un-consenting participants?

Second bolded seems a little overdramatic. I don't know too much about Vitter but most tawdry of the century it is not.

well, duh. ;) (I say that affectionately.)

If you've never seen this, it is awesome.

I'm not sure that clothed pics, even ones showing donger bulge, really constitute "flashing" - but otherwise, totally agree, it's harassment and that brings its own unique problems.

Have there been worse since 2001? :p

Dude, Breitbart supposedly has full on nude boner shots of Weiner's weiner. That's what brought on this whole admission of guilt by Weiner. Breitbart threatened to release the cock-shot photo if allegations that Breitbart was the one who hacked into Weiners twitter acct continued to be made. Now did Weiner send those nude pics to unsuspecting women, or was it just the panty shots? I honesty don't know.

Sure I have political bias. Vitter broke the law. He was involved in a huge FBI sting and got off scott free. He also campaigned on a platform of being above all of this, which is laughable. In the end, he kept his job. I don't like what he did. I don't like what Weiner did, but my point is that Ghostwriter's assertion that "The Dems don't eat their own." is a little funny considering that Republicans have a reputation of not "eating their own" in these situations either. Watch it...your political bias is showing, even though you claim to be an independent.

I think Ghostwriter may be referring to the lack of noise fellow dems are making calling for Weiner to resign. It seems that the GOP is a little more proactive in getting rid of their embarrassments once they are exposed. At least lately. Like the Christopher Lee mini-scandal earlier this year. I called out your bias because it was unneeded here. You saying, "well what Weiner did isn't bad compared to what this one republican did ten years ago" is just dumb. I think this story can hold on it's own and doesn't need comparisons drawn between Spitzer or Vitter or Clinton or whatever politician. You shouldn't give the guy a pass because of his politics.

^^^ All fun and games until politics are questioned.

LOL

Reminds me of earlier this week offline.

Vitter was only 4 years ago, and I was making a specific point regarding a pointed political comment that Ghostwriter made. BTW, Christopher Lee was a Freshman rep with no clout who was reportedly sending these photos to a transexual. I'm sure they jumped on that really quickly to try to avoid that little tidbit from getting out. Not one time did I condone what Weiner did, so you can jump off my ass. I know you like it up here, but you are not welcome. I didn't give anyone a pass. I actually said that each party tends to circle the wagons when it suits them or hang them out to dry when it suits them. Trying to pretend like the Republicans clean house more than the Democrats when scandal comes their way is preposterous or as you like to say "just dumb."

Did not know this part (obviously) - bizarre, but hilarious.

Granted, I don't know of any Democrats who have called from him to resign. But, Minority Leader Nancy Polosi called for an ethics investigation. Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Rep. Steve Israel, Sen. Harry Reid and most other Democratic legislators who have commented on the situation could hardly be called supportive of Weiner these days.

And given where Ghostwriter lives, he should remember how just a few years ago the (then) Democratic-controlled State House of Representatives expelled a Democratic legislator for ethics violations before making generalizations like "Dems don't eat their own."

It's pretty simple -- Democrats, Republicans and members of any other political party are, as a general rule, going to do what they think is the politically expedient thing to do.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/247463/nbc...’-weiner-photo

Interview with Breitbart. He mentions the x-rated pic near the 5 minute mark.

all the politicians only resign when they're going to be found guilty of ethics violations or when they are coming up for election soon. I can name a handful of GOP members who didn't resign just like I can name a handful of Dems who did, AND vice-versa.

My amusement usually comes because it's family values candidates that get caught with a rent boy at the airport.