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6/13/2011

Weiner About to Lose His Staff? And Other #Weinergate Notes (Update: The Village Voice Thinks Casual Defamation is Funny!) (Update: More Village Idiocy)

Filed under: General — Aaron Worthing @ 6:40 am



[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.  Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.]

Big Government alleges that Weiner’s staff are going to be taken into new offices starting this week—starting allegedly today.  Go to Big Government, read all of it—it’s only a couple paragraphs anyway.

It raises the question, however, whether this is just compassion for people who they think is about to lose their jobs?  Or is this part of a campaign to force Weiner out?  After all, if he loses his staff he won’t be able to get very much done.  It sounds almost like the sort of thing an unscrupulous landlord might do if they want to force a tenant out–being late to repair the A/C, to give an example.  And it is always reasonable to suspect that people intend the natural consequences of their actions.

Another tactic that might be used to force him out is to refuse to grant him leave of absence.  From as Chad Pergram said in Gretawire:

A leave of absence must be requested on the floor. This is usually a perfunctory, moot exercise, with no one objecting.

But….

It is conceviable that if someone does object…the leave is not granted. And, it’s possible a debate and even a vote could ensue on the merits or demerits of granting leave.

If Weiner asks for leave, it would not surprise me if someone were to object on the floor. Then we’re into uncharted territory.

You can read more on the leave of absence issue, here.

It is also worth noting that Weiner has never been shy about throwing other Democrats under the bus.  Now in my mind that is a virtue—if they have done wrong, he should be saying these kinds of things.  But it means practically speaking, he refused to defend some of the same people who are defending him.

And of course a whole new reason to resign emerged yesterday when TMZ released new risqué photos of the Congressman.  A first when I heard about it I thought, “what else is new?”  After all, I had already seen the unpixilated version of the infamous Opie and Anthony pic (and I have fully recovered from my bought of hysterical blindness, thank you very much).  But then I took a look and while they are not x-rated like some other photos, there is an additional wrinkle—they used the Congressional gym as his backdrop.  And that might actually offend his fellow Congressmen to a unique degree.

Update: How could I forget this?  Remember that Marist poll that said the majority of his constituents said he should stay?  Well, there is one problem.  His district contains many orthodox jews–the kinds of people who notice that God frowns upon adultery–and they were having a holiday, Shavuot.  That is one of the holidays on which sufficiently observant jews do not answer their phone.  And while I am citing the American Spectator, it was actually regular commenter Milhouse who tipped me off about that flaw in the poll.

Update: The Village Voice manages to scrape the bottom of the barrel describing my discussion with Gennette Cordova this weekend as follows:

Patterico’s blog wasn’t done chasing down Weiner’s Twitter correspondents, though; special correspondent Aaron Worthing had an online conversation with Gennette Cordova, the previous Person of Interest in this case, who defended herself with aplomb. (Worthing kept up pretty well, even assuming that he used both hands for typing.)

(emphasis added.) This is part of the meme that if you want to keep investigating the Weiner scandal you have to be a perv or something.  Since these people do not know us, I can only presume that they are projecting.

And this just after the same author attacked Patrick for his work on Ethel, writing:

Last week Weiner admitted that one of his Twitter correspondents was 17 years old, but said that their conversations hadn’t been inappropriate. This briefly jacked up the collective rightblogger heartrate (“Breaking: Police Visit Home of Weiner’s Teen Tweet-Heart“), but police in the teen’s jurisdiction investigated and seem to have found no reason to take action.

Such tireless Weiner teen text sleuths as Patterico were left with tenuous linkages which the police apparently don’t see the same way they did.

Actually, dipshit, Patrick felt that an investigation was warranted so in fact they saw things exactly like he did.  And Weiner didn’t spontaneously admit to that contact as your phrasing suggests, but in fact only fessed up because Patrick published his work and the police arrived at the teenager’s home.

“Then again, the use of the word ‘Weiner,’ when Ethel clearly said she loved Rep. Weiner, does not necessarily sound entirely like an accident,” Patterico reported. (“Ethel” is Patterico’s cute nickname for the 17-year-old, building off Tommy Christopher’s aliases for other young Weiner correspondents, “Betty” and “Veronica.”)

“And,” Patterico added, “there is no evidence that she ever told Rep. Weiner it was not a reference to him. And it’s his state of mind that matters, not hers.” Patterico also repeated some sexy lines Weiner used on adult women to prove… we’re not sure what; maybe that Weiner is capable of anything (we mean anything).

See, it is wrong to suggest that if a Congressman now notorious for sexting pretty admirers was privately messaging a pretty admirer who happened to be a teenager, who echoed phrases that Weiner used when wooing at least one online paramour, that he might have been behaving inappropriately with that teenager.  But its perfectly okay to speculate that I am behaving inappropriately toward Gennette Cordova because…  Well, because I am on the right I guess.

Which makes his whole line about the hate of the right-wing blogosphere more than a little ironic.

Update: There is something else risible about the Village Voice piece.  At one point, he denounces right wingers for insinuating that Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is in fact a lesbian, writing:

Weiner has, in addition to sext partners, a wife, and while prominent Republicans were pretending to feel sorry for her, rightbloggers mainly noticed that she had not denounced her husband, and was therefore fair game.

“Will Weinergate Blow ‘President’ Hillary’s Lesbian ‘Cover?'” asked Uncoverage. If you follow the link, you will need some patience and perhaps a gas mask; it includes, along with the usual salacious rumors, lines like “Huma Abedin’s expensive tastes and lifestyle have been questioned considering her plebeian salary from Hillary,” and ends with “Weinergate may end up being the prelude to President Hillary Clinton,” for some reason.

The Mad Jewess agreed that Abedin must be gay. “This is why Anthony’s pecker was all over the net,” she deduced. “…A straight man can’t get too much love from a Lesbian, now, can he?” Suddenly it all makes sense! If only Mark Sanford had thought to subpoena his wife’s phone records.

So he is denouncing right wingers for imagining that Huma might be a lesbian, a rumor that started (in part) in…  the Village Voice.  This was also a theory promoted once upon a time by Charles Johnson.  And one of the people dispelling this rumor?  A certain guest blogger at Hot Air who goes by the nickname Patterico.

Hat tip: Ron Brynaert (@ronbryn).

[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]

93 Responses to “Weiner About to Lose His Staff? And Other #Weinergate Notes (Update: The Village Voice Thinks Casual Defamation is Funny!) (Update: More Village Idiocy)”

  1. This guy is like a 17 year old teenager on Facebook. Cut him loose so can go back to what he enjoyed doing most. I’m sure Huma can support him and his habit.

    EC (dda60e)

  2. EC can you imagine him unemployed with plenty of time on this… ahem… hands?

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  3. Yeah, he’ll be on Chatroulette.

    EC (dda60e)

  4. Unfortunate blog post title, though it is a novel solution that might just work.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  5. Lose his staff?! I did not think Hummas was back until Wednesday.

    JD (85b089)

  6. The “Lorena Bobbitt” solution? I’d vote to acquit.

    Old Coot (60595f)

  7. Weiner’s staff suffers premature evacuation?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  8. dustin

    sorry, the joke never gets old for me.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  9. It would be very embarrassing to be an attractive woman on his staff. Weiner’s been in DC for several years, and some of these girls have probably asked him for favors by now. But if Weiner has even a hint of sanity, he kept these people out of his office. Can you imagine working with these people? It would be like that MTV reality show.

    The Real Staff: DC

    Dustin (c16eca)

  10. sorry, the joke never gets old for me.

    Comment by Aaron Worthing —

    Me neither.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  11. Gutless move by Dems who won’t expel him.

    creeper (f1f686)

  12. How will law and order SVU portray this?

    I mean one episode of the original Law and Order portrayed opponents to Embryonic stem cell research as deserving to be executed.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  13. 7.Weiner’s staff suffers premature evacuation?

    Comment by daleyrocks — 6/13/2011 @ 7:16 am

    Anybody know how to get coffee off a keyboard?

    Bill M (25d866)

  14. creeper

    expulsion might take a long time.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  15. “Weiner About to Lose His Staff?”

    I hope it’s performed under anesthesia.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (2efdf5)

  16. Weiner explains it all.

    The nine lives of Anthony Weiner.

    Pretty Little Congressmen.

    All shows that Anthony Weenus has starred in.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  17. Don’t forget that when Democrats were about to kick Barney Frank out of Congress over the gay prostitution ring operating out of his home, Frank took the floor, announced he wasn’t going down alone, and then publicly threatened to “out” (secret) homosexuals in the House while he locked eyes with the Speaker.

    Calls for his removal ceased immediately, and Barney Frank not only survived the scandal, he remains in office today.

    I don’t know if Anthony Weiner has enough dirt on his colleagues to duplicate Barney’s throwdown, but he’s exactly the sort of combative personality to give it a try if he was backed into a corner. Things could get interesting if Dems give Weiner access to the House floor.

    ropelight (b4b00f)

  18. Perhaps the best punishment would be to let Weiner remain in office, but take his entire staff away from him. Let him do some work for once.

    MayBee (081489)

  19. 🙄 Homophobic blackmail but Bawney Fwankfurter is not self-loathing 🙄

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  20. The one wild card Weiner holds is his wife. We have not heard from her, and if she issues a statement of support, or goes on the View and does an interview with B.Walters with her patented softball questions and she comes across as sincere and vulnerable she will completely turn the media tables in his favor. Time will tell.

    BT (74cbec)

  21. Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?

    lamchopsl (a91fe8)

  22. hi Mr. Worthing National Soros Radio does a judge walker story today … it’s fairly predictable stuff I guess

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  23. What do we know about his interns?

    crazy (6db438)

  24. BT, if she’s clever, she will announce her candidacy for Weiner’s seat as well as a divorce filing.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  25. My understanding is that his seat may be on the way out anyway due to redistricting which means even if he doesn’t resign he would have to run against another D or an incumbent R to keep a seat at the trough. Something tells me that with Hillary being such an important part of his wife’s life that she will follow Hillary’s path to political riches and will do a Tammy Wynette and stand by her man.

    BT (74cbec)

  26. Yep. Weiner’s seat is coming to Texas. HAHAHAHAHA

    Team D can’t win for losing. Things would be going great for them if they could just stop screwing everything up.

    I suppose Huma divorcing Weiner wouldn’t make Hillary look good, so that probably settles it. That political party is like a feudal times soap opera.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  27. Here is a video about the guy who used to be Weiner’s press secretary. The lady talking is Andy Rooney’s daughter and the press secretary was her nephew.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww2jcSo1CAM

    DizzyMissLizzy (355042)

  28. Worthing kept up pretty well, even assuming that he used both hands for typing.)

    And Gennette Cordova, she who flounces off at the tiniest criticism, says Aaron is being awfully sensitive.

    Does she think what the VV says is a compliment to her? Would she label that *inappropriate*?

    MayBee (081489)

  29. If Anthony Weiner DMed Gennette Cordova and said he was typing with one hand, would she have considered that inappropriate?
    She seems to indicate she is not that sensitive!

    MayBee (081489)

  30. GC did not want people talking about the young girls from the very beginning:

    GennetteC Gennette N Cordova
    All of the people retweeting the link about the other “young luscious girls” being followed by AW on Twitter, you should be ashamed.
    31 May

    MayBee (081489)

  31. Maybee,
    No need to respond to this because I don’t make it a habit of visiting this blog so I won’t see it.
    But I’d like to say that I apologize for finding it wrong to needlessly involve young girls in this situation.
    That was sarcasm if you couldn’t tell.
    🙂

    PS. I don’t think it’s fair to say I flounce off at the tiniest criticism. There have been thousands of articles and tweets that I felt had unfair criticism of me and I didn’t respond.

    Gennettec (1a6a68)

  32. Would saying “other” young lucious girls imply that Gennetec considers herself to be such? Or is that sarcasm too? 🙂

    carlitos (25ee92)

  33. gennette,

    well, who involved them?

    Weiner, that is who. he had to know his online sexcapades might blow up on him and it would them put suspicion on these girls.

    All patrick did was point out that we should be very suspicious about weiner’s interaction with a young girl. he knew that it could turn out that nothing happened, but that doesn’t mean you don’t investigate.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  34. But I’d like to say that I apologize for finding it wrong to needlessly involve young girls in this situation.

    How do you know if it is needless?
    Who really involved them, anyway? Wasn’t it Anthony Weiner?
    Haven’t you implied you were communicating with the young girls about this situation? Were you?

    Do you know if he ever sent a young girl a bulge photo as a “joke”?
    You weren’t expecting one, right? How do you know what his standards were?

    MayBee (081489)

  35. GennetteC isn’t answering the questions… she’s just citing ‘unfair’ criticism.

    She notes she’s the subject of thousands of articles. Is that supposed to be impressive? She helped demonize innocent people. That’s infamy, not fame.

    Anyone can go back and see she claimed, in absolute terms, things that weren’t true. Now she’s doing it again, with ‘secret’ evidence she won’t let anyone see. Gee, I wonder if her real motivation is to get a lot more attention. Geeeee.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  36. PS. I don’t think it’s fair to say I flounce off at the tiniest criticism. There have been thousands of articles and tweets that I felt had unfair criticism of me and I didn’t respond.

    I would define flouncing off as having to be preceded by prior engagement. Like coming to a blog to respond to something, then announcing you’ll no longer respond.

    I think it would be a good journalistic exercise for you to really stay engaged in a conversation which challenges you. I bet you’d even enjoy it.

    MayBee (081489)

  37. You weren’t expecting one, right? How do you know what his standards were?

    Comment by MayBee

    I’m tired of pretending this is plausible. I think it’s hard to resist the impression Cordova, who had a “Crush” on her “boyfriend” and following this situation for months, was having a DM conversation with a married man about the only topic he ever DMs any girl about. And that’s why as soon as she received a photo publicly, she quit working for her school paper, asked for her name to be removed from her work (and shockingly, they agreed to do this) and erased as much of her online persona as possible.

    After Weiner’s crisis managers told her this makes her look obviously guilty, she restored some online accounts and claimed the truth tellers are awful people.

    Why pretend she’s anything but another mistress of a married man? OK… I know why. You guys think being nice to her will trick her into spilling the beans. She will spill the beans when a tabloid pays her to.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  38. If you do come back, Gennette, I would love to hear your thoughts on when the idea of someone having a conversation with *you* and typing with one hand is appropriate, and when one might reasonably be offended by it.

    After all, the VV was saying Aaron was typing with one hand while conversing with you. Specifically you.

    MayBee (081489)

  39. I would define flouncing off as having to be preceded by prior engagement. Like coming to a blog to respond to something, then announcing you’ll no longer respond.

    Yes. She stormed out of interviews before she answers a single tough question. She insults the interviewer, laughs about the situation, and then flees, and never answers any of the real questions.

    And she’s not going to change. I disagree with Maybee. She would not enjoy a real interview because she knows the answers to the questions are extremely unfavorable.

    But still, when she does this repeatedly, and censors her communications, there’s a very obvious answer.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  40. Maybee – Attention seeking journalism student Gennettec does not want to make a habit of visiting this blog. You need to stop talking about what she has said about her interactions with the other parties involved in Weinergate. Just ignore the conflicting things she has said and unanswered questions about her relationship with The Big Dick that remain outstanding. She wants to be alone, except for the tweets and statements she issues.

    Isn’t that obvious?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  41. I find it really interesting that GC was speaking with a US Congressman about how people were noticing he was following and DMing young girls.

    It seems GC even exchanged information with these young girls.

    YET when he tweets package.jpg to her, for all the world to see, it is suddenly deplorable that other people might notice what she had already noticed!

    MayBee (081489)

  42. I don’t know if Huma is a lesbian, but there is something about Weiner’s behavior that makes me think he was trying to act like a heterosexual without having natural heterosexual tendencies.

    That doesn’t prove that Weiner’s marriage to Hillary’s sloppy seconds “personal assistant” is one of those Huffington type arrangements. At the same time, I wouldn’t be surprised if some “unexpected” relationships surface. Perhaps even some that Charlie Rangel can’t defend.

    j curtis (7ba419)

  43. Maybee, why are you responding? Cordova said you don’t need to respond to her, since she won’t be back. Obviously, there is no reason to talk about this unless Cordova has announced she’ll be back.

    She is the only person who matters, after all. It’s not like she wants you to stop analyzing her comments because the paint her in a disgusting light or anything.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  44. j curtis, interesting point. Those self-photographs of The Weiner at the congressional gym did NOT scream “I am heterosexual,” no they did not.

    carlitos (25ee92)

  45. “Maybee, why are you responding? Cordova said you don’t need to respond to her, since she won’t be back.”

    Dustin – Concur. It’s not like the attention seeking journalism student who has made conflicting statements and about whom serious unresolved questions remain is reading this blog or anything.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  46. Since when is $170,000 salary plebeian?

    The idiots at the voice deserve this sleaze. They can keep him… to themselves hopefully.

    MaaddMaaxx (25e27f)

  47. The only difference between Roy Edroso and a bag of crap is the bag.

    Phil Smith (5381ba)

  48. http://www.kcra.com/news/28221191/detail.html

    Check it out. I’m thinking I located the Weeners re-hab hideout.

    f1guyus (2a84e9)

  49. What! I missed a flouncing. 🙁

    SarahW (af7312)

  50. So it is hohophobic to criticize a legal ruling, but not at all hohophobic to insinuate someone is waxing their weasel to pics of Teh Weiner. This sliding scale that allows the leftists to call people Teh Ghey, while demonizing those that do not share their political ideals is laughable. Screw ’em.

    JD (85b089)

  51. That was an awfully bratty flounce, too. If involving the girls is so terrible, she was ready enough to use them. Also, she doesn’t even think B&V were for real.

    SarahW (af7312)

  52. What I believe we’ve learned today:

    1. Gennette C does not believe someone saying he is typing with one hand while he is exchanging tweets with her is anything offensive.
    So now we have an idea what might not be considered “inappropriate”.

    2. A woman who got package.jpg completely out of the blue now wants to vouch for what the sender did or did not send to other girls who were following him. She claims to know enough to say that other people were “needlessly” dragged into this.

    3.On Twitter, she claims Patterico is showing his age by misconstruing the language of a teen. Which is interesting, because it is easy to believe Anthony Weiner was possibly similarly misconstruing the language of his followers.
    Is Weiner closer to Patterico’s age or Gennette’s? (btw, I don’t think it has anything to do with age, but I know some young people like to think their youth is very, very special)

    MayBee (081489)

  53. So let’s imagine Weiner DMed Miss Cordova that he was typing with one hand just before he sent the evidence of that.

    No inappropriate exchanges were made! Don’t be so sensitive, you old fogies!

    MayBee (081489)

  54. If involving the girls is so terrible, she was ready enough to use them. Also, she doesn’t even think B&V were for real.

    Comment by SarahW

    Yes. She particularly has no concern for keeping Ethel’s real name a secret.

    And indeed she was trying to use these girls for her own story. Though I’ve read her ‘journalism’ and it’s about as terrible as you’d expect. Journalist do not quit their newspaper at the drop of a hat.

    She claims to know enough to say that other people were “needlessly” dragged into this.

    That’s interesting. At every step, Cordova wants to be the famous and reliable judge with secret info and absolute confident in her opinions. In reality, she turns out to be infamous, unreliable, and dishonest, with opinions that are always tailored precisely towards protecting her “boyfriend”.

    I also think it’s interesting that Cordova repeatedly claims her detractors are morons who don’t know the lingo of kids these days, such as this ‘very popular’ honey mustard joke that never showed up on google before. But Cordova was so hip she was worshiping that gross old Weiner with all the cleverness of a photo of a an erection or 70.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  55. maybee

    i don’t think i am betraying a confidence to say later she explained that she missed the joke in the two hands typing reference when she first read it.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  56. And indeed she was trying to use these girls for her own story.

    Yes, Dustin and Sarah. That was ok, because there was the possibility the rightwingers were incorrectly targeting poor poor Weiner.

    MayBee (081489)

  57. he explained that she missed the joke

    Didn’t she insult you for not getting jokes all the time?

    Of course, she’s got quite an odd sense of humor.

    As ace noted “why did the chicken cross the road” “look at my penis!”

    Dustin (c16eca)

  58. i don’t think i am betraying a confidence to say later she explained that she missed the joke in the two hands typing reference when she first read it.

    Heh.
    Well, what’s she going to say?

    MayBee (081489)

  59. Point still made. Her identification of allusions to sexual uh, motifs was wanting there. It might have been wanting before, on occasion.

    SarahW (af7312)

  60. Cordova: I actually thought Weiner was explaining a need to know the Heimlich maneuver before I gag on a hot dog. I didn’t see anything dirty about his comments. What’s so dirty about his inquiring if I love roosters and lumber? I’m from WA after all.

    /just kidding

    But it’s interesting that she didn’t share her full communications with Weiner, then denied that fact, and expects us to believe Weiner was completely inhibited when chatting up someone who called him boyfriend.

    No way, Jose.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  61. I found his saying that he wanted what’s-her-name the Blackjack dealer to “gag” on his, um, weiner a little disturbing. She already told him that she’s good at … that sort of thing, and willing to do it, but he wanted to gag her with it. I’m sure that some women like that sort of thing, but it really creeped me out.

    carlitos (25ee92)

  62. I’m sure that some women like that sort of thing,

    I have a hard time believing any mentally healthy person wants to gag.

    it really creeped me out.

    That wasn’t about sex. It was about being awesome and dominating. It reminds me of his other sexting “I am a very important person” comments.

    And somehow, this guy was chaste and professional when talking in private with Cordova, who was enamored enough that her friends mocked her crush and she called him a boyfriend publicly? She specifically chose not to share all her DMs, and then she denied doing that.

    I know Aaron’s given her the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  63. I am crossing my fingers that the National Enquirer has sicced a team of reporters to uncover whatever dirt there is out there on Weiner.

    Victoria (7b01cb)

  64. Saw over at Hot Air that he was cheating as little on his license plate and registration fees…

    But he’s a very important man and will try to schedule some skype time in to take care of business and make the DMV happy.

    SarahW (af7312)

  65. a, not as

    SarahW (af7312)

  66. They were suggesting new plates for him if/when Congress 9 plate is issued to another

    SarahW (af7312)

  67. New plate could be “Client #9” instead of Congress 9. 🙂

    carlitos (25ee92)

  68. So finally, Gennette Corova says on Twitter that what Weiner did was not that badL

    I personally don’t think what he did is all that bad and I think the media’s preoccupation with this story is a little absurd…

    So that’s twice in one day I am forced to question her judgement of what is and what is not inappropriate.

    He sent me a picture of his crotch, out of the blue! But that is not that bad!
    He stood in the Congressional locker room with a hard on and took a picture. But it is not that bad!

    (she has decided, as has Obama, that Weiner should resign)

    MayBee (081489)

  69. Maybee, he had an erection in the rayburn gym photos?

    Ugh. I haven’t been looking at them. How do you get an erection in a place like that? Public masterbation? This is the kind of thing hobos do at UT Austin. And congressman Weiner, apparently. And the media’s covering the story is “absurd”?

    Cordova has written several articles and precisely zero were as relevant.

    Dustin (c16eca)

  70. Sure, it’s also not so bad to make a not-so-bad mistake but let another person or persons be accused of a very, very bad thing, so that you don’t have to admit you did a not-so-bad thing.

    SarahW (af7312)

  71. She’s 21 and has a lot to learn about mistakes.

    SarahW (af7312)

  72. Yes Dustin, but that’s not so bad.

    SarahW (af7312)

  73. “This is the kind of thing hobos do at UT Austin.”
    HA! So true. In between shifts panhandling by I-35 to support their meth habits.

    SPC Jack Klompus (07a5ab)

  74. if weiner resign
    colonel found a job for him
    at Nathan’s Famous

    ColonelHaiku (8fa4f9)

  75. colonel got heavy
    trobbah itchin just to lay
    solid rhythym out

    ColonelHaiku (8fa4f9)

  76. “He sent me a picture of his crotch, out of the blue! But that is not that bad!”

    MayBee – I thought she claimed never to have gotten that tweet? Is she now claiming to have received it? WTF?

    Also, what is the not so bad part? Is she accustomed to people asking permission before sending her crotch shots, but because Anthony’s a U.S. Congressman she’ll make an exception or something?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  77. “Maybee, he had an erection in the rayburn gym photos?”

    Dustin – I tend to give naked guys walking around at the gym with chubbies a wide berth. Working out is just not that exciting.

    YMMV.

    NTTAWWT.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  78. Just so long as Weiner doesn’t offer to spot you while you lift weights, Daley.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  79. MayBee – I thought she claimed never to have gotten that tweet? Is she now claiming to have received it? WTF?

    Oh no, that’s me. He sent the tweet, even if she says she didn’t get it.

    After, if we are to believe her, a discussion about how he’s being criticized for following young girls. Apparently that seemed like a great time to shoot a weiner shot.
    But that’s not so bad!

    MayBee (081489)

  80. Even the wwe isn’t giving Ole weiner a break.

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  81. ______________________________________________

    So he is denouncing right wingers for imagining that Huma might be a lesbian

    Technically, the more accurate description for her (but one admittedly based on assumption and rumor only) is she’s a bisexual. In a similar vein, there have been rumors (and verifiable idiosyncrasies) about her husband that suggest bisexuality on his part too. Then there’s the likely bisexuality of a person situated between the two of them, Hillary.

    Making such rumors about them less likely to be inaccurate is that, based on surveys, a high percentage of folks who behave that way are of the left. And the Weinergate players most certainly are dyed-in-the-wool liberals.

    Since various leftists love making “LGBT” a rallying cry and an acronym for what they believe should be protected groups, I don’t know why they resist the idea that a lot of the “L” and “G” in LGBT may be “B,” or are, in fact “B,” period.

    Mark (411533)

  82. mark

    actually i think the theory is that huma really is a lesbian and thus she is not interested in him sexually, making their marriage a sham and explaining why he was stepping out on her.

    which is just a place we shouldn’t go, but it means huma would be not be bi.

    btw, the most ridiculous part of the theory is this. why fake a marriage in the first place. if it was covering for him being gay, maybe, but obviously he likes women. so f— it, marry one of his online paramours and be done with it. like it would be mildly scandalous to marry ginger lee but otherwise…

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea)

  83. Weiner has been “acting out” in very similar ways to some of my male friends who were sexually abused as children. I can’t help wonder if he was molested as a child.

    Victoria (7b01cb)

  84. Boehner has to do one thing here… He has to call Pelosi and say that nothing is going to move on Weiner’s ethics investigation until the Dems stop stalling on the Maxine Waters ethics case.
    If the Dems balk, then you can (a) keep Weiner out there; and (b) refocus on the corrupt Waters.
    If the Dems allow movement on Waters, you still have Weiner in the background — and you know he’s going to do something else stupid or something else is going to come out, and you have Waters’ corruption ready to be exposed.
    Win-win. At least for the GOP.

    Santa Snowball Chucker, Eagles fan (58d2a4)

  85. Loose his “staff”?

    If he did that, then he could hold the iPhone with 2 hands!

    Icy Texan (158370)

  86. “Apparently that seemed like a great time to shoot a weiner shot.”

    MayBee – Has it been determined yet that there has ever not been a great time for Weiner to shoot a weiner shot? Or place?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

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    i think the theory is that huma really is a lesbian and thus she is not interested in him sexually

    That theory is naive, or at least partially naive. In this case I will say the ones most likely to be naifs are, ironically or not, people on the right. Or those who believe homosexuality is so extreme and desperate (and weird) that one can be either straight or gay, but not both.

    One reason why I think the word “bisexual” or “bisexuality” should be emphasized over gay (or lesbian) is because it apparently is a more accurate way of describing the complexity of behavior evident in a sub-set of humans.

    Before the issue of same-sex marriage became a big part of political debate, I assumed that homosexuality was so strange and pathetic, that it was correct to assume self-identifying gays knew what they were talking about when they claimed “if we could be straight, why else would we ever have chosen this way of life for ourselves?!” Then I started to observe things like the following:

    Rupert Everett has revealed he had a six-year affair with the late Paula Yates.

    The “My Best Friend’s Wedding” actor – who is openly homosexual – has admitted to a string of affairs with famous women, including Susan Sarandon, in his new autobiography.

    “I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs, but then I am mystified by most of my relationships,” he said.

    BTW, the very fact our lexicon incorporates two different words to describe homosexual males (“gay”) and homosexual females (“lesbian”), in and of itself, makes such people seem even more strange or alien. In comparison, no such distinctions exist for the way that male and females heterosexuals are labeled. So in this case even society’s word usage ends up, either purposefully or inadvertently, discriminatory.

    Mark (411533)

  88. Weiner really presents as a pretty creepy guy. The flat, blunted affect in his screen shots was truly bizarre.
    Equally as disturbing was the freaky wax job he had done on his chest. This guy gives off some bad juju, big-time bad juju.

    Koh-i-noor and Timur Ruby (70f08e)

  89. Weiners’shame must be all-consuming. Oh my gosh, how embarassing!
    He can take comfort in the “revolving door” scandals that most Americans are by now used too. By next week, this will be OLD news.

    Koh-i-noor and Timur Ruby (70f08e)

  90. Aaron, I followed your link to Patterico’s guest post at Hot Air, quoting Matt Welch to pour cold water on a rumour which you claim to be the one about Hillary Clinton. First of all, I doubt that identification; the Village Voice article you link to is from July 2007, while the rumour Patterico dealt with was circulating three months later. My guess is that it was about John Edwards. Second and much more importantly, though, is the naivety shown by Welch and Patterico:

    seasoned political journalists are not helpless bystanders in the face of juicy rumors, they are specifically trained to go out and investigate them, and report when relevant.

    Well, we now know how they handled the Edwards story. How does that comport with Welch’s expectations? Ha ha ha.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  91. Buford Pusser, the real one not the movie version, actually did move a disfavored judge’s office into the men’s bathroom. Maybe that will be the next step in Rep Weiner still doesn’t get the message.

    Pat Patterson (d9bd0c)

  92. 😯

    DohBiden (15aa57)

  93. I think Charles Johnson gets hard at the Anthony Weiner pictures.

    DohBiden (15aa57)


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