New York Times Puff Piece on Weiner Ignores Contact with Underage Girl That Caused Him to Resign
Two quotes from Anthony Weiner. Compare this:
“Cape. Tights. Looking for my sidekick.”
. . . .
“You will gag on me before you cum with me in you.”
— Anthony Weiner chat with blackjack dealer Lisa Weiss
to this:
“I came back strong. Large. In charge. Tights and cape shit …”
— Anthony Weiner DM to 17-year-old high school student from Delaware named “Ethel”
The New York Times bestowed a big sloppy wet kiss on Anthony Weiner’s NYC mayoral ambitions yesterday. The piece allows Weiner to portray his decision to come clean and to resign as mostly unforced; a laudable decision to lay bare his soul to save his marriage and show his fidelity to the truth.
Nonsense.
In April 2012 it was revealed that evidence of Weiner’s potentially inappropriate contact with underage girls was the ultimate reason he was forced to resign. Somehow that fact never made it into yesterday’s piece. The following quote is from an April 2012 New York Post piece:
President Obama was willing to put up with a lot of Anthony Weiner’s antics — the bad boy congressman’s sexting with women he never met, tweeting pics of his own penis, and acid tongue.
But the White House finally got fed up when reports emerged that the pol was in contact with an underage girl.
According to a new book, the cold shoulder from the White House was the beginning of the end of Weiner’s career in Congress.
To his credit, Dave Weigel noted yesterday on Slate that the New York Times Magazine piece is less than forthcoming about Weiner’s contact with underage girls:
The headline that finally brought down Anthony Weiner would have been poison to any politician. It was a June 10, 2011 Fox News exclusive by Jana Winter, the reporter currently fighting in court to protect her sources on the James Holmes story. And it read:
Exclusive: Police Investigate Weiner’s Messages to Teenage Girl in Delaware
Winter had been chasing down ledes, and was “at the high school junior’s home” when the cops showed up. . . .
. . . .
As readable as it is, the New York Times magazine profile of the Weiner family sort of blows right past this.
Indeed it does.
Weigel understates the importance of this omission, however, when he tells his readers that there was really nothing to the communications with the underage girl:
By June 13, it was clear: Weiner hadn’t sent anything sexual to the girl. New Castle County police confirmed that, and washed their hands of the media frenzy.
But, contrary to this assertion, it was never “clear” that Weiner hadn’t sent anything sexual to the girl. Weigel can hardly be blamed for taking at face value news reports saying police had closed the case. But, for those who were watching closely when this all unfolded, the timeline made it “clear” that no such conclusion could be reached with any confidence. As I noted in a June 11 blog post titled Weinergate: Five Is Not Two:
- On Wednesday, June 8, the New York Post was told that the girl was telling her mother that there had been only two G-rated messages:
The girl’s mother, whose name is being withheld, told The Post Wednesday that Weiner sent nothing obscene — and sent only two brief messages to her daughter about seeing him during an April school trip to the Capitol. . . . The mom said she pointedly questioned her daughter about whether Weiner sent her anything obscene, and the girl swore it was all G-rated.
Note: this is not a claim that she showed her mom messages, but that she had told her mom the messages were G-rated. And that there were only two.
- On Thursday, June 9, 2011, this blog published proof that Weiner had sent the girl the second message quoted at the top of this post: a reference to Weiner being a Superman in cape and tights. This direct message seemed especially creepy given that Weiner had employed identical “cape and tights” imagery as a grooming line for a woman with whom he had exchanged explicit sexual messages (see the quote at the top of this post).
- On Friday, June 10, 2011, now that the “cape and tights” line was out of the bag, all of a sudden we were being told that there had been five direct messages, and not two. Their alleged content was described in the New York Times, and the creepy line “I came back strong. Large. In charge. Tights and cape shit …” was edited to read: “I came back strong … Large. Tights and cape. …” Readers were not informed that Weiner had included an expletive in his message to the 17-year-old high school junior — much less that the “[t]ights and cape shit” line resembled a line that Weiner had used with an adult woman with whom he had sexted.
No press account claimed that any reporter or police officer had actually seen the messages, or determined with certainty whether anything had been deleted. It is an open question whether Weiner went down the same road with the high school girl that he went down with the Vegas blackjack dealer — or whether he would have, at some point, if he had not been found out.
If Weiner makes good on his bid to run for NYC mayor — and today’s puff piece surely suggests that he is — it is certain that his opposition will not overlook these unpleasant facts as readily as the New York Times has consistently whitewashed them.
P.S. I raise these issues with some trepidation. The night that Mike Stack was SWATted, June 23, 2011, Ace of Spades and I received email threats telling us to stop talking about Anthony Weiner and Gennette Cordova, or our safety could not be assured. One week later, I was SWATted. People involved in other harassment of myself and my family have displayed an unhealthy fixation on the Anthony Weiner story.
Glad to see you’re not backing down on these pricks.
IGotBupkis -- "Faecies Evenio", Mr. Holder? (98ae1f) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:45 amThe timeline the NYT used was blatantly dishonest. Layers and layers of fact checking and editors my ass …
JD (f5b0a4) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:49 amlike an onion! brings angry tears to peoples eyes…
E.PWJ (1cedce) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:54 amThis is a good example of why I call this crew “alphabetists.” They really don’t care about anything policy-wise or personal. It’s all Teh Narrative™.
Really sad.
Wow, Patterico. Wow. Unpleasant way to start the day, thinking about this bit of human toilet film.
Simon Jester (00e03b) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:01 amIn some ways it is simply the expectable legacy of Clinton and Lewinsky.
Maybe America has already suffered the mortal blow and doesn’t know it.
Not that Clinton himself did it, but the significant number of US citizens that actively supported him or passively enabled him, and still want to reward his wife for her part.
I guess once one has no shame, one has no shame.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:10 amIn the Bible it’s worded “forgotten how to blush”
not a complement.
Support for Weiner swelling again?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:13 amOne hopes that no one was surprised about this. He’s a Democrat, so it’s no story at all.
The unsurprised Dana (3e4784) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:15 amwhat we know about new yorkers is they need leaders with a firm grip
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:24 amthe insult to other doemcrats who did manage to tweet or text sexual items to underage girls who are being shouldered out from running..
E.PWJ (6140f6) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:25 amcampaign theme – “when the moments right”
E.PWJ (6140f6) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:26 amI wonder if the recipient of his underpants tweet ever figured out his attentions to her weren’t honorable.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:33 amThere is no journalism today. What we think of as journalism is not what is distributed by the major media news outlets, and it hasn’t been for years – since they got good at controlling government and thus became government.
What we have is a megaphone in the hands of power-hungry agenda liberals.
News isn’t reported any more. News is managed. And the average public-educated Consumer Joe isn’t equipped to see the difference.
Amphipolis (d3e04f) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:44 amWhat in the world is wrong with NYC that Wiener is even conceivable as a political candidate for any office? What is wrong with New York State that a carpet-bagging wife of a hypocrite president could move to Westchester and be elected to the Senate?
MT Geoff (a67ef4) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:45 amAnd how did it get loose into the rest of the country?/rhetorical
On SWATting: this is a tough call. It does seem like local LEOs could have a list of homes where celebrities are likely to be the target of this kind of thing. Most of the celebs have security. Seems like the LEOs could respond quietly while dispatch contacts the security company to see what’s afoot. The fact is that the last celeb I know of who merited a SWAT response was Orenthal Simpson and he’s in jail now.
MT Geoff (a67ef4) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:47 amIn the Bible it’s worded “forgotten how to blush”
In this increasingly secular, hip, sophisticated, touchy-feely age, if people are resistant to the Bible for theological and spiritual reasons, they should at least understand it for the way it reflects human nature several generations ago. And that human nature really doesn’t change much, if at all. Or the concept that what is old is new again, what goes around, comes around, and those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
The New York Times also is a perfect example of why various forms of corruption tend to be nurtured, and can easily flourish, when liberalism and liberals are running things. IOW, all sins and shortcomings are forgiven, just as long as one is of the left.
Mark (03ca77) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:54 amPresident Obama was willing to put up with a lot of Anthony Weiner’s antics
Even more so since Obama also has a background that is shadowed by bisexuality. Perfect poster boys in the age of GLBT and SSM.
Mark (03ca77) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:58 amIf Anthony Weiner was looking for a female to give him a sloppy wet kiss, he should have just sent his photos to The New York Times in the first place.
As we know, The Gray Lady will always put out for a left wing politician. And she’ll always swallow…her pride.
Elephant Stone (8a7f08) — 4/11/2013 @ 8:23 amEven more so since Obama also has a background that is shadowed by bisexuality. Perfect poster boys in the age of GLBT and SSM.”
– Leviticus
You are exceedingly predictable, Mark – but I respect your observation that they’d make a cute couple.
Leviticus (1aca67) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:12 amROFL
SPQR (768505) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:14 amI guess the real question is whether any of the other would-be liberal candidates for mayor will have the guts to stand up and call Weiner out on his behavior. If Democrats have decided that one’s sexual peccadillos are always out of bounds, no matter how creepy and sleazy, then there is little hope for the political culture of that city anyway.
JVW (4826a9) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:18 amI suspect that if there’s one thing that will convince a Democratic politician to start an argument about sexual peccadillos, it will be the promise of political power.
Leviticus (1aca67) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:21 amThe editors of the Ties will support the little Weiner if he wins the primary — they might not support him in the primary itself — but you can be certain that they will have nothing for disdain for former Governor Mark Sanford, the Republican nominee in the SC special election, for having carried on an affair with an adult woman.
The Dana who predicts the difference (3e4784) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:30 amWhat the Times didn’t like was Sanford’s proclivity for hiking and outdoorsiness – they’re a pasty wheezing bunch, the Times.
Leviticus (1aca67) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:31 amLeviticus — let’s hope, but I can see Weiner playing the redemption card and having much of the liberal elite turning him into the victim in all of this. I guess I am pretty pessimistic about how we handle these things.
JVW (4826a9) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:33 amIf Ted Kennedy could continue to get re-
erectedelected for another 40 years after leaving a woman to drown, then this ugly little Wiener Boy can surely get elected Mayor of NYC.After all, Democrat voters aren’t interested in good values and ethics—that’s why they’re Democrats in the first place.
Elephant Stone (8a7f08) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:33 amIt will be an up and down campaign campaign for Weiner. I think his innate douchiness will overcome Weiner’s ability to stand up to the rigors of constant questioning about his inappropriate behavior and lead to some notable public eruptions from which it will be tough to recover.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:38 amThe double entendres are strong with this one.
Leviticus (1aca67) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:47 amIf Ted Kennedy could continue to get re-elected for another 40 years after leaving a woman to drown, then this ugly little Wiener Boy can surely get elected Mayor of NYC.
Well, there is one major difference: Ted the Drunk was the scion of a wealthy and powerful political family, and by virtue of his daddy and brothers’ dealings was owed lots of favors throughout the whole media/academic/business community in Massachusetts. I don’t think Weiner has quite that much influence; his main appeal to liberals always seemed to me to be the fact that he was combative, feisty, and appeared to absolutely hate conservatives and conservative ideas.
JVW (4826a9) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:47 amAnd don’t forget, JVW, he is also Hillary’s body woman’s beard.
The Dana who noticed (3e4784) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:55 amFurther recall Weiner for a time tried to claim his email, that of a sitting Congressman, had been hacked by persons unknown. And he did that until then point he realized that would trigger an FBI investigation. At that point he knew if he made a false statement to a FBI investigator he would be locked up. But he was willing to sell that nonsense in hopes he could get out of his mess. That he would be so dumb to even suggest that his account was hacked when he knew all along he had done these things means he is a sociopath.
The Times may be in his corner. But simply every other NY media outlet and the entire electorate views Weiner as a walking punch line. even in a liberal city like NY and with a $4 million war chest his campaign would quickly degenerate into a sideshow. But perhaps he is in fact that selfish a bastard and his wife is that power hungry.
Bugg (ba4ca9) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:58 amJVW,
Well, I wasn’t comparing Kennedy’s background to Weiner’s background.
Rather, I was comparing Democrat voters to…Democrat voters to…Democrat voters.
Democrat voters will reliably vote for the Democrat nominee, regardless of his flaws, or the number of women he left to drown, or the number of underage females he has propositioned.
I hear that there are Democrat nominees who even hang out with unrepentant domestic terrorists as well as Jew-hating preachers, and it doesn’t seem to hurt their elective prospects !
Elephant Stone (8a7f08) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:02 amW.’s “pecadillos” are just symptomatic of a bigger issue with his personality in general – a self-centered, reckless, incontinent temperament and willingness to lie when it hurts others.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:06 amDana, I get your points about Democrats being Democrats. The good news is that the NYC mayoral race is usually a contest pitting Democrat against Democrat in a primary, with the winner squaring off usually against a Democrat running as a Republican (John Lindsay, Michael Bloomberg) and a far-left third-party candidate in the regular election. In other words, there should be lots and lots of Democrats not named Anthony Weiner that liberals can choose a candidate from.
I guess that means all the more that if Weiner manages to win the race, that NYC voters will have made a clear determination that he is the leader they want.
JVW (4826a9) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:16 amSince this is on press malfeasance, I guess the usual suspects are more focused on the bad, mean McConnell and the bravery of those publicizing him, as opposed to the possible illegality of getting the info.
BTW, since we have not had any free-thought threads for awhile-
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:17 amLeviticus, for some unkown reason my wife’s workplace is going to have a pot-luck with the theme of “foods of New Mexico”,
so, can you give me an authentic recipe for the sauce for grilled Gila Monster???
and, um, for anything else people are known for eating when Gila Monster can’t be obtained at the grocery.
Oh, I think the democrats wanted the info broadcast, the same info state democrats used to chase Ashley away, with the advantage of it appearing in the opponents mouth.
There was some anger that the democrats didn’t want her to be the candidate, and this is a great way, now that no harm can come from compromising her further (she won’t be running there) of deflecting the anger that had been directed at them. Also, bonus – Ashley Judd won’t mess other races up in other localities.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:56 amMD in Philly – Can you get fresh armadillo in Philly?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:56 amI don’t think Mother Jones is at all concerned about how pretty basic oppo research and natural levity at Judd’s self-absorbed kookprattle is mean. I think they wanted people to understand she’s not fit without saying so.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:57 amMD in Philly – If no dillo available, cut one coconut in half, obtain two typical Philly rats, gut, insert one in each half of coconut shell, season with appropriate regional spices. Spice guidance is available on line. Coat entire coconut with a thick layer of mud and allow to dry then roast over low to medium charcoal or wood fire for approximately three hours with open half of mud coated coconut facing up to retain juices. After 2 1/2 hours, order out for pizza.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:08 amdaley
my friend Painted Jaguar made me promise to never have anything to do with armadillos, or he would tell his mummy about it,
his mummy may be very patient and kind in general,
but I don’t mess with her when it comes to armadillos
but do you really have an genuine New Mexican armadillo recipe (I have a friend with family in LA-the state)?
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:10 amAdd Giuliani to that list. By the standards of most places he’s a law-and-order Democrat. He’s actually not all that easy to distinguish from Janet Reno.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:12 amdaley-
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:13 amwe have possums, actually saw possum road kill 2 days ago (and a live raccoon in the yard last night)
of course, once I see your armadillo recipe sounds like an old recipe for carp I know (throw away the carp and eat the board)
…
MD in Philly – Depends on the type of wood and the seasoning. Some can be right tasty.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:16 amMD in Philly – I’m partial to salt water infused cedar myself.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:21 amhey, I bought some cedar shingles at the lumber yard yesterday. I was going to use them on the house, but I’ll have to put some aside.
And we’ve got some Kosher sea salt from Trader Joe’s. And there are carp in the Schulkyll River.
All ready for grilling out this summer!!
But leviticus, wherever you are, I need your help with a real NM recipe.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:56 amThat’s the recipe for hedgehog, daleyrocks. Seriously. Gut and wash the inside of the hedgehog. Do not skin. Season the inside with salt, pepper and oregano. Encase in clay (not mud). Make coals in a small firepit. Bury the clay-covered hedgehog in the coals. Drink retsina while sitting around fire. Refresh coals as necessary with more wood over several hours. Drink more retsina. Dig hedgehog out from ashes and break clay shell. The skin should peel away with the clay. Serve with retsina.
nk (d4662f) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:04 pmAnd, BTW, MD in Philly, not even a week since I posted the information here, the Phineas and Ferb channels I mentioned were deleted from YouTube without a trace. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Disney seems to be everywhere I go.
nk (d4662f) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:12 pm“That’s the recipe for hedgehog, daleyrocks.”
nk – Dude, he wanted armadillo so I modified the recipe for presentation purposes. Hedgehogs don’t have shells so the coconuts serve that purpose plus your basic hedgehog is too big to fit inside a half coconut. Clay or mud work fine and I’ve done it with chickens above ground and in pits.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:14 pm“All ready for grilling out this summer!!”
MD in Philly – A little algae or seaweed from exposure to tides really enhances the experience. A barnacle or two adds authenticity.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:19 pmSadly, I think too many New York City voters will view Weiner’s actions as the mark of a celebrity, so it will only make him that much more attractive to them.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:19 pmThe rest may simply discount these reports as “just about sex” and thus none of their business.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:20 pm“But leviticus, wherever you are, I need your help with a real NM recipe.”
MD in Philly – Second look at chupacabra?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:22 pmCoincidence? I don’t think so. Disney seems to be everywhere I go.
Comment by nk (d4662f) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:12 pm
great, now Disney has joined with the N-KGB, NSA, and DHS. All that’s left is for those Dem operatives that were eavesdropping on McConnell’s office to join in and that will about seal it up…
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 12:36 pmAs a marketing oriented person it seems to me that his greatest continuing obstacle to future election is this: when all is said and done the guy’s name is still unfortunately WEEEEENER! And he got into trouble with it and everyone knows it. His very name humorously and continuously evokes the reason he was forced from congress. His name is forever a reminder in people’s consciousness of the famous wayward picture of his crotch that made its way around the internet and is the butt of jokes.
I just don’t know how he overcomes all that.
Maybe he should change his name to Kennedy or something.
elissa (182906) — 4/11/2013 @ 1:22 pm“But leviticus, wherever you are, I need your help with a real NM recipe.”
– MD in Philly
For a potluck I would suggest a big pot of posole. Are you familiar with posole? It’s a pork-hominy-chile stew, real easy to make. I can get a recipe if that sounds right.
Thing about New Mexico food: it’s all about green chile. Access to green chile opens the full gamut.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:05 pmIt’s almost like they are not interested in the truth or something…
WarEagle82 (2b7355) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:07 pmOr carne adovada, if you’re a red chile type.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:08 pmPosole rocks.
JD (b63a52) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:14 pmThing about New Mexico food: it’s all about green chile. Access to green chile opens the full gamut.
I have a feeling that one would be hard pressed to find a good Hatch or mirasol chile in Philly, but perhaps MD might be able to find some Anaheims. The hard part is roasting them in the oven.
JVW (4826a9) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:19 pmWell, Weiner isn’t a pedophile pedophile.
He just APPEARS that way.
And only Right Wingers can see that.
Just like Michael Moore being fat.
No one else but Right Wingers think he’s fat.
(can’t keep this up. hahahahahahahahahahha *breath*
hahahahahahahahahahahahah.)
New York Times; All the news that’s fit to print (about Liberals, Democrats and other victims of the patriarchy. Right wingers get rumors and BS.)
Jcw46 (0af03c) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:30 pmFor a potluck I would suggest a big pot of posole. Are you familiar with posole? It’s a pork-hominy-chile stew, real easy to make. I can get a recipe if that sounds right. …
Comment by Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:05 pm
57.Posole rocks.Comment by JD (b63a52) — 4/11/2013 @ 2:14 pm
I’m going to venture that if JD and leviticus agree on something one can’t go wrong. so let’s get a posole recipe.
We are not chili pepper experts, but nearby we do have groceries (2 different) that cater to Puerto Ricans (primarily) and Koreans (in Korean).
we also have big supermarkets and trader joe’s
Is the chicken/hedgehog prep for real??
I want to know if I have to deal with live chickens in the future after society collapses.
My wife, while thinking it’s great to get a NM recipe, thinks we all have way too much time on our hands. i told her that sometimes when the news is too depressing we have to make it light hearted.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:00 pmHatch or mirasol chile in Philly, but perhaps MD might be able to find some Anaheims
I ask for a recipe and I find out that I first need a course in pepper taxonomy… 😉
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:02 pmIn the Third Book of Moses, it was written:
That someone who goes by the handle of Leviticus would include a recipe with pork . . . .
The kosher Dana (af9ec3) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:17 pmMD, just go for a nice chicken salad recipe. It will be easier to fix and the ingredients are readily available. 🙂
One of my least favorite things is the waste of buying a special, unusual, hard to find (and usually very expensive) ingredient to use in a dish and then having the unused portion of it spoil or age out in the fridge or the pantry.
The trick for you here is to call it New Mexican Chicken Salad! Or Obama chicken salad. As we know, people are gullible.
elissa (182906) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:23 pmA good start for chili is “Carroll Shelby’s Chili Fixings”.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:28 pmUsed to come in a little brown paper bag, now it’s a box.
Real simple:
Ground chili’s, sea salt, massa, and a small qty of cayenne pepper.
You choose the meat to use (they also have a Chicken variety), and how to prepare it, add veggies as wanted, plus water and tomato sauce.
I make mine using “London Broil” cubed and untrimmed, chopped celery, chopped onion, chopped bell pepper, put it in a crock pot on low and come back in 24-hours. If it seems too thin, stir in the massa.
Weiner is a wiener. http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2013/04/all-lies-that-are-unfit-to-print-new.html He is something else too, but I will keep it family friendly.
http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2013/04/everyone-link-dan-collins-day-and.html Off topic, but it is also everyone link Dan Collins day.
EBL (d0b1d5) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:30 pm6. Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:13 am
Support for Weiner swelling again
Probably not. There’s no positive reason for anyone to vote for Weiner, and why should anyone believe him about anything? This is still really a trial balloon, as was his polling, aboyut which he had to report but refused to comment about it in any way to press..
Weiner’s old strategy probably was to get the votes on Manhattan liberals by being a national figure and get teh votes of more conservative voters from his district and surroundings.City Council speaker Christine Quinn also has a liberal/conservative strategy.
Weiner faces this situation: He can get about $1.5 million in matching funds for his old contributions – but only if he runs in this election. He has about $4 million otherwise, (which I think can only be spenty on city elections)
One theory is that Weiner would actually be quite comfortable losing and wants to run because running foir mayor will have the effect of “cleansing” him, since this will not really be brought up by his political opponents, and he would become a regular political figure.
By the way, he could help make this election a fiasco:
The New York City Board of Elections apparently has no way of counting the votes in its new system fast enough to print ballots for the runoff two weeks after the first primary – they won’t be able to certify the two top finishers. In citywide New York City primary elections, since 1973, if no one gets over 40% there is a runoff. Weiner actually just barely made the runoff in 2005, but pulled out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/nyregion/metrocampaigns/15york.html?pagewanted=all
According to unofficial results, Mr. Ferrer won 39.949 percent of the vote
This was probably on orders from somebody, maybe Bill Clinton, or a result of blackmail.
Weiner denied anbybody talked him into withdrawing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/nyregion/metrocampaigns/15decide.html
That night, with a divisive runoff a possibility, Mr. Schumer did not urge Mr. Weiner to bow out, advisers said; rather, the senator said a runoff could be bad for Mr. Weiner no matter the result.
According to this thinking, which many advisers eventually shared, a Weiner defeat might leave him damaged in the public eye and persona non grata with many Hispanic and black voters who are backing Mr. Ferrer. A Weiner victory, meanwhile, could leave him bruised and strapped for cash with only six weeks to wage an uphill battle against Mr. Bloomberg.
Legally, though, he apparently couldn’t withdraw:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/nyregion/metrocampaigns/15runoff.html?_r=0
They eventually found Fernando Ferrer got just over 40% – maybe because nobody was asking for a recount.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/nyregion/metrocampaigns/17runoff.html
And Mike Bloomberg was elected to a second term.
They were proposing printing ballots of all possible finishers. With Weiner in the race it becomes much more likely that no one will get 40%, assuming he gets a more than nominal percentage of the vote.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:32 pmWeiner is Political AIDS: The gift that keeps on giving!
askeptic (b8ab92) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:32 pmThey were proposing THIS YEAR to print multiple ballots. We are now using paper ballots.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:33 pmWhat’s with all this Rachel Ray spicy stuff. Somebody pony up with an armadillo bread pudding or something.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:33 pm2 – 3 tablespoons minced garlic
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
4 or 5 cans of chopped/roasted green chile
2 tablespoons salt (or to taste)
5 -6 lbs pork shoulder (cut in 1 inch pieces)
1 tablespoon black pepper
4 quarts canned white hominy (drained)
1 tablespoon dried Mexican oregano
INSTRUCTIONS:.
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Add pork to a high-heat pan one at a time, don’t crowd the pan. Sear meat on all sides, remove to drain and work in batches.
In a heavy pot over med. high heat, add pork and chilies.
Add 1/2 Cup water to pan.
Add minced garlic
Add posole, salt and pepper. Stir.
Add 4 qrts of water to pan, cover and bring to a boil.
As soon as everything comes to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, uncover and simmer for 3 hours. Pork should be very tender.
(That’s a slightly modified recipe, so play it by ear. Also, in my experience, you can’t go wrong with more garlic and a dash of cumin).
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:34 pmIf there a runoff between Anthony Weiner and John Liu…maybe there’s hope?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:35 pmDemocrat voters will reliably vote for the Democrat nominee
A registered Democrat has not been elected Mayor of New York City for 20 years. Last time was 1989.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:36 pmEBL I had not wanted to see those pants again.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:36 pmMexican oregano is key. And cumin.
JD (f5b0a4) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:41 pmIf you can’t get green chile, that Puerto Rican grocery store will have a spice-mixture called “adobo” that you can use to make carne adobada (called adovada in NM, but it’s the same basic idea). Then take elissa’s advice and call it NM carne adovada.
I can’t vouch for the Puerto Rican variation, but the NM stuff is oh-so-good.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 3:44 pmif you is making new mexico foozles you have to put a fried egg on top
it’s a thing
happyfeet (4bf7c2) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:08 pmYou do that with grits, at least in the pre cholesterol obsessed days, pikachu.
narciso (3fec35) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:11 pm“if you is making new mexico foozles you have to put a fried egg on top.”
– happyfeet
That’s mostly for the enchiladas, feets – and of course the huevos rancheros, most obviously.
But it’s tasty with just about everything, and should be encouraged.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:16 pmFried egg on rare bison burger with pancetta.
JD (f5b0a4) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:25 pmYou put a fried egg on top of huevos rancheros?! Isn’t that just a tiny bit redundant?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:27 pmI’ve never seen Mexican food with eggs on top, but it’s never very authentic in Richmond.
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:31 pmNew Mexican.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:32 pmJD, is that a different plant, or just stuff grown in Mexico? (oregano)
SarahW (b0e533) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:33 pmSarah – it is distinctively different than Italian.
JD (f5b0a4) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:34 pmNew Mexico grows the tastiest and hottest peppers.
mg (31009b) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:40 pmMust be in the soil.
“Is the chicken/hedgehog prep for real??”
MD in Philly – Mr. MD, I can honestly say I have never cooked a hedgehog but see no reason why the method nk described would not work. I have done the chickens. I’ve also mounded salt all around blue fish, but it didn’t help. I’m done with those suckers.
The national brown-shirted homophobic ute organization I spend time working with tries to teach the lads interesting and varied cooking techniques. Mud coated food makes them laugh. We don’t do that when moms are around.
Unfortunately one of the more recent foil ovens we made turned into a towering inferno because the lads added too many coals and didn’t mind the temp.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:41 pmGetting back to the point of the thread, the Times is quite willing to ‘memoryhole’ certain inconvenient facts, like in the review of ‘Julianne’s Bender, they ignored referred reporting from their own interviews, that contradicted ‘the narrative’
narciso (3fec35) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:52 pmThanks, all
-SarahW asked my question. How can you tell if it’s Mexican oregano? Is that just another name for something illegal, like Mexican portabella mushrooms or something?
– we know all about adobo and sazon
– i think we can find canned green chiles somewhere, as long as I don’t need to get more specialized than that (I am sure JVW was trying to be helpful, but he reminds me of a cardiology prof I has in med school- he could hear things from the door that none of the rest of us could up close, so it wasn’t really helpful)
-Eggs on top- put them on top of black beans/rice/chopped peppers (sweet) and you have what Ticos and Colombians (and who else??) call Gallo Pinto
I think I’ll scale the recipe down a little bit
Thanks all, and don’t forget to clarify about the Mexican Oregano
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:52 pmAndrea Peyser thinks this return to politics is a terrible idea and may be mostly about him being bored with changing his kid’s poopy diapers and Huma wanting him out of the house.
And, Huma, the wife who stayed, is — there’s no nice way to put this — a nag.
“It’s not behind us,’’ said Weiner. “It kind of bubbles around and comes up in different ways. But she’s, um . . .” He cried. “She’s given me another chance. And I am very grateful for that. And I’m trying to make sure I get it right.”
Weiner has had too much therapy. Yet he can’t explain what he did. The closest he came to an epiphany was to say, Willy Loman-style, that he sexted because he “wanted to be liked and admired.’’
Huma is now starting to think Weiner should run.
Getting a bad husband out of the house is no reason to elect a man to office.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/end_this_bizarre_fantasy_v5tqZKLlaVTm0RDj8XuqvM
elissa (182906) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:59 pmYes, MD, it is for real but I forgot the garlic.
There is a variant for goat. The goat is skinned, seasoned, and wrapped entire in olive oil soaked paper (the Greeks call it “oilpaper”, it’s like parchment). Then it is buried in coals and slowcooked overnight or longer.
There are places on the Greek islands, Crete for one, that people can get to only by boat but that have feral goats. People sail there and shoot one and then make a party of it.
nk (d4662f) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:04 pmnarciso,
as you know, i greatly respect your input
usually
but the point of this thread is a topic worthy of the “Twilight Zone”, which is why we have hijacked it (though I didn’t really mean to hijack it, i just had one question for leviticus then daley got us all distractabiggled)
I’ll remember the hint about doing chickens in mud. Sounds like much better than plucking.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:04 pmBlue fish. Caught a bunch of them once, 15-20 lbs. A lot of fun. Little did we know what they were like to eat. Had a recipe that said cut out the dark band, put onion, bacon, and sour cream on them, wrap them up in foil, stick them in the oven.
The first time was not bad. At about the end of the supply in the freezer we were ready to throw out the fish and eat the foil (but we just threw out the fish without bothering to cook them instead).
New Mexico grows the tastiest and hottest peppers.
Must be in the soil.
Comment by mg (31009b) — 4/11/2013 @ 5:40 pm
Los Alamos???
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:13 pmYou are exceedingly predictable, Mark – but I respect your observation that they’d make a cute couple.
Hell, yea!
BTW, Leviticus, do you feel somewhat indignant about anyone noting the GLBT characteristics of politicians like those two? If so, why? Isn’t gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgendered a good thing in today’s era? Isn’t GLBT a wonderful thing, certainly to the left?!
If I had instead said that Obama and Weiner in private were known to be poster boys for, say, betting on horses at the race track, or for scuba diving in Hawaii, or sponsoring Formula One cars, how would that have made you feel?
Be honest. You’d probably have been a bit less resentful. How come? Uh, hmm. So GLBT may not be so great after all. Or if it is, then that makes you racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, xenophobic!
Mark (03ca77) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:23 pmI don’t have much in the way of experience with exotic Mexican cuisine, New or otherwise, I had gator, which was like meat gum, with the worst aspects of each.
narciso (3fec35) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:32 pmSounds like you have a handle on it, MD. Canned chiles are OK — I admit to using them myself from time to time — but there is nothing quite like the taste of chile meat from a freshly roasted pepper. If you are ever in New Mexico or Southern Colorado in the fall, you have to give it a try.
JVW (4826a9) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:33 pmMD – any spice store, Penzey’s, should carry both. Or Trader Joes. Or Whole Foods. It is similar, but different. Stronger flavor. If you can get the fresh leaves, use sparingly, as the fresh can be overwhelming. Dried is fine.
JD (b63a52) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:34 pmThe smell of roasting peppers is a nose orgasm.
mg (31009b) — 4/11/2013 @ 6:39 pmAhhh, Mark, sometimes I feel that you are just sitting around watching the world go bi.
nk (d4662f) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:00 pmOff to Trader Joe’s,
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/11/2013 @ 7:25 pmThanks all
“i just had one question for leviticus then daley got us all distractabiggled”
Be that way.
BTW, don’t leave the feathers on the chicken.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 8:08 pm“You put a fried egg on top of huevos rancheros?! Isn’t that just a tiny bit redundant?”
– Milhouse
Nah, just use fried eggs instead of scrambled is what I meant.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 8:15 pm“Ahhh, Mark, sometimes I feel that you are just sitting around watching the world go bi.”
– nk
Zing.
Leviticus (17b7a5) — 4/11/2013 @ 8:18 pm“There is a variant for goat.”
nk – I’ve seen it done around here with lamb. Greek parents of the patient of brain surgeon friend thanked him for a successful surgery on their son by underground roasting a whole lamb several years back.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:04 pmwatching the world go bi.”
You can say that again.
Mark (03ca77) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:09 pmyup there is a phrase out there about the road to hell being paved with good intentions
but it’s just a figure of speech there’s no actual road where you can upgrade it to a highway
and for sure it ends in hell cause of if it ended in the Land of Sharia Law it would be called the Road to the Land of Sharia Law I think
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:18 pmhappyfeet, I admit that you sometimes have a knack for causing LOL. Even more so when I envision you in real life talking and writing like a George F. Will or (to depoliticize my point) Norman Mailer, or, more hilariously, the late Bill Buckley.
BTW — and when it comes to the left often bleating about sexuality being analogous to race, ethnicity or gender — I should give equal time to the female side of the equation.
Mark (03ca77) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:43 pmThe singer told Glamour
man I wish I coulda been a fly on the wall for that conversation
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/11/2013 @ 9:48 pmThere is no limit
Colonel Haiku (d9cfc4) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:11 pmto the Dem depravity
No low is TOO low
The New York Times really blew this story !
Elephant Stone (8a7f08) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:16 pmThe Times no longer does hard news !
Elephant Stone (8a7f08) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:17 pmAnd If I was an OSCAR MEYER WEINER. Every lib would be in love with me!!!
Gus (694db4) — 4/11/2013 @ 10:41 pm“Puff piece on Wiener”
You just loved writing that headline, didn’t you.
Jcw46 (0af03c) — 4/11/2013 @ 11:12 pmThe night that Mike Stack was SWATted, June 23, 2011, Ace of Spades and I received email threats telling us to stop talking about Anthony Weiner and Gennette Cordova, or our safety could not be assured.
What they didn’t want you doing was investigatinbg the question of how that tweet got sent and/or who was behind the sockpuppets.
Talking more to GC (and not distrusting what she said so much) might have led you to the sockpuppets,(who had other work and other things to hide) as well established that the way it got posted and everything was not correct.
The thing is like this: Weiner probably had no idea how that link to the picture got tweeted. He was NOT communicating with GC at the time. What Weiner did know was the picture was his and he had taken it. But he had no idea how it became poublic and it wasn’t a slip of the finger.
It is possible that all he wanted to do was upload it to yfrog, for use later, but thed way yfrog woirked if he was not logged in, was that yfrog emitted a tweet.
There’s anothere question: how did patriotusa76 Dan Wolfe get the pictures he forwarded? If it was because of the tweet, a different yfrog picture had been tweeted at the beginning of May I believe. There is independent evidence he knew about the pictures for some time.
Maybe what the sockpuppets wanted to hide here wass that there was way to see people’s private caches.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/12/2013 @ 9:05 amThere are all kinds of things wrong with the story as told, that, if checked into far enough, could lead to whoever was trying to politically destroy Anthony Weiner. (and that person or persons was not a Republican, because they wanted to deflect blame onto Breitbart)
Who was it? My guess would be backers of John Liu for Mayor of New York City who maybe hired people. (not maybe so much John Liu himself. Why involve him?)
Probably on Mainland China.
It is interesting that Malcolm Smith took a campaign trip (!) to Mainland China in November 2011.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/smith_blew_in_elex_cash_oAIG5SDisVknZU53xpM9sJ
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/state-senator-malcolm-smith-spent-41-000-campaign-donations-travel-china-palm-beach-article-1.1117354
Everybody seems to think that was just an excuse to live it up using campaign money. But really, is Beijing the first place you think of when you want to take a vacation??
A further bit of support for the idea that the people behind the people behind the sockpuppets – I mean that – the people behind the people – are from China is that it seems like someone was not too familiar with social media in the United States.
They knew about Twitter but not Facebook. Or they didn’t realize that Anthony Weiner was using Facebook. “Nikki Reed” never had a Facebook account, as GC pointed out.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/12/2013 @ 9:08 amNow China is known toi have done a lot of hacking.
So maybe he was hacked, although there are otgehr explanations for how they came to know of his propensities (some people in New York City did and he may have been blackmailed into not running for Mayor in 2009 and even blackmailed into quitting in 2005, althouygh that may be more political calculations by Schumer and others)
And maybe there is a non-hacking way Dan Wolfe could have found the yfrog cache, but he definitely did NOT find it BECAUSE of the tweet. Either a previous tweet led him to it, or hacking did.
But you see, knowing was not enough – his task was to get Weiner in trouble without calling attention to himself or the rest of the team he was on.
Dan Wolfe was trying to break up any romamnces Anythomny Weiner had (they probably thought these were real and not virtual mistresses) while Nikki Reed was trying to befriend his mistresses, and later get them angry at Weiner when he broke up with thenm and get them to go public.
Dan Wolfe did not expect his retweet to be the end of the story and he got himself much more connected toi the stiory than he wanted to be.
Behind Dan Wolfe and Nikki Reed was probably somebody else hired by people in Mainland China who wanted John Liu to be mayor, although saying that is taking a couple of leaps into the unknown, but at least that theory makes the most sense.
Your harassment has not been coming from China, I think, but from these operatives, who seem to be connected to Neal R and Brett K. As “Alicia Payne” said, they may have been called in to get somebody else out of a mess (the mess being their identity could be exposed, which would ruin their whole business for one thing. They could be alumni of the Anthonmy Pellicano detective agency.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/12/2013 @ 9:19 amOr somebody got the address of the cache or the oictures from Meagan Broussard.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/12/2013 @ 9:20 am==could lead to whoever was trying to politically destroy Anthony Weiner==
Sammy- Anthony Weiner did a pretty damn good job of politically destroying himself.
Lots of comments in this place are teh crazy today.
elissa (5dbb7a) — 4/12/2013 @ 9:20 amHey, Whoopi Goldberg will be along to tell you if the Roman Polanski thingy wasn’t “rape rape” then this is nonsense.
Move along people. Nothing to see here.
Steve57 (b238b6) — 4/14/2013 @ 12:03 amI can only imagine if Watergate had happened in the new era of blogging…
E.PWJ (bdd0a6) — 4/14/2013 @ 1:09 am117.SF: ==could lead to whoever was trying to politically destroy Anthony Weiner==
Comment by elissa (5dbb7a) — 4/12/2013 @ 9:20 am
Sammy- Anthony Weiner did a pretty damn good job of politically destroying himself.
—
That was later!
They didn’t know that would happen.
“Dan Wolfe” almost certainly didn’t think that would be it when he publicized the tweet and the cache of pictures.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/14/2013 @ 1:42 pmSammy Finkelman
Weinergate timeline;
There are many mysteries here.
Here is a proposed timeline of the central events:
-4. Weiner announces on Twitter he is leaving for 30 Rockefeller Plaza
to be on the Rachel Maddow show, where he is a frequent guest. The
show starts at 9 PM. Which isn’t exactly 5:45 in Seattle, as he states
in the tweet, but that’s his idea of a joke. His hashtags
frequently are supposed-to-be-one-step-or-two-away-from-the-truth jokes.
-3. Weiner doesn’t actually leave right away, but sticks around to see
the beginning of Game 7 of the semi-final to the Stanley Cup playoffs
between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins, and start his
Tivo recording the game. The game (or rather the show) starts at 8 PM.
He won’t be able to watch it live if he wants to be on the Rachel
Maddow show, and he doesn’t want to miss an opportunity to go on the
show. He plans to see it all upon his return home, so he probably
doesn’t even try to sneak a few minutes while he’s waiting, and
besides that didn’t work too well on April 13 when he was on The Last
Word. Tivoing the whole game is a better idea.
Before he goes, he sees something on his computer from Twitter and
replies with exaggerated thanks and then he leaves after 8:07 PM.
-2. Weiner goes to NBC, is on the air, leaves, and goes home. Although
Versus is also owned by NBC, and is a sister channel of MSNBC, that is
not much help to him. He can’t really see anything while he’s there.
-1. Weiner arrives back home, just about as the game is ending but
the cablecast is still going on, and it looks like the game was very
interesting and exciting. Tivo is still recording and it looks like
this will go on for another 15 minutes. Tivo has a feature called
“trick play” which allows the viewer to pause live television, and go
back – but you can only go back half an hour and AW wants to go back
to the beginning of the game. He can’t, and then maybe he tries to
stop the recording, but he botches things up in such a way so that he
loses the entire show. Now the hockey game he recorded is not there
anymore.
Frustrated by not being able to see the hockey game, he turns his
attention away to other things, and…. [We need some special
melodramatic music here.]
0. Weiner now gets the idea for another Twitter joke. He’ll take one
of the pictures he made for Meagan Broussard, crop it a bit, and
upload it to Yfrog, where it will sit, ready for an instant reply, in
case Genette Nicole Cordova mentions (again?) that he needs a better
avatar – i.e. it shouldn’t be his picture when he was 13 years old. He
will then quickly shoot that picture over to her as an alternative
avatar. The tweet will be somewhat like tweet number 310 on the list
of AW’s tweets counting backwards from June 2, only it will be sent as
a DM. The idea is a sort of a play on words on the meaning of the word
“weiner”
1. Weiner uploads the picture to Yfrog from his desktop, where he is
not logged in to Yfrog because *that* computer doesn’t remember his
password and neither is it in his head, or perhaps the log-in is
automatic when it is done from his blackberry. Yfrog creates an URL
for the picture, but does not store the URL on its site, but instead
emits it as a tweet that mentions Gennette, because he put @GenetteNicole
on the subject line of the e-mail he sent to Yfrog. (Or perhaps it is
actually Tweetdeck that issues the tweet which is also copied to Yfrog.
This needs further investigation.)
According to what looks like a screen capture done after the tweeted
picture and some other Weiner Yfrog pictures were deleted, which is
online at http://twicsy.com/i/3uChF, the Yfrog picture was tweeted
at 11:31:50 PM Eastern daylight time, or 2011-05-28 03:31:50 GMT.
This is also approximately the time deducued from Tweet Congress, which
places it 4 minutes earlier than Weiner’s next tweet, which happened
at 11:35:07 PM on Friday, May 27, 2011. (a difference of 3 minutes
and 17 seconds.)
2. Weiner goes onto Twitter and tweets about his missing hockey game.
(This means he can’t comment about the play of the game like he wanted
to.)
“just kill me now” tweets Weiner. [Ominous music needed here]
3. “Dan Wolfe” notices the tweet, and checks to see what it is. At
least ten minutes have gone by since the tweet. Dan Wolfe does not
want to alert AW to the tweet – and/or to the fact that it is a
problem. “Dan Wolfe” reasons that Weiner clearly hasn’t noticed
anything wrong yet, or else he’d have aleady deleted the tweet, so the
chances that he would realize it within the next few minutes are
small, so there probably is some time to do other things first, and he
screencaps everything related to the tweet that he can find.
When he is finished…
He does not make an official retweet because he knows that doing so
would mean that his retweet would disappear whenever Weiner deletes
his original tweet. Dan Wolfe knows much more about how twitter works
than the average person. More even than the average geek. If he didn’t,
he never would have even seen the tweet in the first place! Tweets that
start with @mention were never ordinarily shown to anybody who doesn’t
follow both the sender and the addressee.
See http://tinyurl.com/2e8jhz7.
Dan Wolfe said he didn’t follow Repweiner, and probably in fact didn’t,
because he doesn’t want Weiner to know. But he is in fact following
him in a way. He has a window on AW’s twitter page, which is one way
of seeing such tweets (searching is another)
4. Dan Wolfe makes a manual retweet and includes @weiner in it. It is
now safe to alert AW. (The @weiner is there to alert other people
*about* Weiner, not to alert Anthony Weiner himself.)
5. Weiner’s Tweetdeck program shows him the tweet and he clicks on it,
sees the picture and is shocked to see it there.
6. Weiner drops what he is doing, and deletes the tweet, thinking that
that deletes the picture too, and then tries to log into Yfrog because
he realizes all hosted pictures are public – all you need is the URL,
of course. It’s meant to be shared. He doesn’t remember, or never even
really knew, the name Yfrog, and he doesn’t remember the password, but
he knows the type of thing it is and sort of how to get there.
He hardly knows what he is doing. He has trouble getting in, or even
finding the place really. But he manages to get in anyway after a while.
(There’s a way to do it. If he’s logged into Facebook or Twitter or
something he can transit over to Yfrog. It could be he went through
Facebook. Before, when he uploaded the picture, he hadn’t been logged
into anything but probably had some sort of a macro to do it.)
AW deletes the tweeted picture, kind of surprised he has to do it all
over again, then looks for other bad pictures on Yfrog and deletes
them too.
(Dan Wolfe and company, of course, had had all these pictures back on
May 5, but he didn’t know who they were for, and wanted to find the
identity of the mistress he presumes AW has and get more evidence.
Keeping the fact that they had had a lot of pictures all along a
secret later becomes a big priority to him. He mostly succeeds.)
7. Finished, Weiner attempts to find out about what happened in the
hockey game by watching the post game show. He doesn’t get much
information. It tantalizes him more than it informs him.
There’s not much he can get a full sense of, beyond the fact, of
course, that the Bolts lost the game by one goal scored verey late in
the game.
8. At 12:30 am AW begins tweeting what he can about hockey, which
isn’t much. This is merely an occasional tweet in between doing other
things, as are, really, most of his tweets. It’s mostly complaining
about the fact he didn’t get to see the game. In the second of these
very late night tweets he alludes to previous hockey tweets.
In particular he thinks of the predictions he made, like in Weiner
tweet number 129, way back on April 19 before the Stanley cup playoffs
started. (Hockey, like basketball, has fewer games in the regular
season than baseball, and a very extended playoff schedule. The
playoffs last about one third of the length of time of the regular
season and include more than half of all the teams – 16 out of 30.)
At 12:54 AM, in his third post-midnight tweet, he tweets again about
his Tivo not working (although it’s more likely he just botched it up,
not that it’s entirely his fault, because systems should be made
idiot-proof, and he wasn’t even that much of an idiot.)
This time he also includes in the tweet a mention about his Facebook
being hacked, which is probably the best idea he has for what
happened.
That is his last tweet of the evening.
9. Dan is tweeting online to everyone he can think of, and calling
the image X-rated, which it isn’t exactly, and includes in his tweets
and retweets some online journalists. He sends Dana Loesch,
Breitbart’s editor, several pictures including some that really are
X-rated. Dana Loesch says these are the same pictures she has and
that’s very weird. (because she has them from a totally different
source, not screencaps)
10. First BigJournalism story goes up at 12:21 and 12:24 (Pacific
time, which is 3:21 and 3:24 Eastern time) The time can apparently
be confirmed by Facebook. It mentions the Yfrog picture is gone –
and claims the whole account was closed, which it wasn’t even
later, and claims all the photos were gone by 11 PM Eastern, which is
actually before the time of the original tweet! It does not mention
any claim by Weiner to having been hacked – he didn’t mak that until
12:54 am (Eastern)
Dan decides he had better start covering things up. AW is not aware
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/14/2013 @ 1:44 pmthat there is a problem. And, in fact, it isn’t a problem until late
the next afternoon. AW finally mentions it again at 5:08 PM.
I now have in my possession 4 cans of authentic New Mexico Hatch Valley Fire Roasted Diced Green Chiles.
The little pepper insignia on the side say they are “mild”…I wonder if that is “mild” mild or “New Mexico” mild.
It does say: “Combustible, store unused portion out of contact with oxygen”
Haven’t found Mexican oregano yet. The cat wants me to use Petmeds Cat Nip instead.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/16/2013 @ 6:56 pmMD –you may want to go reread the recent post by JD about the Yankee at the great Texas Chili cook-off before you go much further down this road. Just sayin’.
elissa (31efb3) — 4/16/2013 @ 7:01 pmoh, elissa, thank you for the kind concern,
but I’m not going to actually eat this myself.
For some reason the people where my wife works want to do a New Mexico food potluck, so I’m sending it in, if I can find a pot that won’t melt.
Rumor has it that Wyoming is next. Not sure where I’m going to find the jack-a-lope meat, fresh or frozen, for the stew.
Painted Jaguar: No, don’t tell him to substitute armadillo.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 4/16/2013 @ 7:19 pm