Weenie in a Pickle ?

[QueEx]

I watched this interview Congressman Wiener gave this afternoon with Dana Bash of CNN and others and, his evasiveness tells me he may have a problem.

The Congressman indicated over and over that he wants to move on and not continue discussing what he says was a Prank (when what is described as a "lewd photo" was sent from his email account to a female college student in Seattle).

Weiner would not answer 2 questions:

• Whether "he sent" the pic; and

• Why he will not turn the matter over to the authorities for investigation (since, because he is a Congressman, for someone to hack his congressional account could be criminal).

Great. Nothing compels him to answer.

But, his strange evasiveness on those 2 questions -- seems to me at least, problematic.

Typically, you just don't not deny that which you didn't do. By refusing to say he didn't send it, is . . . well . . .

QueEx

 

[thoughtone]

Non story. Has CNN pursued how the GOP refuses to cut corporate welfare from the oil leeches when they claim they need to cut the budget? This is from your trusted, down-the-middle CNN news source. How many commercials from Lockeed or Boeing was shill Dana Bash's so called news story in between?

 

[QueEx]

TO.,

All that you said notwithstanding, unless Weenie has a real good explanation for the way he handled those questions, i.e., he knows the republican, etc., that hacked his account and he is just waiting for Brietbart to bite hard -- before releasing the information and exposing the egg all over Brietbart's, et al., faces -- Weenie looked roasted.

Have it your way, but professionally speaking, I would never, ever advise one of my clients to look/act as weak as Wennie appeared unless he was definitely holding an <s>ace</s> <u>The Big Joker</u> up his sleeves.

There is a thing called the "Tacit Admission" that says one's silence in the face of an accusation that a reasonable person would quickly deny is an admission that you did what ever. Ex: "You killed him." Your silence instead of saying "No fuck I didn't" -- is to some an admission that you did.

.

 

[thoughtone]

Winer is next on the right wing hit list. He has emerged since the defended of Florida congressman Alan Grayson as one of the most anti corporate liberal voices in congress. As I have said, a non story. Now back to what the current congress campaigned on to get elected: where are the jobs!

 

[QueEx]

Winer is next on the right wing hit list. He has emerged since the defended of Florida congressman Alan Grayson as one of the most anti corporate liberal voices in congress. As I have said, a non story. Now back to what the current congress campaigned on to get elected: where are the jobs!

I don't care what the present Congress has or hasn't done. NONE of that is relevant to Wiener's conduct. If Weiner is the new Mr. It on the Republican's hit list, then he should conduct himself accordingly.

Does he know that the boys in this league are playing hard ball, for keeps ???


QueEx

 

[QueEx]

The CNN - Dana Bash, et al., interview:


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Weiner's tweet-hearts
Babes revealed amid his cranky non-denial on pic


It takes a certain type of woman to set his heart a-Twitter.

Rep. Anthony Weiner follows only a select 198 of his nearly 49,000 Twitter fans -- and a surprising number of them are total babes.

Yesterday, outside his DC office, the model-loving, married congressman testily refused to talk about the pretty women he's following.

"Was it from you or not," demanded CNN's Capitol Hill producer Ted Barrett.

To which the squirming Weiner replied:

"If I were giving a speech to 45,000 people and someone in the back threw a pie or yelled out an insult, I would not spend the next two hours of my speech responding to that pie or that insult.

"I would return to the things that I want to talk about to the audience that I want to talk to. That is what I intend to do this week."

Then in another cringeworthy exchange, the Brooklyn-Queens Democrat unloaded a snarky insult instead of saying why he didn't pass on to Capitol Police his claim that his Twitter account had been hacked -- which would be a federal crime.

"I'm going to have to ask that we follow some rules here. One of them is going to be you ask questions and I'll do the answers. That seem reasonable? . . . You do the questions, I do the answers, and this jackass interrupts me?" a fuming Weiner said of Barrett.

But reporters persisted, asking Weiner if he followed the co-ed on Twitter and whether he had other "young women followers" -- with one barking: "Answer the question!"

Instead, the famously temperamental Weiner looked annoyed, rolled his shoulders and argued -- but never said whether or not he sent the picture.

"This is now Day Three," he intoned. "You have statements that my office has put out. And there are going to be people . . . this is the tactic. The guy in the back of the room who's throwing the pie or yelling out the insult wants that to be the conversation."

He took more tacks than a sailboat as he tried to not explain the Twitter tempest.

"Look, this was a prank that I've now been talking about for a couple of days," he said. "I'm not going to allow it to decide what I talk about for the next week or the next two weeks.

"And so, I'm not going to be giving anything more about that today. I think I've been pretty responsive."
Though visibly angry -- and often combative -- the congressman tried to squeeze in one lame joke, bragging that he "passed [Tea Party favorite Rep.] Michele Bachmann today in the number of Twitter followers. I will give you that fact."

Weiner's sultry stable of fans should come as no surprise. Every year, he begs the State Department to give red-hot international runway models more travel visas.

Weiner generally follows women who send him Twitter messages to cheer him on -- usually over one of his many appearances on TV to champion the left -- and he then replies with an offer:
Megan Peters @ ladyfoxfyre
Megan Peters @ ladyfoxfyre
Traci @ fermdennytraci, Kim Pham @ kimpham, and Aria Finger @ Arialrene
Traci @ fermdennytraci, Kim Pham @ kimpham, and Aria Finger @ Arialrene
'I'VE BEEN PRETTY RESPONSIVE': A touchy Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday refuses to answer questions about his penchant for linking to sexy online admirers like the one above.
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'I'VE BEEN PRETTY RESPONSIVE': A touchy Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday refuses to answer questions about his penchant for linking to sexy online admirers like the one above.

"Thanks so much for following me. Would you like me to follow you? Use #WeinerYes," he writes.

He has even sent private Twitter messages to porn star Ginger Lee, who once tweeted, "You know it's a good day when you wake up to a [direct message] from @RepWeiner."

It appears that Weiner no longer follows her account. She declined comment.

Most people Weiner follows are connected to politics, the media or professional sports.

And some of the sweet young things he follows say they're surprised.

"He tweeted me back asking if I thought it was all right if he could follow me. I was flattered he wanted to follow me back. I'm not in politics," New Jersey nurse Nicole Aquino told The Post. "I followed him originally."

Yesterday, pretty Gennette Nicole Cordova, the Seattle co-ed, tried to explain why she got the racy underwear crotch snapshot, which, Weiner had insisted when the story first broke, was sent by someone who had hacked his account.

"Actually, I became a fan after I saw him demolish Bachmann on Hannity about 2 months ago. It was great," Cordova posted on her Twitter page.

At first bewildered by all the attention, Cordova, a journalism student at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Wash., pulled down her Twitter and Facebook pages and said she had never met Weiner in person.

She then resumed her online presence and appeared bemused by the attention.

"This is teaching me an invaluable lesson about the importance of journalistic ethics and standards," she tweeted.

But she later told The Post the spotlight has been taking a toll on her.

"I am pretty sick right now and it's only getting worse with the stress," she wrote in an e-mail.

She even dropped her journalism class, according to Toby Sonnenman, faculty adviser to her school paper, Horizon.

"I was stunned at just how fast the story spread -- how fast it became from a person I knew on my staff to a national story," Sonnenman said.

Weiner follows other young female fans from across the country, including lovely ladies in Florida, California and Texas.

With additional reporting by Jeane MacIntosh, Daniel Berman and Jennifer Karchmer in Bellingham, Wash.

smiller@nypost.com

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[deputy dawg]

All this tweeting is such a waste! If anyone in congress is actually doing this (more than likely their staff does it for them) it's a monumental waste of time.

You can make laws and legislate without participating in this new media.

His penchant for following pretty young things that follow him is what he's embarrassed by most likely.

I refuse to be part of something that I'm officially called a "follower" to participate in.

 

[DragonXJC]

Re: Weiner's tweet-hearts Babes revealed amid his cranky non-denial on pic Read more

Reading the title.........I said to myself, "It sounds like crap the NY Post would write."



I am correct.


This is the only thing NY Post is good for,

 

[thoughtone]

I don't care what the present Congress has or hasn't done. NONE of that is relevant to Wiener's conduct. If Weiner is the new Mr. It on the Republican's hit list, then he should conduct himself accordingly.

Does he know that the boys in this league are playing hard ball, for keeps ???


QueEx

then he should conduct himself accordingly

Who says he hasn't? O ye of short memory!

 

[Sango]

He seems guilty as all hell. His denial to answer the questions implies an admission of guilt and he might be doing far more damage to his political career by not being direct about what may be true down the line (that he send his "weiner" on twitter).

 

[thoughtone]

OK QueEx, I'll play along. Just for shits and giggles.

source: Huffington Post


Anthony Weiner Twitter Photo Scandal: Congressman Breaks His Silence

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A day after telling reporters that he's "not going to talk about this anymore," Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) broke his silence Wednesday about the controversy surrounding a lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.

"This was a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet," he told MSNBC's Luke Russert. "I didn't send [that] picture out" the congressman said, though he does not know who did. Is the photo of him? "I can't say with certitude" he told Russert.

"It was a prank," Weiner reiterated. "This is not a national security matter. We're not making a federal cases out of this."

"I'm not sure it rises -- no pun intended -- to that level," he continued.

Weiener said he has hired a private security company to investigate how his account has been hacked.

Last weekend, a lewd photo of a man's bulging underpants was sent to a 21-year-old female college student in Seattle from Weiner's Twitter account. It was quickly deleted, but a frenzy of coverage and comment ensued on blogs, cable news outlets and other media. Weiner's spokesman said that the congressman's Twitter account had been hacked and dismissed the episode as a prank, but this week the congressman hired a lawyer, prompting additional rumors to swirl.

Earlier this week, the colorful and sometimes combative congressman who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens was characteristically sharp tongued, refusing to answer reporters' questions about it, and even calling one a "jackass" for interrupting him. He insisted that he wanted to move on from the incident, which was distracting from his work on Capitol Hill. But there was no sign the story, or the speculation about who may have been responsible for tweeting the photo, was fading.

Weiner failed in a 2005 bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City, but he is still is widely considered a future contender for the office.

"I'm not going to talk about this anymore," Weiner told reporters on Capitol Hill. "I think that if I was giving a speech to 45,000 people and someone stood up and heckled in the back, I wouldn't spend three days talking to him. I'm going to get back to the conversation I care about."

Weiner declined to answer reporters' questions about the photo or why he was hiring a lawyer for the case instead of having law enforcement officials pursue the matter. Weiner was a Twitter follower of the female college student who received the photo.

The tweet of the lewd photo first was reported Saturday by BigGovernment.com, a website run by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart.

The site said the photo was tweeted to a female college student in Seattle. The woman told the New York Daily News that she had never met Weiner, and that there had "never been any inappropriate exchanges" between her and the congressman.

Weiner, 46, is married to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The congressman over the weekend joked about the incident on Twitter, asking whether his kitchen blender would be next to "attack" him.

On Tuesday as the House was preparing to vote on the nation's debt limit, Weiner was back tweeting about the vote with his usual partisan edge.

 

[QueEx]

OK QueEx, I'll play along. Just for shits and giggles.

There's nothing to play along with T.O. We disagree on Weenies approach. I think he's looking the part and you're blaming the media (CNN, Brietfart, etc.,) for beating up on on or attacking the wiener. LOL. There may very well be an ideological angle to this story (if Brietfart has a role, thats almost assured), but in my opinion, acting evasive is simply not the way to deal with it -- I think it only feeds into the story.

Now if you feel that appearing evasive or appearing to dodge questions that a reasonable person would simply deny or blaming the media instead of issuing an unequivocal denial is the way to go -- hey, I can accept thats your opinion.

Who says he hasn't? O ye of short memory!

T.O., there are a lot of ways that the two cases are dissimilar. Dissimilar cases make poor analogies and poor analogies usually result in failing arguments.


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Now, whats the real problem/issue

Because we ought to be able to disagree without being, disagreeable

 

[QueEx]

Finally, the dog begins to wag the tail:

Mr. Weiner, who on Tuesday had presided over two testy news briefings
at which he had dodged a variety of questions, <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">on Wednesday adopted
a strikingly different approach</span>, <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">sitting patiently for a series of interviews
at which he simultaneously insisted that he had done nothing wrong</span> and
marveled at what he said on MSNBC was the “Alice in Wonderland world”
in which a wayward Twitter message had become the talk of the town.​

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New York Times, Wednesday, June 1, 2011

 

[QueEx]

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[QueEx]

There are two camps of crisis management — and thus far, Anthony Weiner seems to be keeping his feet firmly planted outside both of them:

• College public relations textbooks urge full transparency, getting everything out immediately and fully;

• Another school — embodied by a host of scandal-scarred pols over the years — urges secrecy, limited communications and never, ever voluntarily giving up information to the authorities.

Weiner has spent the past five days ricocheting between those two poles and wound up where pretty much no one would advise: a media blitz that raised more questions than it answered and failed to establish with “certitude” whether a photograph that appeared on Weiner’s Twitter feed was of his own crotch.

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Part of Weiner’s mystifying performance</span>, allies say, comes from the fact that <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">he seems to be his own closest adviser</span>. And, <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">“It’s never a good idea to be your own lawyer,”</span> said a pained Weiner friend.





VIDEO: Weiner's media tour

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56160.html

 

[Sango]

Could be the end of this dude's political career.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/abc-news-likely-to-name-woman-who-got-shirtless-weiner-pic-source-says/2011/03/03/AGpL1NKH_blog.html

 

[QueEx]

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[QueEx]

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[RunawaySlave]

This dude has always struck me as being fake and this just proves it.


When he was on the City Council, and campaigning for mayor , he was always talking tough when going the brothas (and others with little political clout). But when Giuliani ran not a peep was uttered by him. Then when Bloomberg showed up with his money, that's when Mr. Murder Mouth took his act to Washington. All that talk about saving the city and he tucked and ran when the going got tough... fuck Weiner

 

[QueEx]

I think his troubles are far from over. In fact, my money is on him stepping down.

 

[QueEx]

I think his troubles are far from over. In fact, my money is on him stepping down.

Far, Far from over . . .



Weiner Told Porn Star to Lie, Offered PR Help

Congressman Anthony Weiner instructed one of his Internet women how to lie about
their relationship ... and even offered PR help from his team, which could create
major legal issues for him ... TMZ has learned.


Weiner and former porn star Ginger Lee exchanged scores of sexual emails over a long
period of time. When the underwear scandal broke on May 28, Lee began receiving
calls from the media, and Weiner was more than happy to help her control the situa-
tion ... by lying.

On June 2, Weiner emailed Lee, "Do you need to talk to a professional PR type person
to give u advice? I can have someone on my team call. [Yeah, my team is doing great.
Ugh]."

It's unclear if Weiner's PR team is from his Congressional staff. If so, Weiner could run afoul
of House Ethics Rules as well as the law. Weiner put on a full court press, urging Lee to
lie about their relationship. On June 1, he emailed her: "The key is to have a short, thought
out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it. Have a
couple of iterations of: 'This is silly. Like so many others, I follow Rep. Weiner on
Twitter. I don't know him and have never met him. He briefly followed me and sent me a
dm saying thank you for the follow. That's it.'"

Weiner suggested a nice touch -- some good ol' Southern charm: "And then maybe insert
some y'alls in there."

On June 2, Weiner sent Lee a proposed statement she could give to the press: "I have
nothing to do with the situation involving Rep Weiner. I follow his twitter feed. And for a
brief time he followed me. Much has been made of the fact that I have posted about my
admiration for Rep Weiner and his politics. All I can say about that is that I'm a fan of his. Rep.
Weiner sent me one short direct message thanking me for following him. I have never met
Rep. Weiner and he has never sent me anything innappopriate (sic) ..."

Weiner then asked Lee directly, "How's it [the proposed statement] feel?"

http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/06/antho...ng-press-conference-penis-picture-apologized/

 

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Former Congressman Anthony Weiner's wife gives birth to baby boy

EXCLUSIVE

After a year filled with ridicule and scandal, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner finally has something he can feel proud about — a new baby boy.

Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, gave birth to the wee Democrat yesterday, 10 days before the New Year’s Eve due date, The Post has learned. Jordan Zane Weiner checked in at just over 7 pounds, a source said.

The Post first reported in September that the couple was having a boy, months after Weiner’s political career crashed and burned in an embarrassing sexting scandal that forced him to resign from Congress.
BLESSED: Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner married just last year.
Marie Ternes/AP
BLESSED: Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner married just last year.

PHOTOS: ANTHONY WEINER

Little Jordan had a good shot at growing up in Gracie Mansion until his dad on May 27 tweeted a lewd crotch shot of himself to a 21-year-old Twitter follower.

He later admitted to several inappropriate online relationships with women before giving up his seat in Congress — and his dream of being New York’s next mayor.

Weiner, 47, said he never had physical contact with any of the women. The scandal broke before the couple’s first wedding anniversary.

Sources close to the family have said the cad dad is already in big debt to the baby boy.

If it weren’t for the pregnancy, Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, might have walked out on Weiner quicker than he could tweet an apology, the sources said.

Camp Clinton has already ostracized the former congressman, whose Democratic Queens/Brooklyn seat ended up in the hands of Republicans, The Daily reported this month.

But the Clinton crew can’t totally shake him because he’s married to Abedin, the iPad newspaper reported.

Former President Bill Clinton officiated at the Weiner-Abedin wedding on Long Island.

Hillary was among the guests at a Washington, DC, baby shower Saturday for Abedin, 36, that included Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

The couple had been spotted in public several times since the scandal, including during an Parisian “babymoon” and on a walk through Forest Hills, Queens, where they were overheard discussing boys’ names.

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