I see Jonah has focused more on this scandal than on say John Ensign having an affair, paying off the husband he wronged with a job and getting help from another Senator. Or how Senator Vitter utilized prostitutes and yet still represents Louisiana.
I can see how this could be an embarrasment for the congressman if he in fact did send the tweet. But seeing how the woman in question has said she has been stalked by some cyber bully and Weiner has said he's been hacked, why is this a big deal at all?
So you're surprised, DrP-etc. that a blogging journalist is focusing on breaking news rather than on a congressman who is no longer in office and an affair (so to speak) that was big news in 2007?
While looking backward, I do believe you've missed a step as far as current events: Weiner is no longer claiming his account was hacked.
If you read the CNN article, Weiner says it was a prank, period. Mr. Goldberg is engaging in the basest form of baiting but leaves himself an escape hatch--similar to the idiocy of Glenn Beck's "I'm just asking questions." At the moment the only "sharks circling" are those in Mr. Goldberg's fevered imagination.
"similar to the idiocy of Glenn Beck's 'I'm just asking questions.'"
Shows what you know. Glenn doesn't say "I'm just asking questions"; he puts the facts out there, connects the dots as he sees them, and advises his audience to do their own homework.
Glenn does say, "I'm not saying X, but I'm not NOT saying it, either," but he saves that for jokes.
"I'm just asking questions" is what the Truthers say.
"I see Jonah has focused more on this scandal than..."
Oh come on. When a noted attack dog politician as partisan, annoying and offensive as this d***head gets himself into an embarrassing mess we can't engage in just a little schadenfreude? Really?
Watching the linked-to "interview" is all any cogent being needs to know that the guy did it. Now I'm going to enjoy watching him squirm like the stuck pig he is.
No adult can look at that interview and imagine Weiner being anything BUT completely guilty.
He refuses to answer even the most basic question, he cannot make eye contact and he is consistently staring at the floor to his left, the classic sign of evasion that any parent can "read" in children who are lying.
He now is too busy with REALLY IMPORTANT work to answer ANY questions about this event. Of course, when he was tweeting hither and yon over all kinds of minutiae (up until this event) and "following" the tweets of very important people like the young woman in Seattle he obviously had time to spare for such "distractions".
He'll survive because he's a fabulous, narcissistic, weasel. He'll call in every chit, threaten everyone he can and get a chorus going to help him divert attention from this fiasco. And liberal's will line up to do so just like they did with Bubb as Weiner is of the very same ilk and they'll be loathe to lose this viper's tongue.
Look for all the rhetorical big guns to be rolled out here; Weiner's stepped in it big time and only a world class effort to change the subject will suffice to save this randy dog.
If "some cyber bully" is hacking the social media of congressmen in order to perpetrate foul crimes against young women, I hope Representative Weiner will take active steps to find and prosecute the miscreant stalker. Maybe he can file a report with the police or the feds.
After all, even if the good congressman is cool with people hacking his accounts and impersonating him, there's still the indecent exposure rap that needs to be dealt with.
Remember, it's not the original act, it's the cover-up. In this case, the changing stories about being hacked/not hacked/pranked does wonders when it comes to newsworthiness and politicians.
The fact that the scandal dovetails with his name just means that you're going to have people having a field day with it, for humor value. Juvenile humor, but it's a laugh. But the other strangeness surrounding it after the fact should raise eyebrows.
Weiner's smart enough not to file a report with the authorities and open himself up to criminal charges, so he's abandoned the bogus hack/prank defense and is hoping to just ride it out with non-responsive answers and attempts to change the subject.
Of course, anyone with a brain can put two and two together.
"If you read the CNN article, Weiner says it was a prank, period."
Huh--apparently if you hack into the account of a Congressman like Anthony Weiner and potentially steal his personal information, he won't got to the cops at all.
For the record...for future hackers reading this... I will go to the cops.
Anthony Weiner and our friends on the left have decided that identity theft isn't that big a deal and won't go to the cops, but we on the right still think so. We'll go the cops. The left won't. Just thought I'd let you know that.
"Anthony Weiner and our friends on the left have decided that identity theft isn't that big a deal"
Pet peeve alert: This is not identity theft. I keep seeing that term misused in this and other contexts.
Identity theft is when someone takes your SSN and other info, opens bank accounts and credit lines in your name, and runs up the totals, leaving you liable for it.
Hacking into someone's account is different. Spoofing (faking) someone's account is also different.
What happened here is that Weiner typed @ when he should have typed d[space]. AND he sent a photo of his junk to someone not his wife when he should have refrained.
This isn't identity theft if all that happened was the lewd message being sent -- he doesn't know that -- and since he's not calling the cops, he doesn't appear to be too interested in finding out.
If his account was actually hacked, they could have taken personal information or could have hacked other accounts of his that he doesn't know about yet. That's why when you've been hacked, this is normally a big deal.
But it doesn't seem to concern him.
Both of us can both make educated guesses as to why.
I am no expert on body language, but when someone acts like that, I wouldn't believe them if they told me water was wet. Can't wait to see Tonya Reiman break it down on O'Reilly.
Cut Dr. P and Moriarty some slack. They saw Anthony Weiner as a rising star in Democrat circles (rightly so) and now they're on the verge of losing him because he sent a picture of his bulging briefs to a woman who was not his wife.
That's a tough thing for some to swallow, and it doesn't surprise me that they'd turn to insipid obfuscation to redirect attention from the inherently disgusting nature of Mr. Weiner's tweet.
"If you squint really hard you can see shark fins circling around the representative." - Jonah
And if you squint even harder, you can read the actual article, regarding the Seattle woman:
"She indicated that the post had come from someone other than Weiner, and added that 'this person had harassed me many times.'"
Since Breitbert has been shown to have engaged in similar acts of despicable behavior (see Sherrod, Shirley), I actually see shark fins circling around him instead.
I see Jonah has focused more on this scandal than on say John Ensign having an affair, paying off the husband he wronged with a job and getting help from another Senator. Or how Senator Vitter utilized prostitutes and yet still represents Louisiana.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI can see how this could be an embarrasment for the congressman if he in fact did send the tweet. But seeing how the woman in question has said she has been stalked by some cyber bully and Weiner has said he's been hacked, why is this a big deal at all?
Very sketchy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSo you're surprised, DrP-etc. that a blogging journalist is focusing on breaking news rather than on a congressman who is no longer in office and an affair (so to speak) that was big news in 2007?
While looking backward, I do believe you've missed a step as far as current events: Weiner is no longer claiming his account was hacked.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf you read the CNN article, Weiner says it was a prank, period. Mr. Goldberg is engaging in the basest form of baiting but leaves himself an escape hatch--similar to the idiocy of Glenn Beck's "I'm just asking questions." At the moment the only "sharks circling" are those in Mr. Goldberg's fevered imagination.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"similar to the idiocy of Glenn Beck's 'I'm just asking questions.'"
Shows what you know. Glenn doesn't say "I'm just asking questions"; he puts the facts out there, connects the dots as he sees them, and advises his audience to do their own homework.
Glenn does say, "I'm not saying X, but I'm not NOT saying it, either," but he saves that for jokes.
"I'm just asking questions" is what the Truthers say.
Get your accusations straight.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"I see Jonah has focused more on this scandal than..."
Oh come on. When a noted attack dog politician as partisan, annoying and offensive as this d***head gets himself into an embarrassing mess we can't engage in just a little schadenfreude? Really?
Watching the linked-to "interview" is all any cogent being needs to know that the guy did it. Now I'm going to enjoy watching him squirm like the stuck pig he is.
Deal with it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDr P - That's really lame trolling even for you. For the record I was for Ensign resigning at the time. We debated it in the Corner if memory serves.
Regardless, what does one have to do with the other? This is an ongoing news story. The other is ancient news.
I mean does anyone buy your response as remotely serious, including you?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo adult can look at that interview and imagine Weiner being anything BUT completely guilty.
He refuses to answer even the most basic question, he cannot make eye contact and he is consistently staring at the floor to his left, the classic sign of evasion that any parent can "read" in children who are lying.
He now is too busy with REALLY IMPORTANT work to answer ANY questions about this event. Of course, when he was tweeting hither and yon over all kinds of minutiae (up until this event) and "following" the tweets of very important people like the young woman in Seattle he obviously had time to spare for such "distractions".
He'll survive because he's a fabulous, narcissistic, weasel. He'll call in every chit, threaten everyone he can and get a chorus going to help him divert attention from this fiasco. And liberal's will line up to do so just like they did with Bubb as Weiner is of the very same ilk and they'll be loathe to lose this viper's tongue.
Look for all the rhetorical big guns to be rolled out here; Weiner's stepped in it big time and only a world class effort to change the subject will suffice to save this randy dog.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAh the last refuge of the liberal: change the subject. Good job, Dr P. - now run along and let the adults talk.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWell said, Dr P.
If "some cyber bully" is hacking the social media of congressmen in order to perpetrate foul crimes against young women, I hope Representative Weiner will take active steps to find and prosecute the miscreant stalker. Maybe he can file a report with the police or the feds.
After all, even if the good congressman is cool with people hacking his accounts and impersonating him, there's still the indecent exposure rap that needs to be dealt with.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the American people." William J. Clinton
It worked for him . . . .
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRemember, it's not the original act, it's the cover-up. In this case, the changing stories about being hacked/not hacked/pranked does wonders when it comes to newsworthiness and politicians.
The fact that the scandal dovetails with his name just means that you're going to have people having a field day with it, for humor value. Juvenile humor, but it's a laugh. But the other strangeness surrounding it after the fact should raise eyebrows.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBlood is in the water.
Weiner's smart enough not to file a report with the authorities and open himself up to criminal charges, so he's abandoned the bogus hack/prank defense and is hoping to just ride it out with non-responsive answers and attempts to change the subject.
Of course, anyone with a brain can put two and two together.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseKevin Moriarty 05/31/11 13:58
"If you read the CNN article, Weiner says it was a prank, period."
Huh--apparently if you hack into the account of a Congressman like Anthony Weiner and potentially steal his personal information, he won't got to the cops at all.
For the record...for future hackers reading this... I will go to the cops.
Anthony Weiner and our friends on the left have decided that identity theft isn't that big a deal and won't go to the cops, but we on the right still think so. We'll go the cops. The left won't. Just thought I'd let you know that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Anthony Weiner and our friends on the left have decided that identity theft isn't that big a deal"
Pet peeve alert: This is not identity theft. I keep seeing that term misused in this and other contexts.
Identity theft is when someone takes your SSN and other info, opens bank accounts and credit lines in your name, and runs up the totals, leaving you liable for it.
Hacking into someone's account is different. Spoofing (faking) someone's account is also different.
What happened here is that Weiner typed @ when he should have typed d[space]. AND he sent a photo of his junk to someone not his wife when he should have refrained.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Pet peeve alert: This is not identity theft..."
This isn't identity theft if all that happened was the lewd message being sent -- he doesn't know that -- and since he's not calling the cops, he doesn't appear to be too interested in finding out.
If his account was actually hacked, they could have taken personal information or could have hacked other accounts of his that he doesn't know about yet. That's why when you've been hacked, this is normally a big deal.
But it doesn't seem to concern him.
Both of us can both make educated guesses as to why.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDoes anyone else smell toast?
I am no expert on body language, but when someone acts like that, I wouldn't believe them if they told me water was wet. Can't wait to see Tonya Reiman break it down on O'Reilly.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCut Dr. P and Moriarty some slack. They saw Anthony Weiner as a rising star in Democrat circles (rightly so) and now they're on the verge of losing him because he sent a picture of his bulging briefs to a woman who was not his wife.
That's a tough thing for some to swallow, and it doesn't surprise me that they'd turn to insipid obfuscation to redirect attention from the inherently disgusting nature of Mr. Weiner's tweet.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"If you squint really hard you can see shark fins circling around the representative." - Jonah
And if you squint even harder, you can read the actual article, regarding the Seattle woman:
"She indicated that the post had come from someone other than Weiner, and added that 'this person had harassed me many times.'"
Since Breitbert has been shown to have engaged in similar acts of despicable behavior (see Sherrod, Shirley), I actually see shark fins circling around him instead.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd Weiner would rather not roast Breibert if he had the chance...
Is that what you're suggesting?
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