Boehlert of Media Matters keeps tweeting about how awful it is that a blogger for Breitbart’s Big Government posted the names of the women that Rep. Weiner follows on Twitter. An example:
Curious, did @andrewbreitbart blogger Jim Hoft find a reason to blog the names/pics of teenage girls today? http://bit.ly/kncUpb #creep
Memo to Boehlert: Twitter is a public platform. Nobody went and dug through trashcans to reveal the identity of these women. All anyone had to do was click on Rep. Weiner’s twitter page and look through who Weiner has personally chosen to follow.
But somehow Jim Hoft is the creep for posting the names of the “teenage girls” and Rep. Weiner avoids any scorn for actually establishing a social-media relationship with said girls.
And, to be clear, we’re not talking about teenage girls here. Some of the women Rep. Weiner follows are successful career women, like porn star Ginger Lee. Gawker:
Porn actress and stripper Ginger Lee frequently gushes over her “crush” on the slender congressman on her blog. On March 13, Lee tweeted ecstatically, “you know it’s a good day when you wake up to a [direct message] from @RepWeiner. (I’m a fangirl, y’all, he’s my trifecta of win.)” In a follow-up tweet, Lee explains that Weiner “thanked me for the shout-outs and said he likes my blog” in the message. (Weiner briefly followed Lee on Twitter, according to an outraged April tweet from the obsessive conservative blogger who broke Weinergate.)
What could Weiner have seen in Lee? Maybe the blog post where she says he’s “gettin’ more attractive to me every time he speaks.” Or the tweet where Lee says Weiner “just became 1000000% more attractive than he already was to me. #ihavenoshameaboutthis“.
When we asked Lee about the messages, she said, “While I can understand people’s potential interest in this, I really have no comment/statement.”
I read porn-star-blogs for the articles all the time, too.