Originally Posted By ecdc So a picture was tweeted to a college girl from Representative Anthony Weiner's Twitter account reminiscent of a Calvin Klein ad pushing boundaries. The comedy gold aside, the whole thing seems very strange and not as simple as Weiner describes - a hacked Twitter account and a prank. I hope it comes to nothing, I like Anthony Weiner, but he may be in some trouble. Any extra news from New York, Dabob? Would this come as a surprise to people there?
Originally Posted By mele Well, the woman in Seattle who is rumored to be having an affair with him put out a statement today. Of course, she denied any affair. Listen up, men...most women do NOT want a photo of your penis. Ever. Especially if they don't know you very well. Gross.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Apparently, Andrew Breitbart was the one behind the leak of this story, so right there I am more inclined to believe Rep. Weiner's version of accounts. It does seem strange, but Breitbart is king at these character assassination pranks, so I guess we will just have to wait to and see. And Mele, thanks for the no penis pic PSA in post two...it is very, very true! <a href="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/page/2/?hpt=op_bn7" target="_blank">http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/pag...t=op_bn7</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I don't know any more about this than you do, ecdc. Hacks fo happen, and Breitbart has done character assassination before, so I'm holding off on any rush to judgment.
Originally Posted By gadzuux This is a strange one all around. The young woman in Washington claims she's never even met the congressman, and he says the same thing, so that seems to be true. The pic itself is on the mild side - a bulge in some boxer briefs. I can go either way with this - if someone was setting the congressman up, wouldn't they have used a more explicit pic? On the other hand, because this pic is just of some bumpy white cotton, it can never be ascribed to anyone in particular. Add to this that the source is Breitbart, a GOP slimeball with a long history of falsely maligning democratic politicos, and the whole story looks like a disgusting setup. The problem is Weiner himself. For whatever reason, he's failed to emphatically state that it isn't him, and that he had nothing to do with any of this. Instead he's being cagey and parsing his answers in a suspicious manner. Even if it is him, no crime has been committed here. I want to believe that this is all just another one of Breitbart's sleazy fabricated smear jobs - for which no one in the republican party ever takes him to task over. I just wish Weiner would issue a straight denial. As long as he dances around the issue, the more the questions linger.
Originally Posted By mele You're welcome, jenn. <a href="http://www.chasingambulances.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/the_more_you_know2.jpg?w=300" target="_blank">http://www.chasingambulances.n...pg?w=300</a>
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Anthony Weiner was onRachel Maddow tonight. I think I believe him. Also, she had a breakdown on just how easy it is to hack into twitter and post pics on someone's account. Apparently, it takes very little technical know how. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#43245776" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26...43245776</a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#43245844" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26...43245844</a>
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Originally Posted By ecdc >>The problem is Weiner himself. For whatever reason, he's failed to emphatically state that it isn't him, and that he had nothing to do with any of this. Instead he's being cagey and parsing his answers in a suspicious manner.<< This is exactly the problem and what has me second-guessing Weiner. If he didn't do this, then the response is easy and could even be turned into political fodder ("Those slimy Republicans are at it again!"). You'd think a firebrand like him would love an excuse to go after a major delta-bravo like Breitbart. Instead he just seems so desperate for it to all go away. He acts guilty. Which is a terrible way to assess if he really did do this, and I recognize that. It could even be that he's having flashbacks to junior high being teased about his name, and he's just embarrassed. But to say he's not sure if it's him in the photo? Sounds an awful lot like hedging bets. I really like the guy and really, really hope it all just goes away for him.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Have any of you seen the tweeted picture? Of course sending something like this to a young girl is inappropriate, however the picture isn't as obscene as the media would have you believe. Take a look: <a href="http://gawker.com/5806545/did-anthony-weiner-tweet-pic-of-his-weiner" target="_blank">http://gawker.com/5806545/did-...s-weiner</a>
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I'd have more respect for the guy if he just stood up and said, "hey...chicks dig me." We had a President getting his jollies at his Oval Office desk. This guy's picture (if it really is this guy) seems pretty tame in comparison.
Originally Posted By Labuda I loved Jon Stewart's take on it. And, as usual, I believe Jon when he says NO WAY is that Rep Weiner's weiner.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 This is a weird one. He denies flat out that he sent it. Yet doesn't deny flat out that it's him. Just a possibility that occurred to me: maybe it IS him. (Note: a lot of "maybe"'s follow). Maybe he knows it's him because he recognizes the image. Maybe he took it and sent it to his wife (who he just married last summer) with a text saying something like "thinking of you, baby." And maybe what we've seen is cropped and the full pic shows him from the waist-up too. Maybe he has hacked (Maddow and others showed just how easy it is to hack in to twitter and send something as though you were someone else, so it seems LIKELY to me that he was indeed hacked). And if his twitter account was hacked... maybe his whole computer was hacked by some right-wing operative, and that pic was the most salacious thing he could find. And maybe that hacker is hoping... praying... that Weiner categorically denies the picture is him, and is ready to pounce immediately with the whole uncropped picture, showing it IS him, and making Weiner toast. And maybe Weiner has figured this out and thus can't deny that it's him (in case the whole pic is leaked later), yet CAN deny that he sent it to the woman in Seattle, which he probably didn't. I know, I know. An awful lot of maybes in there. But for the life of me, I can't figure out why he'd deny sending it, yet NOT deny it was him flat out, unless he thinks (or knows) there's a chance it is. I'm guessing (just a guess) that there's no big crime here. At worst, it's him and he originally sent it to someone not his wife. But there's no way that can be proven from this bogus hacked twitter-send. Maybe he took that pic for his wife, neglected to delete it from his hard drive, and it ended up being the worst thing the hacker found on his computer, and now Weiner's just wishing it would all go away, because he really didn't do anything wrong. I don't know. Totally don't know. But maybe.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I have to ask but what guy doesn't know the appearance of his veg and two bits.
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