Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<When you tweet something, can everyone see it or just who you want to see it?>> I'm not part of the Twittercrena but I have to believe if it's out there on the internet it's definitely out there.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "In almost all states hiring a prostitute is illegal. The guy tweeted a photo... tweeted... a... photo, lied about it, and then came clean. Big whoop." And, they weren't even nude pictures. It really is all about the lying that should be the issue.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt This will all blow over as soon as Sarah Palin opens her mouth and says something stupid. Americans, along with the news media, suffer from very short attention spans.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 She has <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=13781085" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...13781085</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I'm beginning to think that Weiner is done for: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/andrew-breitbart-anthony-weiner_n_872314.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...314.html</a>? That Breitbart is low down mofo.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Obviously Breitbart has an agenda but Weiner NEVER should have put himself into this situation. If it wasn't Breitbart it would have been someone else. If it didn't come forward now it would have come forward when Weiner pursued higher office. I don't care if people do knucklehead things on the internet. But, if you are a politician or other public figure then...well...don't be so damn stupid.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Obviously Breitbart has an agenda but Weiner NEVER should have put himself into this situation." No kidding. Still, the fact that Breitbart is baiting the media with a concealed nude image of the congressman as "an insurance policy" against attacks from Weiner is despicable to me. If the past three years of the Dems controlling Washington were a Disney movie Breitbart would be the nasty villain that we hope meets a grisly end at the climax of the film.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I watched his interview this morning. Matt Lauer is actually the one who brought it up and referred to it as the "insurance policy". At the end of his answer Breitbart said he didn't really want to consider it that but it was pretty evident that is what it will serve as.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Or perhaps torn apart by Dalmatians (action flick). Or piddled on by Dalmatians (gross-out comedy).
Originally Posted By ecdc I guess I don't get the outrage over the lying more than the photos. I'm not condoning either. I just don't understand the sentiment. "Well sending naked pictures to a chick is one thing, but to lie about it us unconscionable!" Strikes me as exactly the kind of thing a person would lie about. Again, I don't condone it and I don't blame those who feel like he should resign, but if a married man is going to send those kinds of pictures, I'm pretty sure lying's part of the package (no pun intended). Maybe it's the lingering historian in me. History is just rife with leaders and politicians who have been brilliant in so many ways, and just bloody stupid when it comes to sex. Libidos don't change as rapidly as technology, so just because FDR and JFK and MLK could get away with it, doesn't mean these men today will behave differently.
Originally Posted By ecdc In other words: Whatever else these guys are, they've come to believe that their lying works and it becomes easy, so it makes sense that they'd believe it'd work again with the public. They're cocooned in an extremely foolish bubble.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I hope I am making sense here*** MC, as usual you are making perfect sense. And I agree with you. As far as politics are concerned, post-Clinton any polititian would have to be a real moron to put themselves in such a position! And online, to boot!? Duh. Weiner is an idiot for doing this.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Why aren't there any politicians who are hot for their wife? If a guy was sending explicit photos to his wife, that I can respect.
