Weiner-gate!
Come on... how can we not have a threat dedicated to the best named political scandal of all time?
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I'm personally waiting to discuss it alongside the Boehner-gate that will inevitably follow.
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honestly though... a congressman named weiner gets caught showing his schmeckle? you couldn't write shit like that.
too bad there's no senator boobs. |
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Someone posted the story on my facebook wall the other day with an lol after it and I'm only just now understanding why it's funny :doh:
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the whole thing was a slow train wreck from the beginning
"I can not say if that is a picture of my crotch or not" ???? :huh: he stands a decent chance of surviving if it was only online and on the phone, Dems don't care about pervs, they know we are all pervs, only the GOP pretend they are not. (in public) |
well, he's admitted:
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well, good that Weiner's pulled out and gotten it so ... if Weiner is conducting "relationships" that are entirely online ... has he done anything wrong to anyone but his wife? and even then, if we believe him (which i kind of do, actually, at least now), is this morally wrong? it doesn't sound like he was sending unsolicited pictures to random women, as if he were the flasher on the corner ... this strikes me as dovetailing into the other discussion about people who have online affairs with other people that never involve any physical contact. is this "cheating" or is this something else? is this little more than just a more interactive style of pornography where both parties are mutually consenting to enter into a cyber fantasy with one another? do we care? should we care? |
It's the lying. He should step down.
It's a safe Dem seat, so no net loss other than a great, but flawed Congressman. |
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and also, his credibility will always be suspect. I really don't use twitter of facebook, (I have accounts, so I can view content, when necessary) I also carefully weigh my emails, because I know they can be forwarded to anyone and everyone. |
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just another guy. looking for a blow job.
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He took IT out.
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I hope IT
means Internet Tech and not Weiner: There Was No Hacking, It Was My Penis, and I'm Not Resigning -- |
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my guess is he was just looking to masturbate via cybersex chat. he also said: Quote:
idiot. after this, Arnold, and DSK, really not a good month for straight men, is it? |
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Too bad, he was a good speaker, and was priceless dealing with Fox News bimbos like Megyan Kelly in interviews, throwing their own BS back at them.
Ah well, still turned out to be an asshole like most in government. |
i do wonder about the role of all this and whether it should matter or not.
yes, it's crappy that Arnold fathered god knows how many children out of wedlock. this is stupid and gross. these are all distinct from, say, sexual assault or rape (hello, DSK) which are crimes. but is it all that much of a stretch to think that assholes are also probably going to be the kind of people who seek political power and just might be very effective at wielding said power? would JFK have even made it past his first term as a Senator today? would that be a good thing? would it have been a good thing if Clinton had resigned over Gennifer Flowers or Monica Lewinsky? it doesn't surprise me at all that, men in positions of power have the chance to exercise their libidos in a way most regular men do not because women are attracted to men in positions of power. are we riding ourselves of people who might be capable leaders because they have sex outside their marriages? we can talk about how stupid this is, sure, and i don't Twitter myself, but he meant to send this privately and not post it publicly. had that not happened, we'd never know about this. are we better for knowing about it? is he less of an effective politician because he pressed the wrong button? hell, my mother can't even turn on her DVD player. does that mean she's "stupid"? these are just thoughts, not statements. anyway ... |
I think someone who is in a position of some power should know to be more careful and/or more knowledgeable about technology and how easy it is to "hit a wrong button" or to make the mistake of trusting someone not to share something that was meant to be private.
Maybe "naive" is more accurate than "stupid." But these days, considering how many things intended to be private get exposed (har har), you'd think that people in any sort of power would think a bit more before doing something like that, private intentions or not. I could just go for the easy joke and accuse him of being just another person who thinks with their genitals. ;) |
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This is one of the few politicians I liked and respected, and now he goes and does this. God damn it, I hate everyone.
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It will be interesting how the GOP plays this. Can they really say anything with a known cheater on their Presidential ticket?
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If you're in a position of power you have an obligation to conduct yourself with more care than the average person. That may not be a fair expectation, and it is not how the real world operates most of the time but ethics should matter. If a guy doesn't have the brains to figure out that sending pictures of his weiner to random girls is stupid, I don't want him working on the budget.
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Seeing as we just had a special election in New York to replace a Republican who resigned under eerily similar circumstances. If he doesn't resign it will be a big campaign issue even given that it is a safe Dem seat.
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really?? I think you are just letting your conservative bias get the best of you
https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...opless-007.jpg https://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...mb-450x337.jpg |
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i was surprised that Lee resigned. but then, Dems don't set themselves up for charges of sexual hypocrisy like the GOP does. still, got to hand it to both men for keeping in shape. |
if these allegations are true, he needs to go.
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Politicians are liars?! :ohmy::doh::shocked::panic:
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why? and i mean that as a serious question. i agree that he shouldn't have lied, but this was not a lie about a crime it was a lie about an embarrassing photo. he was also incredibly stupid, but does this affect how we see his political judgment or ability to lead? perhaps, but shouldn't that be decided by voters in the next election? no one was harassed, everything was consensual. there is no evidence of actual physical infidelity. there's no crusading about sexual "morality" to indicate hypocrisy. chances are, he was online late at night and sending sexual messages to women who would sext him back and he'd probably masturbate and go to bed next to his wife. gee, no men ever do that. the Democrats have ordered an ethics probe. what else is there to do? |
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Guess it's impossible to be conservative, female AND intelligent huh? |
i guess the bigger question is why do men with everything to lose do things like this?
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I thought Megyan Kelly was a Fox News Slut.
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how intelligent could you be when you devote hours of programming to the Black Panthers and voter intimidation? |
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ok, a quick poll will settle this !
https://wherearemykeys.typepad.com/.a...64055df970b-pi a. conservative, female AND intelligent or b. bimbo please text your vote to: #Weinerpoll |
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And that was just Monday's selection. I've seen you defend those very same words tooth and nail. Hypocrisy sucks doesn't it? |
This thread title just took on a whole new meaning.
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Heyyy look! It's your news cycle. So cuet. |
Meh. Best Daily Show clip I can find on Youtube.
There is a warning... so, be warned... YouTube - ‪Fox News Speaks for Majority on Health Care Reform?‬‏ |
i guess this means 12 more years of bloomberg
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This morality arms race has been going on long enough. Everyone should know that the slightest indiscretion will lead to their ousting from office whether what they did was illegal or just really stupid. I'm okay with it because as much as I like some politicians, I think there is always someone at least as qualified behind them in line. It might not be right, it might not be fair, it might be ill-advised to continue these witch hunts because politicians are often cut from the same cloth, but ultimately I think purging is good and political turnover is great. |
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He needed to do that in order to masturbate and then get in bed with his wife? Seriously? I mean to be blunt, can't you just do that without all those "extras"? I think it goes much deeper than that. The guy's got problems, and I don't think they're just sexual. I consider that to be infidelity. Whether or not his wife does, that's her business. It's not even really the sexual aspects of it, it's the whole I'll create this entire false world for myself that my wife doesn't even know about. And I need all these other women to think I'm hot too and to affirm it for me..in such a bizarre and disconnected way. The way he had to mention that none of it ever got physical-does that really matter? What about what's going on in your head? Not to mention the risk of it being a minor-as was mentioned in the press conference. |
That must have been someone from the Howard Stern show yelling out that question at the end of the press conference. OMG. I never thought I'd hear THAT on CNN.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The conservative blogger who reported that a photo of a man's crotch had been sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account to a woman college student says he has an X-rated picture he'll publicize if the New York Democrat attempts reprisals against him. Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart of the website BigGovernment.com tells NBC's "Today" show he considers the image "an insurance policy" against attacks from Weiner, who on Monday admitted the crotch photo was of him. The married Weiner also acknowledged he had engaged in inappropriate contact with six women over three years through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and occasionally over the phone. Breitbart told NBC Tuesday that if Weiner wants to open himself to further investigation, "there are a lot of women" who could come forward. Asked directly if he considered the purported unpublicized picture an insurance policy, Breitbart replied, "I don't like to think of it that way." |
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on the flip side, could it be weakness? he knows he shouldn't, he knows he could get caught, but he keeps doing it anyway? Quote:
some of the other stuff that's out there that's supposedly written by him are fairly lengthy cyber-sex chats which i imagine were probably hotter to him than simple porn. this is a new area, this realm of virtual sex. Quote:
not trying to defend Weiner, but i am very interested in how technology impacts people's sexual lives and their sexual fantasies. Quote:
and that's a whole different story. if that becomes an issue then he's got big problems. |
tmz.com
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 situation ... 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?" |
let's fire all the politicians who have ever had affairs. then it will be true anarchy. :up:
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Or we'd just be left with female politicians. How come no female politicians are doing things like this? Or are they just not getting caught?
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