Let’s not jump to conclusions. Even though CBS is noting that “Anthony Weiner ‘can’t say with certitude’ lewd photo’s not him” (although he has finally denied sending it), the implication is that he’s being evasive and dishonest.
But there is another explanation: perhaps, like most of us here, the Congressman keeps a bunch of photos of his aroused, cotton-imprisoned junk on his computer, and the same evil right-wing prankster who hacked his Twitter account hacked also his computer and liberated one (though not one showing Weiner’s face. Because that would just be taking the prank a bit too far, and besides, it’s just plain mean).
Really. It could happen.
(h/t Darleen)
Did you know that the Honorable Weiner, public figure, is being harassed by people viewing public content posted to the internet by him, most likely from a Congressional office and/or from a computer in said Congressional office?
You do now!
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/there_is_no_one_reaction_to_harassment
He can’t say whether Lil’ Anthony is his or not? Hasn’t he looked the little fellow in the eye recently? Or has it had a makeover and he just doesn’t recognise it?
Maybe he was just hesitant to confirm John Stewart’s defense: i.e. it’s not Weiner’s wiener in the twitpic because the distinguished member’s member is that distinguished.
The progressives are very good at tying themselves in knots trying to excuse the bad behavior of their fellow travelers. I note in passing that we don’t do the same.
“isn’t”
damn if I didn’t step on my own
punchline
Alec – thank you for reading that, I clicked on the link, but my irony and dishonesty meters shattered after the first 2 sentences. Good Allah.
Anthony Wunder-Weiner sure has a hard time answering simple questions…Not to be too dickish about it.
Maybe he was just hesitant to confirm John Stewart’s defense: i.e. it’s not Weiner’s wiener in the twitpic because the distinguished member’s member is that distinguished.
One would still expect to recognise a happy snap of one’s own tumescent love tusk, even though the little chap was incognito in dingy grey shreddies. Or does the Honourable Member take so many ‘self portraits’ he’s forgotten which one is which?
I am reminded of that classic scene from Porky’s – you know the one:
“Have you seen this prick? If you’ve seen this prick, please notify the authorities. Do not try to apprehend this prick as it is considered armed and dangerous.”
Shorter Stewart; Weiner’s just a little dickish.
“the Congressman keeps a bunch of photos of his aroused, cotton-imprisoned junk on his computer”
Here’s a thoought: could that have been a gold bar?
Here’s a strange (OT) thing. Over at Harry’s Place, they’re sucking their gums over the posting of anti-gay posters by Moslem fundamentalists in London’s East End. The clash of protected groups juxtaposed with the inability to understand what freedom of speech actually means has drawn Justin Raimondo to the scene, and I’m strangely fascinated by the fracas.
I for one intend to keep many photos, taken from varying perspectives (except of course those that result in foreshortening), of my erect and underwear-clad junk on my phone just in case I am pranked in this way. SOMEONE HACKED ME AND SENT MY PICS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETE STRANGERS ALMOST!
Weiner is now out of twitter range, hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Huma is being consoled by Hillary.
I actually found myself agreeing with Raimondo, a little. That in itself was more than a little off-putting, and led me to check and recheck and re-recheck my thinking.
He will continue to deny, deny, deny for at least one reason. When he looks in the mirror each morning he sees 50 staring back and he doesn’t want to be known in his social media circles as “Tony Fat-fingers.”
Exactly, Slart. I’m waiting for him to point out what’s on HP’s masthead: “Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.”
Why would a sexual dynamo like this be engaging in anything so tawdry?
Liberty is not the right to be free from being offended. The path to being free from offense is the opposite of liberty.
Jesus Christ he looks like Screech!
From his wiki page:
Too funny.
Well now, cranky, we have the counter to that, right there in the comments:
See how easily your argument is destroyed? You’re not sane or reasonable if your bar for incitement is set at a different height. This left thought is easy if you know how to do it.
I guess I’m neither sane nor reasonable. Many who know me would agree, I think.
So, talking about having a gay-free zone is exactly as bad as actually having a gay-free zone?
Interesting.
Not that I’m all gung-ho on gay-free zones.
But if a bunch of people showed up at this thingy and laughed so loudly that the speaker couldn’t be heard, would that be hate laughter?
Take that part of the sentence and just stare at it for a bit, and marvel that such a complete whopper could be used as the premise for, well, anything.
Never mind the bit about actually finding some sane, reasonable people.
Ok, off to get sweaty.
No, not that.
A gay-free zone would have a very low fabulous quotient. I’ll pass.
Until someone puts a gun to my head and forces me to be incited, I will exercise my right not to assemble. Freedom to not associate, as it were.
J’accuse!
What’s sad is that they could actually have a decent conversation about where to draw the line between protected speech such as “Gay people give me the creeps” and non-protected speech such as “Rise up, my brothers, and kill the queers among us!” You know, an actual debate with examples and reasoning and references to historical cases. But I suppose they’ve already chased away all the sane, reasonable people.
What’s fun is watching the Left eat their own. Gotta admit that I’m looking forward to a lot more of this sort of thing.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/anthony%20weiner%20photographs/B_Oceander/Others/Anthony_the_Weiner_02.gif
Did we really expect better from Horshack?
I knew from the first time I ever saw this little prick (pun intended) that he was a major asshat – a “playah”, so to speak. An absolute lying little prick (pun intended, again) with nothing on his mind but winning the next election.
Sorry, Jeff, but this little prick (once again, pun intended) gives the Jooooos a bad smell, AND a bad name.
So what’s new about proggs dumping a load of catshit where a republican would be drummed out of congress (usually because of their own conscience)?
Ignore me if you must. My ex-wife has taken me to the cleaners AGAIN, and I am in a, how-you-say, very shitty mood. Never marry a woman who thinks that you should have to live in a roadside culvert, meanwhile paying for her two HD flat screen TVs.
TMI
TLD!
Weiner thought if he ignored the issue, it would just
peter out.
Look, a lot of people have the same underwear.
And the same floor. And chicken legs. And have taken such pictures at some point, in that particular position of their similarly underwear clad turgid junk. From that very same angle, even.
It’s impossible to be sure.
Alec
even though this is primarily about attacking Weiner because he’s a fighter, this fits into a larger pattern of right wing abuse of sexy young women for the high crime of being intellectually independent
Good fucking God, just what kind of weapons-grade stupidity and projection can a person hold between their ears? I mean, this stuff ought to result in spontaneous combustion
if there were justice in the world
Yes, the Honorable Weiner does exemplify a certain stereotype of Jews, but I think it is as much a factor of how Jews have been portrayed in movies and television – including the association with the East Coast/New York City – that informs your perception. Eric Cantor is Jewish too – he’s a world apart from Honorable Weiner. It probably doesn’t help that Left wing asshole Jews that fit the stereotype have metastasized, moved from New York, and won office and become outspoken dickbags in other States (Barbara Boxer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Alan Grayson). It’s a pet peeve of Michael Savage that he talks about quite often – the preferred portrayal of the weakling Jew in media.
You just need to meet more Jews not from New York to find that while some will fall into the accepted stereotype, plenty won’t. If you knew Jews with Southern accents, for example, I think it would totally change your perception.
I’m actually a distant relative of the Kennedys (from the Fitzgerald side) and don’t think that Ted Kennedy makes my people “smell.” For example, I’m drunk less than 30% of the time, and haven’t been in a fistfight in weeks.
I’m confused Darleen. Did ‘mandy (I assume you’re quoting her) call Weiner a sexy young woman?
Alec
And only about a week ago, little Mandy took the pages of the Guardian to lament the implosion of that fine man, that good man, John Edwards.
And
How this woman isn’t in a straightjacket on high doses of lithium is a wonder to me.
Ernst
Oh no, this isn’t about Weiner … for Mandy the attack on Weiner is just an excuse for the WomenHaters of the ConservativeTaliban to put “independent” Ladies in the kitchen … preferably barefoot, preggers and wearing a veil.
Everything really is all about Mandy.
If you knew Jews with Southern accents, for example, I think it would totally change your perception.
Ahh… carpetbaggers.
I keed, I keed.
The thesis begins with the assertion that Democrats are “coded” feminine – you know, like Jim Webb and John Glenn were. Therefore, the Honorable Weiner – coded feminine – is a proxy for womyn, and thus your noticing that he did some fucked up shit with his meat tweet is “harassing” him in the same way that you always harass womyn – with the exception of Sarah Palin who wasn’t harassed because she’s not really a woman so we will carry on as before. It was the perfectly normal, feminist-sanctioned act of sending pictures of an (hopefully for him semi) erect penis seemingly unsolicited to a young woman. Your investigation of publicly available information about public figure Honorable Weiner, including his publicly published twitter followers – and failure to accept his shifting and contradictory accounts of this event at face value is misogynist, and possibly rape. (You also envy his very apparent studliness, lonely loser that you are). It is only slightly less rapey and evil than Bill Donahue’s outrageous act of quoting of Amynda’s very own words, which we all know was especially egregious because Amynda was really looking forward to getting paid to write smack and insult various swing constituencies as part of the 2008 Edwards campaign. And despite apologizing for those same words when her dismissal from the Edwards campaign was uncertain, fuck you Catholics! She meant it the whole time, bitches!
That’s my Sparknotes-lite version anyway, to the extent that it can really be understood by anyone who does not share her hallucinations.
Yes, the talent that caused him to “retire” from the United States Senate after precisely one term, to be succeeded in the seat by Richard Burr.
Alec Leamas posted on 6/1 @ 7:45 pm
Thank the Lord I had finished my drink before reading that … a G&T is a *itch to clean off the keyboard; never can quite get rid of the tonic’s stickiness when dry …
Edwards had a talent for capturing the attention of ordinary Americans and persuading them to consider a more liberal point of view.
Anyone else read that as “capturing the attention of the lesser hordes and convincing them of our awesomeness?” Why does every lib think they are in the awesome category and not the lesser hordes? They are all special snowflakes, aren’t they?
Why? Is he representative of the Jews, somehow? Why him and not, say, me?
He’s a walking stereotype, but only of a certain brand of Jew, one that I should point out plays into that stereotype consciously. They love it.
But trust me: he’s the kind of little dickbag I used to lay out cold with a big red rubber ball to the back of his retreating Isro during Greek Dodge games at Jewish day camp.
That was yesterday. His unabashed left-liberalism was his vagina, which he refused to cover with a skirt made out of not being an asshole – just like women who wear short skirts whom everybody but feminists agree deserve to be raped. In both cases, you’re raping these victims for the crime of having vaginas.
But you probably don’t live in a walk-up apartment with a totally non-conformist boyfriend who looks like he smells like pee and three of the coolest cats evah, do you? You probably can’t even imagine how to select and drink beer wholly for its irony,
They still play Dodge Ball in Jew School? Cool. (shout to other room) Honey? We’re converting!
Turning semi-serious now:
Was that merely rhetorical, Stephanie, or were you looking for an answer?
Kinda both. The stoopidity of the average lib is magnificent for its assumptions. We, the unwashed members of the lesser hordes, know what happens when you make assumptions and have no illusions about where we reside in Utopia. Probably the biggest reason for their need to implement it on the QT and vewy vewy slowly.
If you picked a ridiculous, perfidious, pernicious, patently anti-American ideology created and funded in large part by a monstrous, murderous regime and its hand-picked stooges for the sole purpose of demonstrating that you’re better then everyone else, you’d want to get your money’s worth.
I just bought a Porsche, but hey, tomato-tomahto.
I could not make it past the 2nd sentence, where she started blaming conservatives for bashing young hot women.
The Saul Cornell piece just got Instalaunched.
I’m reminded of the Breaking Bad episode where Saul Goodman reveals that he’s actually a McGill, but Jewish sells better. I know that Irish prick. We may be related.
Even the NYTimes can’t ignore it any longer
Stephanie, here and here are as good a place as any to start. And then there’s Allan Bloom and Thomas Sowell, and David Lebedoff.
Basically it boils down to Will to Power disguised as heroic compassion for the suffering masses with a healthy dose of self-delusion and condescension.
e.g.: I’m better than you, I care more about the poor and down trodden and making the world a better place. So who are YOU to criticize ME, racist sexist money grubber when I get MY piece of the action (or ass) or how I pay for my hired help (or ass), all of which I DESERVE, unlike you who stole YOURS when you EXPLOITED the poor and the down trodden. And while we’re on the subject, why aren’t ALL OF YOU groveling before me in meek adoration of my selflessness?! RESPECT MY MORAL AUTHORITEH!
Hmmmmmm … when was the last time you saw Amanda and Charles Johnson in the same room together?
Thanks!
Bookmarked for later reading as I think I’m going blind from all the Weinergate reading and twittering.
I think I’m going blind
just do it until you need glasses …
How this woman isn’t in a straightjacket on high doses of lithium is a wonder to me.
Who says she isn’t?
Voice-recognition software has come a long way, baby.
Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind (1987)” down-loadable here. Funny thing is today a used copy of Giants and Dwarfs by Bloom which I ordered a couple days ago arrived.
Douchebags constitute a normal curve in re: gen pop
Trust me. They’re a dime a dozen.
“You just need to meet more Jews not from New York…”
Oh, I don’t think so.
I have no problem with anyone (Joooos included) that behaves like a human being.
Weiner? Human? I don’t think so…I have many Jewish friends from NYC, and they even think Weiner is a moron.
Truly, I meant no slur on Jewish people, only on the idiots who push the stereotype. I could care less what color, religion, or politics a person has. If you make me laugh, I am your friend forever.
Weiner does not make me laugh. He only makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
How does an asshat like Weiner get elected in the first place?
Yes, Edwards was quite the channeler of the unborn.
But, oops, that doesn’t really fit in with Amanda’s narrative, does it?
Leamas is on fire on this thread. I’d reach for an extinguisher but I’m too busy laughing.
And…who knew Weiner was Jewish, besides everyone but me?
And: who really cares?
Has anyone seen the videos of his press conferences? It’s almost like he’s suspended on the twin hooks of ohmigodtheylikemeonnationaltv and won’ttheyfuckingdropthis? Finally the guy gets his mug on TV, only they won’t let him change the subject. And it’s not changing itself, now, is it?
To sum up a thread on Jews and pervs and sexual assault and justice, I have two words: Linor Abargil.
If anything will make Miss Amynda’s head assplode, this should do it.
Hey, maybe he’s just holding on to it for a friend?
*snuk, snuk, giggle, snort*
Just once more, to clear the air.
I make no judgements on anybody before I know who they are.
But anyone who acts like a stereotypical ANYTHING is immediately off the guest list.
Two seconds of Weiner was enough to have him booted from my soiree.
Sorry if I riled anybody, that wasn’t my intent.
And, Jeff. You’re not Joooooish, you’re a fucking Martian!
If you use a sawed-off shotgun, you are likely to hit stuff you don’t mean to.
I’ve always been more of an M134 “spray and pray” guy, myself.
Rocket launcher.
Damned gunrunners wouldn’t give me a full refund. I tried to reason with them but they got all explodey.