Congressman Weiner's inappropriate tweet

[Darth Rotor]

If Rep Weiner is married, is it possible his wife discovered his flirting with that little tramp* coed, and chose to send her husband and TLT an unambiguous signal?

Probably not, as she'd then have to deal with all the unwanted press attention.

* = used with humorous inention

 

[Noztradamus]

If Rep Weiner is married~~~~~~

He's allegedly the beard for Hillary's lesbian lover

The Washpolitics crowd is a pretty closely related community.

 

[Newtons Bit]

If Rep Weiner is married, is it possible his wife discovered his flirting with that little tramp* coed, and chose to send her husband and TLT an unambiguous signal?

Probably not, as she'd then have to deal with all the unwanted press attention.

* = used with humorous inention

Hah! Now that unsubstantiated theory is at least funny!

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The guy's a politician. Therefore, he is prone to lying. We should start from a default position of guilty and go from there.

 

[Ziggurat]

Do we even know for sure the photo was sent from Weiner's account to the coed? (I thought she denied having seen the photo until someone else posted it. See Cleon's post #15.)

My understanding is that Weiner tweeted a link to the photo. If she never checked her Twitter account until after it had been pulled, then she wouldn't have seen it. In that regard, it's not like emailing a photo.

 

[Ziggurat]

If the stroy is true, Wiener has every right to offer a legal defense.

Sure. But that's rather the point: hiring a lawyer and not filing a criminal complaint fits better with the story being true than with the story being false.

If it is bogus, he will need a good lawyer to give punk boy Breitbart that hell he deserves.

If the story is bogus, what he really needs to give the hacker hell is the cops. He can sic the lawyers on the hacker after, when the cops have done the heavy lifting of gathering evidence.

That the bimbo is associated in anyway with Breitbart makes it about 99.9% more likely that it is a set-up.

Your misogyny is showing again. And the woman in question is NOT associated with Breitbart.

 

[leftysergeant]

Sure. But that's rather the point: hiring a lawyer and not filing a criminal complaint fits better with the story being true than with the story being false.

Not a bit of it. Remeber what that worethless pile of compost Breitbart did to ACORN and Planned Parenthood?

If the story is bogus, what he really needs to give the hacker hell is the cops. He can sic the lawyers on the hacker after, when the cops have done the heavy lifting of gathering evidence.

He needs a lawyer any way. He also needs to check his own staff for traitors. It would also be stupid to divulge it if he was in contact with law enforcement.

Your misogyny is showing again. And the woman in question is NOT associated with Breitbart.

Quotes attributed to her suggest that she has some ethical problems or is mentally deranged. No appologies. If she is not going after slimeboy for publicising the story, thus invading her privacy, she is aiding and abetting the sick piece of trash.

 

[Bjorn]

I thoght the debunking showed that it wasn't a tweet at all, but a fake snapshot of a photoshopped one?

And how did this Breitbart seem to know about what would happen two weeks before it allegedly happened?

 

[leftysergeant]

And how did this Breitbart seem to know about what would happen two weeks before it allegedly happened?

The same way his pet pimp knew there would be big news about Senator Landrieu when he talked to the rightwing noise organizations in New Orleans.

 

[thaiboxerken]

So Congressman Weiner tweeted an inappropriate photo (no nudity but sexually suggestive) to a college coed over the weekend. He has since tried to claim that his account was hacked, but as far as anyone knows he hasn't contacted the police or the FBI, and he's now lawyering up.

What are the odds he'll resign? What are the odds that he gets a divorce?

Why should anyone care? This is a personal matter. If he ran on a platform of "family values" or some such nonsense, then I'd consider this a political matter.

 

[Puppycow]

I thoght the debunking showed that it wasn't a tweet at all, but a fake snapshot of a photoshopped one?

And how did this Breitbart seem to know about what would happen two weeks before it allegedly happened?

I have to admit, I actually don't know anything about the technical issues, or if that analysis really holds any water.

I was suspicious about this @patriotusa76 and why he was the only one to see this. I don't know how twitter works, or if they could confirm or deny whether his account was hacked.

Assuming that Weiner is telling the truth, I think that he should ask Twitter to back up his story.

So, I guess I've gone from thinking that this is a hoax to just being on the fence until I see Weiner's next move. Like the guy who hacked into Palin's e-mail account, the hacker, if there was one, should be prosecuted.

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

ITT: Mountains out of really silly molehills.

 

[dropzone]

The guy's a politician human. Therefore, he is prone to lying.

FTFY

My favorite quote when Clinton was being trashed for lying about his infidelities came from a respectable Southern lady of a Certain Age (a certain age) and background (respectable and Southern): "A gentleman does not speak of his ladies, nor a lady of her gentlemen." (shrug) That's how I was brought up.

 

[Cobalt]

Quotes attributed to her suggest that she has some ethical problems or is mentally deranged. No appologies. If she is not going after slimeboy for publicising the story, thus invading her privacy, she is aiding and abetting the sick piece of trash.

Keeping it ever so classy. Surely you can prove her apparent lack of ethics or that she is indeed deranged.

 

[Ziggurat]

He needs a lawyer any way. He also needs to check his own staff for traitors. It would also be stupid to divulge it if he was in contact with law enforcement.

If someone else did this to him, they're going to do their best to cover their tracks regardless of when or if police get involved. So divulging that involvement would make no difference.

Quotes attributed to her suggest that she has some ethical problems or is mentally deranged.

You're spinning desperately here, lefty. And for no purpose.

No appologies.

Of course not. You actually think there's nothing wrong with your behavior.

If she is not going after slimeboy for publicising the story, thus invading her privacy

Clue for the clueless: what you put on the internet in publicly available locations isn't private. She can't go after Breitbart because there's nothing she can go after him for.

 

[Ziggurat]

I don't know how twitter works, or if they could confirm or deny whether his account was hacked.

They almost certainly log the IP addresses of the computers that sent the tweets. If those IP addresses don't match any computers that Weiner might have been using, that's very good evidence that someone else sent them.

Assuming that Weiner is telling the truth, I think that he should ask Twitter to back up his story.

Quite so. But I expect that he won't do that, for the simple reason that I think he sent the tweet.

 

[Ziggurat]

Why should anyone care?

Two reasons. One, many people care about the morality of their elected representatives, which is not unreasonable given the power that they have over our lives. And two, morality aside, both the tweet (if he sent it) and his subsequent handling of the issue (which has been an utter train wreck if he didn't and hardly stellar if he did) tell us something about his judgment, which is everyone SHOULD care about in their elected representatives.

 

[Snide]

He needs to just come clean, and be right in your face about it.

So he gave someone the shaft. People needn't be so testy.

 

[Ziggurat]

I thoght the debunking showed that it wasn't a tweet at all, but a fake snapshot of a photoshopped one?

That appears to have been their hypothesis, but they hardly proved it. And if that were the case, Twitter could easily step forward and declare that no such tweets were ever sent. Given the value of their verified accounts to Twitter's entire business model, it would be very much in their interest to do exactly that to protect Weiner (and by extension every other verified account holder), if in fact the tweet is fictional. And lastly, Weiner's response makes absolutely no sense if that's what happened. So it's not credible that no such tweet was sent.

 

[Bjorn]

From the lady in question:

The account that these tweets were sent from was familiar to me; this person had harassed me many times after the Congressman followed me on Twitter a month or so ago. Since I had dealt with this person and his cohorts before I assumed that the tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the Congressman and harassing his supporters.​