Congressman Weiner's inappropriate tweet

leftysergeant said:
That you are not insisting that Diapers Vitter should utterly withdraw from public life shows that your standards tickle a cockroach's belly.
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I never insisted Weiner do so either. But you don't actually know what I think about Vitter, for the rather simple reason that you haven't even asked. That's a good way to make a fool of yourself. Of course, given your "defense" of Weiner, we know that embarrassment isn't exactly in your repertoire.
 
TraneWreck said:
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If the underlying issue isn't important, the lie isn't, either. We try to draw these broad moral conclusions about someone's entire being based upon a lie in an embarassing situation. It doesn't work. Someone who lies about flirting with chicks online could carry on his employment responsibilities with complete integrity. The two literally have no bearing on one another.
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But the thing is, if you're a public figure and judged by the public then whatever criteria the public judge you by are the criteria that matters. I can understand a statement like "I think our society would be better off if the public didn't judge politicians according to personal sex matters," but I can't understand statements saying that his personal sex life doesn't matter because if the public thinks it matters then it matters.

ETA: Suppose Criterion X shouldn't matter to the public but it does and the politician knows it does. Then if the politician does a bad thing with respect to Criterion X it's a sign that the politician isn't doing well. He knows doing X will be harmful (whether it _should_ be harmful is another question) and yet he does it anyway.
 
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I wonder at what point a politician will say "It's my private life and it's none of your business" when under fire for a personal thing. If more did that then maybe the public would come around a bit and start to lay off the personal stuff. But the problem is, it will take awhile and the first several politicians that say "Buzz off, it's my personal life" are going to go down. They'd basically be sacrificing their own political career for the principal of politicians not having their personal lives be such a big deal.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Did someone hack his tweeter account to get these racy photos that were supposed to be sent on a private line?
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No one hacked his tweeter. He was lying. :confused:

As for the photos, he admitted he sent them to various people. These various people are apparently the ones whipping them out now.
(see what I did there ? :rolleyes:)
 
TheL8Elvis said:
No one hacked his tweeter. He was lying. :confused:

As for the photos, he admitted he sent them to various people. These various people are apparently the ones whipping them out now.
(see what I did there ? :rolleyes:)
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So is the story that he tweeted a photo someone that he had cyber-interacted with before and trusted to keep the photo private and that person took it to the media? Or did he inadvertently tweet to someone that had no idea it was coming and they reacted like "What the h$%&?" Or something else. I'm a bit confused.
 
Now that he has admitting his role, will the story go away, or will the press keep trying to shove Weiner down our throats?
 
Number Six said:
So is the story that he tweeted a photo someone that he had cyber-interacted with before and trusted to keep the photo private and that person took it to the media? Or did he inadvertently tweet to someone that had no idea it was coming and they reacted like "What the h$%&?" Or something else. I'm a bit confused.
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He meant to send it just to that one person, but accidentally sent it to the whole damn world and tried to cover it up.
 
leftysergeant said:
And that is even more disturbing.

And Cannon brings up the point that it is hugely out of proportion and not even erect.

And it just dawned on me why there seemd to be something disturbing abot it.

I cannot even determine where its attachment point would be. Is this cropped an awful lot? Seems to me, with that huge member, we should also see some sign of similarly-proportioned testicles.

Where's the balls?

I am begining to suspect that it is actually Dan Wolfe with a novelty vibrator cover in his shorts. That would explain the lack of testicles.
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So, just as a follow up, you still think Weiner doesn't have any balls, correct ?
 
Arcade22 said:
Probably. I find it ridiculous that he denied the whole incident than rather just saying that it was an accident that the photo was shown to others. I'm uncertain about the legality of saying that someone has commited a crime against you when they haven't...
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I wasn't using "crime" in the literal sense.

And sending this photo was no accident. But he has to explain that one to his wife. :)
 
I hope this doesn't taint his image for too long. He really is the loudest voice for progressives on the congressional floor.
 
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