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Congressman Weiner's inappropriate tweet

Bjorn said:
From the lady in question:
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It's poorly written (by a journalism student, no less), but the tweets that she talks about there are ones written after the fact, referencing her:

Friday evening I logged onto Twitter to find that I had about a dozen new mentions in less than an hour, which is a rare occurrence. When I checked one of the posts that I had been tagged in I saw that it was a picture that had supposedly been tweeted to me by Congressman Anthony Weiner.
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Brainster said:
It's poorly written (by a journalism student, no less), but the tweets that she talks about there are ones written after the fact, referencing her:
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It seems like she's saying she never actually saw that underwear tweet from Weiner to herself, just comments about it?
 
Puppycow said:
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.
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Anybody who follows Weiner's twitter feed would have seen the message, so my assumption is that @patriotusa76 was online at the time, saw the message and then saw the photo. If you want to send a private message to one recipient you change the @ to a d (space), so it's not hard to see how a message that was intended to be private could have been sent out public.

Another point to ponder: Weiner tweeted again only about five minutes later. His office has confirmed that was his tweet, although they mistakenly claimed it was before the offending post.

For those asking if he's married, yes, he married Huma Abedin, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, in a ceremony officiated by Bill Clinton last year. Heh.
 
Bjorn said:
It seems like she's saying she never actually saw that underwear tweet from Weiner to herself, just comments about it?
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She probably saw the tweet, but not the photo as it was taken down only a few minutes after the tweet was sent.
 
Talking Points Memo tries to ask some questions, without much success:

Dem Rep. Weiner Refuses To Answer TPM’s Questions On Twitter ‘Hack’

However, while he did refuse to answer most questions, they did get him to answer one:

He did depart from his blanket rule on comments once, however. TPM asked Weiner if he could clarify why he followed the woman that received the lewd photo, which he would not discuss with CNN. His Twitter feed tracks a relatively light number of people, many of whom are politicians, public figures, and news outlets. He said that he followed some fans who used the hashtag #WeinerYes on the site as well -- we did a quick search that shows he tweeted a #WeinerYes post looking for new accounts to follow as recently as May 13.
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Ziggurat said:
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.
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No, it's unreasonable to think that our elected officials are saints that do not sin. Since Weiner is not a "family values" type of representative, I see this as a non-issue.

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.
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I don't think it's a big deal, unless you're a partisan hack. This is about as stupid as the Clinton scandal.
 
thaiboxerken said:
No, it's unreasonable to think that our elected officials are saints that do not sin.
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So what? They, just like the rest of us, can still act more or less morally, and we can still demand some level of morality short of sainthood.

Since Weiner is not a "family values" type of representative, I see this as a non-issue.
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If you yourself are not a "family values" sort of voter, then sure. But plenty of people are. And for them, voting accordingly makes sense.

I don't think it's a big deal, unless you're a partisan hack. This is about as stupid as the Clinton scandal.
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That too was remarkably bad judgment. And I think it WAS a big deal to have lied under oath, and I cannot understand such trivialization of law breaking by a sitting president. Whether or not it deserved impeachment, that rightly tainted his presidency. And as in this case (assuming Weiner did it, which is likely), the cover up is worse than the crime.
 
If it turns out that he was lying, this is another case of "the cover-up was worse than the scandal."

If he had just said, "yeah I was flirting with her, it's a free country," people could complain but it's not illegal and plenty of politicians have gotten away with worse.
 
People seem to forget that there is a wife in the picture. That seems to be a reason for him to deny. Again, this is the media injecting itself into personal lives. I don't see this as a political issue. If he was a family values guy, it would be.

Then again, the GOP wants to make anything like this a political issue...unless it's one of their guys.

This will affect Weiner less than it affect the Governator, which wasn't very much.
 
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thaiboxerken said:
People seem to forget that there is a wife in the picture. That seems to be a reason for him to deny. Again, this is the media injecting itself into personal lives. I don't see this as a political issue. If he was a family values guy, it would be.
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The only real sin is hypocrisy? How convenient for the Democrats, who never pretend to have any morals.
 
thaiboxerken said:
People seem to forget that there is a wife in the picture. That seems to be a reason for him to deny. Again, this is the media injecting itself into personal lives. I don't see this as a political issue. If he was a family values guy, it would be.
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I don't get this point. If this guy was willing to be dishonest toward his wife (of 11 months) then why would anyone expect him to be honest toward his constituents ? If you banker cheats at Saturday night poker then you probably want to put your money elsewhere for the same reasons Has nothing to do with family values whatever they are - it's a measure of character.

Then again, the GOP wants to make anything like this a political issue...unless it's one of their guys.
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Right - like the way republicans supported Chris Lee - oh wait - they encouraged him to resign.

This will affect Weiner less than it affect the Governator, which wasn't very much.
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So it will only destroy his marriage and ruin his career future ?
 
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Ziggurat said:
So what? They, just like the rest of us, can still act more or less morally, and we can still demand some level of morality short of sainthood.
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Depends on how you define morality. Sexual morality is probably none of our business until somebody starts abusing the rights of others, like that worthless little slimeball Mark Foley. Gingrich and the Gropenfuehrer are both utter slimeballs, to base it on their zipper control problems and their willingness to blow off their wedding vows. Rotten Rudy tried to move his bimbo into the mayor's official residence without first divesting himself of his then-current wife.
I just ate, so I don't want to even think about gay-bashers like Wide-stance Craig or Diapers Vitter.

Does the GOP make those worthless drongos wear sack cloth or warn people of their presence by ringing a bell and calling out "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN?"

Derrrr!

When we found out what Edwards and Spitzer had been up to, that was the end of their careers. There were actual victims involved.

There is no proof that there was one in the Weiner case. Ho-freakin'-HUM.


If anybody worked any harm on anybody else, it was that little fop with the stick up his nose and lack of any masculine behavioral traits over at BigBS.
If you yourself are not a "family values" sort of voter, then sure. But plenty of people are. And for them, voting accordingly makes sense.
 
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stevea said:
I don't get this point. If this guy was willing to be dishonest toward his wife (of 11 months) then why would anyone expect him to be honest toward his constituents ?
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This becomes an issue only when and if she choses to make it one. Extraneous injection of blather at this point. If she makes any kind of statement that she is not offended or upset, nobody else has any business mentioning it again, especially not from that angle. I especially need hear no more about any moral issue from that limp-wristed pseudo-man from BigPerjury.com.

If you banker cheats at Saturday night poker then you probably want to put your money elsewhere for the same reasons.
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Duh! It's relevant to his job.

Has nothing to do with family values whatever they are - it's a measure of character.
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He was in contact with an adult of the opposite sex for reasons that we do not in full know, nor need we. We know only that neither was abusive toward the other. Utter non-issue unless, as I stated earlier, his wife objects n some way.
 
leftysergeant said:
We need to know how the woman learned about the picture. We need to know how slime boy Breitbart heard about it. We need to see whether the woman was exchanging tweets with Weiner and what was in them. Do we have anby of that right now?

If "no" on any of these, we have a double handful of squat.
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We need to do nothing, other than sit back and watch a cocky politician get comeuppance.
 
Noztradamus said:
We need to do nothing, other than sit back and watch a cocky politician get comeuppance.
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"Cocky?" "Comeuppance?"

Weiner is doing what the people elected him to do, to put drongos like that Ryan punk and Agent Orange in their place.

There is no evidence that he did anything inappropriate.

There is evidence that all the evidence of anything at all odd passed through the hands of the most worthless excuse for a man ever to appear as a pundit on political news programming, and thus is of, at best, laughable reliability.

Slime boy Breitbart has the same relationship with reality that the pimply-faced Freshman on the short yellow bus has with the Senior Prom Queen.
 
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