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Here is the disturbing Weiner photo...

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Quite disturbing, as Michael Graham, Boston radio host and political commentator, explained, but he does "...look like a wiener, doesn't he."

Michael continues with, "Oh, the underwear shot? Click here."

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This leftist is a media hound and his past manner of never answering the question asked, but advancing his message has been tolerated when it was not about "sex" or a prurient issue.

His surprise at not having his ass covered completely by the media is, frankly, hilarious, if it was not so serious.

Watch how he attempts to control this interview until he loses his cool. The media tries so hard to give him every opportunity to avoid, obfuscate and evade the issue, but even when they plead with him to give them answers that they can properly spin, he arrogantly dismisses them.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/05/31/sot.bash.weiner.twitter.cnn

At about 4:05 is where the Congressman use the "jackass" phrase

I just love the way he attempts to get Clarence Thomas to recuse himself because HIS WIFE has her own points of view and engages in political action!

Priceless. The little Whiner Weiner is carrying the water to make up for the expected Kagan recusal on the health care case.

Adam

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That's pretty rough, but we all have been there. I got mine taken in the summer of 1976 one hour after my first day of my summer job at Wendy's. You could see and smell the tragic horror of it all. I have destroyed all known copies, but a few remain in the family.

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Look how Glenn Beck nailed Weiner on the cadence of his shaggy dog "suppose this happened" story. Weiner obviously rehearsed this story since he did the cadence and wording exactly the same the two times he said it.

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There has to be a school for this stuff.

btw - I Googled and saw the infamous picture. Big deal.

(The quips are flooding my brain, but I swear that I am going to resist this time. :) )

Michael

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Rich:

Lol. Yes, most assuredly. I even have one of myself in a Nehru jacket!

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The whining Weiner appeared, live, tonight with Wolf Blitzed to undo his self imploded interview from yesterday where he called the CNN editor a "jackass."

Glenn Beck picks up on one of the key interview-answering question lessons that Weiner exposed yesterday. Glenn takes it apart here.

Here, Weiner provides an important:

Example of Repition and Never Ansering the Questions

How many times did he say 1) distraction 2) get back to work 3) you have to do your job. Here he does again get his shot in on the new litany to undermine Clarence Thomas' participation in the health care vote.

Wolf Blitzer Interview Today

He also looks down right when he first answers the direct question - did you send this picture.. "I did not." Is this you? Answer: I can tell you this we have a firm...photos can be manipulated!!!! You would know if this is your underpants, right? Answer: We are trying to get to the bottom of this... - incredibly stupid answers.

Here in this interview, he specifically evades the question as to whether this is a picture of his underwear. Operative repetition is 1) prank 2) we've hired a law firm that specializes in these types of matters 3) pictures can be manipulated 4) we should not waste money on an investigation...

Have you ever taken photos like this? Answer..."I can tell you this............."

Fascinating.

Adam

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And of course John Stewart, a hilarious self hating Jew, keepin it real Yo!

"His dick's just not that big,...it can't be!"

here

Adam

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Reminds me of a story Joan Blumenthal told. Rand, who was a fan of Nureyev, refused to believe that he was gay because he was too well hung.

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Pete:

Geez, I actually remember that story and I laughed hysterically when I heard it the first time.

The Weinergate story just keeps on giving as Glenn Beck's crew noted here.

Apparently, the little dick is explaining that well there are pictures, but he cannot state with certainty whether this one is his!

Adam

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The erection that just keeps on giving!

Prior to Brett's interview, he discussed what his followup questions would be and just watch the utter disgust expressed by the Fox info babe who is sitting in for Meaghan Kelly here.

Watch his eyes and listen to his stammer points during this Brett Bair interview here

My darling Ann Coulter has her piece of the Bobick dissection of little Tony's sausage in her hilariously titled Human Events article Weiner's Penis Photo Dispute To Be Settled In Small Claims Court

wherein she points out that:

So while I admire Anthony's selfless refusal to be "distracted" by this issue, I would urge him to reconsider.

Only a full and complete investigation will show that he had absolutely nothing to do with that humiliating photo of the tiny stub of a male organ sent to a 21-year-old coed from his Twitter address last Friday night.

Anthony needs to remember that hacking is a serious crime. In fact, there probably will have to be a federal investigation whether or not our gentle Anthony requests one.

Another example of Anthony's amazing forbearance is how he has not retaliated against CNN for its malicious editing of Weiner's press conference on Tuesday.CNN obviously sabotaged the tape to make it look as if he was refusing to answer the simplest, most direct questions.

(I confess I did not see the entire conference live; I was too busy sending private messages to the hundreds of college coeds I follow on Twitter, just like Anthony.)

Ahh, sometimes the written word in the hands of a dynamic woman is the sharpest Mogen Clamp in the drawers...er, well you know what I mean.

Adam

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The whining little Weiner, and his little dick, call the Capital Police to arrest CBS reporteress Marsha [my make up screams out louder than his twitter photo] Kramer when she shows up at his Congressional Office with a camera and a live phallic symbol disguised as a microphone.

Note the reaction of the young female receptionist. Watch her eyes and her body language which will tell you all you need to know about the pressure cooker that the little dick Congressman is subjecting his staff too because he is a coward and a liar.

See Kramer's CBS video here.

Question: Have you ever taken a picture of your penis in grey underwear, Mr. Weiner? Yes or No.

I know that I could answer with one of those options. I do not need:

1) I was hacked;

2) I was punked;

3) It was a prank;

4) I cannot say with certitude that that picture was of me;;

5) If I was speaking to a crowd of 45,000 people and someone from the back threw a pie;

6) I have to get back to the work that I am paid to do;

7) I want to talk about Clarence Thomas who is a bad black man, I mean he is a really bad black man who is really a black black man and really a bad bad man..........;and

8) I have hired a law firm to get to the bottom of this;

He must mean the barrel he is hiding in.

Adam

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I have a bad feeling about this. Whenever the American public fixates on the genital exploits of politicians then a disaster happens. On Sept 10, 2001 the leading story in all the newspapers was Gary Condit and his wiener and his fiddling with his little chippie. Then came Sept 11, 2001.

This makes me nervous.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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This is priceless. The Washington Examiner, "Silence, vagueness from Democrats on Weiner Photo!"

Nancy Pelosi explains that she is "...'a late-comer to the issue' — one that cable TV and the Capitol press corps have been fixated on for most of the week."

"A scene on the House floor Wednesday afternoon seemed to highlight the situation. As newly elected New York Rep. Kathy Hochul was sworn in — after an upset, special-election victory Democrats considered a sign of their ability to communicate their differences with Republicans on the future of Medicare — Weiner and the No. 2 House Democrat, Steny Hoyer were locked in a nearly 10 minute, animated conversation."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2011/06/silence-vagueness-democrats-weiner-photo-0#ixzz1OEW515ax

"I will have nothing to say about that," said fellow New Yorker, Rep. Louise Slaughter. "I'm here to put people to work."

Now this last statement is the most amusing statement of all - a Democratic Congresswoman who wants to put people to work!

Adam

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And now for some intentional humor by iowahawk, a "conservative" blogger, who writes...Farewell, My Weiner, with a Mike Hammer motif here

"Excerpts from the new Inspector Dan Rather mystery

Secrets are funny things. The harder you try to keep them under wraps, the harder they spring up in the most embarrassing places. And in my line of business, you learn that no matter how you try thinking about baseball those secrets can jump right out of their soft cotton comfort and put you on ice permanently.

My name is Rather. And I'm a dick."

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Jonah Goldberg, opines, here, in his article in the "conservative" Townhall.com, entitled, Is Weiner Being Frank, that:

"Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York is a very busy man. He sits on several important committees. He's newly married to a high-powered wife. He's planning a run for mayor of New York City, which they call "the city that never sleeps" for a reason. In fact, he's so busy that from 2007 to 2010, he reportedly racked up more than $2,000 in unpaid parking tickets in Washington, D.C., partly due to his penchant for parking his car --WeinerMobile, if you prefer -- with expired tags at a taxi stand."

This is another clever use of an old rhetorical trope wherein you get a separate and unconnected negative aspect of a person's character in under the radar while you are relating the actual current story.

It is similar to the attorney addressing the jury and stating, "Ladies and gentleman, I could mention the defendant's conviction in Ohio for being a peeping tom at the old ladies home, but I would rather stick to the issue before you today concerning ....."

So, essentially, not only is the little dick Congressman with the powerful, hot wife an internet perv, but he has unpaid parking tickets. He is a completely devoid of good character!

It is fascinating to watch this media feeding frenzy especially on someone like Weiner who thought he was untouchable.

Adam

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Rat runs for his hole:

U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has canceled his speaking appearance at the state Democratic Convention on Friday night in Milwaukee.

Graeme Zielinski, party spokesman, confirmed the cancellation and said the decision was Weiner's, and that the party's invitation to him was still good.

"It's understandable, considering what's going on," Zielinski added.

Weiner, an outspoken liberal voice in Congress, has been in the midst of a controversy over a photo of a male crotch in underpants sent to a female Twitter follower of his.

Weiner has denied sending the photo and says his Twitter account was hacked, but he has not denied the photo might be of him. The story has occupied much of the political world for the past few days.

Weiner was to be one of the main speakers at the convention, which starts today at the Frontier Airlines Center. Another main speaker: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Zielinski said Weiner "opted to stay in New York . .. with his family," and added, "We're looking forward to a visit in the future" from Weiner.

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I just took a look at Michael Prescott's blog (which I do every month or two) and, with respect to the media's Weiner whacking, Michael has pierced straight to the point in a gushing river of rhetorical arousal with powerful strokes from his mighty pen:

The largest news of the past week is, of course, Weinergate.

In all honesty, the number of column inches devoted to this story seems disproportionate to its subject. The story may be big, and it may continue to grow, but I doubt it has the potential to be huge. Even so, there is no doubt that the scandal will be hard on the congressman and his staff.

There is no need to magnify the story or extend it. The facts, laid bare, are straightforward enough. It appears that the congressman pulled a boner and was caught with his pants down. He issued a brief statement, which may have been premature and seems to have been a stretch. It appears he got overly excited and wasn't using his head. As a result, his story is encountering stiff opposition and has prompted penetrating questions from the hardened press corps, who see him as fair game for whacking.

Though the media continue to pump the congressman, his answers have come up short. Even as reporters flog him, he has remained rigid in sticking to his story. Apparently he has decided to run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes, while trying to beat off all inquiries. In all of this, I can't escape the feeling that we are being jerked around by Congressman Weiner. It's almost as if he is trying to screw us.

If the congressman persists in dicking around, the situation may come to a head. He risks looking like a tool, even like a bit of a prick, as he tries to make us swallow a story that would choke a chicken.

He needs to master the situation and not be baited into losing self-control. It doesn't help him when he goes off half-cocked. He must stand tall, straighten his spine, and do the hard work of servicing his constituents. The story may be large, but it's nothing he can't handle. He just has to grab hold of it with both hands.

To be frank, Weiner needs to show some balls.

I tried to resist, but some things are just...

So...

Too...

Ah,,, forget it...

:)

Michael

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I just took a look at Michael Prescott's blog (which I do every month or two) and, with respect to the media's Weiner whacking, Michael has pierced straight to the point in a gushing river of rhetorical arousal with powerful strokes from his mighty pen:

The largest news of the past week is, of course, Weinergate.

In all honesty, the number of column inches devoted to this story seems disproportionate to its subject. The story may be big, and it may continue to grow, but I doubt it has the potential to be huge. Even so, there is no doubt that the scandal will be hard on the congressman and his staff.

There is no need to magnify the story or extend it. The facts, laid bare, are straightforward enough. It appears that the congressman pulled a boner and was caught with his pants down. He issued a brief statement, which may have been premature and seems to have been a stretch. It appears he got overly excited and wasn't using his head. As a result, his story is encountering stiff opposition and has prompted penetrating questions from the hardened press corps, who see him as fair game for whacking.

Though the media continue to pump the congressman, his answers have come up short. Even as reporters flog him, he has remained rigid in sticking to his story. Apparently he has decided to run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes, while trying to beat off all inquiries. In all of this, I can't escape the feeling that we are being jerked around by Congressman Weiner. It's almost as if he is trying to screw us.

If the congressman persists in dicking around, the situation may come to a head. He risks looking like a tool, even like a bit of a prick, as he tries to make us swallow a story that would choke a chicken.

He needs to master the situation and not be baited into losing self-control. It doesn't help him when he goes off half-cocked. He must stand tall, straighten his spine, and do the hard work of servicing his constituents. The story may be large, but it's nothing he can't handle. He just has to grab hold of it with both hands.

To be frank, Weiner needs to show some balls.

I tried to resist, but some things are just...

So...

Too...

Ah,,, forget it...

:)

Michael

earth-movingly funny.

Thanks Michael for sharing this.

(you know us older women, we're just so...grateful)

Carol

Prescott fan

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Here is the disturbing Weiner photo...

870694e0-8bed-4dc1-8ff7-0e722985ddfb.jpg

Quite disturbing, as Michael Graham, Boston radio host and political commentator, explained, but he does "...look like a wiener, doesn't he."

Michael continues with, "Oh, the underwear shot? Click here."

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This leftist is a media hound and his past manner of never answering the question asked, but advancing his message has been tolerated when it was not about "sex" or a prurient issue.

His surprise at not having his ass covered completely by the media is, frankly, hilarious, if it was not so serious.

Watch how he attempts to control this interview until he loses his cool. The media tries so hard to give him every opportunity to avoid, obfuscate and evade the issue, but even when they plead with him to give them answers that they can properly spin, he arrogantly dismisses them.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/05/31/sot.bash.weiner.twitter.cnn

At about 4:05 is where the Congressman use the "jackass" phrase

I just love the way he attempts to get Clarence Thomas to recuse himself because HIS WIFE has her own points of view and engages in political action!

Priceless. The little Whiner Weiner is carrying the water to make up for the expected Kagan recusal on the health care case.

Adam

I suspect this photo was taken after he was abducted and sexually abused by aliens.

--Brant

speculation, I know

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Christopher Hitchens' column today has some really funny material on this:

Not since Chris Rock proposed that Jennifer Lopez's derriere have its own agent has the mind-body distinction been so crudely misused. If this catches on, there will be plenty more lucrative work for lawyers. Imagine the new firms that will go into business to represent independent dicks. Campaigns could be charged billable hours by Nasty, Brutish, and Short or Long, John, and Silver. (There might even be room for Weiner, Weiner, and Weiner.) In the meantime, it will become necessary for all prudent males in public life to register copyright on actual and potential pictures of their private parts, perhaps especially those taken from the apparent viewpoint of their uneasy owners. I am pretty sure I couldn't be confused with anyone else. I am convinced furthermore that I'd be able to identify my own property, but to avoid any confusion (or "conflict of interest") between us, I'm arranging for the waistband of my briefs to read clearly: "Hitch: 'Too Big To Fail.' Serving the Community and Making a Difference Since 1967."

http://www.slate.com/id/2296295/

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Fine article by Hitch:

The little worm, who the NY Times tells us has a pregnant wife, is, apparently, in hiding. Voice mailbox is full. Not returning e-mails. Phone numbers busy constantly. One of his friends even attempted to defend him by talking about what a wonderful

person he has been for his constituents, what he did was human and that he should be forgiven.

All of the above is valid. He just needs to resign in my opinion.

Kirstin Powers, who is his friend and dated him for several months also is demanding his resignation here because, as she points out, he lied to me.

I have known about Weiner for almost two (2) decades, since he became the youngest councilman elected in NY City history in 1991. He then, after four (4) or five (5) terms took over Schmucky Schumer's Congressional seat which he holds today.

What was not well known was how the little Weiner got elected in a three way primary for council in 1991. I was surprised to find the truth in a Salon article here. It tells the tawdry story of the little low life's intentional playing of the race card in am anonymous mailing a few days before the primary where he was running third (3rd) in the three (3) person field. The mailing was vicious and probably contributed to a lot of unnecessary additional street violence.

He has always been a low life left wing power hungry slug. He will do anything to grab more power and he will not leave until he must.

Adam

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Fine article by Hitch:

The little worm, who the NY Times tells us has a pregnant wife, is, apparently, in hiding. Voice mailbox is full. Not returning e-mails. Phone numbers busy constantly. One of his friends even attempted to defend him by talking about what a wonderful

person he has been for his constituents, what he did was human and that he should be forgiven.

All of the above is valid. He just needs to resign in my opinion.

Kirstin Powers, who is his friend and dated him for several months also is demanding his resignation here because, as she points out, he lied to me.

I have known about Weiner for almost two (2) decades, since he became the youngest councilman elected in NY City history in 1991. He then, after four (4) or five (5) terms took over Schmucky Schumer's Congressional seat which he holds today.

What was not well known was how the little Weiner got elected in a three way primary for council in 1991. I was surprised to find the truth in a Salon article here. It tells the tawdry story of the little low life's intentional playing of the race card in am anonymous mailing a few days before the primary where he was running third (3rd) in the three (3) person field. The mailing was vicious and probably contributed to a lot of unnecessary additional street violence.

He has always been a low life left wing power hungry slug. He will do anything to grab more power and he will not leave until he must.

Adam

So what? Who do you think will replace him? He's more valuable for sticking around if only for the continual animadversion upon him and his represents.

--Brant

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Brant:

One of the two (2) Congressional districts that NY State will lose in the redistricting this year is from NY City. It looks like his will be the one selected.

Adam

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This has been launched by Diane Gooch, of StrongNewJersey.com. She is a business woman, conservative Republican. She advertised this on WABC AM radio today during the Shawn Hannity Show which is going to have Ron Paul and Ann Coulter on which is a hell of a duet.

Weiner mudt resign petition

Adam

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Folks:

Now this is a very interesting perception which I did not even remotely consider as the psychiatric disorder that it is, or, as the potential "crime" that it is.

If Anthony Weiner had resigned at his press conference earlier this week, I would be happy to give the subject a rest. It is unedifying and unpleasant. Yet a few loose ends remain.

In the voluminous commentary that I have seen on Weiner's case,
I have been struck by the lack of an awareness or description of his problem.
His problem is not that he is indiscreet, or rude, or monstrously egotistical, or obnoxious and untruthful, or all of the above. Based on everything we know, I think it is safe to say that Weiner represents a newfangled throwback to an old-fashioned syndrome.
He is an exhibitionist using the social media to ply his wares. He gets his thrills from exposing himself to women.

When Weiner claimed in his confessional press conference that he had tweeted the infamous photo to the Seattle coed as a joke, he was lying****.
That is, he was
still
lying, continuing the ruse he had maintained when he asserted that his Twitter account had been hacked. At that time he alleged that the photograph constituted a joke on his name played by the perpetrator. Not true.
Weiner himself tweeted the photograph to the young lady because it gave him a sexual thrill to do so.

Thus the claim of Weiner's left-wing defenders that Weiner's conduct raises a privacy interest is absurd.
The public element of his behavior is essential to its nature, as it is for the man who stands undressed in a raincoat waiting to expose himself to a woman in a public place.

If I am right, Weiner's assertion that he had no physical relationship with the women to whom he exposed himself is undoubtedly true.
He had no more physical relationship with his female correspondents than the man in the raincoat has with his audience. A physical relationship is not the point of the behavior.

What is the point?
Exhibitionism is a psychiatric disorder. Weiner appears to present a classic case, updated for the digital age. Among those suffering from the disorder, however, exhibitionism is supposed to abate after age 40. Perhaps Weiner has an additional contribution to make after all, if only in a different field than the one he is pursuing at present.

**** I made an explicit point to my friend as we watched that press conference that he was lying there, but I could not identify the "lying about what" part, but now I know.

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