Free Republic

Rep. Anthony Weiner has called an afternoon news conference Monday amid a fresh round of sordid allegations involving the married congressman, including the release of a new set of photos that appear to show him posing shirtless. The website BigGovernment.com, run by conservative rabble-rouser Andrew Breitbart, reignited the frenzy it started last week involving the New York Democrat in a series of posts Monday. [snip] Weiner's office has not responded to a request for comment. He will address the media at 4 p.m. EDT from a midtown Manhattan hotel. [snip] Many of Weiner's supporters pointed to Breitbart when news of...

Today Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY) confessed to lying and sending lewd tweets to young women. Unfortunately, some leftist cranks took the news better than others. Daily Kos jumped the shark. They think the press conference was faked. NEW DETAILS: Weiner’s Press Conference was FAKE!! Daily Kos is insane. -- The same mainstream media that tried to convince us that everything is bad for your health and curling is the next big thing, is now trying to convince us that Anthony Weiner has given a press conference in which he “acknowledged” Tweeting certain photographs, took some questions, and apologized to everyone...

(CNN) -- Democratic leaders took the initiative Monday to go after one of their own, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, hours after he admitted to lying about posting an explicit photo on his Twitter account and carrying on inappropriate relationships with women he'd met online. [SNIP] One question that is sure to be central to such an investigation is whether Weiner used congressional resources while sending -- as he admitted -- explicit photos and messages to "about six women" over a three-year period. The New York Democrat claimed that his BlackBerry device is not paid for by the government, and added,...

Rep. Anthony Weiner has called an afternoon news conference Monday amid a fresh round of sordid allegations involving the married congressman, including the release of a new set of photos that appear to show him posing shirtless. The website BigGovernment.com, run by conservative rabble-rouser Andrew Breitbart, reignited the frenzy it had started involving the New York Democrat in a series of posts Monday. One photo shows a man's naked torso; the subject's full face is not visible, but pictures in the background include Weiner. The website says a young woman provided the photos, sent to her from what is allegedly...

Rep. Anthony Weiner plans press conference after release of provocative new photographs By Michael A. Memoli and James Oliphant June 6, 2011 Rep. Anthony Weiner has called an afternoon news conference Monday amid a fresh round of sordid allegations involving the married congressman, including the release of a new set of photos that appear to show him posing shirtless. The website BigGovernment.com, run by conservative rabble-rouser Andrew Breitbart, reignited the frenzy it had started involving the New York Democrat in a series of posts Monday. One photo shows a man's naked torso; the subject's full face is not visible, but...

Friday night Anthony Weiner, Democrat from New York City and Client Number Nine’s successor in the House, had a problem on Twitter. His account, @RepWeiner, had posted on it a rather inappropriate message. The Twitter post and the image on YFrog have since been deleted. To attempt to be delicate about it, the linked photo (posted under Weiner’s YFrog account) was of a man in in somewhat tight-fitting underwear, with just that area of his body visible. Big Government has the photo if you want to judge for yourself.

A week after claiming a hacker had posted a lewd photo to his Twitter account, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner on Monday apologized for lying about the ordeal and admitting carrying on inappropriate relationships with several women he'd met online. Weiner, a New York Democrat, said he is not resigning his seat, nor is he planning on separating from his wife. But he said he took responsibility for his actions -- both the relationships and for lying about sending the photo of his bulging underwear on his Twitter account. "To be clear, the picture was of me, and I sent it....

Weiner: “I apologize to Andrew Breitbart” June 6, 2011 Keach Hagey Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) doled out his first apologies to his wife and his constituents, but also apologized to the media and to Andrew Breitbart specifically during a long and rambling press conference in which he seemed determined to answer every last reporter’s question. Breitbart had demanded an apology a few minutes before from the same podium, where he climbed after Weiner did not show up on time to his own press conference. “I’d like an apology from him,” Breitbart said. “This was his strategy, to blame me…so I’m...

Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Hey, nothing like being upstaged at your own press conference. Andrew Breitbart was at the press conference, and if I understand correctly from the zillion-tweets-a-minute going on during the conference, reporters asked Andrew to answer questions. Naturally, he took the podium, achieving a moment of New Media Awesomeness: “I want to hear the truth. I want to hear the truth from Congressman Weiner and I would like an apology for him being complicit in a blame-the-messenger strategy,” Andrew Breitbart said at a presser before Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) took the podium — at the...

NEW YORK – New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nuhr) says racy, shirtless pictures that appeared on a website are him and he's apologizing for what he calls making terrible mistakes. During a teary-eyed press conference, he says he won't resign.