Posted on 06/01/2011 11:09:29 AM PDT by Qbert
We still don't know the origins of the crotch shot sent out from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account over the weekend -- whether it was the result of a hack or originated with the congressman himself.
What's certain right now is that Weiner, through his odd behavior over the last 24 hours, has succeeded in convincing much of the press that there's at least a possibility he was responsible for sending the lewd image to a college student in Washington state.
The shift in the seriousness with which the press is treating the story can be chalked up above all to Weiner's painfully awkward press conference yesterday. For a full seven minutes, he repeatedly told reporters he was done commenting on the Twitter story, while unsuccessfully trying to change the subject to Clarence Thomas.
But reporters predictably found it odd that Weiner -- whose office has said he was the victim of a hack -- refused to answer several basic questions, including, was that him in the photo?
He later refused to answer repeated questions posed by Talking Points Memo's Benjy Sarlin, saying that "after two and a half days of statements that answer these questions that I'm not going to keep drilling into further details and further details, even one ... even the easy questions, even the obvious questions, even the ones I've answered before." (The site is running the story with the headline "Dem Rep. Weiner Refuses To Answer TPM’s Questions On Twitter 'Hack'".)
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Weiner's enemies in New York, where he is (or at least was) widely seen as a future mayoral candidate, are circling. The New York Post's editorial on Weiner today began like this: "What a creep." Politico quotes one of his rivals saying "he’s in deep doo-doo when it comes to future aspirations."
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
first of all, if he was hacked, why did he destroy evidence by deleting the pic? if you wanna know if it was him, what kinda underwear does he wear? that wasn’t your normal boxers or briefs.
This little creep even looks like a Rat.
He should have said, “That’s not me! I’m an extra-small!” and it would have ended (unless the college student said otherwise).
couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
This guy is so smug and arrogant.
The whole thing is so bizarre. He said if someone throws a pie at a speech, you don’t spend all your time talking about that. He alleged that somebody hacked his accounts, which is a legal matter. For him to claim to be hacked but not to be involved with law enforcement investigating this is a red flag.
Gee, Democrats make so much fun of Republican family values, this would have been a good chance for him to say “of course it was me - I'm not a prude like some on the right!”
Funny, they make fun of family values but never come out in favor of adultery.
I don’t know, isn’t a sex scandal a DemonRat resume enhancer?
I just don’t know if Weiner’s Weiner will stick.
Of course he sent it.
Bawhahaha........
So much of the press was born yesterday, they couldn't possibly have observed that the Weiner was flat out weird and disgusting for years.
I remember someone throwing a shoe at a speech, and that's all the media talked about for weeks.
The problem is that in his press conference, Weiner was less than frank.
You know this has got to be the tip of the iceberg. What else is he hiding?
Nothing can be permanently deleted.
“The whole thing is so bizarre. He said if someone throws a pie at a speech, you don’t spend all your time talking about that.”
Yeah, he kept repeating that bad analogy- and the question really is, was it Weiner himself who was “throwing the pie” that everybody’s talking about?
Pelosi to President Obama...We have a Weiners Weiner problem.
Ah yes, just another rangle over ‘values voters’ whom the democraps don’t respect anyway, but they have to keep up the ruse of having any morals.
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