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Rep. Weiner: "I don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me."
cnn ^ | 6-1-11

Posted on 06/01/2011 3:25:00 PM PDT by doug from upland

Full Interview Transcript THIS IS A RUSH FDCH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back. I'm Wolf Blitzer. We're on Capitol Hill with Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us.

REP. ANTHONY WEINER (D), NEW YORK: Thank you, Wolf. It's my pleasure.

BLITZER: Did you send that picture to that college student in Washington state?

WEINER: I did not. She says she never got it and doesn't know me; I don't - certainly don't know her.

This seems like it's a prank to make fun of my name. You know, when your named Weiner, that happens a lot. Got 45,000-some odd Twitter followers, hundreds of people that I follow. This seems like a prank that has gotten an enormous amount of attention.

BLITZER: This is the picture - I'm sure you've seen it by now. Is this you?

WEINER: I can tell you this. We have a firm that we've hired - I've seen it, it's - I've seen it - a firm that we've hired to get to the bottom of it.

I can tell you this, that photos can manipulated. Photos can be of one thing changed to look like something else. We're going to try to get the bottom of what happened. Maybe Jon Stewart last night had it right, unfortunately, but we're going to find out.

Look, this has turned into this kind of international whodunit. What it really is was, I think, a prank. I'm treating it like a prank and trying to get back to the work I'm trying to do. I understand you want to pursue the story, and we're going to try to help you the best we can.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: weiner; weinergate
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1 posted on 06/01/2011 3:25:02 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

The man certainly lives up to his name.


2 posted on 06/01/2011 3:28:33 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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Every day, Wolf, people have stuff like this happen. It's regrettable, but it's true, every day. Every day it doesn't become a federal case. Just because it happened to Congressman Weiner on his personal account doesn't mean the taxpayers should pay for some investigation of this that winds up going on and on for years and years to find out who - wait for it - who sent a picture of someone in shorts on the Internet on the account of a guy named Weiner. I just don't think it rises to that level. I don't think it's a federal case, but I'm going to turn it over to some people who are going to give me advice on what to do next.

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No, Weenie Man, it won't go on for years and cost million of taxpayer dollars. An FBI computer expert will know in 24 hours if you sent the photo or a hacker did it. Records from Twitter will then determine what IP address did it. They will have this wrapped up in just a few days. But you can't afford a criminal investigation, can you. You really weren't hacked, were you?

3 posted on 06/01/2011 3:29:17 PM PDT by doug from upland (website reserved just in case: TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: doug from upland
"I don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me."

He knows about one particular picture...

4 posted on 06/01/2011 3:31:09 PM PDT by moovova (Obama...a man, a president, a loser.)
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To: doug from upland

This little jerk needs to get some type of constructive hobby.

Playing with his computer at night isn’t healthy; but then perhaps it all makes sense seeing as though Weener is a DemocRAT and a loud-mouthed insulting bottom feeder.


5 posted on 06/01/2011 3:31:33 PM PDT by IbJensen (Welfare: putting a cake under the sink expecting that it wont attract cockroaches.)
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To: doug from upland
'TheBitchIsBack2012.com'?

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

6 posted on 06/01/2011 3:31:44 PM PDT by Viking2002 (RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)
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To: doug from upland

Weiner the whiner , it could happen to a more deserving man

I have to say , I’m gloating


7 posted on 06/01/2011 3:32:09 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: doug from upland

This is seriously stupid. I saw the pic (God save my soul), and unless some pic just happened to be shot from straight down (IE: Taken the picture of yourself), Weiner is the photographer.

(How you doing, DFL?)


8 posted on 06/01/2011 3:32:57 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama said OBL is dead I didn't believe it. Al Qaeda says he's dead and now I do!)
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To: doug from upland
Summary of Weiner’s Words as Blitzer destroys his career.

“Somebody hacked my account. Sure, there may be pictures of my bulge available on the internet, but this may or may not be me. Debt limit. It's a prank. I don't know this poor victim in Seattle, and I don't know why a stripper is saying I sent her direct messages. It's a prank. People throw pies at me. Back to business. Medicare. For Pete's sake, will you people just leave me alone so I can get back to secretly sexting young women?”

9 posted on 06/01/2011 3:33:06 PM PDT by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: doug from upland

In German words the second of two consecutive vowels is sounded, i.e., diesel. If this guys name is spelled “Weiner” as all posts seem to use, then it should be pronounce “Whiner”, which is ironically fitting. So, is it spelled Wiener or Weiner?


10 posted on 06/01/2011 3:34:13 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: doug from upland
I suppose that none of us know what pictures of us there may be "out there." Friends, family, and neighbors may have pictures of us we have forgotten about, or were not aware were being taken. We may be in the background of pictures taken by perfect strangers at Disneyland, the zoo, a park, or wherever.

I'd be willing to bet, though, that most of us can be fairly certain that there aren't any pictures of us "out there" of us in our underwear that we aren't aware of. At least, not pictures taken of us over the age of two or so.

11 posted on 06/01/2011 3:38:45 PM PDT by susannah59
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To: doug from upland

yah...he has to be worried if the evidence will stand up in court...


12 posted on 06/01/2011 3:38:54 PM PDT by Bean Counter (AdMinn Mod says your feet stink...almost as bad as your breath...)
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To: doug from upland

“I don’t know what photographs are out there in the world of me.”

Maybe it’s just me..... perhaps I just haven’t gotten out enough over the years.

Of the hundreds, if not thousands of photo’s taken of me, I know for a fact and to a moral certainty, that there is not a single photo of me in my underwear showing off my bulging penis. I must be strange because I didn’t have to go down memory lane to be so certain.

Weiner is certainly a standard bearer for the democrat party.


13 posted on 06/01/2011 3:39:51 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
I have to say , I’m gloating

Gloating is my business, and let me tell you: business is gooood.

14 posted on 06/01/2011 3:42:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: doug from upland
Notice how Weiner never answers the simple question, "Is this a picture of you?"

That means either 1) he doesn't know if it is him or 2) he knows it is him and he is lying.

If someone took a picture of me in my underwear, I would definitely know about it. I never appear in my underwear in places where I can be photographed. I guess Mr. Weiner does, so he cannot confirm or deny that the pictures are of him.

15 posted on 06/01/2011 3:48:13 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: doug from upland

“Every day, Wolf, people have stuff like this happen”

Is Wolfe’s weiner on the internet?


16 posted on 06/01/2011 3:53:29 PM PDT by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: doug from upland
Every day, Wolf, people have stuff like this happen.

I can definitely say that in my entire life it has never happened to me.

It sounds like Weiner got caught sexting. Was he using a government phone? Was he in a government office when he did it?

-PJ

17 posted on 06/01/2011 3:57:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: doug from upland
WEINER: I can tell you this. We have a firm that we've hired - I've seen it, it's - I've seen it - a firm that we've hired to get to the bottom of it.

A "firm?"

Not the FBI?

Not the Capitol Police?

Not the Secret Service?

-PJ

18 posted on 06/01/2011 3:59:34 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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HITLER RANTS ABOUT ANTHONY WEINER
19 posted on 06/01/2011 4:04:17 PM PDT by doug from upland (website reserved just in case: TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Weiner: “We have a firm that we’ve hired” - is that another weiner joke?


20 posted on 06/01/2011 4:05:29 PM PDT by PDGearhead (Obama's lack of citizenship)
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