Posted on 06/06/2011 2:21:45 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Here's the naked truth about Rep. Anthony Weiner -- he's an Internet perv.
A "deeply ashamed" Weiner openly wept during a news conference this afternoon in Manhattan -- admitting that he made "terrible mistakes" in sending lewd pictures of himself to women he met on Facebook and Twitter over the past few years.
A contrite Weiner vowed not to resign in the wake of the scandal and said he had told his wife only today about his ongoing online sexual trysts. "I don't know what I was thinking," an apologetic Weiner told reporters at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown. He said 21 times that he accepted responsibility for his actions. Weiner also said he was "not resigning" -- but took "full responsibility for my actions" over the last few years.
Until today, Weiner (D-Brooklyn/Queens) had adamantly denied sending a crotch pic tweet last month. When asked last week whether the crotch seen 'round the world was his, Weiner responded that he could not say with "certitude" it was not. Weiner called the initial that photo a joke and a hugely regrettable mistake. Last week's underwear imbroglio erupted after a picture of bulging briefs popped up on the Twitter feed of Seattle college student Gennette Cordova, a follower of the congressman and an admitted fan.
After initially insisting that a hacker broke into his account and sent the photo, Weiner spent most of last week desperately trying to deflate the issue. "I lied because I was ashamed about what I had done," said Weiner....
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Later on after being further pressured he apologized to “Andrew and all the news media” he had misled.
Weiner has been such an ass to so many people. What goes around comes around.
I don’t really care about him sending nasty pics around, as long as they were only sent to consenting adult. We have yet to learn if that was the case.
It’s the lying. He’s disgraced himself with his behavior but had he fessed up, it would have been a 2 day story. But as we learned with Watergate, the coverup can be worse than the “crime”. Except “brilliant young men” like Rep. Weiner didn’t learn that lesson. Until now.
Call the Repub leadership and insist they DEMAND Weiner resign...the same exact way Dims have required that of REPUB reps, who've done less offense.
Hillary's poor little sleep over friend has had a tough week. First she sees Weiner's package for the first time (well, a picture of it anyway) and now this!
“Democrats rarely resign their office over sex scandals. Bill Clinton set the bar for that.”
As bad as Bill Clinton was, he did not set the bar for Democrat sex scandals. Barney Frank did. Getting a BJ in the Oval Office doesn’t come close to running a homosexual brothel in a congressman’s townhouse.
Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, not a sex scandal.
.."hope ya wiped your feet, you might have tracked mad cow back here"
Exactly right.
“He will resign by Friday”
That’s optimistic. It’s possible, maybe, if more photos & emails come out. But as of right now, I am not optimistic about this guy leaving. The most I can see him doing is saying he’ll finish his term and not run for re-election - which is far from resigning.
He’s such a little abnoxious, sob
OK, I had to shut the car off to pump gas, so I missed it.
Interesting how Andy is now a media reporter so quickly, I wonder if Weiner cleared it with the Daily Kos' Marcos Marxist?
Also interesting that the Weiner media protectors would ask a followup on the apology to Andy.
Weiner has lost his political clout. His Congressional office staff don't last long because he is an obnoxious hothead jerk. I say let's keep him front and center until the next election.
sheesh...Obnoxious.
Politico says otherwise.
I still felt it was a miserly apology. He should have said I personally apologize to Andrew Breitbart for lying about being hacked and implying that he was behind the hack.
Resign, you lying sack of democrat feces.
What is it with Dems, they lie straight to
your face then expect you to just forget about it?
He should be censured and expelled, it’s only too
bad he wasn’t under oath some where. If he lied
about this, what ELSE has he lied about??
No. They would be a choking hazard to Dennis Kucinich.
Within the latest democrat scandal, what really bothers me the most is the total lack of respect for the job or the people being served. He should recognize what he has done, apologize, and resign in shame.
But we all know how this will play out.
What is this “CNN” of which you speak?
It had to be drug out of him but he finally did. He said I apologize to Andrew in a blanket apology for lying to the media. He said Andrew not Andrew Breitbart or Mr. Breitbart.
I think Rep. Gary Studds predates Barney.
Studds was having an affair with a page. (can't remember the age of the page he was a teenager)
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