Posted on 06/07/2011 6:31:39 AM PDT by Qbert
Congressman Anthony Weiner instructed one of his Internet women how to lie about their relationship ... and even offered PR help from his team, which could create major legal issues for him ... TMZ has learned.
Weiner and former porn star Ginger Lee exchanged scores of sexual emails over a long period of time. When the underwear scandal broke on May 28, Lee began receiving calls from the media, and Weiner was more than happy to help her control the situation ... by lying.
On June 2, Weiner emailed Lee, "Do you need to talk to a professional PR type person to give u advice? I can have someone on my team call. [Yeah, my team is doing great. Ugh]."
It's unclear if Weiner's PR team is from his Congressional staff. If so, Weiner could run afoul of House Ethics Rules as well as the law.
Weiner put on a full court press, urging Lee to lie about their relationship. On June 1, he emailed her: "The key is to have a short, thought out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it. Have a couple of iterations of: 'This is silly. Like so many others, I follow Rep. Weiner on Twitter. I don't know him and have never met him. He briefly followed me and sent me a dm saying thank you for the follow. That's it.'"
Weiner suggested a nice touch -- some good ol' Southern charm: "And then maybe insert some y'alls in there."
On June 2, Weiner sent Lee a proposed statement she could give to the press: "I have nothing to do with the situation involving Rep Weiner. I follow his twitter feed. And for a brief time he followed me. Much has been made of the fact that I have posted about my admiration for Rep Weiner and his politics. All I can say about that is that I'm a fan of his. Rep. Weiner sent me one short direct message thanking me for following him. I have never met Rep. Weiner and he has never sent me anything innappopriate (sic) ..."
Weiner then asked Lee directly, "How's it [the proposed statement] feel?"
The sickest part about that is that he has pictures of himself and his wife RIGHT BEHIND HIM!!!
How long before his Muslim wife’s family takes out this Jew who ‘dishonored’ her?
Not to mention various friends and family. I’m sure they’re all real happy to have achieved their 15 minutes that way.
I think Abedin may pull a Maria Shriver and leave Weiner only if he leaves office.
Great minds think alike, I just posted that same thing, LOL!
That happens alot on FR. Gives me tremendous hope that we will take this country back in short order. There are millions of us out here thinking the same way!
This gives the House ethics investigators an entertaining new charge to consider - “corrupting the morals of a porn star.”
"I don’t know the details, but I know him [Weiner] to be a person of integrity and I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this." -- U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), 5/31/11
That's really interesting, Chuck, in light of this admission just yesterday:
"Last Friday night, I tweeted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I had posted it to Twitter, I panicked, I took it down, and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story to stick to that story, which was a hugely regrettable mistake. This woman was unwittingly dragged into this and bears absolutely no responsibility. I am so sorry to have disrupted her life in this way. To be clear, the picture was of me, and I sent it." -- Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), 6/6/11
ROFL. It's a good thing Chuck Schumer is used to sticking his foot in his mouth.
Now, according to Breitbart, Weiner can't even show up anywhere in public without having people laugh in his face.
It’s just remarkable isn’t it? We’re watching our culture being systematically numbed to crap we should never even know about, number one, and number two, watching grown adults somehow try to make it ok for him to remain in Congress.
I don’t want to know it- but if we’re going to know it- then these guys have simply got to go. Look what Boehner did with our guy last week- pics just of his chest and told him to pack his bags and go home. Boom- done. As it should be.
I actually take some comfort in this. People like Chuck Schumer and Anthony Weiner spend their careers in politics because they're unemployable in any industry where honesty, integrity and the real American spirit are critical for success.
You make such a good point...I guess I was just happier not knowing. I’m all for exposing corruption- but damn I don’t want to know what entertainers think about politics and I don’t want to know how politicians are entertained..
Chuck Schumer, for all his flaws, actually had some potential at a young age. He attended Harvard University (I believe he scored a perfect 1600 on his SATs in high school) and went to Harvard Law School, and passed the bar exam in New York State even though he has never practiced law. My guess is that he got into politics because: (1) he saw himself as a public crusader of some kind; and/or (2) he simply couldn't handle a career in law.
Anthony Weiner, whose first job out of college was on Schumer's staff (when Schumer was the Congressman representing Weiner's current district) back in the early 1980s, is a different story altogether. He attended the State University of New York (Plattsburgh) and aspired to be a TV weather reporter, but got into politics when that didn't work out. The guy never went to graduate school, has never held a real job in his life, and is a complete loser with a reputation for bullying his own staff . . . who has been reduced to "sexting" with strange women all over the U.S. because he's gotten to the House of Representatives and learned that, in the larger scheme of things, he really hasn't accomplished sh!t in his life.
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