Posted on 06/07/2011 11:19:29 AM PDT by La Lydia
How creepy? Creepy enough that ABC posted this footage (which was recorded a few days ago, of course) just within the past hour and then sent around the link via e-mail. I didn’t go hunting through their archives for it, in other words; they’re pushing it on people tonight themselves because, understandably, they (a) want to atone for having aired this guy’s lies as news last week and (b) presumably want the world to see what an almost pathologically fluid liar he was when cornered. The last 80 seconds of it will have you squirming in your seat — not only the way he claims to be the innocent target of a hoax but his insistence on lecturing the interviewer for assuming the worst, taking care to maintain accusatory eye contact the whole way. It’s genuinely disturbing.
If, like me, you felt bad for him when he choked up at his presser today, spend four minutes watching this. It’ll straighten you right out. And if you still feel bad after that, read the Corner’s round-up of last week’s conspiracy theories in Weiner’s defense. In a sane world, the people mentioned in that post would be the angriest at AW tonight for making them look like royal chumps. Instead, rest assured, most or all of them will end up doubling down by casting Weiner as the victim instead. Not ABC, though. Good for them for holding him accountable.
At Slate, Jack Shafer says the endless apologies after the endless lies only make the whole thing creepier:
He called his behavior, including his many lies about claiming he’d been hacked, “a terrible mistake.” He said he was sorry so many times that his utterances reached the point of semantic satiation—completely bled of meaning and heard only as strange repetitive sounds…
Weiner owes me no apology for his serial lies because I understand that that’s what politicians do when they’re cornered by their fibs or unseemly behavior. I’m not even sore with him for scapegoating the press over a problem of his own making. That, too, goes with the territory. Nor am I outraged that he went onto national television to attempt to cover up his lies, telling Rachel Maddow that he wasn’t “trying to be evasive” and he just didn’t “know” whether the Tweeted drawers photo was of him. For me, when the mass of lies equals the mass of apologies, the whole package congeals into some new sociopathic form for which there is yet no name. (Weinerite, perhaps?) That he was caught lying about his personal life, and not about public policy, doesn’t really matter to me. By demonstrating that he’s as good a liar as he is an apologizer, Weiner tells us everything we need to know about him.
All Liberals share the trait of being psychopathic liars. Weiner is a perfect poster boy representing his own kind.
All Democrats are total pukes...nothing new here. Their morals are in the sewer—they know no “right and wrong”—no moral base like the Bible...it is all made up (moral relativism) “values”..... and they wallow in it, so can’t shake free of the filth.
And the left (Chuck Schumer and Baba Wawa) keep telling us that integrity is not a job requirement for a congressman. Lucky for the Democrats.
And the MSM will not be replaying this endlessly...
Sadly, I couldn’t make it until the video ended. Weiner is the pukiest puke that ever puked.
This, imho, is a big as the original story.
He was ready to let someone else take the fall to cover up his own misdeeds—someone else he knew to be innocent.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
All politicians lie? OK, but do all politicans intentional injure another person to cover up their own misdeeds?
Well this is very instructive for Libs, you understand. They’ve now seen just how good a liar Weiner is, so now they can properly assess his potential for higher office. I’d say he’s better than Clinton but nowhere near the Charlie Rangel stage.
The sideshow takes the heat off the kenyan marxist pig and his destruction of our economy. Forget weinie and keep your eye on Obutthead.
When the U.S. dollar dies and our financial system collapses we are not going to be able to get all of the things that we need from the rest of the world so cheaply any longer. That is going to cause fundamental changes inside the United States. Right now, the economic news just seems to get worse and worse, but this is just the beginning. What is eventually going to happen in this country is going to be so nightmarish that most Americans could not even imagine it right now. So are our leaders doing anything to prepare for the coming economic crisis? No, they are too busy with other things. The big political news of the day was U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner finally admitting that he sent out lewd photos of himself over Twitter to women that he was not married to. We have become the laughingstock of the world and the economic collapse has not even happened yet.
The question IS.... Can Wiener STOP lying?...
It could be a mania.. his new wifey must be thinking that currently..
Antony Weiner, is Bill Xlinton lite ... so far!
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Is there any reason to believe this is the only thing he has lied about?
Is there any reason to believe Weiner won't be telling more lies in the future?
Don't think so.
Resign...FOR THE CHILDREN!
I loved the article, because when I was watching the guy confess and when he got all choked up, I sort of felt a twinge of ..... maybe it was embarrassment. This video, as the article says, set me straight.
You must watch the whole thing!
Puleeeeez...Bubba was using the Whitehouse and look what happened to him....zip!!
Not a chance.
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