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Mr. Weiner and the Elusive Truth(Influential New York Times Editorial)
New York Times ^ | July 23, 2013 | DAVID W. CHEN and JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ

Posted on 07/24/2013 12:07:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway

At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told. In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City.

Mr. Weiner, who resigned from Congress two years ago after sending lewd messages and photos of his crotch to women he had not met, was forced to revisit the issue on Tuesday, and so were we all. A Web site called The Dirty had another woman’s story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner’s penis. The startling news was that this new episode apparently took place last summer, only a few months before Mr. Weiner was to begin another run at public office. The marital trauma that Mr. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, had said was behind them was not as far behind as we thought.

When the first texts were revealed two years ago, Mr. Weiner lied about it, saying he had been the victim of hackers. Then he owned up, tearfully abandoned his office and retreated into private life. Then he was back, telling the world that therapy and his wife’s forgiveness had turned him around and that he was ready to begin a new chapter. That turned out to be the mayor’s race, which he entered in May. What he did not say then, and what voters did not realize until Tuesday, was that his resignation had not been the end of his sexual misconduct.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anthonyweiner; carlosdanger; newyork; newyorkcity; scumbag; scumbag4mayor
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To: kabumpo

Oh, once again i am reminded of why i moved out of my out of my native land- expensive, dirty, full of ignoramuses-who -thinn-they-run-the - center-of -the - universe but can’t manage to hold onto the wonderful city my forefathers helped put together in the face of too much money and a handful of Muz B and al q operatives ‘oh ues mr weiner, you can bring you can show your penis to the world AND bring the mus bro hood into the first lady spot. Yes whatever you want. We are NYers. We dont care. We will fight for the right to correct people when we can suspect them of being wrong on on minute technocalities, but we have no stomach for keeping muzzies out of leadership


41 posted on 07/24/2013 6:51:32 AM PDT by stanne
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To: gotribe

Well Huma works for Hillary!, and Hillary! has a lot of experience when it comes to philandering husbands.

So she probably told Huma to always “stand by your man”, no matter how humiliating and embarrassing it was. THAT was/is her ticket to fame, after all. Despite all of Bill’s lewd acts and affairs, by standing by him, even invoking a “vast, right-wing conspiracy”, ultimately gave Hillary! a senate seat, a cabinet position and a chance at the presidency in 2016. I imagine Huma wants to follow her “leadership”.


42 posted on 07/24/2013 7:03:48 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: stanne
Well, they aalso used this word (bolded):

A Web site called The Dirty had another woman’s story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner’s penis.

So in fairness, they were not prudes there.

43 posted on 07/24/2013 7:09:10 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
A Web site called The Dirty had another woman’s story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner’s penis.

Please, please can we call it a "tallywhacker"? Penis is so ppp... penis is so personal.

44 posted on 07/24/2013 7:13:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Alas Babylon!

Whatever.


45 posted on 07/24/2013 7:59:45 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

LOL!

Well who peed in your corn flakes this morning?


46 posted on 07/24/2013 9:03:46 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: dfwgator

By all means, let’s be fair to the NYT

They know most readers stop at paragraph 1

Weiner needs to be gone as well as his weird wife whose motives are questionable at best

As i write Rush is saying this guy is reprehensible and leave it to the little group of misogynists on this site to drag the decent people on this site into debating over crotches peeing in cornflakes eyc

The country is in a cultural tailspin and a couple of fr sophomorons want to debate in fairness to weiner and the nyt

Eeeyuk!


47 posted on 07/24/2013 9:14:58 AM PDT by stanne
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To: dfwgator

By all means, let’s be fair to the NYT

They know most readers stop at paragraph 1

Weiner needs to be gone as well as his weird wife whose motives are questionable at best

As i write Rush is saying this guy is reprehensible and leave it to the little group of misogynists on this site to drag the decent people on this site into debating over crotches peeing in cornflakes eyc

The country is in a cultural tailspin and a couple of fr sophomorons want to debate in fairness to weiner and the nyt

Eeeyuk!


48 posted on 07/24/2013 9:21:48 AM PDT by stanne
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, in the small, it is only his personal life.

However, I’m not sure this guy could reasonably be trusted to function responsibly in a management position, in charge of other managers including a HR director and female secretaries. In this economy though I am sure there are many who would, if he were in charge of the city, just hold their noses, work for the guy, and hope for the best.

Perhaps the issue is that Bill Clinton blazed a trail of public office sexual impropriety and perjury on Weiner’s behalf. At least, this seems likely to provide at least part of the rationalization for Weiner remaining in the mayor race.


49 posted on 07/24/2013 10:13:25 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: stanne

You know nothing about me or my activities, so it seems the height of arrogance and stupidity for you to opine on what I care about.


50 posted on 07/24/2013 2:57:01 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

I know that you took the time and effort to argue with me in favor of the New York times and their coddled, reprehensible anthony Weiner who should be hiding in disgrace and not parading around running for mayor with his security risk of a wife, according to her connections, her being top staffer in hillary’s Benghazi torn State dept and according to cong. M. Bachman

And that is enough for me to comment as i died

Care to defend these people any more?


51 posted on 07/24/2013 3:12:03 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Whoops - as i did


52 posted on 07/24/2013 3:13:28 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
They use the term, crotch? It’s a lie. They have a dictionary. They’ve seen the photos.

In the very next sentence, they say "another picture of Mr. Weiner’s penis."

53 posted on 07/24/2013 4:19:36 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

He needs to go and they need to help

No one in their eight mind will read beyond the initial description and they know it

But, you know, if you need to defend these people from little old me, these muz apologists


54 posted on 07/24/2013 4:33:43 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Right mind


55 posted on 07/24/2013 4:35:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I never defended them for one minute, even as a joke, and I don’t know where you got the idea that I did. Perhaps you are confused about to whom you are writing.


56 posted on 07/25/2013 4:36:34 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: tet68

Huma: “no more Wiener!”


57 posted on 07/25/2013 4:42:38 PM PDT by shotgun
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