Posted on 07/24/2013 2:53:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
It takes a fair bit of gall to accuse the media of lying about a sex scandal. It takes even more gall to then admit to the sex scandal, resign, claim you've redeemed yourself and decide to run again. And it takes the most gall to do all of those things, even as you're engaged in a continuation of that sex scandal.
But when your name is Anthony Weiner, gall is your middle name.
Or perhaps Danger is.
Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011, but only after claiming that Andrew Breitbart had fabricated photos of his scantily clad body. Breitbart stood by the claim; of course, Breitbart was correct, and Weiner was lying. In his tearful admission of guilt, Weiner told the American public that he was "deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and actions. ... This was a very dumb thing to do."
By the following year, Weiner was already on the rebound tour. In a joint People magazine interview with his wife, Huma Abedin, Weiner claimed, "I really do feel like a very, very different person. ... I've had enormous regrets about what I put Huma through, how I let my constituents down. But it's not like I sit all day replaying it in my mind. With a baby, it is pretty easy to put things into perspective." Huma, for her part, stood by her man: "I'm proud to be married to him. ... My husband did a really stupid thing. It was an extremely painful time. But there was love and a commitment to this marriage."
That interview was published July 30, 2012. At the time, Weiner was already pursuing a cybersex relationship with a 23-year-old woman under the nom de plume Carlos Danger. He was encouraging her to delete all their messages and reportedly promising her jobs at high-octane political media outlets like Politico.
Seriously.
This week, Weiner said he wouldn't withdraw from the mayoral campaign. He asked New Yorkers for "another chance." Huma appeared before the cameras, Hillary Clinton-style, to provide cover for her embattled husband. Weiner refused to give details on when his online activities started or stopped and said he would not confirm how many other photos could be out there.
The people of New York continue to grant Weiner topline credibility; polls show him leading or barely trailing in the mayoral race. Liberal media personalities like Tamara Holder have already begun the spin: Sex scandals are private business, and nobody should care about who has seen Weiner's Carlos -- or rather, Carlos' weiner. Holder tweeted, "Public service has nothing to do with bedroom service. 98.4367 percent of men cheat. I do know a few good men who don't. Leave ?#Weiner alone." Unfortunately, Weiner hasn't left Americans alone.
This is what happens when society decides that honor is not a central value. Politicians can lie to the media then somehow spin those lies as a "private matter." Politicians can declare they've been cured, and Americans are expected to grant them a second chance. Forget trust but verify. Americans have embraced apathy. We expect our politicians to lie to us on everything from their political views to their personal lives. All of it is irrelevant. All that matters is name recognition.
Weiner may not win the mayoral mansion, although the media is hard at work shifting attention to the supposed heroism of his wife. But there are always more Weiners where this one came from, so long as Americans keep standing for this nonsense.
Only on you, Tamara.
However, even if the statistic weren't idiotic, we're not talking about adultery here: we're talking about compulsive exhibitionism.
I don't remember reading of a single incident in which a woman has said she actually had sex with Weiner. Flashing is his thing, not sex.
Johnny Dangerously?
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Metrosexuals are anything but dangerous.
He has some issues.
I certainly don't mean to argue with you, cdcdawg, but I think there's more to the story:
He has some issues instead of a brain.
I wonder if Huma had anything to do with his getting caught, again.
Bullshit. I was married for 14 years to a ball busting woman with OCD and major depression issues and I never even thought of cheating. She did, however. I haven't started dating again and won't until I figure out why I have such poor taste in women.
CC
LOL !! I have listened to this story all day on radio and read about it on the internet. This is the best nickname or middle name I’ve seen or heard :) Hat tip for this one
No from the Firesign Theather, The Adventures of Nick Danger Third Eye. They where a comedy group. From my high school days, way back when.
Nick Danger starts at 28:24.
Yes that is it! Have you ever listened to them?
You are too kind. Thanks.
The primary drivers of this exodus are 1) the real estate values in New York are still high, so companies get a big positive one time boost to their financials when they sell buildings and real estate, and 2) the tax and labor rates in other more business friendly cities are so much lower they get a huge benefit in cost reductions going forward.
They are almost being forced to do this by Obama because interest rates have been held so artificially low for so long by the Obama/Bernake printing presses running at full speed (>$80,000,000,000.00 per month, ad infinitum). FedGov is creating money out of thin air and then buying its own debt with it which is artificially keeping interest rates at all time lows.
What this does is punishes companies that invest money for profit (primarily banks and insurance companies - many of which are based based in NY). The banks and insurance companies have no choice but to find other options to create profits for their shareholders, and getting the h*ll out of New York produces huge and almost risk free returns.
In the lousy job market we are in, these companies are easily hiring the employees they need in more business friendly cities.
North Carolina, due to its proximity to the northeast, is a red state going wild with expansion as huge companies are moving thousands of jobs at a time out of NY. Little “mini cities” are popping up around Charlotte to house all the transplants and new hires. This is just one example. Cities in Florida and Texas are also seeing a huge influx of transplants from NY. We are talking thousands and thousands of jobs.
The Detroitification of NY has begun in earnest as the easy money policies of Obama administration have come home to roost. As the capital producers move out, the takers stay. Just like Detroit, eventually you run out of other people's money, and the city goes belly up.
http://www.nfib.com/nfib-in-my-state/nfib-in-my-state-content?cmsid=57706
http://theweek.com/article/index/204275/why-is-everyone-moving-to-texas-5-theories
I listened to them back in the days of my college pot parties. A long time ago.
I used to listen to them as well.....a long time ago.
Remember this?
I don’t think I’m old enough!
As a fellow arm chair shrink, I have to say this guy is seriously messed up. I can understand a guy being tempted to have sex with young attractive women. It’s hard wired into our DNA. In fact, I think any man who has the opportunity and stays faithful deserves a medal. But this guy seems to have a compulsion to not only show off his wiener, but continuously wants women to tell him what a wonderful wiener it is, and asks them how it compares to other wieners they’ve known. Clearly the guy has serious insecurity issues.
LOL! Take care! God Bless you and yours!
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