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The furious mom of the Seattle college coed at the center of Weinergate yesterday demanded that the cocky congressman come clean about the lewd photo. "I'm really upset. I feel like he's a person of power and influence, who can make a statement and make all this go away," Carol Mizuguchi said, blasting Rep. Anthony Weiner for his continued snarky sidestepping. "As her mother, I'm really upset," Mizuguchi told The Post. "I'm pissed off at that." Mizuguchi's 21-year-old daughter, Gennette Cordova, got the surprise package -- a close-up of an underwear-clad crotch -- over the weekend in a tweet from...

Statement from Gennette Cordova, student who was sent lewd Twitter photo from Rep. Weiner's account By Gennette Cordova Sunday, May 29th 2011, 7:38 PM Gennette Nicole Cordova, who received the obscene tweet from Rep. Weiner's Twitter account. Andrew Savulich/NewsRep. Anthony Weiner Related News Girl who got lewd pic from Weiner speaksWeiner says crotch pic was hacker Friday evening I logged onto Twitter to find that I had about a dozen new mentions in less than an hour, which is a rare occurrence. When I checked one of the posts that I had been tagged in I saw that it was...

This is the biggest story on the internet today. Yet, for some reason, Drudge has completely ignored it. I know it's a holiday weekend, but there have been other updates on his site. What gives?

NEW YORK — A spokesman for New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nur) says a lewd photograph sent from the Democrat's Twitter account is just "a distraction" perpetrated by a hacker.

OK, I admit it: when I heard this morning that Rep. Weiner had supposedly sent a coed a picture of his (encased) genitalia via Twitter, I assumed that somebody was just having his or her little joke by hacking into the man’s account and indicating that Weiner is, as I put it, one of the bigger d*cks in Congress.  But that was before Ace of Spades demolished this argument utterly (H/T: Neil Stevens) (remember, folks [and bad Moe!]: identity theft is a crime), so now I am taking this seriously as a possible scandal, and I found something interesting going...