Ten days after initially denying he sent photographs of himself in underwear to women other than his wife, the Democratic Congressman from New York admitted yesterday, in a tear-filled press conference, that it was indeed his crotch in the photographs.
If you've been under a rock the last ten days, Anthony Weiner is an up and coming liberal congressman from New York that was considering a run for mayor of New York City in 2013. Roughly ten days ago, Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger of BigGovernment.com, reported that Weiner sent provocative photographs of himself in tight underwear to several women, including a college student in the Seattle area. Representative Weiner immediately stated that someone had hacked into his Twitter account and that the photographs were a prank.
The media took off with the story, "Weinergate", as it is now known. And as the media asked more questions, Representative Weiner continued lying about whether the photograph was one of him.
Yesterday, Representative Weiner (would all this coverage have happened if his last name was Smith?) admitted to lying to the press, his family and his wife about the photographs in question. "I'm here to take responsibility. I'm deeply sorry. I panicked. I said I had been hacked. It was a hugely regrettable mistake. To be clear, the picture was me and I sent it."
Rep. Weiner should have taken responsibility ten days ago. But when faced with an embarrassing situation which indirectly involved his wife and his marriage, he did what most married men initially do: lie.
I'm not saying lying is the right thing to do. But I do understand why the guy lied. But after he gives his mea culpa to his family and the media- shouldn't that be it?
Yes, the guy's an idiot and should have considered that some random woman might forward a photograph of a Congressman in his tighty-whities. Correction: a photograph of a creepy dude sending college women R-rated dick photos will be forwarded with subject line: "check out this creep." The likelihood that your friends, family and the rest of the world find out you're a dirtbag (and if you've surfed Craig's List you know there are many dirtbags out there) sending lewd photographs increases substantially when your name is Congressman Anthony Weiner instead of Tony Weiner from Brooklyn.
But after an apology to his wife and family, what's the big deal? Why do I care about this story? Why is it being shoved down my throat? Yes, he's an idiot. Maybe his constituents won't want to vote for him again for being a dirtbag; but is it worth a congressional investigation? Doesn't Congress have better things to be focusing on? Shouldn't the media be focusing on something more important than a Congressman from New York sending women pictures of himself in his skivvies?
Unfortunately for Anthony Weiner, he is a victim (along with the women he had these relationships with) of a media monster that takes a topic like "GOP 2012" and a morsel of information, spins it into something by getting "experts" on the air to speculate on what Sarah Palin might be thinking. Then we are forced to watch stories about whether Sarah Palin is going to run in 2012 because she was on the back of a Harley in Washington DC on Memorial Day. And the irony is most of the same media covering Palin go on record calling her an idiot- but yet still keep a camera in her face 24/7.
Note to ABC. NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS: Sarah Palin is still relevant because you keep a camera in her face. She's relevant because you networks keep talking about her under the story line: "Sarah Palin relevant?" The less you film her quipping about Paul Revere, the less relevant she becomes.
And the same with Anthony Weiner. Absolutely stupid? Yes. But is the story about a guy sending indiscreet pictures of himself to women really that big a deal? I'll defer to one of the women who had an on-line relationship with Representative Weiner. She said: "I don't think he's a bad guy... he just has issues like everyone else."
07 Jun, 2011--
Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/your-doubting-thomas/2011/06/representative-anthony-weiner-has-issues-but-so-does-the-media.html
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