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Anthony Weiner's wiener

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Harvey - you do know that none of us here at AT P&N have the authority to prosecute Bush, correct?

It's like, wow, move on. Seriously.

People don't "debate" you primarily because they don't care enough about your problems. Bush will not be prosecuted. You can take your "argument" a million different ways. But it always ends in Bush not being prosecuted.
 
Exactly. He needs to, and he claims he already has, take it up with Holder, Obama and anyone else in the administration who will listen.
 
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cubby1223 said:
Harvey - you do know that none of us here at AT P&N have the authority to prosecute Bush, correct?

It's like, wow, move on. Seriously.

People don't "debate" you primarily because they don't care enough about your problems. Bush will not be prosecuted. You can take your "argument" a million different ways. But it always ends in Bush not being prosecuted.
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You can't order the military into any actions, either, so keep any opinions you have on the use of the US military to yourself. You can't vote for any bills, so same there.
 
monovillage said:
He's toast. He was misidentified as a Republican by Reuters with this headline. "Republican Weiner uncertain whether lewd photo was of him" – Reuters . It was picked up by numerous wire services, but Reuters has since fixed their headline. He's still toast though. One of the few places that didn't fix the headline.
http://santacruzlaguna.com/republican-weiner-uncertain-whether-lewd-photo-was-of-him-reuters
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You really think he'll resign? Personally I think this is completely in character for Wiener and I don't see him being materially affected at all, other than maybe some people seeing how truly poor is his intellectual prowess and maybe dropping a few points in his next re-election. It's humiliating, granted, and no doubt puts some strain on his marriage, but in the overall scheme of Congressional hijinks this seems pretty tame and harmless. I know a Republican Congressman resigned after being caught sending shirtless pictures to a young woman, but that's a Republican; they tend to run on being good people. Democrats run on a promise to take stuff from other people and give it to you, which is hardly affected by emailing pictures of his junk to coeds. Wiener especially has made little effort (at least as far as I can tell) to be perceived as anything but a total dick for his entire Congressional career.

Besides, anyone publicly professing the positions defended by Wiener has to be quite used to dealing with public humiliation.
 
spidey07 said:
Republicans step down when there's a scandal, democrats don't. That's a fact.
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Don't you ever tire of being full of shit? Is there any topic you won't try to distort?

Mark Sanford called! Said to say hello and to keep up the good work. He mentioned asking you not to google Gov. James McGreevey but then trailed off about hiking and I stopped listening... Larry Craig was in the background complaining about carry-on charges or something, I dunno it was hard to hear.


Edit: Spidey, partisan and wrong as usual - that's a fact.
 
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Ape said:
Rep. Anthony Weiner Struggles to Explain Origin of Lewd Twitter Photo

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...lain-origin-lewd-twitter-photo/#ixzz1O82kMuh7



lol, the more he talks the worse he makes it.
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He could have handled this much much better. He does have valid points about waiting for the investigation before commenting. The funniest thing about this has been his comments on Rachel Maddow about wishing the picture was his....

Daily show had a funny bit on this as well.
 
Ape said:
Rep. Anthony Weiner Struggles to Explain Origin of Lewd Twitter Photo

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...lain-origin-lewd-twitter-photo/#ixzz1O82kMuh7



lol, the more he talks the worse he makes it.
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The amusing thing is that he has no reason to say anything other than "No, of course it's not me." If it turned out it is him, no one is gonna care that he lied about it they'd care about the picture being him and being sent on the internet. And if it indeed isn't him, then he just told the truth. I really think that politicians are just so ingrained to be as non-commital and vague in answering questions as possible that he's answering that way on reflex now.
 
His responses to questions about what personal pictures he may have taken of himself are hilarious. 🙂

Which of his handlers thought giving these interviews was a good idea?
 
kage69 said:
Don't you ever tire of being full of shit? Is there any topic you won't try to distort?

Mark Sanford called! Said to say hello and to keep up the good work. He mentioned asking you not to google Gov. James McGreevey but then trailed off about hiking and I stopped listening... Larry Craig was in the background complaining about carry-on charges or something, I dunno it was hard to hear.

Edit: Spidey, partisan and wrong as usual - that's a fact.
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Of course spidey's wrong. Its a given.
 
Ars Technica shows just how EASY it would have been to hack his yFrog account:

The truth, though, is that it is possible that the Weiner-wiener incident was pulled off by pranksters who knew how to manipulate yFrog into posting a photo to Weiner's account. yFrog, like many other image services, allows users to send a photo to a specialized e-mail address made for that person's account; when the service receives the message, it gets posted automatically and then tweeted out to the world.

The yFrog e-mail addresses given to users aren't public, but they also aren't hard to crack with some patience and some brute force. As noted by the Daily Dot, the format includes the user's twitter name, a period, and a random word between five and six characters @yfrog.com (for example, mine might be something like ejacqui.bears@yfrog.com). And because yFrog apparently accepts submissions to those secret e-mail addresses from any account, any prankster who has guessed the random dictionary word could send a photo to Weiner's account as if it were from Weiner himself.
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her209 said:
Of course spidey's wrong. Its a given.
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You know, to be fair, I've actually seen the dude make factually correct (even helpful) posts before in OT, usually regarding firearms. The intoxicated bigot with a brain injury routine usually seems to be relegated to P&N.

I'd have less of a problem with his partisan ass if it didn't spew so much dishonesty and hate.
 
kage69 said:
You know, to be fair, I've actually seen the dude make factually correct (even helpful) posts before in OT, usually regarding firearms. The intoxicated bigot with a brain injury routine usually seems to be relegated to P&N.

I'd have less of a problem with his partisan ass if it didn't spew so much dishonesty and hate.
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Ya, I've agreed with him elsewhere before.
 
anthony weiner is ugly as hell with a huge beak. you gotta give this nasty lookin' dood credit for taking advantage of his position
 
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Perknose said:
Ars Technica shows just how EASY it would have been to hack his yFrog account:
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In which case there should be no problem with Wiener stating "that's not my wiener." Instead he's using weasel words that he can't say with certitude (fuck, who talks like that?) whether or not that is the Wiener wiener, which can ONLY mean that it IS the Wiener wiener AND that there is at least one person out there who can prove him to be a liar if he claims otherwise. (The only other possibility, that the dude keeps too many too similar photos of his junk to know for sure if that's one of them, has approximately the same chance of veracity as the "Aliens abducted me and remove that portion of my brain that allows me to recognize my own genitalia in photographs" excuse.) It's possible though that he didn't send the picture. Of course, it's more likely that he accidentally sent the picture and is trying to cover it up.

Doesn't really matter anyway. People who support him will continue to support him. People who oppose him will continue to oppose him. The guy's far too doctrinaire a progressive for either possibility to substantially alter his support.

Of course, I'm also one of the people who said that if Clinton truly had been nailing an intern then he was gone by Monday, so my political radar tends to be fuzzy. But in general it's a safe bet on partisanship over morality.
 
werepossum said:
In which case there should be no problem with Wiener stating "that's not my wiener."
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Nope. Please think it through. Weiner could well have had that "So happy to meet you" pic of himself posted privately on his account. He's allowed, you know.

Once his password was broken, the hacker could have found it and used it to deliberately embarrass him by sending it to a young female.
 
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