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Weiner’s Wiener?
UPDATE: Who Is ‘Gennette Nicole’?
UPDATE: Questions Piling Up

Posted on | May 28, 2011 | 93 Comments

New York Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner allegedly sent an alleged photo of his alleged penis to an alleged woman via Twitter.

The photo shows a man in gray undershorts with a bulging erection. Weiner is claiming he was the victim of Internet hackers, and I think we should believe him.

Because his penis is probably much smaller than that.

Via Memeorandum, with blog commentary by Patterico’s Pontifications, The Jawa Report, Sister Toldjah, No Sheeples Here, Doug Ross, Weasel Zippers and American Power.

UPDATE: Velvet Hammer at Ironic Surrealism examines “Gennette Nicole,” the self-described “progressive” journalism student in Seattle to whom Weiner allegedly sent the photo, and who had previously described the married congressman as her “boyfriend.” Her Twitter account has now disappeared down the memory hole.

UPDATE II: Gennette Nicole Cordova is a student at Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Wash., where she is a reporter for the student newspaper, Horizon.

Hat tip to “ThoughtsAloud” on Twitter for the original ID and photo.

It must be emphasized that at this point we have no idea whether Ms. Cordova actually knows Rep. Weiner, whether her Twitter claim of him being her “boyfriend” was just a joke, or whether Rep. Weiner actually communicated with Ms. Cordova.

Let’s hope Rep. Weiner will clarify this confusion, before the media scrum descends on Ms. Cordova.

UPDATE III: Jesse LaGreca at Daily Kos is trying to turn this into a story about Andrew Breitbart, which is ridiculous. We seem to have actual facts here, facts which require some plausible explanation.

Very simple questions: Was Rep. Weiner exchanging online messages with Ms. Cordova? If so, why? If this is all just a misunderstanding — if Rep. Weiner was the victim of hackers — why was Ms. Cordova the recipient of that message? Why would a hacker randomly select a student journalist in Washington State to send that to?

The congressman’s office can either answer those questions — and answer them PDQ — or else wait until every political reporter on the West Coast is camped out in front of Ms. Cordova’s house.

UPDATE IV: I just got off the phone with Andrew Breitbart, who denies any insinuation of wrongdoing on his part in reporting the story now known by the Twitter hashtag #WeinerGate.

Frances Martel at Mediaite writes that the story is “a reminder that Andrew Breitbart’s editors and writers do not aim to abide by accepted journalistic standards.” Exactly how the hell “accepted journalistic standards” should be applied to a congressman (apparently) Tweeting a picture of his penis to a college student, I’m not sure.

But here is a question Breitbart posed during our phone conversation: If someone hacked Rep. Weiner’s online accounts, isn’t that a crime? Isn’t it, indeed, a national security threat?

OK, so has Rep. Weiner reported this crime to the police? Is the FBI investigating? When will we have a press conference at which Rep. Weiner vows to get to bottom of this crime against him, and bring the perpetrators to justice?

There is a dog there, you see. And as Sherlock Holmes might point out, that dog is not barking.

RB at the Right Sphere doesn’t think the hacking story holds water.

UPDATE V: Ace of Spades reminds us that Weiner is Meghan McCain’s favorite Democrat. Some jokes just write themselves, don’t they?

UPDATE VI: “Anthony Weiner’s Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend is a 21-Year Old Coed, only 25 Years Younger Than the Married Congressman.” But who are we to judge?

UPDATE VII: Thanks to Soren Kay in the comments for linking this useful collection of online WeinerGate resources.

UPDATE VIII: WeinerGate has been at the top of the Memeorandum aggregation for hours, and yet it appears that no traditional news organization finds it newsworthy. Da Tech Guy decided to do some reporting:

I took the liberty of calling congressman Weiner’s office, the recorded messaged referred me to a press number to call after hours. I called the number and the gentleman named Joe who answered claimed I had the wrong number so I called back the congressman’s office to confirm the number in question (it was correct) and called the press number again. It now goes directly to voice mail. I left my name and home and cell numbers at both locations, and I’ll let you know if anything pans out, but I found that reaction…interesting.

Weiner’s press secretary dodging phone calls? Perhaps more reporters ought to call 202-225-6616 and try to get some answers, because the questions keep piling up out here. Dan Riehl asks, “Why Would Rep Weiner Care What Time It Was In Seattle?”

Liz Benjamin notices something else: “The woman to whom the picture was sent has since deleted both her Facebook and Twitter accounts. Very odd.”

Indeed, it is very odd. If Ms. Cordova was merely the victim of a hacker’s hoax, why would she delete her accounts?

Linked by Don Surber, The Lonely Conservative, Fire Andrea Mitchell and Pundit Press — thanks!

UPDATE IX: Linked by Gateway Pundit and No Sheeples Here — thanks!

UPDATE X: Linked by Joe at Valley of the Shadow, who grew up in Weiner’s district.

UPDATE XI: Neil Stevens at Red State observes that Ace of Spades hilariously eviscerated Weiner’s “I was hacked” explanation. I’d imagine the congressman spent most of Saturday evening trying to come up with a plausible defense.

UPDATE XII: Linked by Moe Lane, who notes that somebody spent a lot of time Sarturday trying to scrub the name “Gennette Cordova” off the Internet — even having her byline removed from articles she wrote for her college newspaper!


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  • Joe

    Didn’t Wiener used to date Ann Coulter?

  • Joe

    Oh wait, Weiner married Hillary’s hot lesbian Arab assistant.  I can’t keep these Democrat liasions straight. 

  • http://wyblog.us/blog Chris Wysocki

    Should the NFL launch an immediate inquiry into whether or not it was Wiener’s wiener (and not Brett Favre’s) that got Jen Sterger all hot and bothered? Let’s put Ines Sainz on that story STAT!

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  • http://twitter.com/DaTechGuyblog Peter Ingemi

    This is going to become rather nasty rather quickly, particularly if it is false.

  • Anonymous

    I am perfectly willing to believe that this is all some kind of mixup. But it there is an innocent explanation, it is incumbent on Weiner to provide that explanation.

    Why would Cordova Tweet that Weiner is her “boyfriend”? I’m as dumbfounded by that as I am that Weiner would Tweet his penis.

    I’m wondering if maybe one of Weiner’s young staffers, who manages the congressman’s online accounts, is romantically involved with Cordova? This might explain a lot, if the aide accidentally used the boss’s account to contact his girlfriend, who then joked about getting communications from her boyfriend through the congressman’s account.

    So, as I say, I’m willing to believe that an innocent explanation is possible. But unless and until we get such an explanation, this is likely to create all kinds of problems for Cordova.

  • Anonymous

    The Kos article proves the left is in panic mode over this. The longer Weiner remains silent, the greater this things grows (no pun intended).

  • http://twitter.com/DaTechGuyblog Peter Ingemi

    That would be logical, then again it would have been logical that John Edwards in the midst of a presidential campaign wouldn’t be fathering love children either

  • http://twitter.com/DaTechGuyblog Peter Ingemi

    That would be logical, then again it would have been logical that John Edwards in the midst of a presidential campaign wouldn’t be fathering love children either

  • Anonymous

    I like it, your recommendation to follow the  least sensational course of action seems prudent.

  • Anonymous

    I like it, your recommendation to follow the  least sensational course of action seems prudent.

  • http://twitter.com/jslconsulting John LaRosa

    Have you researched a possible Barney “Frank” connection? Frank and Weiner. “Members” of Congress.  “Junk” legislation. Stimulus “package”.  Political and moral “shortcomings”. It all adds up. (“Dick” Armey is not involved, however…I checked…he’s a “stand up guy”.)

  • Anonymous

    What was Weiner’s name before he changed it to remove the hyphenated part?

  • Joshua

    Bellingham will be pretty busy with the annual ski to sea relay race.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry but I gotta play the hooey card. Weiner isn’t unusually stupid for a lefty loon. The notion that one of the most prominent, well known leftists in government and named “Weiner” is stoopid enough to send a picture of his penis to a student is just too good to be true.

  • Anonymous

    The above comment was in no way intended to dissuade unfounded speculation.

  • http://www.soopermexican.com Soopermexican

    I’m sick and tired of Andrew Breitbart shining the light of truth on our scummy leftist Overlords! He must be stopped before Americas collapses into a pit of freedom and self-responsibility!

    Keep pressing on the National Security angle. It’s what the MSM would have done to a GOP wiener scandal…

  • Anonymous

    OK, if the story is not true, there must be an explanation. And I’m waiting for that explanation, which we don’t have yet.

  • Anonymous

    Tiny-Weiner?

    Man, the jokes just write themselves!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Soren-Kay/100001270456452 Soren Kay

    I’ve got a lot of research here on this story that I’ll continue to be updating(if it lets me)

    http://justpaste.it/weinerboner

    Here’s a teaser

    Lesbian Crush:
    http://postimage.org/image/zo4iemx0/full/

    Jew-obsessed:
    http://postimage.org/image/znxw98xw/full/

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    He was watching hockey. Maybe drinking a couple of beers loosened him up a bit.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    There’s those “accepted journalistic standards” at work.

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  • Anonymous

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1190764Hey Stacy, for some reason, you finding out the identity of Ms. Cordova is somehow a backtrack in the minds of the DUmmies at DU

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  • Anonymous

    Weiner is such an arrogant scumbag, that I have NO trouble believing he’d be sending his weiner around.  Bleeeccccch!  Though the photo can’t be a whole lot more disgusting than having to listen to him talk.

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  • JeffS

    Hmmmmmmm.  The DU link is bad. 

  • ThomasD

    Perhaps we should all pause for  a moment to thank the Almighty that there are no Congresscritters named Wacker.

  • melanerpes

    Weiner blithely kept twittering from a “hacked” account?  Very insouciant fellow.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Too bad the jackass didn’t actually show it sticking out of his underwear, or with no underwear. Then it would really be a story. But the fact that it was hidden makes it seem more like he actually did that. I’m guessing he got mixed up as to whether he was on his private as opposed to his public account. Even if he was hacked, he obviously had the photo in his files. Maybe his wife was the hacker. Who knows?

  • http://twitter.com/NoSheeplesHere No Sheeples Here

    Your question about the MSM not reporting this has been answered.  The Seattle Intelligencer and Politico have both weighed in.  Red State also rips to shreds Tony The Dick’s lame reasoning that his account had been hacked.

  • Joe

    Okay.  But please don’t become like Andrew Sullivan “just askin questions.” 

  • Joe

    I kind of doubt he would do a screen shot of his wiener.  Or he was very drunk and did it.  Either way, I would give the guy a pass.   And I think I recall you refusing to respond when you were accused of things that were not true. 

  • Joe

    Then again, maybe that whole marriage thing was a sham as rumored and the guy really is single.  But faking a marriage is a story.  Or he got caught getting some strange on the side. 

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    Oooh – the jilted spouse! I love that idea!

    Not answering the calls from the press?  Sounds like Weiner is a weasel.

  • http://twitter.com/NoSheeplesHere No Sheeples Here

    This post is now linked at No Sheeeples Here.

  • Anonymous

    Apologies.  http://tinyurl.com/3fn6z6f
    But, they do link directly to this thread in their link. 

  • JeffS

    Thanks!

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  • http://profiles.google.com/betoochoa78722 Beto Ochoa

    Rep. Weiner vows to get to bottom of this crime against him

    Getting to the bottom of something was his intention all along

  • philip averbuck

    Looks like that was an old-fashioned beard-job, in reverse.  “Marriage of convenience!”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_72CXMYWR2356GL6KJVU47OMJFA Right Klik

    Looks like there was a “boyfriend” tweet on April 20 as well: http://twitpic.com/540u5m

  • http://gripernews.blogspot.com Wisco

    “It must be emphasized that at this point we have no idea whether Ms. Cordova actually knows Rep. Weiner, whether her Twitter claim of him being her “boyfriend” was just a joke, or whether Rep. Weiner actually communicated with Ms. Cordova.”

    So, of course, you’re doing the totally responsible thing and posting her life story on the internet for every nutjob to see.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_72CXMYWR2356GL6KJVU47OMJFA Right Klik

    More Gennette Nicole Cordova pictures: http://www.rightklik.net/2011/05/all-weiner-all-time-update-gennette.html

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  • Anonymous

    Uh oh. There is only one Gennette Cordova in all of Washington, according to publicly available records. And she lives in, you guessed it, Seattle. NOT an hour and half to the north near Whatcom Community College. So I think the question of what Weiner was doing in Seattle has been answered. Busted!

    Also, I believe that the shot was Weiner’s literal answer to Cordova’s question: “what is [Rep]Weiner up to”? Too bad for him he didn’t post the joke via PM.

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