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All the Weiner You Can Handle: Why MSM Can’t Ignore This Scandal Now

Posted on | June 1, 2011 | 44 Comments

Thanks to Tim Daniel at Left Coast Rebel for locating this video of Luke Russert’s devastating interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner:

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Big props to Luke Russert for asking tough questions. Compare and contrast to the utter uselessness of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whose Weiner interview is transcribed by Ace of Spades.

Now, I have gotten a bit of kidding from my friends about being in all-Weiner, all-the-time mode the past few days:

The Other McCain Is Big on Weiner Coverage

Har-de-har-har. That’s OK. Take a look at Memeorandum:

Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com broke the story in the wee hours Saturday, but now? Oh, everybody else is covering the story like they discovered it themselves. I was one of a relative handful of bloggers — and we were all those horrible, nasty right-wingers — who jumped on this story Saturday and bulldogged it relentlessly, aggregating, analyzing, expanding the story and trying to push it forward, while Luke Russert was enjoying a nice Memorial Day weekend at the beach. I make no apologies, and I’m not going to turn the story loose just because the MSM are now bigfooting all over it. And I remind readers of what I wrote earlier today:

Notice how George Stephanopoulos (scarcely a right-winger) featured the WeinerGate story today on Good Morning America . . .
You see that, as Stephanopoulos says, Weiner is a “high-profile Democrat” whose avowed ambition is to become mayor of New York City — America’s most lucrative media market.
The supply-and-demand incentives for coverage of this story are therefore so strong that, liberal bias or not, the major news networks can’t simply ignore it. In fact, I had the TV in my office tuned to MSNBC for a couple hours today, then turned over to Fox News, and MSNBC actually had more coverage of the story than Fox!
You might say that Weiner is too big for his own good.

This story isn’t going away, because everybody loves a big Weiner story.

UPDATE: It is amusing to see that, on the very day that Weiner refuses to deny the authenticy of the bulging-crotch photo, a left-wing blog claims to have proof that Weiner was “framed.”

Caleb Howe at Red State doesn’t much buy into the alleged proof.

Permit me to suggest the possibility that (a) the photo actually is of Weiner’s package, however (b) the photo Tweet to Gennette Cordova actually was sent by someone other than Weiner, and yet (c) that doesn’t mean Weiner hasn’t sent photos of his package to other women.

The story, then, would be about much more than this one Tweet — something I started suspecting Sunday, although I don’t know that I have ever previously said as much here on the blog. This one Tweet to Cordova may have been the work of a hacker, but if the bulging-crotch photo is actually Weiner, it could have been obtained from someone to whom Weiner actually did send it on purpose.

This theory of the incident would explain Weiner’s visibly desperate desire to avoid a law-enforcement investigation, which would require him to answer such questions as, “Have you ever sent such photos to anyone else?” and also might involve a forensic examination of Weiner’s computer and ISP records.

UPDATE II: Ann Coulter seems to be belittling Weiner:

Weiner’s Penis Photo Dispute To Be
Settled In Small Claims Court

(Hat-tip: If You Seek Peace) But I am concerned that, by making teeny-weeny jokes about Weiner’s wiener, Miss Coulter may be creating an impression she does not wish to create. She is an unmarried woman and her derogation of Weiner as diminuitive may cause some to infer that she has extensive experience in . . . well, comparison shopping.

There is a reason, after all, that I have made no comment on the size of Weiner’s alleged bulge. If I’m going to spend four days writing about this subject, it would ill behoove me to appear personally interested in the . . . er, underlying facts of the story.

UPDATE III: Speaking of underlying facts, our friend Bob Belvedere provides several photos of Ginger Lee, the porn star who was (allegedly) exchanging DMs on Twitter with Weiner. I’m reasonably sure Ginger Lee wasn’t impressed with the size of Weiner’s wiener. A quite difficult woman to impress that way, is Ms. Lee.

(Trying not to be judgmental here, OK?)

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  • http://hipsterjew.com/files/2010/08/340x_anthonyweineryearbook.jpg Anthony Weiner

    I have powerful mojo.
     
    Young women cannot resist me.  Strange thoughts just pop into their head, even across the country. 

  • http://hipsterjew.com/files/2010/08/340x_anthonyweineryearbook.jpg Anthony Weiner
  • Cassongs

    McCain is the WEINER KING!  Keep at it, bulldog.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah. I own that Weiner!

  • Anonymous

    I have a theory which is no doubt unoriginal. Basically Weiner’s dilemma is how to spin a plausible yarn that will keep his wife from slicing and dicing his equipment without having to lie to law enforcement.

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    As I am not an all-around reporter like yourself, I covered the subject I know best…Linked to at: Weiner Snits-Full: Starring Ginger Lee

  • Anonymous

    He seems astoundingly unaware that Weinergate is the only newsworthy aspect about his existence. His opinion about the debt ceiling is superfluous

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    So even going with the ever slight premise that the blog Cannonfire is right (highly doubtful):

    Someone with ill will sent the dic pic to Weiner’s account in an attmept to embarrass him..   For being such a media whore  and his hissy fit outbursts on the House floor,  he is taking it all in grace and stride..

    I think most people would be busting some balls should it happen to them.. 

  • JeffS

    You just need the buns to go with that Weiner!

  • Anonymous

    Was it hard to find pictures of her that could be posted on your site?

  • http://twitter.com/ChBrowning Charles Browning

    Props to you RSMc.  You WERE on this like a hound on a pork-chop from the ‘go’ word and have refused to yield the floor to the MSM/LSM.

    Very nice work.  I’ve had a window with your site open continuously and refresh it often.  Do not relinquish.  You are to be commended for a very early grasp of just how this would play out.   Five days in and you are proven right.

  • http://dad29.blogspot.com/ Dad29

    In 5 days or less, he’ll wish he were Oscar Mayer.

  • Bushwackca

    Okay here goes my “Nostradamus” prediction: Very soon Wiener will come out and say he’s gay. The picture was taken by his lover and mistakenly sent under his twitter login. It’s a win win…
    See, then he come out and says he’s gay, get the LBGT crowd “Behind him” and then when it starts to get “sticky” he calls everyone “Homophobic”… I’m tellin you that’s the direction this is HEADED.

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  • jules

    Ok…  which political show would we all prefer… Weiner and Spitzer or Franks and Weiner? They’d both pull to the left and promise more than we’ve seen they could ever deliver, but at least CNN or MSNBC would be paying for them, not us taxpayers.

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Jeff, haven’t you seen Stacy in his speedo?

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    She’s not my type, so it wasn’t hard, IYKWIMAITYD [bah-dum-dum-crash].

    The most difficult part was finding PG-13 pics.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Or Ginny Thomas.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Thanks for the mention, Stace.

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

    He’s trying to imply that the pic was photo-shopped, which is why he’s not coming out and saying whether it is or is not his. But that doesn’t solve anything. Even if there was some photo-shopping involved, that only matters whether it was based around one of his original pics. So which part was real and which was added? Was the bulge added under the underwear, or was the underwear photo-shopped over the penis? Or maybe he was trying to say that was his leg but everything else was photo-shopped? So if that was his bare leg what else was originally in the pic?

    I want to say his whole story is obvious bullshit, but maybe in this case it would be more appropriate to say it’s nuts.

  • http://profiles.google.com/dianna.deeley Dianna Deeley

    Well, the name Franks and Weiner provokes a giggle fit.

    The thought of neither Barney Frank nor Anthony Weiner in office any longer? Oh, please, please, please! Can I have just a little more of that fantasy? It’s better than butter pecan ice cream and no penalties of cholesterol or calories!

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  • http://profiles.google.com/dianna.deeley Dianna Deeley

    Such a pretty girl; I’m sorry to read that she’s in porn.

    Though somehow, I doubt her looks hurt her career. 

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

    It’s easy money, and potentially lots of it. Also, sometimes its a way to feed a drug addiction, just like prostitution.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/Nihimon Matt Knowles

    Has it occurred to anyone else that the “prankster” may have been his wife?  Is it inconceivable that he and his wife together enjoy the “company” of these comely young ladies?  And were enjoying a little fun when the Mrs. accidentally pushed public instead of private?

  • JeffS

    I was thinking of Ginger Lee, Bob.  Not Speedo Stacy. 

    NTTAWWT.

  • Anonymous

    I want to say his whole story is obvious bullshit . . .

    Trust your feelings, Luke. The Force is with you.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Apologies.  I’ve got weiners on the brain.

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  • Bob

    Connonfire wide of target.  If Weiner was already logged onto twitter with his PC, all he had to do was take the picture with his smartphone and email it to his yfrog account.  Then link it in a new tweet.  All in a matter of seconds and … no URL!  And, no hacker with special knowledge.

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

    I wasn’t going to say this straight out, because I was afraid somebody would mess up a golden opportunity to maybe get something on the Wiener, but did you know he is STILL following @maggiehemming, the high school girl?

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

    Or is that Henning? Hemming, Henning, whatever.

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  • http://twitter.com/Amusing_Bunni Amusing Bunni

    Great coverage RSM!  Here’s a new one, this is REALLY bizzare!
    http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/06/02/rep-weiner-staff-calls-cops-on-cbs-news-reporter-but-not-the-alleged-hacker/?utm_source=like&utm_campaign=ingboo

    He is really toast now, this will keep him in the cycle several more days, no doubt….to hide the other big stories, like WH counsel resigning, the economy double tanking, and other assorted crimes!

    I think wee weenie weiner doth protest TOO much.

  • http://twitter.com/Amusing_Bunni Amusing Bunni

    I think he sent it to guys and girls, and he doesn’t want ALL that to come out.  All his double entredre’s make he look even more insane.

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