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Finally, Weiner Calls the Police!

Posted on | June 2, 2011 | 50 Comments

No, he didn’t ask the cops to start an investigation of the insidious hackers who stole his crotch-photo and Tweeted it to a 21-year-old. But when a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York started asking questions . . .

Weiner’s Office Calls The Police
After CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer
Asks For An Interview

As you can imagine, Ace of Spades has loads of fun with this news. Meanwhile, CNN’s Jack Cafferty is asking another question: Can Weiner survive this scandal?

Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress has an excellent round-up of today’s WeinerGate news and commentary. And by “excellent,” of course, I mean: He linked me.

UPDATE: Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg see — what else? — a vast conspiracy!

Scott Whitlock has the transcript at NewsBusters.

UPDATE II: Linked by If You Seek Peace — thanks!

UPDATE III: Linked by Nice Deb — thanks! — and this story is now the top thread on Memeorandum.

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  • JeffS

    Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg see — what else? — a vast conspiracy!

    They’re just upset that Weiner didn’t follow them on Twitter.

  • Anonymous

    They’re just upset that Weiner didn’t follow them on Twitter.

    You forgot to add: IYKWIMAITYD.

  • JeffS

    Heh!  Yes, a major omission on my part.

  • http://roughedgesandsharpelbows.blogspot.com/ Brian D Paasch

    I’m a little lost on this. The guy is a Dem. He’s out and about proving his alpha male-ness. And as Bill Clinton taught the nation, this is just about sex, not about how he does his job. The left would, I assume, argue that he is one of, if not the finest house reps our nation has ever been privileged to serve. So what is the problem here?
    Now if he had an “R” after his name, well….

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  • http://www.weiner.house.gov/ Anthony Weiner

    I am the ultimate alpha male. 

    And I have a smokin rig. 

  • Joe

    Trooper York said… Charles Krauthammer is Henry Kissinger on wheels.
    Sarah Palin is Ronald Reagan with tits. 6/2/11 8:09 PM

    Off topic, but damn that is a great comment. 

  • jefferson101

    Just dayum!   Make me some more popcorn, please!!!!

    When a Democrat Congressman starts threatening to have the CBS reporter from the TV outlet in his District arrested?

    Toast, I tell you.  Toast.

    This will not play well back in his District, because he just offended the Station that most of his Voters watch.  This is more fun than a Circus, and cheaper to watch.

  • Anamika

    One more nontroversy. You guys keep the heat up on this very important topic while the POTUS disapproval rating goes below 40 for the first time in 18 months.

  • Anonymous

    I think you’re on to something.

    Behar and Goldberg were already suspicious when Weiner denied their respective requests to follow them on Twitter. Then, Behar and Goldberg got Twitterjected from Duncan Hunter, Heath Shuler, and  Scott Brown. Obviously, the “hacker” conspired against them!

    The clincher was when Behar saw the infamous pic and wondered, ”Why did Wiener tweet an close up shot of Rachel Maddow in her underwear?”

  • Anonymous

    To be honest, when I watch Palin, I have a hard time separating my political antena from the other one. I know how some ladies felt in the early 1960s when they swooned over JFK. I don’t mean to demean Palin as a serious candidate, but I can’t help it - she’s just flat smokin.’ 

  • Anonymous

    I have a pig cooker and a smokin’ jacket.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody asked you.

    Given the quality of your input, I doubt anybody ever will.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t sell us short. We’re gonna Wienerize the entire Democrat Party! You progressives perfected the art of the political narrative. By September 2012, we have half the voters in America convinced that it was Obama who was tucked inside of those gray briefs, pardner.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t sell us short. We’re gonna Wienerize the entire Democrat Party! You progressives perfected the art of the political narrative. By September 2012, we have half the voters in America convinced that it was Obama who was tucked inside of those gray briefs, pardner.

  • Anonymous

    Of course it’s a conspiracy!

    Somebody needs to ask those boneheads the following question “Projection, much?”

  • http://www.weiner.house.gov/ Anthony Weiner

    I better call the fire department too, because my wiener is smokin hot! 

  • http://www.weiner.house.gov/ Anthony Weiner

    Let’s party my brother, let’s party. 

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

     To be named ‘Weiner’ and wear a turtleneck is only asking for trouble.. 

    I think he has a chip on his shoulder..

  • Anonymous

    Okay, but you’ll have to reimburse me for my extra expenses.

    You’re bringing wieners, beans & barney franks, and 21 year old community college chicks.

    I’m bringing painstakingly slow-smoked pork shoulder and beef brisket, Cuban cigars, and high-priced Romanian call girls.  

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere
  • JeffS

    Obama’s approval rating dropping below 40 is merely relish on the Weiner. 

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

    You know something? As stupid as that guy has been acting the last few days, it wouldn’t surprise me a damn bit if you really were him.

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

    Ace (or one of the posters there, forgot to check) caught Weiner in a great big ol’ lie, and an obvious one. Let’s see the lefties try to explain this one. Wiener claims the DM he sent the porn star was an automated message. The reason that’s a lie is you can only send someone a DM if you BOTH FOLLOW EACH OTHER!

    http://minx.cc/?post=317095

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

    Oh, my!

    It could get better, but I’m really having trouble seeing how, just now.

    Whoopi “It wasn’t rape-rape” Goldberg and Joy “too many gaffes to pick one” Behar spot a conspiracy. I’m dying. I’m helpless with laughter. I need oxygen!

    Please, Anthony Weiner, keep dancing, because this has lightened my political mood more than anything since…before Obama was elected. 

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

    Why do you think Democrats tend to not act any differently than they ever did after they’ve had the living shit out of them like Congressman Lewis, or after they’ve taken a bullet in the brain like Giffords? Nothing changes because they’re already brain damaged. Something always manages to give it away, and these last few days has just been the Weiner’s turn to shine his little light. 

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

    You have no idea how much I enjoy reading your attempts to deflect.

    I can hold more than one subject in mind at a time, dear. Really. I know it’s a stretch of the imagination for you, but, it’s true.

    Numbers and text? No problem!

    Presidential tanking – *UNEXPECTEDLY!* – and Weiner antics? Again, not a problem.

    Carry on. I’m not sure, at this point, what I’m getting more of a kick out of – Weiner’s idiocy, or the pathetic attempts of various scurrying sycophants to make us stop pointing and laughing. 

  • http://www.weiner.house.gov/ Anthony Weiner

    To know me is to be annoyed by me. 

  • Anamika

    A Buddhistic smile may be one thing, but hysterical laughter is, imo, definitely another.

    Is there anyone who, in their presence, makes you laugh hysterically once in awhile?

    I dun thin sew, Dianna.

  • http://www.weiner.house.gov/ Anthony Weiner

    You think? 

    I am a congressman, a major member of the Democratic party, a smokin hot wife, I had Bill Clinton preside at my wedding. 

    But inside I am still that geeky kid with the jewfro. 

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

    Oh, dear. Oh, dearie, dearie me.

    The number of dead-pan replies I could make is leaving me spoiled for choice.

    Let us begin, oh, so gently, with your attempt at dialect:

    You write: “I dun thin sew”.

    Now, there are a number of dialects this might – if one were completely deaf to nuance and the qualities of rhythm and elision inherent in dialect, even (dare I mention the concept to one who will instantly misuse it?) in pidgens and creoles?  – apply to, but not one I can specifically identify.

     Granted, not my field of expertise, but I must ask, then: Precisely which dialect, pidgen, or creole are you presuming to lay upon my remark?

    Oh, and please explicate the underlying characterization the reader is to take from this characterization?

    Let us treat this as quite enough to be going on with. After all, I know you have…issues…with more than one topic at a time.

  • Anonymous

    RCP average still O’Sputnik’s disapproval at 43 only Gallup and Pew have him at 39 disapproval the problem is that both those polls aren’t of Likely or even registered voters. Polls of just Americans with no regard to whether they’ll vote or not have no meaning. Americans who don’t vote are even more superfluous than House Democrats. This is born out by the 8 and 9% undecided.

    But I gotta hand it to Bulgeman or at least his staff there is no better way to kill an unpleasant story that sicking the cops on the hometown news media.

  • Anamika

    Here’s another story for you to find fault with:

    First days of spring…..blue sky, bright sun.

    Everything is gradually becoming fresh and green.

    Carrying my bowl, I walk slowly to the village.

    The children, surprised to see me,

    Joyfully crowd about, bringing

    my begging trip to an end by the temple gate.

    I place my bowl on top of a white rock and

    Hang my sack from the branch of a tree.

    Here we play with the wild grasses and throw a ball.

    For a time, I play catch while the children sing;

    Then it’s my turn.

    Playing like this, here and there, I have forgotten the time.

    Passers-by point and laugh at me, asking,

    “What is the reason for such foolishness?”

    No answer I give, only a deep bow;

    Even if I replied, they would not understand.

    Look around!

    There is nothing besides this.

    ~ Ryokan (1758–1831)

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

    Sweetie, a monk and practitioner of Zen, you are not.

    A hint – if you post one of Ryoken’s poems in a political blog, you have absolutely no clue.

    If you practice a martial art, I suggest you submit your behavior to your teacher. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Ya want Weiner and a  turtleneck?

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

    Read Ace’s latest.

    http://minx.cc/?post=317098

    Enjoy!

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

    Everyone already knows about the Iowahawk “Dan Rather, ‘Farewell, My Weiner’ Mystery”, yes?

    If not, here’s the URL: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/06/farewell-my-weiner.html

    Please tell me I’m not ages behind on this? 

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

    That “hang my sack from the branch of a tree” part sounds like something the Weiner might do next.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    BRAIN BLEACH!  STAT!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    They wish someone half-way handsome was sending them putz pics instead of the fats guys who do.

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  • lookatginger

    Will someone please investigate Ginger Lee/Weiner connection?

    http://twitter.com/#!/gingerlee/status/42524642719698944

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    You know, if Kramer was a REAL journalist, she would have LET herself be arrested.  THEN she’d have a story.

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