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WeinerGate: Who Is Starchild111?

Posted on | June 20, 2011 | 17 Comments

At least one reader has complained that it’s time to move on from WeinerGate, and I’m entirely willing to do so — but the dadgum story won’t stop, and stuff just keeps popping up.

This “Betty and Veronica” mystery continues bubbling. The person whom Tommy Christopher dubbed “Betty” was  “Nikki Reid” a/k/a “Starchild111,” an alleged teenage girl who was one of Anthony Weiner’s Twitter correspondents. But no one can now verify her existence, and a New York Times report suggests that Nikki/Starchild was in fact some sort of sockpuppet honey-trap conjured up by Weiner’s enemies:

I’m just throwing this stuff out there, because now that the story is past the point of purely political interest — nobody’s partisan ox is going to be gored by further WeinerGate developments — it would be rather irresponsible to ignore the remaining loose threads.

Meanwhile, I will have no comment on the former Hillary Clinton intern who how has a new line of work. While I’m sure that some readers will be eager to research the young woman’s career in . . . er, the adult entertainment industry, I repeat that I have no comment.

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  • Joe

    Meanwhile, I will have no comment on the former Hillary Clinton intern who how has a new line of work. While I’m sure that some readers will be eager to research the young woman’s career in . . . er, the adult entertainment industry, I repeat that I have no comment.

    Tori Spelling was really Hillary Clinton’s intern?  Who knew? 

  • Anonymous

    From the TMZ link (above): “Sammie says, ‘I was planning on becoming an attorney and then going into public office’ — however, a couple years later she ran into money problems, abandoned politics … and claims having sex on tape [insert: whoring herself out to the highest bidder] was the best way to pay the bills.”

    You know, the mind can play funny tricks on people. Maybe Ms. Spades ACTUALLY has been a lawyer, or even a member of Congress, during these last five years. In her mind, she believes that she’s been starring in porno movies, because the truth is just too disturbing for her to handle.

  • Joe

    Now that is funny. 

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

    I think I’ve been following this story pretty well..  

    But have no clue as to what this is all about or how it affects Weiner..

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    Is there really a significant difference between the two?

  • Anamika

    I see people like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin and ask the same question.

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  • Anamika

    “have no clue…”

    And how, in your case, is this atypical?

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    RULE 5 NEWS has the story Stacy McCain would not touch with a disinfected ten foot pole!

    Linked to at: Sammie Spades: Hillary’s Porn Star Intern Revealed

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

    STFU

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    I wasn’t asking you.

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

    Dingbat.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody ever does, yet like a bad case of terminal syphilis, there she is.

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  • http://twitter.com/wittier Ken Danieli

    Except that NYT & Mediaite reporters on this story, who previously assumed that “Betty & Veronica” were anti-Weiner (and reported their assumptions as facts) now concede that they don’t know “Betty & Veronica’s” motivations.  The “girls” turned out to be rabidly pro-Weiner…see first Mediaite piece.  Almost so pro-Weiner that you’d think Weiner himself had written their statements.  

    http://patterico.com/2011/06/21/journalists-christopher-and-preston-finally-admit-they-dont-know-a-thing/

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