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:

• Patterico has questions for Jennifer Preston of the New York Times and Tommy Christopher of Mediaite. The whole point is that there remain legitimate reasons to keep pursuing this story, however it turns out.
• Ace of Spades wades through the swamp of speculation about Nikki/Starchild’s motives. You have to be deep, deep into this story to appreciate what Ace is trying to do there.
• Prudence Paine has some very helpful background on Starchild111, noting that some theories about the alleged motives don’t make sense.

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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