The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The Curious Case of the Weiner-Following (And Weiner-Followed) Teenage Girl

One of the aspects of #WeinerGate that cropped up early was that a teenage girl was among the 90-odd people that Rep. Anthony Weiner was following on Twitter. Several people have mentioned this to me, sending me e-mails with screen-caps of a Tweet (from April 13) in which the girl said she was “talking to […]

@JoanWalsh Blames @AndrewBreitbart and #tcot Bloggers for #WeinerGate Story

Dear Joan Walsh: I arrived late at the #WeinerGate story — it was already on top of Memeorandum by the time I blogged about it at 4:23 p.m. ET Saturday — and my first reaction was to make a joke of it. But then, as I took time to acquaint myself with the facts, a […]

#WeinerGate Victim Gennette Cordova Issues Statement: ‘I Cannot Answer the Questions That I Do Not Have the Answers To’; Describes Her Reaction

Posted at the New York Daily News: Friday evening I logged onto Twitter to find that I had about a dozen new mentions in less than an hour, which is a rare occurrence. When I checked one of the posts that I had been tagged in I saw that it was a picture that had […]

MSM Starting to Cover ‘WeinerGate’ UPDATE: More Details Now Emerging UPDATE: Weiner DM’d a Porn Star?

8 p.m. ET: GENETTE CORDOVA ISSUES STATEMENT * * 4:10 p.m. ET: RE-BUMPED FOR UPDATE BELOW * * * * 1:10 p.m. ET: BUMPED FOR UPDATE BELOW * *  Genette Nicole Cordova, the 21-year-old college student to whom the photo was sent. About 10 p.m. last night, I figured we had enough facts that I […]

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

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 […]

Another Reminder That the Academic Elite Are Your Moral Superiors

Michael Schultz is associate vice president for development and alumni affairs at the University of Vermont, and wrote his 2009 Ph.D. thesis on a very interesting subject: “Elucidating the Role of the Presidential Spouse in Development and Alumni Relations.” The role of the university president’s spouse in alumni relations is a subject Schultz knows intimately, […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Love-Child Scandal Leak Came From Maria Shriver

Hell hath no fury, et cetera: The Arnold Schwarzenegger baby drama story was leaked to the media by Maria Shriver’s own people … and they did it because Maria was so angry at Arnold, she wanted to do it herself. . . . We’re told when Maria found out that Arnold was the father of […]

Schwarzenegger, Babies and Bathwater

Image by Irony Curtain, IOwnTheWorld.com “Arnold Schwarzenegger has disappointed all of those who put their faith in males, Republicans, politicians or all any combination of the above.” — Red State Gal, Death by 10,000 Papercuts That’s rather over-generalizing, isn’t it? Surely, somewhere in America, there must be at least one male Republican politician who hasn’t spawned […]

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