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Who’s Up for Some More Weiner?

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 8 Comments

I’m kind of Weinered out today, frankly, but I know readers expect their daily dose of Weiner updates, so here goes:

So there’s your daily dose of Weiner updates, and here’s my latest American Spectator column:

Police showed up Friday afternoon at the home of a 17-year-old girl in Delaware who had been among Rep. Anthony Weiner’s online fans. Within 24 hours, three top Democrats issued calls for Weiner’s resignation.
The timing was merely a coincidence, some Democratic sources told reporters. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel had actually been planning to release their statements anyway. Their “coordinated effort was [already] in the works,” one insider told Russell Berman of the Hill, adding that the statements “were released on Saturday to get ahead of the Sunday shows and the return of lawmakers on Monday.” So while the Brooklyn congressman was announcing that he would take a leave of absence to seek “professional treatment” for whatever compulsions led to the scandal that has become known as WeinerGate, his Democratic colleagues were chiefly concerned about working the news cycle to their advantage.
Democrats appear increasingly desperate to put political distance between their party and the disastrously disgraced Weiner, because they have no idea what further revelations await. . . .

Read the whole thing, because you can never have too much Weiner.

UPDATE: The latest on Congressman Junkshot:

A Democratic source who spoke to Anthony Weiner after Democratic leaders called on him to resign Saturday told CNN that even with that public hammer dropped on him, Weiner made clear he was still “on the fence” about whether to step down.Democratic sources CNN has talked to since Saturday said that Weiner told Democrats pressuring him to go that he wanted to wait for his wife Huma to return from a trip with Hillary Clinton. . . .
The same Democratic source said that Weiner was emotionally falling apart on the phone in this and other conversations and in a state of “despair.” Other Democratic sources who talked to him late last week described him the same way. Another person who spoke to him on Saturday called Weiner’s disposition “turbulent.”

So, he’s an emotional basket case who still thinks he’s fit for high public office.

“Not only are political sex scandals great fun, they serve an important social purpose. They remind us that we should think twice before we cede more power to these clowns.”
— Gene Healey, quoted by Matt Welch at Reason Hit & Run


Category: Anthony Weiner

Dave Weigel Interviews the Guy Who’s Going to Win the Big Debate Tonight

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 28 Comments

In New Hampshire:

At the end of a short press scrum here, Herman Cain got a question he’s always asked semi-nervously: So, uh, how’s it going out there for a black Republican candidate?

Go back and read my 2007 interview with Herman Cain: He’s been dealing with questions like this for years, and isn’t going to be thrown off his game by it. Also today, the pundits are having a conniption over a Daily Caller interview in which Cain applies his experience as Godfather’s Pizza CEO to foreign policy. (Jim Antle calls this the “Pizza Doctrine.”)

Get over it. Once Cain stomps Romney in tonight’s debate like Godzilla stomped Tokyo, the pundits will be even more desperate to find some way to prove Cain can’t win.

And then he’ll just keep winning, to the eternal mystification of all the experts who said it couldn’t be done.

Da Tech Guy is at the scene of tonight’s debate and reports that security is trying to deny him access to the media room. Time to raise hell, I say!

Category: Dave Weigel, Election 2012, Herman Cain, New Hampshire

Barack Obama Has Got as Many NBA Championship Rings as Lebron James

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 10 Comments

Which is, of course, exactly zero.

Bryan Preston points out that the president picked the Heat to win, so that the inerrant Obama Jinx remains in force. If Obama says “recovery,” bet on recession. If Obama says “peace,” bet on war.

Category: Barack Obama, Sports

VIDEO: ABC’s Jake Tapper Reports on Calista and the Newt 2012 Implosion

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 13 Comments

Watch this — it’s only about 2 minutes — and tell me if you see a way for Newt Gingrich to recover:

Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills, California:

“I will endure the challenges. I will carry the message of American renewal to every part of this great land,” Gingrich told a crowded ballroom at a Beverly Hills hotel. “And with the help of every American who wants to change Washington, we will prevail.”

Yeah, Newt: Just keep reaching out to those grassroots conservatives in Beverly Hills . . .

Category: ABC, Election 2012, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Video

Herman Cain Scheduled to Win Another GOP Debate Tonight in Manchester, N.H.

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 30 Comments

He started out the campaign as “Herman Who?” but has more recently described himself as “the black guy who keeps winning stuff.” Before last month’s debate in Greenville, S.C., my headline was:

Herman Cain Set to Win S.C. Debate

And when the post-debate Frank Luntz focus group showed that, indeed, Cain had scored a big win, I looked like a prophetic genius. So I’m sticking with a winner and predicting that tonight Cain stomps the other candidates like Godzilla stomped Tokyo.

ABC News says: “Mitt Romney is the man to beat.” OK, then tomorrow’s big headline should be:

Herman Cain Beats ‘The Man to Beat’

The media won’t actually write that headline, of course, but that’s what will actually happen tonight.

I just got off the phone with Da Tech Guy, who drove to Manchester for tonight’s debate, so we’ll have an eyewitness on the scene at St. Anselm College. “It’s a nice Catholic college, so I should have no trouble finding a priest for confession,” says Pete.

Category: Debates, Election 2012, Herman Cain, New Hampshire

Crazy Stuff Liberals Say

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 22 Comments

At Memeorandum last night, I notice an item by liberal feminist blogger Riverdaughter with the interesting title “Suburban Soccer Mom Values.” OK, so I clicked over and read through a long rambling anti-suburban diatribe. And then, like a sudden 90-degree turn, it swerved off into being about . . . Anthony Weiner:

So, I am not at all surprised that the Democratic party Congressional leadership is calling for Weiner’s resignation.  The guy is an exhibitionist.  He’s got problems.  His REAL problem, I suspect, is that he has been insufficiently conditioned to prevent acting out his mastabatory fantasies.  ({{snort}} I see the male readers squirming)  I don’t know what will come out next and I really don’t care.  To each his own.  I still think David Vitter’s indiscretions were more serious.  If Weiner was into talking about sex with what he thought (mistakenly or not) were receptive women, well, that makes him not a whole lot different than many other people, male and female.  The nice thing about the internet is that if someone makes advances to you of this kind, you can choose not to accept them.  You can dump their junk in a spam filter, you can block their tweets, you can stop frequenting where they hang out.  That’s the power and the glory of the internet.  You are not a passive victim.  I’ve been on the internet for years, decades now and I rarely encounter porn of any kind.  Maybe that’s because I’m on a Mac but it seems to me that if I want to get into bulging underwear, I have to actively search for it.
And 17 year old girls have been conditioned by their suburban upbringing to avoid like the plague places where porn might be found on the internet.  Thou shalt not go into chat rooms unattended.  If someone makes an online pass at you, report them immediately.  Yeah, right.  Even the most thoroughly indoctrinated teen has urges.  Yes, girls too.  I was a girl once.  I remember.  You guys have no idea.
Is it wrong for an adult male to talk to a girl of 17 on the internet?  A suburban soccer mom will tell you yes.  Unequivocally.  It is wrong for anyone who the parent does not personally know to talk to their children.  About anything.  Even the weather is off limits.  ”It’s really hot today” is just a prelude to the cheezy porn movie music played just before the gardener trims a lovely young bush. . . . Anything you say or do can and will be used against you in a court of suburban public opinion.  You can not win this one.
Yes, it’s paranoid, alarmist, indiscriminate, narrow minded, conformist, intolerant, nonsensical, frequently stupid and sometimes cruel.  The only reason why suburbanites put up with each other is to avoid being ostracized.  Where else are you going to go?  And, yes, the media tends to blow things up to the nth degree and feed the overprotective parental frenzy.  Cable news is chock full of stories about abducted and murdered children and their non-conformist sociopathic parents.  After Weiner’s sexting escapades, prepared for the Good Morning America piece that will discuss what you should tell your 17 year old daughter about texting and tweeting strangers on the internet with some child psychologist or criminal behavioral specialist.  The world is fraught with dangers for your innocent young teen who will never emerge from her Freudian sexual latency period unless provoked by some sleazy adult figure.  And you don’t know who that person could be.  It could be your neighbor or the postman or you congressman.
Women, no matter what age, will always be the victims of men and their base desires.  This thought is *not* incompatible with feminism.  Why are you saying that??  Men are always predators.  Girls do not have sex drives.  Women of all ages are helpless sheep before wolves, they are babies, BABIES, I tell you, even when they are not.  They are powerless to defend themselves against the onslaught of disgusting and depraved attempts to converse with them even when they are full grown adults and are no longer virgins.  Women are always seduced and powerless to the male sex drive.  They are always Tess of the D’Urberville, never Moll Flanders.  (How conveeeenient)  They have no ability to tell the pervert to back the fuck off or block their tweets or threaten to expose them.  They are tabula rasas who must be guarded like Spanish senoritas behind high wrought iron internet gates with the constant vigilance of their duenas.  I would like to thank my sister feminists for their efforts to protect me and my daughters but I do not care for their mass infantilization of women on my behalf and must decline.
Oh, please, Nancy.  Lay off already.  Haven’t you done enough damage to women by tolerating the disgusting and over the top misogynism of the 2008 presidential campaign?  Please, don’t do us any more favors.  The suburban security frenzy is way out of control and ruining our children’s childhoods.  Don’t add more fuel to the fire with these ridiculous calls for Weiner to resign.  He’s an immature guy who needs some behavioral modification.  He’s not a fricking predator.

Wow. Like it’s a Rorshach test and this is the inkblot and suddenly she’s ranting like a lunatic on some bizarre tangent. She needs to read Frank J. Fleming’s “Tips for Not Appearing Crazy on the Internet.”

Category: Feminism

Indiana Republican’s Campaign Gives Lesson in How Not to Deal With Bloggers

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 13 Comments

I’d never previously heard of Richard Mourdock, who’s running for Senate in Indiana, but I’m thinking his campaign manager Jim Holden didn’t win him any fans by grabbing Rebel Pundit‘s camera:

Category: Blogging, Indiana

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.13.11

Posted on | June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments

TOP NEWS
Christchurch Warned: More Quakes To Come

Policeman directs traffic away from a newly collapsed building

Early afternoon quakes do more damage to stricken city; more aftershocks and further quakes expected

Syrian Army Retakes Town; Thousands Flee To Turkey
Jisr al-Shughour back under government control


Erdogan Promises Consensus In Turkey After Re-Election
His AK party falls just short of majority in parliament



POLITICS
First Photos Of Congresswoman Giffords Since Shooting Released

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

May be released from hospital and end of month, possibly July

Weiner Support Continues To Soften As More Photos Dribble Out



Pawlenty Chides Romney On MassCare

California Budget Talks Continue As Deadline Looms

Leftist Catholics Hold Conference In Detroit



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Stanley Fischer Stakes Claim To IMF Post
Nikkei Hurt On Global Economy Worries, Weak Machinery Data
US Gasoline Prices Down On Lower Demand, Increased Saudi Pumping
Euro Down On Greek Debt Woes
Hacktivists Hit IMF
Apple Intervenes In Lodsys Patent Fight With iOS Developers
Apple Sued By iCloud Communications
WinPhone 7 To Overtake Apple’s iOS



SPORTS
Dallas Fans End 31-Year Wait With Championship Party As Mavericks Win It All

Mavs' Nowitzki, Terry embrace after 105-95 victory over Heat

Dallas coasts to victory in Miami, erases stain of 2006 loss

Jeff Gordon Collects 84th Cup Victory

Seven Hits Away, Jeter Wants Hit #3000 At Home

Dodgers Hang On To Beat Rockies 10-8

Punchless Canucks Eye Cup

The Kid Stays In The Rotation

Royals’ Defense Solid Behind Mazzaro In Shutout Of Angels



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lily Allen Married And Pregnant

Singer Lily Allen and her husband Sam Cooper

Friends and family in attendance as couple exchanged vows at St. James Church in Gloucestershire

Selena Gomez Blood Pressure Issues?

Clarence Clemons Said To Be Seriously Ill From Stroke

“South Park” Creators’ “Book Of Mormon” Wins At Tony Awards

Candy Queen Dylan Lauren Ties The Knot

Royals Lead Parade To Celebrate Queen’s Birthday

Pippa Middleton Modeling Past Unearthed


Jazz Is Not A Byproduct Of Rap

Record Label Responds To Joan Jett Lawsuit



FOREIGNERS
Turkish Stocks Up As AK Party Wins Election
Vietnam Begins Live-Fire Drills Amid PRC Tensions
Somalia Kills Fazul Abudullah Mohammed; Leadership Vacuum Atop Al-Qaeda Grows
Libyan Rebels Bringing War Closer To Tripoli
Tom McMaster Sockpuppets World With “Gay Girl In Damascus
Silent Teheran Protesters Arrested On Anniversary Of Disputed Elections
Italy Votes On Scrapping Nuclear Energy



BLOGS & STUFF
Maggie’s Notebook: Weiner Resigning? He’s Thinking About It
Yid With Lid: Obama Trying To Force Israel To Negotiate With Palestinians On THEIR Terms
Outside The Beltway: Is The Syrian Army Fracturing?
Lonely Conservative: John Ziegler Says Palin Can’t Beat Obama In 2012
American Digest: The Story Of Owe
Weasel Zippers: UK Police Covered Up Violent Campaign to “Islamicize” Part Of London
No Sheeples Here: Fishing For Moby Dick With A Cane Pole
Newsbusters: ABC’s Claire Shipman Says “A Group Of All White Men Are Not Going To Reach The Best Decisions”
Chicago Boyz: Chicago Tribune Finally Wakes Up To Our Dismal Energy Future
JammieWearingFool: Obama Regrets Not Spending Enough Time With Family; Promptly Ditches Them To Go Play Golf

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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