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Weinergate

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…and the Twitter numbers. It’s OK, though — he’s a “liberal” Democrat.

[Update Monday morning]

“I demand an official investigation of the hacker who broke into Congressman Weiner’s Twitter account.” Me too. It’s an outrage.

[Update a couple hours later]

Mickey Kaus agrees with Jim Treacher and me:

So a liberal Congressman basically stands accused of sending a highly inappropiate tweet, while a right-wing blogger basically stands accused of setting him up. They could both be innocent, of course. Or not. But this isn’t a case of he said/he said. There are electronic records of all these actions. If both of the accused open up their computers to a neutral, third party tech nerd–-who doesn’t have to be in law enforcement–-it should be possible to find out fairly quickly if either/both/none of them is culpable, no? The truth is in there!

I wonder if the congressman can handle the truth?

[Tuesday evening update]

The Democrats are circling the wagons, as they always do.

27 thoughts on “Weinergate”

  1. I read the post at your link, and the post at Ann Althouse’s blog. I’m sorry but I can’t see a reason to care. Would somebody like to explain that to me?

  2. Well, Weiner is married and he accidentally publicly posted a picture of his erect penis to a college girl. Should anyone care? As Rand points out people only seem to care when there is an R next to the name. The people most upset by R’s behavior is someone with a D next to their name.

    There was even a special election in NY last week because someone with an R next to their name sent a private picture of himself without a shirt to a woman.

  3. Not only that, but he has a hundred thousand people following him, and out of all the millions of people on twitter, and the hundred thousand following him, until that point, he had only followed 200 people–and one of them was the woman who got the picture he implies isn’t of his dick. In other words it wasn’t just some random person–it was someone that for whatever reason he was already paying attention too, out of the large crowd of people watching him. If someone were trying to make him look bad, this would be a decent way to do it.

  4. “I read the post at your link, and the post at Ann Althouse’s blog. I’m sorry but I can’t see a reason to care. Would somebody like to explain that to me?”

    Sure. It just doesn’t seem important to you compared to other things.

    Is that clear?

  5. Just to be clear.

    “e” before “i” in pronounced “eye” as in the Congressman being Mr. “Weyner”

    “i” before “e” is pronounced “ee” — thus Wiener would be pronounced the way the same way as the Vienna sausage.

  6. DKos goes CSI on the tweets, yet does no forensics on Obama’s birth certificate? Inconceivable!

  8. Well DKOS be-clowned themselves with there CSI have one user who used some internet tool they have to interpret to determine if it been modified. But the tool it self only accepts jpegs not PNG that it appears the original on the website were. The user claiming it is has No control sample of say a similar page that directly from the web site run. To verify the splotching ain’t just artifact of the page. Then claiming their a second source that it fake when their citing a article that links back to the original page the dkos poster was using.

  9. I’m glad wodun explained that.

    I read three articles and it was all about “numbers”, “followers”, “re-tweeters” and such. I might as well have been reading Martian.

    Here’s how un-savy I am!!

    I’ve never sent the first text message, I don’t have a Facebook Page and I don’t tweet, twitter nor peppermint twist!

    (that line ALONE will show you my age!!)

    IF I want to use my phone to call you, I’ll simply CALL you! I think the whole texting thing is akin to using Morse Code, comparing it BACK to the modern capability of a phone call. It’s slow and seems to not get the point across half the time. My 19 Y/O niece lives with us, I’ve seen her spend 30 minutes “texting” one of her friends, in a conversation, that would take 5 minutes to SAY aloud.

    NOW, having said that…

    IF some 40 something SOB sent MY college age daughter a picture of his pecker, I wouldn’t care WHERE he worked nor who he was. The aforementioned pecker would soon be mounted on a piece of hard wood (no pun intended) over my fire place, along with my butcher knife! The kind of thing guys do who like fishing and have atrophy Bass or Trout up there.

    I’d just tell people it was a trophy of an excellent hunt.

    Yeah, she is ‘legal’, but she’s still in college and this SOB was slick enough to get elected to Congress, he’s old enough and smart enough and rich enough that he doesn’t need to be talking to my college aged daughter.

    I’m sure the MSM will spin this so the daughter did “something” wrong and not the Congressman. It’s the way the world works right now. IMHO, a situation like THIS, will be exactly what sets our country on fire. It will be some half-@ssed event where the plebes will have finally had enough. They’ll storm the (WH & Congressional) castle and many peasants will be killed. But hopefully, the peasants will have their rights back when the smoke clears.

    Their battle flag will be red white stripes, with a severed pecker, laying under a dripping butcher knife, on the blue field.

  11. Dick Weiner? (Is his cousin Dick Trickle?)

    Now, there’s a guy who could run Oscar Meyer.

    Or Vienna Sausage.

    Hebrew National?

    Or he could sell petCOCKS.

    OR, as a gub’ment employee, he could run the Office of Redundancy Office!!!

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    NOW, on the removal of male members from idiots who can’t control them. HERE is an Indian woman who agrees with me. Remove the offeding pecker, from the offensive peckerhead, so he can’t go pecking around any more.

  13. No, no, and no. The Congressman has “e” before” “i” in his name — it is not pronounced “Weener” (or Wiener) but rather “Weyner” or perhaps more like “Whiner” if you prefer.

  14. Sounds like a problem he’s had to live with all his life. And from what I understand of his picture; he’s had other weener problems he’s had to live with all his life. Among other investigations is why apparently he thought he should be proud about his limited endowment. Then again, that’s probably a good reason of any to deny the allegation.

  20. Probably not green enough.

    A solar-powered heavy-lift mag-lev super-sonic tube-train? Made from recycled tires and compacted tree-nut shells?

  22. It’s all over. Weiner was given a clean bill of health when he noted, “De minimis non curat lex“.

  27. What if conservatives, who preach small government, wake up and realize that our interventionist foreign policy provides the greatest incentive to expand the government?

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