Hopefully there will be some Weiner news in the coming weeks that isn’t scandal related, but in the meantime, here’s Bernie Sanders and Al Franken carrying the torch.
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The Sins of Anthony Weiner
Of all the many political sex scandals of the last twenty-five years or so, none has had such a high ratio of political lethality to concrete caddishness as the Weiner affair. In the caddishness category, consider what Congressman Weiner did not do:
• Commit adultery
• Fornicate
• Hook up
• Patronize prostitutes
• Seduce an intern
• Seduce a congressional page
• Get divorced
• Get divorced serially
• Get divorced with children at vulnerable ages
• Hypocritically embrace prudish “family values”
• Advocate “abstinence”
• Lie about sex under oath
• Demonize his own sexual orientation
• Demand that some other politician resign because of some sexual misbehavior
• Break up somebody else’s marriage
• Make an assistant take the fall for getting a mistress pregnant
• Fly to South America to see a mistress on Father’s Day while leaving wifey home with the kids
• Pay off a mistress or a mistress’s husband
• Have a mistress
• Break a lawThere are plenty of strictly political reasons why Anthony Weiner was forced to walk the plank while others whose behavior was more morally reprehensible were not, and those reasons are getting a thorough airing at the moment. But certain cultural, or media-cultural, factors are perhaps more interesting.
The bad things Weiner did do—his sins, let’s call them for convenience, without embracing the churchy implications—were, once revealed, a hundred per cent visible. And a hundred per cent of them were visible. They were a hundred per cent documented. No he said/she said this time, no need for witnesses, no need for testimony. No need for “evidence”—because the evidence was the sin, and the sin the evidence.
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“ @RepWeiner is resigning today because in America you can lie about war, but if you send pictures of your dick we can’t trust you. ”
@JoeRogan (via Twitter Land)
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Weiner Tells Friends He Will Step Down
WASHINGTON — Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told House leaders and friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House
Weiner doll inspired by congressman’s scandal
The sexting scandal involving Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York has inspired an action-figure doll. HeroBuilders.com is offering a censored and uncensored version of the doll. The standard doll sells for $39.95, while the anatomically correct “for adults only” version sells for an extra $10.
Are we all extras in Idiocracy 2?
NSFW, and guaranteed to make even the most die-hard Weiner fan cringe.
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