Weinergate: Married congressman’s Twitter account shares lewd photo
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If Weiner was a pub you never would have posted this in the first place.
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How do you know it was his crotch? No other part of the person's body was shown, including the face.
It is literally impossible to speak about this topic without creating accidental puns. It has to be talk radio heaven.
This guy may keep his job as a Congressman, and probably will, but any chance of anybody ever taking him seriously when he goes on a tirade has vanished with the first, "I'm not sure if it's me or not in the photo" along with the clear path of the Tweet. Now is the time to talk about the "chronology of the posts"...
This guy may keep his job as a Congressman, and probably will, but any chance of anybody ever taking him seriously when he goes on a tirade has vanished with the first, "I'm not sure if it's me or not in the photo" along with the clear path of the Tweet. Now is the time to talk about the "chronology of the posts"...
LOL. I think the, "I'm not saying whether or not that is me in the image" excuse is enough to make us all pause... If it isn't his very own banana hammock, I'd be surprised at this point. And if it isn't, did he get it from his collection of boner picks stored on his hard drive?
It is literally impossible to speak about this topic without creating accidental puns. It has to be talk radio heaven.
This guy may keep his job as a Congressman, and probably will, but any chance of anybody ever taking him seriously when he goes on a tirade has vanished with the first, "I'm not sure if it's me or not in the photo" along with the clear path of the Tweet. Now is the time to talk about the "chronology of the posts"...
So right-wing talk radio listeners won't take Anthony Weiner seriously? I'm sure he's all torn up about it.
It is literally impossible to speak about this topic without creating accidental puns. It has to be talk radio heaven.
This guy may keep his job as a Congressman, and probably will, but any chance of anybody ever taking him seriously when he goes on a tirade has vanished with the first, "I'm not sure if it's me or not in the photo" along with the clear path of the Tweet. Now is the time to talk about the "chronology of the posts"...
But if you use a word like "certitude" you throw all kinds of doubt onto the matter.
Maybe taking crotch shots of yourself is some sort of liberal thing and they take so many they just can't be sure if it's their crotch or not? With any kind of certitude that is.
On "The Early Show" Thursday, CBS News Legal Analyst Jack Ford said if he's not pursuing official assistance in this situation, it's about not getting wrapped up official statements.
"If I'm a lawyer, and I'm representing a politician, in general, it's not against the law to lie to the media. It's not against the law to lie to your constituents. It is against the law to lie to law enforcement authorities," he said. "Martha Stewart went to jail not for insider trading, but for lying. Barry Bonds gets charged, goes to trial, not for using steroids - for lying about it. So if I'm a lawyer looking at a case such as this, I'm going to be real careful before I let my clients talk to law enforcement authorities, because I don't want to find my client, you know, jammed up here criminally because, despite what happened here, they're not telling the truth."
Ford said the content of the tweet also has to be considered.
"There are laws against sending out pornography on your account," he explained. "People will look at this and say, 'This might be really distasteful, but it's not pornographic.' You know, the young lady, if she felt she was being harassed in some fashion. But she hasn't expressed that. And you might say one instance of something like this wouldn't rise to that level, either. I don't think you're really talking about possible criminal activity there."
However, this situation may escalate to an investigation by an ethics committee, Ford said.
"Congress has the ability to investigate its own. And they have the capacity to censure somebody, to suspend somebody, even to remove somebody if they find there's conduct unbecoming a representative, a member of Congress. Those are pretty elastic, but certainly they have the ability to take a look at it."
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"If I'm a lawyer, and I'm representing a politician, in general, it's not against the law to lie to the media. It's not against the law to lie to your constituents. It is against the law to lie to law enforcement authorities," he said. "Martha Stewart went to jail not for insider trading, but for lying. Barry Bonds gets charged, goes to trial, not for using steroids - for lying about it. So if I'm a lawyer looking at a case such as this, I'm going to be real careful before I let my clients talk to law enforcement authorities, because I don't want to find my client, you know, jammed up here criminally because, despite what happened here, they're not telling the truth."
Ford said the content of the tweet also has to be considered.
"There are laws against sending out pornography on your account," he explained. "People will look at this and say, 'This might be really distasteful, but it's not pornographic.' You know, the young lady, if she felt she was being harassed in some fashion. But she hasn't expressed that. And you might say one instance of something like this wouldn't rise to that level, either. I don't think you're really talking about possible criminal activity there."
However, this situation may escalate to an investigation by an ethics committee, Ford said.
"Congress has the ability to investigate its own. And they have the capacity to censure somebody, to suspend somebody, even to remove somebody if they find there's conduct unbecoming a representative, a member of Congress. Those are pretty elastic, but certainly they have the ability to take a look at it."
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I don't think any Congressmen will take him seriously. He's a clown, a buffoon, somebody who tries to used the "They iz L33T Haxors!" excuse too quickly... And at some point you simply lose any gravitas you once had. I'd say it was the moment where he couldn't tell us whether or not that really was a picture of his boner or not....
That was his "Jump the Shark" moment.
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Rep. Anthony Weiner struggled to explain how a picture of somebody's bulging underwear briefly appeared on his Twitter account, claiming in a back-to-back string of interviews that he was clearly hacked -- but hinting the photograph could have been an image of him.
"I have photographs. I don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me," he said in one cable news interview, asked whether he'd ever snapped a photo like that of himself.
In another interview, Weiner acknowledged "it could be" the case that one of his private photos spilled onto the Internet. Or, he said, one could have been manipulated or pulled in from "somewhere else."
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The FBI has received no official complaint from Rep. Anthony Weiner that his Twitter account was hacked, and the bureau is not investigating, FBI officials tell Newsmax.
If the New York Democrat did report it and it turned out he was lying about the alleged attack on his account, he could be subject to a felony charge, FBI sources point out.
“We have not received any complaint,” one official says. “Unless we get an official complaint and there is a reason to believe a crime has been committed, we won’t initiate an investigation. The onus is on him to report. The fact that he is a U.S. congressman means we would take it very seriously. We don’t want a person in that position to be a victim of a cyber attack.”
But, the official adds, “It goes without saying that an individual may have reason not to make a report to the FBI if he made up a story about being hacked. The first thing we would do is interview him on the record. If he makes a false statement, he would be subject to a felony charge for lying to an FBI agent. We do take that seriously.”
In fact, you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to see that Weiner is covering up his tawdry activities on Twitter.
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If the New York Democrat did report it and it turned out he was lying about the alleged attack on his account, he could be subject to a felony charge, FBI sources point out.
“We have not received any complaint,” one official says. “Unless we get an official complaint and there is a reason to believe a crime has been committed, we won’t initiate an investigation. The onus is on him to report. The fact that he is a U.S. congressman means we would take it very seriously. We don’t want a person in that position to be a victim of a cyber attack.”
But, the official adds, “It goes without saying that an individual may have reason not to make a report to the FBI if he made up a story about being hacked. The first thing we would do is interview him on the record. If he makes a false statement, he would be subject to a felony charge for lying to an FBI agent. We do take that seriously.”
In fact, you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to see that Weiner is covering up his tawdry activities on Twitter.
Read more