Anthony Weiner

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<p>And the hits keep on coming…</p>

<p>NEW CASTLE, Del. – Police visited the home of a 17-year-old high school junior Friday to ask her about online communications she allegedly had with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), FOXNews.com reported.</p>

<p>Sources close to the student, who was not identified because she is a minor, said the girl followed Weiner on Twitter after seeing him speak during a school trip to Washington on April 1.</p>

<p>Weiner sent her a private message April 13, the sources said. It was not clear if the two had any further communication.</p>

<p>Two officers from the New Castle County Police Department arrived at the girl’s home about 4:30pm local time and asked to speak with the girl’s mother. Another officer arrived a short time later.</p>

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<p>So nice to see the Weiner thread is going strong. They just closed the other thread I had migrated to- the one started by POIH…</p>

<p>Let me see if I can get this thread locked:</p>

<p>MomCat2: </p>

<p>I can’t think of a man who campaigned as a sensitive progressive male, though I can think of a woman who likes to campaign as a ‘ruggedly strong, hunting, killing’ woman who and suggests that her male opponents should ‘man up’.</p>

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<p>" Keep in mind that most people charge the press with being liberal, yet here we see the media covering Weiner constantly, while Vitter not so much. So there you see the difference too. So there must be some underlying reason, which I’m curious about."</p>

<p>Yes, it’s what sells. The Weiner story is gross, fascinating, like watching a lurid train wreck. There are pictures, he’s a personality and rather an aggressive jerk. Vitters story is dull, there’s no pictures of anything, he kept his mouth shut afterwards. Weiner brought massive attention to himself by the lies, talked to all the media. Nothing interesting about Vitter, it’s the same old stuff.</p>

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<p>“If a female writes anything, she’s automatically brilliant, even if what she writes are empty, irrelevant points”</p>

<p>And you have just realized this? How long have you been married? What’s that joke…if a man speaks and there is no woman aroung to hear it, is he still wrong?</p>

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<p>Schmalz apparently thinks that if he provides documentation of men who campaigned on being a sensitive progressive male he will be banned from CC. Well, since his original assertion didn’t get deleted, it seems highly unlikely that his giving documented <em>facts</em> to back up that assertion would get him banned. </p>

<p>So - let’s reiterate Cardinal Fang’s post #358:

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<p>Members of the reality-based community would like <em>facts</em> please - “truthiness” will not suffice.</p>

<p>You make it sound as if there have been lots of such campaigns and groups - so it shouldn’t be that hard to provide a few examples.</p>

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<p>17 yr old? Oh, dear.</p>

<p>Try typing “weiner” into Yahoo search - Yahoo suggests “weiner photo” as the number one pick. Apparently, lots of people looking for this stuff. Gross, disgusting, yuck. Poor Oscar Meyer - the hot dog comes in as the last recommended option.</p>

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<p>busdriver, could you please help Schmalz to provide some names and documentation?</p>

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<p>busdriver, always with the +5.</p>

<p>If this guy really sent a personal message to a 17 yo high school student? I hope to heck for his sake that it was not illustrated, so to speak. :eek:</p>

<p>All I can say is that this whole thing really proves my grandmother was right when she told me, back in the days of pen and paper, “Never put something in writing unless you are willing to have the entire world hear what you had to say.” ;)</p>

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<p>Well, Momcat, I realize that Schmaltz needs all the help he can, being a man and all (you know I’m just kind of kidding, here)…so I can start out from the top with our current commander in chief, if you’re looking for particulars. You might add the (not so) fine John Edwards to the list, and everybody’s favorite little guy, Dennis Kucinich, plus “yeeaooowww” Howard Dean. Not giving specific details of why I think that, as I don’t want to irritate and annoy too much, just my personal quickie impression.</p>

<p>Poetgrl, your grandmother was very prescient!</p>

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<p>poetgrl I hope you followed your grandmother’s advice when you typed those 1900+ posts. I am quite sure all our identities will be revealed some day. It is only a matter of time. I am not looking forward to it. Though not in a Weiner kind of way.</p>

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<p>One reason Weiner is big news and Vitter isn’t is because of East Coast bias in the media. Anything someone does in NY is automatically more fascinating than anything someone does in Louisiana.</p>

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<p>I also think Weiner was much better known that either Vitter or Ensign. Did he really say that he was staying in his job because he wasn’t qualified for anything else?</p>

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<p>No,he didn’t say, it, though NY Post mentioned his credentials,or lack thereof…Hence,he wou,d have a difficult time findimg a decent paying job…plus he owes AMEX 10-15k,</p>

<p>Even if scandal-stained Rep. Anthony Weiner didn’t want to stay in office, he needs to stay in office.</p>

<p>Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn’t have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.</p>

<p>Weiner, 46, took home $156,117 in 2010, according to his federal tax returns released by his staff.</p>

<p>His humiliated wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, earned $154,000 in 2009, federal records show.</p>

<p>He owes between $10,000 and $15,000 on his American Express card, according to his most recent financial-disclosure forms.</p>

<p>If he steps down, he could grovel to cable TV execs for talking-head “analyst” gigs that hopefully pay more than the $825 he gets for appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”</p>

<p>But with Weiner’s reputation in ruins, other lucrative jobs may be hard to get.</p>

<p>“He would most likely have to go to friends in the business sector, but he doesn’t have a financial background,” said political consultant Joseph Mercurio.</p>

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<p>He can stay home with the kid…</p>

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<p>Ah, but his wife may want someone of good moral character & judgment to raise her child. That could lower his chances of landing that job.</p>

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<p>Plus staying home all day would give him too much time to be on the internet. What to do? What to do?</p>

<p>Actually, Anthony Weiner isn’t much different from any other middle age man who loses his job and feels that there’s no jother ob that he’s qualified to do. He needs some job retraining program.</p>

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<p>Ok, busdriver, now we can check your claims. That is, we can check them once you provide documentation that Barack Obama and Howard Dean campaigned on being sensitive progressive males. I followed both campaigns, and don’t remember any such thing. Dean campaigned on universal health care and ending the war, as I recall.</p>

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<p>A few pages earlier it was stressed that Mr Weiner had not done anything illegal. Well, the private twittering with a 17 yo might just change that… Depends what was said or shown…</p>

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<p>If he sent those smutty pix to the 17-year-old he will be toast.</p>

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<p>Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart, I have been laughing every night, they are just having a field day with all this. (I prefer their news shows over the real thing) Although Brian Williams is OK. Scandals seem to take over & dominate the news.</p>