# Anthony Weiner: douchebag extrordinaire **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 23, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335 "2013-07-23T23:03:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/181 "2013-07-31T14:22:11Z")
Not again! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/182 "2013-07-31T14:29:20Z")
And Anthony… When you are asked if you are STILL in any sexting relationships the only correct answer would be NO. Don’t get into a metaphysical discussion about the nature of time and beginnings and endings. Yes, we know that the scandalous behavior \*\*currently under discussion \*\*happened last year but that wasn’t what the reporter was asking. The question was simple and the answer should be, too. The only reason I can imagine for this answer would be that you are still engaging in this behavior > **[UPDATE: Anthony Weiner Dodges Sexting Question](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-weiner-sexting-scandal_n_3676262)** > > UPDATE: Anthony Weiner Dodges Sexting Question ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/183 "2013-07-31T17:18:04Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And Anthony… > When you are asked if you are STILL in any sexting relationships the only correct answer would be NO. Don’t get into a metaphysical discussion about the nature of time and beginnings and endings. > Yes, we know that the scandalous behavior \*\*currently under discussion \*\*happened last year but that wasn’t what the reporter was asking. The question was simple and the answer should be, too. > > The only reason I can imagine for this answer would be that you are still engaging in this behavior > > [Anthony Weiner Dodges Sexting Question (UPDATE) | HuffPost New York](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/anthony-weiner-sexting-scandal_n_3676262.html) No, they just presented his quote in the wrong context. You can see there that he says “it was a year ago,” and [the full exchange with the reporter makes it more obvious that he was saying he’s not doing this now.](http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/07/new-york-daily-news-incorrectly-transcribed-controversial-169608.html) > [@](#): > > Hamill: “And it was over a year ago? There’s been nothing else?” > > Weiner: “I mean, oh yeah, all that stuff is behind me. You can quibble about you know, beginnings, middles and ends, but it was basically a year ago.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/184 "2013-07-31T17:44:15Z")
So, he posts, “Quitting is not how we roll in NYC”. Really? Didn’t you quit the last job you had? And what was that over? Then he claims, (paraphrase) "I’m going to keep on doing what I’ve been doing…(goes on to talk about focusing on “issues”). Yeah, we know! That’s the problem! 😃 This guy just doesn’t seem to understand. And his mouthpiece! Man, she’s somethin’ else! “Slutbag”! That’s awesome! I feel all “tingly” when I read what comes out of her mouth… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/185 "2013-07-31T17:53:33Z")
Weiner’s campaign is imploding. Key people leaving. His spokesperson going on a profane rant. He’s just about shot his last wad in this campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/186 "2013-07-31T17:55:07Z")
I think one thing that should be kept in mind with Weiner is that he has no political future to protect anyway, and that before his resignation everyone knew he was going to run for mayor in the next election. So some of the reasons that normally force people out of races don’t apply here. Basically I assume he’ll quit if he runs out of money entirely and that’s it. Nobody expects him to drop out of the race because he’s embarrassed, do they? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/187 "2013-07-31T18:09:55Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > From that link: > > That’s some fine communication - sure speaks of quality personnel and a smooth-running campaign. What could possibly go wrong if this guy becomes mayor? Another quote from the person who is supposed to be the voice of the campaign: > [@](#): > > Like it was, like, terrible and I had to like - she would like, she would just not show up for work,” said Morgan. People who talk like that should be, like, gagged. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/188 "2013-07-31T19:55:39Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Not again! An old joke, yes, but God help me, I find myself sneaking off to the Drudge Report every morning for the newest puerile innuendo headline to dunk in my coffee. If that means I’m going to Hell, then [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/nyregion/21weiner.html?_r=0) is going with me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/189 "2013-07-31T20:09:31Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Nobody expects him to drop out of the race because he’s embarrassed, do they? Embarrassment? I think he was born without one. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/190 "2013-07-31T20:55:37Z")
Please, don’t let him drop out just yet, he’s been instrumental in stimulating the creation of new dick jokes. The genre had admittedly become a bit stale. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/191 "2013-07-31T22:12:26Z")
Yeah I support him running and staying in it just for the hilarity. I kind of hope he wins too, in a sort of masochistic sense. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/192 "2013-08-01T03:54:24Z")
A journalists impression of the Weiner intern that’s currently in the news. Quite the shrewd and ambitious young lady. We’ll probably hear more about her in the next few years. > **[My Brunch With the Anthony Weiner Intern](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/my-brunch-with-the-anthony-weiner-intern/278249/)** > > Olivia Nuzzi is an aspiring journalist with an interest in TV -- and her tell-all on the Weiner campaign might help her get there faster. > [@](#): > > Nuzzi was looking for advice on how to break into journalism, and, in particular, how to get a foothold in TV. All of her friends wanted to be TV pundits, she said. It’s what they idolized. > > Despite efforts to cast her as a “mercenary hobag” intern selling out her boss for 15 seconds of fame, Nuzzi’s columns for the Daily News and NSFWCORP were not her first forays into political journalism, or even into writing about a politician who was her boss. She’s also written for Alternet, the Huffington Post, and two small New Jersey publications, More Monmouth Musings and the triCityNews. There, she penned a series of columns about New Jersey politics, including some in 2011 about the District 11 Democratic campaign, for which she was also an intern. > > I was impressed by the way Nuzzi coupled a kind of self-conscious sexpot appearance with an unexpectedly deep knowledge of New York and New Jersey politics. She friended me on Facebook shortly thereafter (the picture above is one she had made public on the site). > [@](#): > > There was no question when I met Nuzzi that she was on the make. But then so are plenty of other young journalists – the difference is that they are usually men. It’s actually rather rare to meet a young aspiring woman journalist who is as aggressively networky and career-oriented as Nuzzi. Or as willing to burn bridges. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/193 "2013-08-01T03:54:57Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Weiner’s campaign is imploding. Key people leaving. His spokesperson going on a profane rant. > > He’s just about shot his last wad in this campaign. It’s just one cock-up after another. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/194 "2013-08-01T04:55:39Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Please, don’t let him drop out just yet, he’s been instrumental in stimulating the creation of new dick jokes. The genre had admittedly become a bit stale. Yes, he is indeed an endless source of fascination. What? Google the etymology. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/195 "2013-08-01T10:48:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Another quote from the person who is supposed to be the voice of the campaign Holy crap. I know I’m late to this point but that incoherently babbling woman is not “random college student volunteer on the campaign”; she is his COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, the one person who is supposed to take the most care in formulating responses to the media and public. Hiring her appears to be yet another questionable decision from Senor Danger. > [@Barbara Morgan](#): > > “I have no idea, but I can tell you she … like accosted me at like our petitioning thing to be able to become my intern, begged me to be my intern, sent me something within like 20 minutes of meeting her and then proceeded to — she came in the next day and was like, basically, ‘I want to be your bitch all summer long, that’s all I want to do is be your righthand person,’” “Petitioning thing”? Jesus wept… ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/196 "2013-08-01T12:00:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Yes, he is indeed an endless source of fascination. > > What? Google the etymology. Of what? “Fascination”? Couldn’t find anything phallic. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/197 "2013-08-01T12:20:54Z")
Fascinate is a very dirty word. Srsly. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/198 "2013-08-01T13:17:39Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I could see him winning, and hope he does. This is no one’s business. He evidently has a medusa of a wife and went on the internet for a wank. That’s what it’s for. You really hope he wins? He clearly has no self discipline. I’d like the leader of my city to have some self discipline, to keep to deadlines, and make things happen, and make hard decisions. Doesn’t give rat’s ass about his wife, so her sure a hell isn’t going to care about any of his voters. And he lies as easily as I crew breathe. And don’t’ tell me that they are all scum. They aren’t. And at some point, se get the leadership we expect. I live here in DC, and the local government is as corrupt as he is and it’s a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/199 "2013-08-01T13:33:55Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Fascinate is a very dirty word. Srsly. I assume you’re referring to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinus) but I’m not sure the linkage is quite a direct as you seem to think; other sources simply define “fascinus” as “spell” with “fascinate” meaning to be bewitched or spellbound. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335/200 "2013-08-01T13:38:32Z")
Thanks. Interesting! Yes, they’re cognates, but one doesn’t descend from the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-weiner-douchebag-extrordinaire/664335.md?page=11)