# Congressman Anthony Weiner: My Twitter account was hacked! The weiner photo is not mine! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853 "2011-05-31T14:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/161 "2011-06-06T20:29:49Z")
He just admitted to sending the picture and several other explicit photos of himself to about six other women. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/162 "2011-06-06T20:31:06Z")
I am seriously disappointed in that guy (he’s apologizing on the TV behind me now). Such profound stupidity from him I did not expect. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/163 "2011-06-06T20:36:49Z")
I said I didn’t believe his initial story. I believe him now when he is saying he is sorry about the whole matter. That’s completely understandable. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/164 "2011-06-06T20:40:45Z")
What a fucking moron. ---
**Author:** ![Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilles_de_Rais)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/165 "2011-06-06T20:42:50Z")
Why do these guys think they are never going to get caught doing this sh\*t??? What goes through guys’ minds that makes them believe they are immune? ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/166 "2011-06-06T20:53:06Z")
Wait, **Dio** was wrong? IM-FUCKING-POSSIBLE! ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/167 "2011-06-06T20:55:59Z")
Who was the guy yelling at the press conference and waiving to the camera? ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/168 "2011-06-06T20:56:41Z")
Here’s the new right-wing conspiracy theory: Hillary was found out in 2007. She offers Weiner Chief of Staff in the Clinton 2016 White House if he beards Huma. Being in a sham marriage, he looks for outlets on the Internet. Not that I believe it, but I’m sure this will be the new CT. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/169 "2011-06-06T20:57:16Z")
> [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](#): > > Why do these guys think they are never going to get caught doing this sh\*t??? > > What goes through guys’ minds that makes them believe they are immune? This. So incredibly egotistical and stupid. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/170 "2011-06-06T20:57:22Z")
> [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](#): > > What goes through guys’ minds that makes them believe they are immune? “Diogenes will cover for me” There’s a thrill involved in potentially self-destructive behavior. Add the forbidden sex, and it’s off the chart. You do it once, it’s fun, you get away with it, and there’s the thrill of outsmarting people … so you do it again, and again, until … Feel bad for the guy. Pissed away a promising future (even if he survives, he’ll never have the career he could have had) … and didn’t even actually get laid. ☹ “Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for _Wales_?” ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/171 "2011-06-06T21:00:58Z")
[Wiener just admitted he did it.](http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/live-blog-anthony-weiner-news-conference/?hp) ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/172 "2011-06-06T21:04:07Z")
So it turns out there’s even less to the story than anybody thought. No crime after all. Just a little online flirting. Nothing to see here. Nobody’s business. Those reporters are sickening, though. One of them was screaming out, “were you fully erect?” Did Stuttering John get in there or something. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/173 "2011-06-06T21:07:00Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > So it turns out there’s even less to the story than anybody thought. No crime after all. Just a little online flirting. Nothing to see here. Nobody’s business.. So Weiner (for apologizing) and Pelosi (for telling him that he MUST apologize) were both wrong, then? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/174 "2011-06-06T21:09:07Z")
> [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](#): > > Why do these guys think they are never going to get caught doing this sh\*t??? > > What goes through guys’ minds that makes them believe they are immune? If he had just admitted he sent the picture from day one this would not have been a story or at least a very tiny one. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/175 "2011-06-06T21:09:57Z")
> [@beagledave](#): > > So Weiner (for apologizing) and Pelosi (for telling him that he MUST apologize) were both wrong, then? Wrong about what? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/176 "2011-06-06T21:10:17Z")
I’ll say _mea culpa_ for myself, at least. A little online flirting of a married mann with young girls he doesn’t know the age of and then lying about it is nnot something worth defending. Not saying he needs to resign or anything, just saying it is stupid as shit. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/177 "2011-06-06T21:11:24Z")
Let me attempt to convey to you how strongly I feel about this. Meh. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/178 "2011-06-06T21:12:17Z")
They were adults. Don’t make it sound like they were jailbait. Most of it was before he was married anyway – ooooh a single guy flirts online oooooh. This is front page news? ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/179 "2011-06-06T21:12:24Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Wrong about what? If, the event is “Just a little online flirting. Nothing to see here. Nobody’s business.”..then Weiner is **wrong** to apologize for this and Pelosi is **wrong** to insist that he HAS to apologize..right? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/180 "2011-06-06T21:13:07Z")
Quote of the day: > [@Meagan Broussard](#): > > I don’t think he’s a bad guy. I think he’s got issues just like everybody else. Everyone’s standards are different, but to be elected to Congress and sit there all day on Facebook and chatting? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853.md?page=10)