postcards posted before the episode aired. It’s been reported in the past that they were roommates and Stewart corrected that last night. I think this is the last time Weiner was on The Daily Show.
Yeah, I think it’s obvious he was following a bunch of women because they were good looking. Whether he was dumb enough to send that picture to one of them remains to be seen.
The Republicans must be either very afraid or still stung from some of the things Rep. Weiner said. The slime brigade is out in force on this one.
See ladyfox post, he was following them because he tweeted an offer to follow people if they wanted him to.
I’m not saying Rep. Weiner didn’t extend the offer to everyone in his tweet circle, but it is also possible that he extended the invitation to ladyfox to boost his fan club. I’m agnostic on this point until more information surfaces.
I watched the Daily Show last night and Stewart made a point to say that they were never roommates, he just crashed at a summer share Weiner and his friends had. Less roommate, more freeloader looking for free housing with some friends on a vacation. I didn’t see Stewart saying anything differently last night?
No, that’s pretty much what he said last night. It sounds like they were practically roommates at one point when Stewart shared an apartment with Weiner’s then-girlfriend and he crashed at that apartment a lot. (That’s from other stories, not last night’s episode.) So they were never really roommates, but they’re old friends from way back and they’ve seen a lot of each other.
At this point I have no reason to believe the account wasn’t hacked. It’s not beyond a Member of Congress to do something incredibly stupid. But I have followed people on twitter and seen some incredibly bizarre things pop up on their feeds from time to time only to be followed by a message that the account was compromised.
I am not sure the account was hacked. I think the stuff that came out was Photoshopped to look like it came from his account.
It is odd that one and only one person was able to produce the screen cap of this supposed Twitter (Weiner supposedly tagged the woman but sent it publicly and not like he doesn’t have a lot of followers). He also managed to do so very quickly and break the story near immediately and the same guy was Tweeting two weeks ago about supposed naughty pictures that would soon come out about a Democrat from the northeast. Amazingly prescient of him.
I’m going to make a prediction - Congressman Weiner will issue an apology for this incident sometime in the next two weeks. Once the story starts changing like this, it is to cover up an embarrassing truth.
The story hasn’t changed so far. Despite the thread title I haven’t seen a comment where he said the picture wasn’t him.
I am unsure why it is a big fuss?
I know Breitbart likes to say the liberal media will give Weiner a pass on this although A) the media is not liberal and B) I am not seeing them ignoring it.
Further Breitbart says Weiner is treated differently than the likes of Chris Lee. Thing is Chris Lee is a politician who ran on “Family Values” and held a holier-than-thou persona. Weiner has not. Larry Craig was busted for lewd conduct soliciting sex from other men while Craig was the guy who helped push Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It is not as newsworthy if someone catches Barney Frank soliciting sex from another man.
The woman in question is over 21 (so not a minor) and the picture was nothing more than is seen in most underwear ads. This is between Weiner and his wife.
I will be sorely disappointed in Weiner if it turns out he was dumb enough to do this. I pegged him as smarter than that.
It seems to me that he is saying he can’t say with certitude that the picture was posted on a his hacked Twitter account. The evidence is VERY strong that Weiner did not do this, yet the idiots at CNN cannot even do a single slight bit of creative reporting to try and figure it out.
And C) nothing Breitbart “reports” should be taken at face value. OK, that doesn’t really fit into your list, but it bears repeating that Breitbart’s reputation preceeds him and nothing he says should be presumed to be true. I’d be a fool to swear up and down that Weiner is innocent, so I won’t do that. But there are some issues that need to be resolved here, and the fact that Breitbart is involved indicates the situation is dubious.
I don’t like the phrase “creative reporting,” but Jon Stewart was correct last night - the bloggers are out in front of the news in doing the reporting here.
Rep. WEiner ((D) NY) claims that his account was hacked, and that a false photo (of his nether regions) was sent to a 21 year old college coed.
Is this proveable?
WEiner was questioned about the incident-he refused to answer the question (i.e. "did you send this photo?).
So-can it be proved that IT WAS Weiner’s weiner-or not?
All Weiner needs to do is sow enough reasonable doubt in the jury pool to avoid conviction. The prosecution can attempt to rebut the doubt, but the hill they have to climb is that much steeper now that they have to.
From a technical perspective, there’s no absolute tell-tale one way or the other as long as you assume the attacker was fairly competent and didn’t leave any hints behind on either the Representative’s computer or on any of the machines the computer was networked with. It is certainly possible for a skilled and motivated attacker to clean a compromised computer of all traces of the compromise.
Despite the fact that Weiner is a politician, he’s not being a accused of a crime. Sending a racy picture to another adult isn’t illegal.
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As one of his constituants, may I say that I don’t give a shit? Anything presented by that lying asshole Breitbart has the stink of suspicion on it, and I extend the presumption of innocence doubly far for anyone Breitbart accuses of anything.
Just bring in the NFL’s forensic specialists who studied the cellphone pic of Bret Favre’s.