# Re Anthony Weiner's latest 3rd strike texting antics. Is he mentally unhinged? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416 "2016-08-29T17:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/61 "2016-09-22T18:20:05Z")
> [@astro](#): > > The oddest thing about this (to me) is that after the initial go round and exposure of his sexting proclivities he’s basically (at that point) a payday, or at the minimum an attention getter, for any woman who wants to test the limits of how far he will go. > > So he jumps on sexting again and is outed …again. And recently yet again. At what point does the “Hey now… wait a minute… the women I flirt with keep telling on me!” light come on? Maybe the bulb is dim. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/62 "2016-09-22T19:16:02Z")
Sounds like self destructive addictive behavior. He needs heaps of help but isn’t looking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/63 "2016-09-22T19:25:43Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Sounds like self destructive addictive behavior. He needs heaps of help but isn’t looking for it. This is it… He’s a sex addict, and either has not sought the help he needs, or is not applying that help. Just like any other form of addiction, the person may know it’s completely self-destructive at some level, but rationalize their behavior away in order to serve their addiction. Unfortunately, the shame felt for destroying his own life, and those who love him, may just be compounding his need to use. Addiction is a nasty thing. Not excusing the guy, what he did was wrong, and he should be held accountable. I hope he can get the help he needs ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/64 "2016-09-23T05:20:37Z")
From 2011: > [@Congressman Anthony Weiner: My Twitter account was hacked! The weiner photo is not mine!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/55): > > once again rachel maddow has done some actual research and investigating. she had a segment on how one could send things out under other people’s accounts. also rep. weiner appeared and said that there is a private security company going through his office and working on finding out what happened and how to guard against it. > > rep. weiner did mention mr stewart’s defense. > [@Congressman Anthony Weiner: My Twitter account was hacked! The weiner photo is not mine!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/131): > > Do you all really not realize why he’s not denying it’s him? > > You can take a photo of just about anything, manipulate it via photoshop, crop and enlarge it so that a tiny bit of it is now the entire picture, change the color and the orientation, and render it completely unrecognizable. This “picture” could be of a wrinkle in someone’s teeshirt near a seam line, put together with some white and some skin. If Weiner flat out denies the picture is of himself, and it later turns out that it is even in part a tiny segment of some bigger picture of himself, turned upside and sideways, he’ll be called a liar. When asked if the picture was of him, he repeatedly said that what with photoshop, he couldn’t say for sure. > > With what photoshop can do, could any of us say definitively that that picture didn’t originate with us ourselves? I’m a woman, and I couldn’t say for sure that that picture didn’t have some portion of it originating in a picture of me (although I’d certainly guess it wasn’t, since I don’t think I have any pictures of me on the web at all). Here’s the [picture](http://blogs.abcnews.com/.a/6a00d8341c4df253ef01538ee67353970b-320wi). Could you be so certain? You know what photoshop-type programs can do. It’s not like it’s difficult. > > As for hacking his account, Rachel Maddow found people on the web who reproduced similar results (a tweet purportedly from someone else linking to a photo the someone else purportedly posted) in, if I’m not mistaken, about 12 seconds. Again, not difficult. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/65 "2016-09-23T06:09:12Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > [Fourth strike?](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/21/report_anthony_weiner_allegedly_sexted_with_high_schooler.html) This time with a teenager. > > I used to really like this guy. What does she mean by saying “I catfish people”? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/66 "2016-09-23T06:26:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > What does she mean by saying “I catfish people”? It means she lures people into online relationships, and she’s not necessarily who she purports to be. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/67 "2016-09-23T16:14:12Z")
I feel bad for the kids. They’ll eventually read the old news stories about their sex obsessed dad. He’s just a pathetic laughing stock now. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/68 "2016-09-23T17:34:05Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > What does she mean by saying “I catfish people”? What? ---
**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:** [September 23, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/69 "2016-09-23T17:44:59Z")
Catfishing > **[12 Signs That You Might Be Getting Catfished Online - Social Catfish](https://socialcatfish.com/scamfish/12-signs-might-getting-catfished-online/)** > > Discover the twelve tell-tell signs that you got catfished online in social media networks or on popular dating websites. Weiner has made himself very vulnerable. Anybody can string him along and then sell the story to the Tabloids. I expect some guy to emerge any day that made a fool out of Weiner. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416/70 "2016-09-23T22:39:42Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > From 2011: > > Good times. Yeah, people were more skeptical back then, when we’d first heard about it. What’s wrong with that? I mean, the first time it came up, it was just a bulge in his pants, easily explainable by other means. And it was before he admitted he’d done it. I don’t see you posting in that thread that you were sure. At least that would make sense as if you were bragging about predicting it. This just seems like you’re poking fun at people who assumed the guy was innocent before proven guilty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-anthony-weiners-latest-3rd-strike-texting-antics-is-he-mentally-unhinged/764416.md?page=3)