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What the people really need is your butt gone from government. Nobody likes a whiney weenie, Weiner
Pipe Down Anthony Shmeckel
Posted on 05/30/2011 2:02:37 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
A spokesman for Rep. Anthony Weiner, New York Democrat, told The Daily Caller the Congressman’s team has “retained counsel” and is exploring the “proper next steps” after his official Twitter account posted a picture of a man’s erect penis underneath gray boxer shorts. The internet-driven scandal has come to be known online as “#Weinergate,” a pun on the Congressman’s last name.
“We’ve retained counsel to explore the proper next steps and to advise us on what civil or criminal actions should be taken,” Weiner spokesman Dave Arnold said in an email. “This was a prank. We are loath to treat it as more, but we are relying on professional advice.”
Weiner maintains that he thinks the issue is a distraction started and driven by conservatives. “At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don’t,” Weiner said in an email to TheDC. “This was a prank, and a silly one. I’m focused on my work.”
It remains to be seen what type of official investigation will ensue, if any, into the allegations Weiner has made that his Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked. The FBI and Capitol Hill police have not responded to TheDC’s requests for comment or clarification, but, seeing as Weiner is a member of Congress, he has access to highly sensitive information that may have been compromised during a potential hack.
In response to a tweet in which TheDC’s Jim Treacher asked him why Twitter hasn’t shut down Weiner’s official “verified” account while the company investigates the hack, Twitter spokesman Adam Sharp tweeted, “As a matter of policy, we don’t comment on individual user accounts, for privacy reasons.”
Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government first reported Weiner’s Twitter account’s posting of the lewd picture and how the New York Democrat removed it almost immediately.
A google News search for this string of characters, anthony weiner twitter, gets 256 hits. A scandal involving a Republican congressman would get 10 to the 256 power hits.
In that case the effort would be worth it. Congressman Weiner is a favorite of Don Imus. I bet Imus won't even mention it much less kid him about it -- as is Imus' wont when it's a right winger. Imus likes Glen Beck personally but watch what would happen if Beck ever got accused of anything like this.
Meanwhile, back in the jungle: OJ is looking for the real killer.
“Mr. Weiner would have the FBI and Capital Police on this like Flies on Poop! if he were innocent!!!!!!!”
You got it. He would be idignant and bringing to bear the full force of his position to apprehend and prosecute the culprit. His first action would be to accuse ‘right wing conservative operatives’ of hacking his account.
“This pretty much proves that he did, in fact, tweet the wiener.”
This has the makings of a whole new American idiom. :)
Being a Dem, this episode will likely enhances his political career and propel him on to a seat in the US Senate.
That link should take you to a very large (sorry) picture of the Weiner in question. That is a very distinctive floor. How much do you want to bet that the Congressmans apartment has similar floors. Lucky for him it has been cropped out of most posts of the pic.
But it won't work. There are much better things to interest us.
And yes, he will need a criminal attorney before this is over.
Boehner needs to swear out some warrants for this!
Yes, SERIES and HUGH!!
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What the people really need is your butt gone from government. Nobody likes a whiney weenie, Weiner
Pipe Down Anthony Shmeckel
Rush Limbaugh was Fantastic today tearing Weiner a new Weiner!If You missed it, You might find the transcription hilarious on Rush’s Website.Even to whether his new wifr, Huma who was Hillary’s Valet, Sidekick, and probable Lesbian Lover, might recognize the picture of Weiner’s barely covered Weiner!!
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