Posted on 05/31/2011 9:52:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The reports say Rep. Weiner was “following” several young women on Twitter, which, as I understand it, means the young women were Tweeting.
Rofl! Post of the day!
i cannot speak to the young woman in question bc i don’t know her name or anything about her. i am telling you that it’s possible to be active on Twitter and to reveal zip zero nada about yourself or your daily life. I retweet DraftMarcoRubio tweets all the time, as well as Ken Cuccinelli’s etc.
Weinerweinerweinerweinerweiner...sorry...it’s just funny weinerweinerweinerweinerweiner
The women were likely tweeting. However, “following” an account on Twitter is just a mechanism to monitor whatever tweets are sent from the account. You can follow an account that doesn’t post any tweets.
I’m going to go with the obvious scenario: Rep. Weiner has been “following” a number of young women who were actively using Twitter, in the hope that he’d eventually work up enough nerve to send one of them a picture of his weiner, out of a pathetic hope that she might respond in a way he’d find titillating. So to speak.
(snicker)
OMG!! Was the Weiner hack a ChiCom attack???
Has Ubama placed our military (one of the best in the world, he tells us) on alert for a possible response to the Weiner crotch shot?
One can only imagine that as we speak, Ubama, Biden, Hillary and Panetta are giving the matter of finding Weiner's wiener the same kind of attention they gave to finding UBL.
He's a Democrat. Here's how Democrats treat sex scandals:
[Gerry] Studds was a central figure in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were each separately censured by the House of Representatives for an inappropriate relationship with a congressional page — in Studds' case, a 1983 homosexual relationship with a 17-year-old male. ... Studds defended his sexual involvement as a "consensual relationship with a young adult." Dean Hara, whom Studds married in 2004, said after Studds' death in 2006 that Studds had never been ashamed of the relationship. "This young man knew what he was doing," Hara said.[5] In testimony to investigators, the page described the relationship as consensual and not intimidating.[6] ... Studds received two standing ovations from supporters in his home district at his first town meeting following his congressional censure.[4]
Jonah's complaining about the the double-standards applied to in favor of Democrats and against Republicans.
We know how these things go down if the politician is an (R). He mentioned both the NY scandal that just flipped a seat and the "intern" scandal that helped propel Pelosi to House Speaker and also mentioned Weiner's penchant for hyping (R) scandals.
He further notes, if this was a "dirty trick" played by an ideologue opposed to the congressman, why aren't Weiner's allies demanding a thorough investigation?
If he did it, he should come clean and we can focus on the debt ceiling, the "soft patch" in Obama's economy, Libya and untold numbers of more important things.
If it was a staffer "prank" it's clearly an administrative issue. If it's a "cyber crime" that should be made clear. From the tone of her release, I got the sense the recipient was "reached out to" by Weiner's office. Any such contact should be investigated for ethics violations.
Tax-chick - I'm not sure everyone would agree with me, but if a married man of ANY age sent a photo of his "junk" to my daughter, I wouldn't care if she was 19,21, or 25 - I would be throwing a hissy fit big time! Adult or not - my child will always be my child, and therefore I will do what I need to protect them.
Oh, sorry, I pinged you before I saw you here! lol I should have known
Nicely done HG - post of the day for me!
My oldest daughter is in the military. I can’t protect her from weiner-wagglers, but she knows one if she sees one and can provide appropriate ridicule or an accidental boot to the groin, as needed in the situation.
I am not suggestion that Rep. Weiner’s (or, to be excessively fair, “someone’s”) action is anything but inappropriate, regardless of the recipient’s age. I simply think that calling a college-age woman a “young girl,” as if she’s in the 4th grade, is disingenuous. She wouldn’t be a “young girl” if she were getting married, running supply in Afghanistan, or plugging an Indonesian pirate. She’d be an adult woman, because she is.
My larger point was about the inconsistent way our society treats college students. We say they are adults, capable of taking care of themselves, deciding right and wrong, needing freedom from their parents. “We’re adults ... give us free condoms in our co-ed dorms.” But who’s paying the tuition, room, and board? I think we need a clear line: “Young girl,” needs protection from Rep. Weiner and that a-hole up the hall in the dorm, calls Daddy for bail money after she’s picked up drunk at a frat party. “Adult woman,” pays her own way and thinks about consequences before she acts.
Just philosophizin’, because it’s a hot day ...
You don’t have to go out on a limb. It is what happened to Chris Lee in NY-26.
I understand! But when they’re in Brunei or Thailand, all you can do is say, “Use a baseball bat, girl!” Anoreth had a whole crew of Brunei “Marine Police” wanting to move to Charlotte, where rents are low, women are independent, and bookstores stock Thomas Sowell texts. Raised that girl right, I did ;-).
His hacked story smells like a can of two day tuna left out in the sun.
You have every reason to be proud of your daughter as I am of mine. Mine graduated cum laude from a rigorous academic program at the u of Dallas a few weeks ago and starts her career tomorrow with a military support foundation. She wears Lilly Pulitzer not combat boots but she can take care of herself. Doesn’t mean she wouldn’t be disturbed by a wiener tweet.
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