Posted on 06/11/2011 8:08:55 PM PDT by doug from upland
The backstory on Weiner’s implosion
So the Democratic leadership has called on Anthony Weiner to resign, in the wake of news that he had connected with a 17 year old girl through social media. The family has claimed that nothing was untoward, but suddenly, a fusillade of statements came from Dem leaders today demanding he resign.
Here’s what happened, according to a senior Democratic aide. Nancy Pelosi had been privately urging Weiner to resign and seek treatment for days, the aide says. But he told her today that he would take a temporary leave of absence and seek treatment. Once she heard that, she released a statement calling on him to resign.
“Congressman Weiner has the love of his family, the confidence of his constituents, and the recognition that he needs help,” Pelosi’s statement said. “I urge Congressman Weiner to seek that help without the pressures of being a Member of Congress.”
Similar statements came out today fromChris Van Hollen and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
My understanding is that Pelosi and other Dem leaders were angry with Weiner because he lied to them, publicly and privately. After the news of the first Tweet broke, he privately assured Dem leaders that he had been hacked and that there was nothing to the story, I’m told.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So where's the outrage over Obama's continuing brazen and bald-faced lies?
The story concerning the 17-yr old girl:
The girl’s contact with Mr. Weiner started in early April, after her trip to Washington. The congressman spoke to her school group, and she began following him on Twitter, posting a public message saying how much she liked his speech.
Two days later, Mr. Weiner began following her on Twitter. On her profile, she says she aspires to be president. In a private message he sent to her, he said: “How hip am I talking to a future president.”
Delighted that she had heard directly from a congressman, the girl wrote a public post on her Twitter feed: “talking to Rep Weiner from New York right now! is my life real?”
At the time, a group of conservatives was monitoring Mr. Weiner’s Twitter activity, after noticing that he was sending messages to a pornographic star from Tennessee.
When members of the group saw the girl’s post, suggesting she was engaging in a private conversation with Mr. Weiner, they alerted the congressman that they were watching him. “@RepWeiner new pal is a high school girl. First porn actresses now little girls. Weird.”
According to the girl’s family member, people in the group also copied the girl on some of the messages they sent to him, so she sent Mr. Weiner a private message telling him that she felt she was being harassed. He apologized to her in a private message, and removed her from the list of people he followed on Twitter.
About a month later, Mr. Weiner sent out a public message saying he wanted to attract more followers on Twitter and offered to follow people on his account if they wanted him to.
The girl responded to the appeal and posted a public message to him: “Don’t forget me. I used to follow you.” On May 16, he began following the girl again, and over the next 10 days they had three private message exchanges, the family member said.
One was about baseball. In another, he replied to a question she had about legislation by jokingly asking for her advice, the family member said. His third message to her was in response to a link she posted to a YouTube video of his giving a speech, with the message: “My true love.”
In a blog post on Tumblr, she later shared the contents of that private message from him. In it, Mr. Weiner appeared to liken himself to a superhero.
“I came back strong,” he wrote. “Large. Tights and cape. ...”
On the Tumblr blog post she added, “My favorite Congressman.”
I have been told that Weiners have no conscience.
What type of 'treatment' do you think will keep Weiner from sending pictures of the unclothed Weiner out on the internet to strangers? Ever see Clockwork Orange?
30 years ago those caught doing stuff would afterward claim they were 'born again' to move beyond it. But in today's liberal world the new scam is 'treatment'.
Exactly.
Weiner is just the symptom of the disease called liberalism.
Whby does Weiner “need help”? He does exactly what the people of NY want and expect of him. After all the expression “consenting adults” was probably coined in NYC.
I’ll bet Huma can hardly wait to get back from Africa. The only way she could have gotten farther from Weiner is if she got on the next Moon mission. Nobody deserves to wake up and find themselves in the nightmare she’s in.
“(Pelosi has been) urging Weiner to resign and seek treatment .. “
“I agree completely with Madame Speaker .. I mean, the former speaker. After my therapy, life is good.
“I believe after a few sessions the Congressman will be happier than a pitbull with two peters ... let me re-phrase that frequency.
“What I meant to say, huh? My medication? Who are you? Nurse Ratched? Leave me al—”
Dan Rather, former Democrat propagandist
St. Elizabeths
Washington DC
A Dem telling a lie to his chicks...I thought we were not supposed to care. They suddenly care about morals/female collaterally damage in domestic affairs? When did this happen and why? What are the implications for the anything goes party?
Give the guy a break! With a name like The Weiner and absolutely no marketable skills, ethics, morals or experience, the guy has to stay in the government to survive. Think of the wifey and the chill’n on the way. You heartless Pelosi and Democrats!!!!
“...Why don’t you have a seat over there?”
Yes, and Democratic voters are just like their officials. They don’t like the truth either.
Pelosi Wants to Hang On to Weiner
collaterally = collateral
Anthony Weiner - the Lindsay Lohan of Congress.
Two nights ago I predicted an underage girl but hinted toward a guy...he said he not treatable in his confesion presser.....Underage girl came through ...guy will come next and he cnt get rid of that quote that says hes.Not treatable. I say there is a guy lurking in the shadows and that why he is going into hiding...this story will not stop until he RESIGNS....
THAT should be your tagline..love it!
LOL. She might need to do a fact-finding mission in Antarctica, but it’s the wrong season...
Excellent point.
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