Spinning Weiner: “I can’t say with certitude” that the package is mine; Update: Jokes to female reporter about being “a little stiff,” more lewd jokes for the press; Update: Weiner and CNN, take two
Scroll for updates…another press interview w/CNN expected in 4pm Eastern hour…
I’ve been tasked with talking about Weiner-gate on Hannity tonight. If you tune in, make sure your kids aren’t watching. It’s getting lewder and cruder by the moment.
NBC’s Luke Russert asked the tweetaholic congressman point-blank this morning if the crotch shot was his, and his Clintonesque answer was:
“I can’t say with certitude” that the pic is mine.
Click on the image above for the video clip from RCP.
How do you not know what your own, er, junk looks like?
Perhaps his many other tweet-hearts can shed light?
Ick.
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Fun fact: Per Debra J. Saunders, Fox notes this morning that former GOP Rep. Christopher Lee’s Craigslist fiasco received three times more coverage than Weiner-gate.
I think that’s rapidly shifting.
Another Weiner train-wreck press conference is expected later this afternoon.
Drinking-game participants: Take a shot every time he says “debt ceiling,” “Clarence Thomas,” and “jackass.”
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Update: Washington Times reporter Emily Miller was part of a group of journalists who tried to question Weiner on Capitol Hill.
She writes on Twitter:
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Update: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is no Megyn Kelly, unfortunately.
Weiner sat down with the anchor for mostly softball questions and few hard follow-ups.
1) Weiner says directly that he did not send the pic to Seattle college student Gennette Cordova and she did not receive it. Refuses to confirm that the pic is of him.
2) Blitzer: “You would know if this is your underpants.”
Again, Weiner worms out of direct answer. “Sometimes these things happen…When you’re named Weiner, it goes with the territory.”
Interesting word choice. Weiner now refers to the photo as “spam.”
Blitzer: “Have you ever taken a picture of yourself like this?” Rep. Weiner: No answer.
Describes lewd photo as a “randy picture.” Brags again about the number of followers on Twitter he has gained.
Blitzer asking about Weiner ‘s #thats545inseattle hashtag. “Pure coincidence.” Can’t explain why he picked Seattle.
Blitzer asks about porn star Ginger Lee, who has received direct messages from Weiner. Weiner called the message “pro forma.”
Blitzer asks about Weiner deleting all his photos on public photo-sharing service yfrog.
Weiner’s answer is incomprehensible. Hesitates before denying that he asked anyone to delete photos on his behalf.
Blitzer: “Are you protecting anyone.”
Weiner: “Yes, my wife.”
Maybe a little late for that.
Next: Weiner refuses to apologize for calling CNN producer a jackass.
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Just want to make sure you caught that. It is subtle…but brilliant.
They would have only “made fun” of the situation in a such a way as to make Anthony Weiner a sympathetic figure. They wouldn’t have gone after him in any really funny way.
When they “go after” Obama it’s only for his not being MORE Obama-like. It’s enough that they can try to claim that they do treat him like other presidents, but it’s lame.
Good Morning to you Happy. I know, what is it about Weiner we just can’t leave alone?
BrianNY,
Your theory is partially correct, but the person he feels “obligated to protect” is HIMSELF. He’s painting that potential scenario intentionally. Don’t fall for it.
No one did this TO him. HE sent the picture and he’s trying to weasel out of it.
If it WERE really a prank, he would have just fired whoever did it, and moved on. His problem is, he can’t find anyone on his staff willing to lie and say that they did it.
well, when Weiner is dejected and flaccid, we just want to reach over & give it a little peck to cheer him up.
Just like my two year old grandson. Everytime I change his diaper, he grabs his weiner. It is a constant source of fascination to him!
I am just surprised that Ilovemyweiner hasn’t shown up. This is a subject near and dear to his
hearthand!It’s a shame that Hollywood has such a liberal bias, especially since so many conservatives here write much better material! This thread and the other related to it, while off-color, are hilarious!
Thanks, happyscrapper.
I’m not a deep thinker, but I’m a whiz when it comes to crude stuff. If we stick with this sort of brain-dead subject matter, I’m all in.
Is it any wonder leftists from Europe come here and think that sexually attacking hotel maids is “merely a crude hillbilly pass”? The media deemed sexual assault by our ex-pres just a crude pass, and said “MOVE_ON”. The responsible party said, “if sticking your tongue into your staff’s mouth is cause for you to lose your senate seat, why isn’t sticking your schlong as bad? We demand our congressmen can’t have affairs, yet the other party not only condons affairs, but any manner of perversions are fine. Our congressman sends a suggestive email to a person, and he is hounded out of office for being the perv he is. Weiner sends out a picture of his underclad crotch to young women and he is allowed to BS the press and call them jackasses. Our leader has an affair and he is disqualified from being president because that offends our religious morals. No wonder we are the minority party even when we are the majority. The holier than thou crowd needs to get off their halo and quit preaching perfection as that requirement is why we only get Mitts and Tims as candidates. If a Republican ever swore under his breath and didn’t attend a CHRISTIAN church every sunday he isn’t good enough to be a republican leader. Ronald Reagan was the only republican president ever elected who was divorced, yet he was the best republican president of the last century. Ike was cannibalized because of rumors of affairs he had during 3+ years of military duty.
I understand the Phyllis Schlaffley wing of the party, but if they keep vetoing anyone who has ever farted in church, we are doomed to be run by the republican version of Jimmy Carter.
I am a 68 year old quite religious grandmother. And I think this has been a hoot! Off-color, but still funny and clever. I don’t like crude jokes just for the sake of crudeness…like SNL has become! But if it is clever, I can appreciate a good down and dirty joke!
I do, however, have to attend to some other things this a.m. so must leave. Carry on if you wish. I will check back later!
That is NOT an issue for me, and I suspect most of the conservatives on this blog! We want moral clarity, not a PRUDE!! Divorced? So? We all have loved ones who are divorced and we understand that happens. Cheat on your wife for 6 years, and cheat on wife number two with wife number three? That is not moral clarity! It is stupid, immoral, and bad decision-making. So a leader like that would be out of the question. A stance on abortion also is vital, considering that it is a strong conservative stance. Little transgressions…fine! Please don’t think we are perfectionists! At least, I’m not!!
I agree, while I’m perfect, I don’t insist upon that burden being applied to others.
I have the simplest of tastes;
I am only satisfied with the best.
Welcome to life under the Big Top!
Weiner is giving Pencil-Necked Geeks a bad name.
Do you ever wonder how they get so many clowns to come out of that little car?
With the recent comments on moral clarity, the above reminds me of that term ‘Big Tent’. There are a lot of folks who have joined against BHO for fiscal issues and become squeamish on social issues (abortion). I’m not keen on moderates so there’s my dilemma. I tend to want to leave social issues up to states (kicking can down the road?, no) but am not sure how that would work out either. Judges like to over-ride the will of the people. Oye.
Silly me, I missed the posting of this particular post yesterday, and was still commenting on the May 31st post…
I think I’ll re-post some of my comments here, since it’s likely no one will see them on the earlier post.
If you haven’t seen this new Twitter account, some of it is pretty funny…
Be sure to keep srolling down to load the older tweets back through the weekend…
http://twitter.com/#!/AnthonysWeiner
(And yes, the billboard spells it with an “ei”, not an “ie”!)
Dec. 19, 2007
Candidates Offer Views On Infidelity
Katie Couric Asks Whether They Can Understand Voters Who Don’t Feel Comfortable Supporting A Candidate Who Cheated
Two Points:
“I see London, I see France……
If Weiner resigns from Congress, he’s perfect to play Captain Underpants, if it’s ever is made into a movie.
ITTRP; well what do you expect from a lawyer and a dimwit
Oh, the irony!
On Friday May 27, the same day that the newlywed Weiner was sending his crotch shot to strippers, he was mocking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and using the tag “#ConflictsAbound”
Every time you think you know how stupid these people are they prove you wrong.
It’s official. Forrest Gump is now the leading intellectual among Democrats…
And Client #9 is the arbiter of morals…
Again,
Even Katie Couric knows that Democratic President Harry Truman said:
Harry Truman is quite possibly my favorite Democratic President. He saw his values as not just his values, but as foundational to America itself.
Here is a quote from a speech he gave as President:
If a politician said those same words today, they’d be labeled as a “right wing nut”, or “wingnut” for short.
A little over 60 years ago, that was considered “mainstream” when spoken by a Democratic President who considered it “the fundamental basis” of our country, and who warned of the danger if those values ever ceased to be the fundamental basis of our country.
Nota bene.
Contestant: “I’ll take Congressional Scandals for $200, Alex.”
Alex: “And here’s the ‘Daily Double.’ The Democrat PR monster generated by the Barney Frank/Fannie Mae Scandal blending into a Congressman’s Twitter mishap.”
Contestant: “What is FRANKENWEINER?”
Nice!
Weiner sent the picture. Not a staffer or a hacker. Weiner won’t deny that it is his crotch. If it weren’t his, he would say so emphatically. And how exactly would a staffer have a picture of Weiner in his underwear with an erection?
Weiner has more than a few “fangirl” lefties who love him because he is “fighting for what they believe in”. These fangirls openly say things like:
March 1, 2011 (Definitely before Weinergate)
On May 27th (the same day Weiner sent the crotch shot to another woman publicly, but possibly to others privately therough a Direct Message “DM”), the same fangirl who posted the coment above was addressed in a tweet by one of her friends, saying:
What was Ginger Lee’s response to that friend?
That is the same Ginger Lee to whom Rep. Weiner was sending Direct Messages, as acknowledged on March 13th…
Gotcha on the “J-Boner”, happyscrapper, but J-Bone was just my brother’s childhood nickname for me (I’m skinny with sharp elbows and knees), and that’s what some people call me to this day….nothing to do with anything sexual
Oh, sweet! Now I know who you are! The childhood name gave you away. You are busted!
Just kidding!
The newlywed Weiner had a track record of sending Direct Messages to women who had publicly stated, “I want to have sexual relations with Anthony Weiner.”
He slipped up when he forgot to properly make one of those messages a Direct Message, and what was meant for one of his fangirls was instead broadcast to the twitterverse.
At that point, what he had done was immoral and unethical, but not illegal.
When he realized what had happened, he started emulating Richard Nixon.
He deleted the tweet.
He sent out a new tweet claiming that the deleted tweet had been a hack.
Again, immoral and unethical, but not illegal.
If he filed a police report, though, knowing that it was himself that sent the tweet, not a hacker, then he would be committing a crime by filing a false police report.
That is why he will not file a police report. And that is why he wants to avoid any situation that would require him to answer questions under oath… lying on twitter is not a crime, but lying under oath IS… i.e. perjury.
As the most aptly named “jackass” (their party symbol) in America, “Cocktail” Weiner needs to come clean, and resign, (actually just resigning would work just fine), and save NYC any further embarassment.
Having seen Hangover II this weekend
it is my opinion after reviewing the image sent
that Little Tony Weiner could also
be the stunt double for Mr. Chow
Oh barf, I just heard a commentator implying that weiner isn’t denying the photo because it’s flattering. What a sickening rationalization, blech.
Someone said that was Jon Stewart…Double blech.
Where is the caped defender of lefties? If there was a comment made, I missed it. This is just the type of topic where I notice his absence (mainly because this is just the type of topic from which he is absent).
Weird. I just cannot fathom why I haven’t read a contrived story set in some far-flung hypothetical parallel universe, meant to illustrate how this scandal is, in fact, proof of right-wing paranoia and NOT misbehavior by a prominent democrat.
I guess he just hasn’t heard about it. Yes, that’s it. It must be.
It is a Federal Crime to hack into the account of a Federal Offcial. Weiner reported he had been hacked. If he was hacked, anyone in the government could be vulnerable. The investigation can kick in whether he wants it or not. Its a National Security issue.
One has to assume Weiner is telling the truth and he was hacked. Whether he was or not is easy to determine.
If he lied that is at a minimum an ethics violation. Then we get to the fact he at that point actually sent it.
He’s painted himself into a corner.
Isn’t wanting to have sex with a ferret illegal in most states?
Gak. Really? No wonder these females are never happy.
Big, hairy, testosterone-filled Celt that loves me & worships the ground I walk on=sex on legs
Confucious say Man who fart in church sit in phew.
Not to mention the size 15 gunboats!
Dont forget “bearing a designer handbag,” I love those.
Rogue; indeed. It’s really hard keeping him in socks.