Tag: Anthony Weiner

In the 1941 novel “What Makes Sammy Run?”, the title character was an amoral hustler who rose to the heights of the Hollywood studio system. The modern version would likely be about an amoral hustler already at the heights of his profession and desperate to avoid sinking out of sight.

The NY Post fills in the details:

Even if scandal-stained Rep. Anthony Weiner didn’t want to stay in office, he needs to stay in office.

Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn’t have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.

Weiner, 46, took home $156,117 in 2010, according to his federal tax returns released by his staff.

If he steps down, he could grovel to cable TV execs for talking-head “analyst” gigs that hopefully pay more than the $825 he gets for appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

But with Weiner’s reputation in ruins, other lucrative jobs may be hard to get.

“He would most likely have to go to friends in the business sector, but he doesn’t have a financial background,” said political consultant Joseph Mercurio.

An individual with no real skills or experience writing laws that affect the lives of useful people. Sounds familiar for some reason. We note many other folks are unemployed for reasons OTHER than abusing positions of power, reasons like the Obamacare and “stimulus” bills Weiner and fellow tweeters championed.

While we take no joy in another’s misfortune, getting the weiners out of Washington will help the economy and reduce unemployment; we’re all for that.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: New York Post

He’s insane. What else would make a member of Congress think it was a good idea to take photos of himself while naked and holding his house member in the House Members’ gym?

Time for Weiner to stop hanging out in Washington.

This is just one of a dozen or so photos Weiner took of himself in the House gym. You can see the others – if you’re so inclined – at the TMZ link below.

H/T: TMZ

A lot of stupid things – no, a lot of really stupid things – have been said about Anthony Weiner and Weinergate in the last week, but we think we’ve run across what may be the dumbest comment of them all.

It’s brought to you courtesy of the nimrods at CNN:

Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Reps. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania, Michael Michaud of Maine, Mike Ross of Arkansas and Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts joined a growing chorus of Democratic voices that have called for Weiner, D-New York, to step down over sexually tinged online communications with several women that he then lied about.

A Democratic legislator familiar with discussions with and about Weiner told CNN that Weiner’s colleagues are telling him he should resign “to preserve his own dignity.”

“To preserve his own dignity”? Hah! That’s like saying Weiner’s porn star should resign to preserve her virginity.

This guy had no dignity before Weinergate and he certainly has none now.

Source: CNN

Well, this explains it all, doesn’t it? The name your parents give you determines how you are viewed by others and what they will expect of you.

Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.

Live Science has the penile particulars:

“The name you give your kid is sort of a proxy for a whole bunch of things in our culture,” study researcher John Waggoner of Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania told LiveScience. Names have been linked to many life choices, including what kind of work people do and how they donate to charity.

The study looked into whether people’s names affect what others expect of them.

The researchers asked a group of 89 undergraduate students (about half of whom were prospective teachers) to guess, on a scale of 1 (“not very successful”) to 10 (“very successful”) how they thought a student with a certain name would perform academically.

Participants tended to judge those with names that have been correlated with lower maternal education and socioeconomic status as low educational achievers, compared with the possessors of higher-status names.

“What future teachers expect is that Cody will do a lot worse in school, relatively, than Benjamin and Samuel,” Waggoner said. “The more things you have going for you, the better people expect you to do.”

Our interpretation: You cannot run from your fate. The name Weiner is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Unfortunately, this sets up a brand new category of Democrat victimhood: Namists.

“I can’t help being a complete tool. It’s my parents’ fault.”

Source: Live Science

Gennette Cordova, the Seattle college girl embroiled in WeinerGate, has a really interesting theory on what really happened. And it veers dangerously close to throwing the man she once called her “boyfriend” under the bus.

The New York Post has the intimate inside information:

Cordova thinks the package-hugging picture — which Weiner “can’t say with certitude” isn’t his — was meant for somebody else and landed in her Twitter account by mistake.

Cordova is one of 198 people, many of them young, beautiful women, whom Weiner follows on Twitter.

Until recently, the congressman also followed stripper and porn actress Ginger Lee, 28, who openly gushes about her “Mr. Sexy Congressman” on social-network sites.

“Her name is Ginger — it makes sense he might have mixed us up,” Cordova said, noting that two of the first three letters of their names are the same.

The co-ed has a pretty good theory. The idea that Weiner accidentally sent the photo of his junk to Cordova while attempting to send it to a porn star makes far more sense than any of the other stupid stories Weiner’s floated in the last few days.

Source: New York Post

We don’t know if that was really Weiner’s penis in that photo, but we know the guy’s a real prick. If you ever doubted it, here’s 7:55 of pure, unadulterated prickishness.

CNN’s Dana Bash and an unidentified reporter go after Weiner. Not rudely, not even particularly aggressively, but insistently. They have questions, but Weiner refuses to answer them, instead pretending that this is silly little penis issue is distracting him from the people’s work.

Snide? Condescending? Evasive? Anyone have a thesaurus handy.

We cannot deny that we’d like to see Weiner roasted.

Get it? Weiner. Roasted.

Eat your heart out Mark Twain.

Is there anyone left who doesn’t think Anthony Weiner is the biggest dick in Congress? Anyone?

The New York Democrat is getting ready to run for mayor of New York City, so he’s been on a rampage about U.N. diplomats who use their diplomatic immunity to rack up unpaid parking tickets.

Pot, meet kettle. Turns out the hypocrite had his own stack of unpaid Washington, DC parking tickets – more than $2000 worth – until he quietly paid them off earlier this month.

The New York Daily News has the hypocritical headline:

From 2007 to March of this year, Weiner’s ticket total was 2,180 for violations near the Capitol and at Reagan Washington National Airport, Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, reported Tuesday.

A Weiner spokesman said all of the fees have since been paid. Aides to the Queens Democrat claim that part of the problem may have that D.C. sent notices to a bad address.

But Weiner “is pleased to have helped decrease the D.C. budget deficit,” the spokesman told Roll Call.

We really doubt that Weiner cares about the budget deficit, but he certainly hopes the voters have an attention deficit.

Weiner has raged against foreign dignitaries who ignore New York City’s traffic rules, and last year introduced a bill seeking to get $18 million in unpaid parking tickets from 180 nations for the city.

“It’s insulting to all New Yorkers that countries like Yemen, Zimbabwe and Iran owe the city millions in unpaid parking tickets,” Weiner said.

Let’s hear it for Anthony Weiner, ladies and gentlemen, the most appropriately named man in Congress.

Source: New York Daily News