tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post1238360788342735876..comments2024-03-28T09:49:57.021-05:00Comments on Althouse: "I can’t say with certitude" ranks "somewhere below ‘no controlling legal authority’ and above ‘wide stance.'"Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45878323990596873132011-06-06T21:31:14.075-05:002011-06-06T21:31:14.075-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bartender Cabbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623813045706584212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54268869992454314092011-06-06T21:30:29.799-05:002011-06-06T21:30:29.799-05:00well I guess Anthony can say with certitude now.well I guess Anthony can say with certitude now.Bartender Cabbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623813045706584212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11378726044347438582011-06-03T08:57:35.150-05:002011-06-03T08:57:35.150-05:00Anthony Weiner's damage control team has come ...Anthony Weiner's damage control team has come up with a novel new way to control and intimidate journalists.<br /><br />They're now using the Capitol Police to threaten the arrest of anyone who asks him questions about his pattern and practice of flashing young girls his penis on the internet using taxpayer funded equipment.<br /><br />CBS2's Marcia Kramer is being illegally harassed by the Capitol Police. She showed up at Weiner's public office and did nothing more than attempt to get his press secretary to answer questions. This is something reporters do every day and <b>is not illegal.</b><br /><br />Still, Weiner's office called Capitol Police to begin them harassing the reporter for merely asking the wrong questions.<br /><br /><b>CBS2 News:</b> <i>"Police officers asked for identification. One cop told Kramer that if she went into Weiner’s office and didn’t leave if she was asked, she could be arrested. 'If you go to an office and are asked to leave, you can be placed under arrest,' Officer Michael Miller said."</i><br /><br /><b>CBS2 News:</b><i>"Kramer responded, 'But I wasn’t refusing to leave.'”</i><br /><br />This official police harassment of a reporter simply trying to do her job is more evidence of Anthony Weiner's police state mentality<br /><br />Weiner is being enabled in his sickness by everyone helping him to get away with it. He believes he has official gun-wielding protection who will intimidate reporters if they question his attempts to do anything he wants and get away with it.<br /><br />Such enabling behavior by friends and family of Weiner will only deepen and extend his mental illness of exhibitionism - perhaps causing permanent damage.<br /><br />Friends and family of Weiner need to understand he is a sick man who needs mental health assistance and stop enabling his behavior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22017892046301984942011-06-03T08:44:40.567-05:002011-06-03T08:44:40.567-05:00As I predicted earlier in this thread, the other s...As I predicted earlier in this thread, the other shoe has now dropped.<br /><br />Internal sources close to the Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner now say he now admits to a pattern and practice of sending lewd pictures of his penis to young girls.<br /><br />These sources are thus far refusing to comment for the record, or allow their names to be used ... but they are characterized as having spoken with the Democrat privately.<br />Weiner has admitted to these friendly sources close to him, they say, that he has in the past sent these types of lewd pictures to young girls.<br /><br />Politico: "Two people who spoke to him privately said he had suggested that, as one said, “he took or sent a photo or photos like this at some point — but in this case actually was hacked/set up, perhaps with a posting of one of his own photos or something very similar.”<br /><br />Weiner is bizarrly still maintaining that this time - this time - he really was hacked and somebody got his photo and sent it to that young student in Seattle.<br /><br />But he is now admitting (possibly because people are currently in negotiations to provide the press with other photos Weiner has sent to young girls) that he has a history, a practice and pattern, of sending lewd photographs of his penis to young girls on the internet using his Twitter and yfrog accounts.<br /><br />Weiner continues to let his wife - Huma Abedin - twist in the wind.<br /><br /><b>Politico:</b> <i>"Friends said Weiner may also be personally torn about how to proceed. Though he’s a very public figure, he’s also a very private person and, despite a reputation as a ladies’ man, rarely shared details of his personal life with staff or reporters before his wedding last summer. His wife Huma Abedin, meanwhile, is intensely private and a veteran keeper of Clinton secrets, an unquestionably loyal aide who has been in the room during countless confidential meetings."</i><br /><br />Rep. Weiner has a problem. He is a flasher. He likes to show his penis to young girls. He has done it more than once and has now been caught doing it.<br /><br />He should resign and if he refuses to resign, then the House of Representatives should call itself into session and expel this man from the House of Representatives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61139987537242699752011-06-02T21:52:12.470-05:002011-06-02T21:52:12.470-05:00The hacker most likely found a photo of the distin...<i> The hacker most likely found a photo of the distinguished member of congress a</i><br /><br />Also, shouldn't the EXIF data (metadata) in the file tell us exactly when the picture was taken?Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80445221633878316322011-06-02T21:33:28.319-05:002011-06-02T21:33:28.319-05:00The hacker most likely found a photo of the distin...<i>The hacker most likely found a photo of the distinguished member of congress and forwarded to a young lady the hacker had observed flirting across twitter with the Representative.</i><br /><br />The photo was never sent directly to the girl in Seattle. It was posted to YFrog, which in turn in was placed into @repweiner's twitter feed. <br /><br />The hacker would need to know Weiner's private YFrog email address to upload any photo to his account and bypass normal login procedures.Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88800286467400874672011-06-02T19:15:06.249-05:002011-06-02T19:15:06.249-05:00One tag is "lying," but I have started t...One tag is "lying," but I have started to have this odd feeling based upon reading the various stories and watching the various videos that Rep Wiener, while being far from forthcoming, has not lied about this story. <br /><br />Do a thought experiment. Assume that everything he has said is not the entire truth, and may be intended to mislead, but is in the Clintonian sense at least, the truth.<br /><br />If that is the case, then what has happened? His account was hacked. The photo was indeed of Mr. Wiener. The hacker most likely found a photo of the distinguished member of congress and forwarded to a young lady the hacker had observed flirting across twitter with the Representative. Wiener couldn't go the the police or FBI, because that would risk revealing he has these photos and has possibly sent them to women previously. Thus, "hack" is downgraded to "prank" - not because they were both lies, but because they were different ways of shading the truth.Writ Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956452269460626177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24319545632181718742011-06-02T17:15:37.019-05:002011-06-02T17:15:37.019-05:00"I can't say with certitude..."? Who..."I can't say with certitude..."? Who the hell talks like that? Now <i>certitude</i> has been reduced to a punch line. One more perfectly good word ruined by the liberal-leftist-progressives. Damn. Do conservatives ruin words this way? If you can think of an example, let me know. (Kinetic military action?)<br /><br />Denigrate and renege, lost. Gay? Lost. The hits just keep on coming. They even destroy expressions. No longer can we say "calling a spade a spade". Have these people no decency? The words they make up are truly inadequate.<br /><br />When the <i>Simpsons</i> first came out with the word "duh", a friend forbade her children from using it, because she said it wasn't a word. To the contrary, I wouldn't let my children use it because it means "Good God, I can't believe you are so incredibly stupid.", which means it is too rude to use in polite conversation.Milwaukeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14830345164697669429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80652664489797893722011-06-02T17:05:55.682-05:002011-06-02T17:05:55.682-05:00If Congressman Weiner wanted his marriage to last ...If Congressman Weiner wanted his marriage to last he wouldn't be taking these pictures, and wouldn't be following pretty young women on Twitter. Good point though, if he did file a police report claiming he was hacked, when they found it wasn't then he has filed a false police report. Is he a lawyer? When has he crossed the line and needs to be disbarred?Milwaukeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14830345164697669429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56041484733942250832011-06-02T17:01:12.695-05:002011-06-02T17:01:12.695-05:00No, Rev. Compare his reaction to the shirtless guy...No, Rev. Compare his reaction to the shirtless guy, or Spitzer. This ain't the way to save the marriage.Chip S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13210586187250159751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48597892099699142422011-06-02T16:46:35.309-05:002011-06-02T16:46:35.309-05:00What is it, exactly, that has driven him to lie so...<i>What is it, exactly, that has driven him to lie so baldly and badly?</i><br /><br />Presumably he started out wanting to save his marriage and his career.<br /><br />But he doesn't want to break the law, e.g. by filing a false police report or making a fraudulent claim to Twitter or yfrog -- so he's stuck repeating an unconvincing story.Revenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374515200055384226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19540396242762634482011-06-02T16:44:16.759-05:002011-06-02T16:44:16.759-05:00"You're not so naive as to think this is ...<i>"You're not so naive as to think this is the ONLY photo, are you? That there isn't another shoe to drop at just the right moment?"</i><br /><br /><i>Wait a second. Are you implying Weiner was setup?</i><br /><br />Didn't Weiner basically concede that there are multiple pictures of his junk out there when he said he couldn't say for sure if the picture in question was of him?<br /><br />How many pictures of bulging underwear do you have to own before they all start to look alike, I wonder.Revenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374515200055384226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26542132445764174282011-06-02T16:40:06.773-05:002011-06-02T16:40:06.773-05:00While it's true that Weiner just keeps looking...While it's true that Weiner just keeps looking worse every time he speaks about this, I've wondered about just what it is that's really driving this controversy. What <i>is</i> it, exactly, that has driven him to lie so baldly and badly?<br /><br />For me, it comes down to the fact that it's just so <i>juvenile</i> for a politico with this guy's aspirations to be sexting at all. It's like he's overcompensating for having been a dweeb in high school. If he had been caught having an actual affair with a grown-up, I think he could have survived easily by just 'fessing up. But I think he was instinctively and totally embarrassed by this, and reacted in accordance with that.<br /><br />YMMV.Chip S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13210586187250159751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42135726996410092792011-06-02T16:16:19.593-05:002011-06-02T16:16:19.593-05:00'I think the general topic is sexual congress....'I think the general topic is sexual congress.'<br /><br />Generally, yes. (Nice play on words too). But the real issue here is not whether or not Weiner was attracted to a coed and sent her a photo of his junk. Nor is it really about his poor judgement using social media to do so (rather than a direct email).<br /><br />We've seen a couple of flat earthers here trying to deny that end of things, then accusing the posters here of being obsessed with what should be a private matter. Then the latest garage attempt to obfuscate with an example of a republican who couldn't keep it in his pants.<br /><br />None of that is key here. What is key, as I see it anyway, is Weiner's expectation that he can deny and lie and not be held accountable for that because he's a democrat and not 'ordinary people' (his term). That his craven inability to admit to what he did should be accepted at face value because he's too important to be distracted by the implications.<br /><br />It's about the this fool's hypocrisy and lying in lieu of manning up, or should be.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492998820078614811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19020632648167825652011-06-02T15:41:00.778-05:002011-06-02T15:41:00.778-05:00I think the general topic is sexual congress.I think the general topic is sexual congress.Chip S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13210586187250159751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86305984707505299572011-06-02T15:29:34.938-05:002011-06-02T15:29:34.938-05:00I thought we were talking about the pics of the Me...I thought we were talking about the pics of the Member's member not a squirrel calling a prostitute or something like that there.<br /><br />So remember what Congressman Weiner told the coed:<br /><br />"Keep your eyes on my balls."Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51559775764025535532011-06-02T14:53:42.695-05:002011-06-02T14:53:42.695-05:00In response to this:
'He denied the Louisiana...In response to this:<br /><br />'He denied the Louisiana madam's claim and it could not be verified by phone records.'<br /><br />Garage gives me this CBS cite:<br /><br />"D.C. Madam" Called Vitter During Votes"<br /><br />Note - this is an article on the DC madam end of things that Vitter did not deny, not the Louisiana end.<br /><br />The very first line of the article garage used to try to prove...I don't know, something...says:<br /><br />"A woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring placed five phone calls to David Vitter while he was a House member, including two while roll call votes were under way..." <br /><br />So...it was not 'technically' 4 calls to Vitter while he was on the house floor. It was 2 calls while the house roll was being called.<br /><br />Like I said.<br /><br />garage, at some point you may learn to think for yourself and leave your progressive serfdom behind.<br /><br />Or not.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492998820078614811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55782125441066421992011-06-02T14:44:12.570-05:002011-06-02T14:44:12.570-05:00He denied the Louisiana madam's claim and it c...<i>He denied the Louisiana madam's claim and it could not be verified by phone records.<br /></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/13/politics/main3055228.shtml" rel="nofollow">"D.C. Madam" Called Vitter During Votes</a><br /><br /><i>Vitter, a Louisiana Republican now in the Senate, acknowledged Monday that his number was on the woman's call list and apologized for a "very serious sin."</i>garage mahalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06485491995866513686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82999291718170697652011-06-02T14:39:16.332-05:002011-06-02T14:39:16.332-05:00nevadabob said;
"Neither Vitter nor Weiner s...nevadabob said;<br /><br />"Neither Vitter nor Weiner should be in office. Both should resign, wouldn't you agree Garage?"<br /><br />Why Vitter? He admitted to frequenting prostitutes in DC. Caught dead to rights when his number was found in the madam's client list. He denied the Louisiana madam's claim and it could not be verified by phone records.<br /><br />Vitter didn't deny the DC end, Didn't try to blame someone else. Didn't try to claim it was a setup. Didn't try to downplay it. He stood up with his wife, admitted that he'd been an a$$hole and apologized etc. This was some years back. Since that time Vitter has moved up and been elected to the Senate.<br /><br />Doesn't compare to Weiner. Weiner won't admit to it, clear the public air, and make it a matter between he and his wife.He'll deny, obfuscate, and lie just like Billy with the Wandering Willy did.<br /><br />BTW: The Vitter admission was 4 or 5 years ago. He's still married.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492998820078614811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5977730696538475142011-06-02T14:29:04.634-05:002011-06-02T14:29:04.634-05:00You're not so naive as to think this is the ON...<i>You're not so naive as to think this is the ONLY photo, are you? That there isn't another shoe to drop at just the right moment?</i><br /><br />After ACORN and such, no, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I'm also not naive enough to think that you're that much more knowledgeable, have more access than, or have somehow outwitted and scooped every major news company in the country, each with their own stable of experts on social media.<br /><br />Call me crazy.Scott Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02459388007426664813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81345208510062623252011-06-02T14:28:37.392-05:002011-06-02T14:28:37.392-05:00You're not so naive as to think this is the ON...<i>You're not so naive as to think this is the ONLY photo, are you? That there isn't another shoe to drop at just the right moment? </i><br /><br />Wait a second. Are you implying Weiner was setup?garage mahalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06485491995866513686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13493390568425324162011-06-02T14:28:18.859-05:002011-06-02T14:28:18.859-05:00"I was trying to send it to my lovely wife, H..."I was trying to send it to my lovely wife, Huma, but I accidentally hit the wrong button. I didn't want to talk about it out of respect to my wife, who understandably isn't thrilled about our little love games being made public. But you guys kept pushing the issue, so we jointly decided it was time to come public -- I suppose a little embarrassment over our deeply satisfying love life is the price we must pay for ending the sordid speculations of a few right-wing bloggers. Now, can we talk about Medicare?"<br /><br />You're welcome, Congressman.Larvellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10586096462748571461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63933603426850761372011-06-02T14:26:49.808-05:002011-06-02T14:26:49.808-05:00garage said:
"Technically, Vitter did not ca...garage said:<br /><br />"Technically, Vitter did not call out to hookers from the House floor, but he did indeed take at least 4 calls from hookers while he was on the House floor. "<br /><br />Technically, no. <br /><br />The phone records showed that calls were made to Vitter's phone during periods of time when the House roll was being called. Called before any vote I might add. That does not mean that Vitter was on the house floor at the time.<br /><br />You'd know this if you didn't rely on the kind of misleading conclusions that the Wonkette contributors are known for. Crap that idiots like you believe without question. Because it's easier than thinking for yourself.<br /><br />But it is a refreshing change to have you admit that your original statement was not 'technically' true (even when bounced against the actual claim in the Wonkette story).Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01492998820078614811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75320877246056423892011-06-02T14:24:46.783-05:002011-06-02T14:24:46.783-05:00"So you can't prove it. Heh."
You&#...<i>"So you can't prove it. Heh."</i><br /><br />You're not so naive as to think this is the ONLY photo, are you? That there isn't another shoe to drop at just the right moment?<br /><br />That there aren't OTHER girls with OTHER photos just like this one? Some even worse?<br /><br />Do you think this was the first time this happened? That this just so happened to get caught on the first and ONLY time doing this?<br /><br />You don't really think that do you?<br /><br />Tell me you don't really believe that.<br /><br />Garage, boobie, there's always another shoe.<br /><br />Always.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24768039573846566902011-06-02T14:14:20.619-05:002011-06-02T14:14:20.619-05:00Please write me a check for $250,000 and I'll ...<i>Please write me a check for $250,000 and I'll gladly sell you the proof.</i><br /><br />So you can't prove it. Heh.garage mahalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06485491995866513686noreply@blogger.com