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This has to be the dumbest story I’ve ever seen…I’ve been ignoring it because I really don’t care. I haven’t seen the picture, I don’t want to, I don’t care what it looks like, don’t care if it’s real, don’t care if it’s fake, and I really don’t care whether it makes the Congressman look…uh…I’m observing the “eyes up front at the urinal” rule.

I know he’s a die-hard lefty and also an asshole on top of it, and this makes him look silly. I still just wish the story would go away, it’s just dumb.

But Iowahawk gave it a treatment that’s got me in stiches, several times per paragraph. I can’t help it.

Meanwhile, there’s a generous award available to whoever brings the Weiner-Whacker to justice.

Update 5/31/11: Althouse has more thoughts, about what parts of Weiner’s version of events don’t add up, and the glaring double standard at work.

I’m listening to the morning radio as I type this up. All Weiner, all the time…

Memories are short. What about “Toe Tapper Gate”? We didn’t set the standard, all we’re trying to do is to keep it from being a double standard……
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 05/30/2011 @ 14:07
The whole thing is loathesome — more so the way some people I normally respect have jerked and jerked on this for days.

It’s a classic blogpile and it smells. In addition, there are a lot of reasons for believing the “evil democrat” in this tale.

This is a classic case of a sordid and stupid story gaining traction. Any blowback will be messy and richly deserved.
- vanderleun | 05/30/2011 @ 14:53
Again, memories are short. This is the blowback. Ted Kennedy got away with murder, and Republicans got destroyed for tapping their toes or emailing pages. Being the better man has not worked. Perhaps M.A.D. will.
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 05/30/2011 @ 15:00
But it’s Congressman Anthony Weiner. So when we ponder whether or not he’s telling the truth, what are we trying to figure out? Whether or not he has some character? That would be absurd, silly, and I don’t know what else to call it…and so I don’t care if he’s lying or not, the whole thing seems pointless.
- mkfreeberg | 05/30/2011 @ 15:17
This is part of the War you have been pushing for. One of the biggest weapons in a Social War is holding the other side up to their standards. They, not us, tried to destroy a Congressman for tapping his toes. There were no questions on their side about whether or not he was telling the truth. For all that this is silly, it is still a far more credible scandal then “Toe Tapping”, which was never seen before or after it was used to attack a Republican. The wife finding out about the affair because of careless photos is something that actually happens to people………
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 05/30/2011 @ 21:34
I know he’s a die-hard lefty and also an asshole on top of it, and this makes him look silly. I still just wish the story would go away, it’s just dumb.

I see your point with this, Morgan, and I understand where you’re going with that reasoning…but as some of your fans are pointing out, the maddening part is the double standard in the media and among liberal politicians when one of their own is caught in questionable behavior. Really, do I even need to discuss the firestorm if, say, Paul Ryan had been caught sending suggestive pictures of himself to a teenage girl? Our guys have been run out of town on a rail for far less. The rank hypocrisy over the Sen Larry Craig (R, ID) toe-tapping business, just stank to high heaven.

In addition, there are a lot of reasons for believing the “evil democrat” in this tale.

Oh, sir…please tell me you don’t actually subscribe to a morsel of this codswallop? You don’t seriously believe this idiot’s tall tale about his Twitter account being hacked and his I-whatever account also being hacked and someone stealing a picture of him with a stiffy and emailing it to someone the Congressman just happens to know…do you? Tell me, oh please tell me you were being sarcastic.

The guy took the picture and sent it to some girl, hoping she’d be aroused, maybe enough to have an affair with a married Congressman. End of story. And it’s clear enough the author of the page Morgan linked to has arrived at the same conclusion.
- cylarz | 05/30/2011 @ 23:46
If it’s really about P.R. and making sure the public knows their side isn’t the good side, and fighting a double standard, why can’t we just file it away until the time comes an election is being decided the wrong way due to said double standard? Why argue over silly stuff in some quixotic attempt to force everyone to treat everybody else exactly the same way? That’s what their side does.

If the desire is to demonstrate their moral bankruptcy, one has only to point to the “Is it even worth talking about?” discussions, like this one…and the noticeable absence of any similar discussion, on their side, during the toe-tapping incident. The message that resonates loud and clear — and I think the public is noticing — is that their side has no other argument to present, about why they should be left in charge. Their ideas don’t work, they come down to “President Obama just gave an awesome speech and, oh look, He just submitted an awesome plan! No, you can’t see it. But it’s awesome.” Next problem. And so they rely on scandals. If gas goes to five dollars a gallon this summer, the pitch will be that we should all be thanking them because it isn’t six or seven.

So who needs a Weiner scandal anyway? The double standard doesn’t come from the right’s tolerating it; it comes from human nature, that humans are inclined to treat a person the way he treats himself. Weiner is a perfect example of this; he’s become a big, important name on that side, and have you ever seen him argue with someone on a cable teevee show? He went to the Barney Frank “Never Concede Anything” school. This shit works.
- mkfreeberg | 05/31/2011 @ 05:38
Ann Coulter has an interesting take on all of this:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43865
- cylarz | 06/02/2011 @ 00:10

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