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    For congressional tweeting, Weiner's got competition

    By Michael Wolraich on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 7:26pm | Politics

    This much we know. Over Memorial Day weekend, someone used U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account to publish a photo of an underwear-clad male crotch apparently in a sexually excited state.

    The New York Democrat denies posting the photo, claiming that his Twitter account was hacked, but he has deflected persistent inquiries into whether he is the owner of the offending (apparent) genitalia.

    "But Congressman, you would remember if you were to take a photograph of yourself like that," insisted MSNBC's Luke Russert in one interview. In another, CNN's Wolf Blitzer pressed, "You would know if this is your underpants."

    As journalists clamor for Weiner to come clean about his underpants, I was struck by an intriguing, if less titillating, question: What does Weiner usually tweet?

    Read the full article at CNN.com.

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    https://twitter.com/#!/repweiner

    Having once accidentally and unwittingly photographed my bare bosom while loading film in an SLR, I know it is possible to accidentally expose oneself.  I only found out after having the film developed. SurprisedEmbarassed

    But back to topic I dropped someone from a twitter list I follow because he was behaving like a 8 year old making fun of a classmate's funny name.  Yes, it is punny so maybe everyone should be allowed try being witty once.  But that's the limit.  Once.  After that it is just third=grade, class= clown humor.  Funny, NOT.

    Oh, btw, did you put the congress critters in a Twitter list?

     


    by EmmaZahn on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 9:14pm

    I didn't, but they're all at TweetCongress.com. Interestingly, Darrell Issa started following me after the CNN article.

    PS Darrell Issa asshat


    by Michael Wolraich on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:31pm

    That made me laugh. Both the irony and the actual pun. Cuz he is (sa).


    by Orlando on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 2:49am

    I saw the picture several times before I realized that I was looking at "it."  This picture is so dumb I can't believe all the hullabaloo about it.  I don't believe that Anthony Weiner sent it, and although I would love to have the ass-hole who did it identified, I am ready to deflate this entire non-issue.


    by CVille Dem on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 9:22pm

    PS:  Genghis, I do appreciate your didactic approach to this issue, however.  

     

    [ I was particularly offended by Eric Canter's "heartfelt" empathy for Weiner's wife!  I would rather be married to a dead mackeral than Eric Canter! ]


    by CVille Dem on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 9:26pm

    Unfortunately, human-mackeral marriage is illegal in the U.S., but I think that you can do it in the Netherlands. Not to a dead one though.


    by Michael Wolraich on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:34pm

    Amazing how journalists who seemingly never press issues of fact when it comes to history, economics or law are all over this junk.


    by Michael Maiello on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 10:48am

    I was just thinking about form.

    I mean should it be:

    You should know if this is your underpants

    or

    You should know if these are your underpants

    I mean these are the types of matters that concern me most!


    by Richard Day on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 11:01am

    Genghis was wrong close; he daid the first sexting was on cave walls.

    (bob eckstein)

                                      


    by we are stardust on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 11:54am

    I would have thought a smart politician would have had second thoughts about using a public messaging application to conduct private, personal notes to others that is susceptable to being observed and hacked by others with political agendas. However, it does seem strange all this fussing about tweets on-line when there are more serious topics in need of discussion and resolution by the MSM. It may be a distraction to avert public attention away from issues - a Shock Doctrine tool that says there's something going to happen the politicans want the public to miss.

    I was reading about another Palin revisionist history lesson at an obscure blog called TPM and someone mentioned the Dunning–Kruger effect.- a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mistakes.

    I think that wraps up Weinergate, Ryan's Medicare proposal, the debt ceiling debate and a host of other off-the-wall debates that are seriously wanting. Is it the politicians arguing their cause who are all screwed up or is it the public perception of the problem being discussed? I suspect the GOP'ers are the master manipulators behind the misrepresentation of facts simply because they are aware their base can be easily steered towards reaching erroneous conclusions based on the misleading information they supply. And not having the self-awareness to acknowledge their incompetence implies they will never realize the mistakes they've made are the root causes of the problems they complain so loudly about.

    As for Weinergate, it will be a rallying point for GOPer's in 2012 just as it was for Democrats against GOPer's in past years. At least in didn't physical involve another man, woman or child. But Weiner's days are numbered and his effectiveness in Congress and the public is pretty much over ... no one will take him seriously from this point forward. And the GOPer's will be employing the Dunning–Kruger effect by throwing as much trash out for the public to view as they can to sway voters towards their agenda.

     


    by Beetlejuice on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 2:55am

    Was Weiner a Gleek? Because in high school, he looked eerily like 'Glee' star Lea Michele in a bad wig.

    Was Weiner a Gleek? Because in high school, he looked eerily like 'Glee' star Lea Michele in a bad wig.

     

    Read more at : http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/galleries/mirror_images/mirror_images.html#ixzz1Oj0lHJFT


    by EmmaZahn on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 6:11pm