Anthony Weiner Twitter Photo scandal

[steveox]

A day after telling reporters that he's "not going to talk about this anymore," Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) broke his silence Wednesday about the controversy surrounding a lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.

"This was a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet," he told MSNBC's Luke Russert. "I didn't send [that] picture out" the congressman said, though he does not know who did. Is the photo of him? "I can't say with certitude" he told Russert.

"It was a prank," Weiner reiterated. "This is not a national security matter. We're not making a federal cases out of this."

"I'm not sure it rises -- no pun intended -- to that level," he continued.

Weiener said he has hired a private security company to investigate how his account has been hacked.

Last weekend, a lewd photo of a man's bulging underpants was sent to a 21-year-old female college student in Seattle from Weiner's Twitter account. It was quickly deleted, but a frenzy of coverage and comment ensued on blogs, cable news outlets and other media. Weiner's spokesman said that the congressman's Twitter account had been hacked and dismissed the episode as a prank, but this week the congressman hired a lawyer, prompting additional rumors to swirl.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/01/anthony-weiner-twitter-photo_n_869769.html

Well well,,Lets see if the media carrys this for weeks unlike they didnt allow John Edwards sex scandal for weeks. But boy they allowed Mark Sanford sex scandal last for months.

 

[Centrehalf]

"This was a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet," he told MSNBC's Luke Russert. "I didn't send [that] picture out" the congressman said, though he does not know who did. Is the photo of him? "I can't say with certitude" he told Russert.

He can't say with certitude? All that tells me is that there are pictures of his junk out there somewhere, just maybe not on Twitter.

The appropriate response would have been "That's not me in that picture because I've never posed for any pictures like that".

 

[steveox]

Photos dont lie. try telling the judge this is not me in my car

 

[TruthSeeker]

Worst case scenario.........Weiner resigns and gets a job at CNN, just like Eliot Spitzer did.

 

[Dr.Who]

So there is a picture of some guy's junk and underwear and it was sent to a college girl. Wiener can't tell from looking at the pic if it is his junk and/or underwear.

Some options:

1) Whoever sent that pic had access to real pics of wiener's stuff. Maybe from pics that had been sent to someone else.

2) Or they knew enough about what his stuff looked like so they could find a pic that looked enough like it that he could not tell the difference. Maybe his wife.

3) Wiener has not seen is own equipment. Maybe his is blind. Masturbation does that.

4) Wiener did send pics of his wiener.

I vote for #1

 

[Centrehalf]

Now that this story has been out for a couple of days I've noticed something. Weiner is claiming that some sort of high-tech chicanery took place here, but it doesn't take a techie to figure out what happened. Weiner has said many things about this that at first glance sound like denials, but once you cut through the BS you realize that he has not denied it, not once.

We've seen this before. One of the political "elites" gets caught red-handed, they resort to logical fallacy, they find a scapegoat, and then they're "off-the-hook".

Here's what I think is going to happen. Since Mr. Weiner's first move was to go to a law firm instead of to law enforcement, I think he's going to find a scapegoat. Many people have the false impression that the job of a top-notch law firm is to represent you in court but that's not true. The job of a truly top-notch law firm is to identify and destroy their client's enemies, and to keep their clients out of court.

Within two weeks we're going to read stories about how Mr. Weiner's legal team has identified a "disgruntled" past employee/constituent. Whoever they decide to "identify" as the culprit will be dragged through the media mud, and there's a pretty good possibility that the media will report that the "disgruntled" past employee/constituent will be found to have had child porn and /or gay porn on their computer's hard drive. It's happened so often before that it's now become a joke.

In the mean time, Mr. Weiner still will not have denied that he did it, and after a few days of piling on the "disgruntled" past employee/constituent, the media may actually resort to attaching the words "self-styled such and such" to the poor soul who has been targeted by Mr. Weiner's "lawyers".

If he's really super guilty, his "lawyers" will dig up dirt on the college girl who received the tweet, and if there isn't any dirt they'll make it up...something along the lines of "she participated in an orgy" or maybe "she stalked someone once"...something like that.

Innocent people don't play word games.

 

[TruthSeeker]

A name change is in order.

Congressman Oscar Meyer Weiner, (D-NY).

 

[pocketfullofshells]

He can't say with certitude? All that tells me is that there are pictures of his junk out there somewhere, just maybe not on Twitter.

The appropriate response would have been "That's not me in that picture because I've never posed for any pictures like that".

he could have had it on his blackberry...or its just not him and he is not sure though as there is not much to id...Or who knows...

point is, I highly doubt he sent the pic, and what pics he has to send to his gf or wife or what ever so far as me know on his phone, thats his business.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Now that this story has been out for a couple of days I've noticed something. Weiner is claiming that some sort of high-tech chicanery took place here, but it doesn't take a techie to figure out what happened. Weiner has said many things about this that at first glance sound like denials, but once you cut through the BS you realize that he has not denied it, not once.

We've seen this before. One of the political "elites" gets caught red-handed, they resort to logical fallacy, they find a scapegoat, and then they're "off-the-hook".

Here's what I think is going to happen. Since Mr. Weiner's first move was to go to a law firm instead of to law enforcement, I think he's going to find a scapegoat. Many people have the false impression that the job of a top-notch law firm is to represent you in court but that's not true. The job of a truly top-notch law firm is to identify and destroy their client's enemies, and to keep their clients out of court.

Within two weeks we're going to read stories about how Mr. Weiner's legal team has identified a "disgruntled" past employee/constituent. Whoever they decide to "identify" as the culprit will be dragged through the media mud, and there's a pretty good possibility that the media will report that the "disgruntled" past employee/constituent will be found to have had child porn and /or gay porn on their computer's hard drive. It's happened so often before that it's now become a joke.

In the mean time, Mr. Weiner still will not have denied that he did it, and after a few days of piling on the "disgruntled" past employee/constituent, the media may actually resort to attaching the words "self-styled such and such" to the poor soul who has been targeted by Mr. Weiner's "lawyers".

If he's really super guilty, his "lawyers" will dig up dirt on the college girl who received the tweet, and if there isn't any dirt they'll make it up...something along the lines of "she participated in an orgy" or maybe "she stalked someone once"...something like that.

Innocent people don't play word games.

actually the girl in question already said that someone had been harrassing her on her account, and basically stated that she thinks that yes they hacked his account.

 

[Rick]

Weiner sent a pic of his weiner, eh?

 

[steveox]

The point is the left wing media will let the story die within a month. But former governor Mark Sanford didnt get a break cause the left acts like a bunch of wild dogs and keep the story alive until he resigns simply he was a republican. Just like the media didnt do enough on Obamas pastor. Now what you suppose would happen if a republican candidate best friend is the grand dragon of the KKK how would the left act??

 

[Centrehalf]

actually the girl in question already said that someone had been harrassing her on her account, and basically stated that she thinks that yes they hacked his account.

Specifics. College girls get harassed all the time(if they're hot). Did the stalker reference Weiner? Was the harassment political in nature? What is the connection between the harassment and Weiner? My understanding is that Weiner just randomly chose to follow her, if she's being harassed how does this exonerate Weiner? Is she a techie? (I am and I'm saying right now that Weiner is full of crap). Let's wait and watch Weiner find his scapegoat and follow the playbook.

 

[Centrehalf]

The point is the left wing media will let the story die within a month.

Disagree. Weiner is one of the Progressive golden boys. They can't let it die, they have to "prove" his innocence.

 

[Centrehalf]

he could have had it on his blackberry...or its just not him and he is not sure though as there is not much to id...Or who knows...

point is, I highly doubt he sent the pic, and what pics he has to send to his gf or wife or what ever so far as me know on his phone, thats his business.

He has not denied it, he has resorted to playing word games. Innocent people do not do that.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Specifics. College girls get harassed all the time(if they're hot). Did the stalker reference Weiner? Was the harassment political in nature? What is the connection between the harassment and Weiner? My understanding is that Weiner just randomly chose to follow her, if she's being harassed how does this exonerate Weiner? Is she a techie? (I am and I'm saying right now that Weiner is full of crap). Let's wait and watch Weiner find his scapegoat and follow the playbook.

from what I can recall yes some of the harassing was political.

here is from today..him on Rachel Maddow...saying basicly that the photo may have started out being him..and used out of context...

some possible easy things someone could have done...and have it be a pic of him...but have it no loot like what you see there...

1. take large pic, zoon in on the junk, crop...only show that...
2. take that said pic and photo shop a bit more Weiner for Anthony..and post it.

this segment here did a pretty good job showing how easy this would be ..
also pointed out that all of his other pics, listed in the file name the name of what took the pic..aka said blackberry on there....the pic in question did not..also it showed signed of photoshoping.