Just when I thought the Anthony Weiner scandal couldn't get any creepier, it does.
He PRIVATE messaged a 17-year-old Delaware high school girl, FIVE times.
Is Weiner a Roman Polanski wannabe?
From the New York Times:
Representative Anthony D. Weiner said on Friday that he exchanged at least five private messages on Twitter this spring with a 17-year-old Delaware girl who became an admirer of his after hearing him speak during a high school trip to Washington.
Mr. Weiner’s spokeswoman, Risa Heller, did not provide copies of the messages, but said they were not inappropriate.
“According to Congressman Weiner, his communications with this person were neither explicit nor indecent,” Ms. Heller said.
A member of the girl’s family who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her identity characterized the messages as “harmless” but expressed concern that Mr. Weiner had communicated privately with the teenager, a high school junior.
The family was aware that there had been exchanges between Mr. Weiner and the girl but assumed that all of their conversations had taken place on a public Twitter feed.
What was DEMOCRAT Weiner thinking?
It doesn't look good for a congressman to be sending direct messages to a 17-year-old girl on Twitter.
...The family member said: “I am angry. This is surreal and unbelievable. It is absolutely crazy. We are just regular people who go to baseball games and basketball games, as ordinary and plain as can be.”
In the past few days, the girl and her family have become subjects of intense interest in the news media. On Friday, the local police arrived at their home and asked the girl and her mother to bring the girl’s phone and computer to the police station so they could be checked to make sure no crime had occurred.
The family member said the family complied, and did not expect any further action to be taken.
The girl’s contact with Mr. Weiner started in early April, after her trip to Washington. The congressman spoke to her school group, and she began following him on Twitter, posting a public message saying how much she liked his speech.
Two days later, Mr. Weiner began following her on Twitter. On her profile, she says she aspires to be president. In a private message he sent to her, he said: “How hip am I talking to a future president.”
It appears that DEMOCRAT Weiner initiated the private messaging.
Oh, my God.
Delighted that she had heard directly from a congressman, the girl wrote a public post on her Twitter feed: “talking to Rep Weiner from New York right now! is my life real?”
At the time, a group of conservatives was monitoring Mr. Weiner’s Twitter activity, after noticing that he was sending messages to a pornographic star from Tennessee.
When members of the group saw the girl’s post, suggesting she was engaging in a private conversation with Mr. Weiner, they alerted the congressman that they were watching him. “@RepWeiner new pal is a high school girl. First porn actresses now little girls. Weird.”
According to the girl’s family member, people in the group also copied the girl on some of the messages they sent to him, so she sent Mr. Weiner a private message telling him that she felt she was being harassed. He apologized to her in a private message, and removed her from the list of people he followed on Twitter.
About a month later, Mr. Weiner sent out a public message saying he wanted to attract more followers on Twitter and offered to follow people on his account if they wanted him to.
The girl responded to the appeal and posted a public message to him: “Don’t forget me. I used to follow you.” On May 16, he began following the girl again, and over the next 10 days they had three private message exchanges, the family member said.
One was about baseball. In another, he replied to a question she had about legislation by jokingly asking for her advice, the family member said. His third message to her was in response to a link she posted to a YouTube video of his giving a speech, with the message: “My true love.”
In a blog post on Tumblr, she later shared the contents of that private message from him. In it, Mr. Weiner appeared to liken himself to a superhero.
“I came back strong,” he wrote. “Large. Tights and cape. ...”
On the Tumblr blog post she added, “My favorite Congressman.”
Obviously, the messages are open to interpretation.
They're not sexually explicit, but they are weird. Based on DEMOCRAT Weiner's other online exchanges, his description of himself as "strong" and "large" and with "tights and cape" is very creepy. His comments are flirtatious.
Was the girl unwittingly helping DEMOCRAT Weiner "enjoy himself"?
Yuck.
DEMOCRAT Weiner should not have been playing games on Twitter with a kid. Would he have written the same stuff to her on his public Twitter feed?
I really think the involvement of a 17-year-old girl and DEMOCRAT Weiner private messaging with her about being large and like a superhero crosses the line.
Democrats, your colleague needs to resign.
DEMOCRAT Weiner has done enough damage. It's a mistake for his party to continue to defend him.
I am so creeped out.
Why are the Democrats giving the Republicans this gift?
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Here's more on the superhero message, from The Smoking Gun:
In private Twitter messages last month to a Delaware high school student, Weiner told of butting heads with Republican congressional opponents. Describing how he returned fire at his political foes, Weiner told the 17-year-old girl, “I came back strong. Large. In charge. Tights and cape sh--.”
The girl shared Weiner’s tweets with acquaintances and posted his tights/capes quote on her Tumblr blog, along with the notation, “My favorite congressman <3.”
Clearly, Weiner did not conduct himself like an authority figure or a role model with this high school kid.
"Tights and cape sh--"?
Bad language.
Bad imagery.
All-around bad stuff.
INAPPROPRIATE!
3 comments:
This is no big deal. Like I predicted Pelosi says Weiner can stay. After all, the man has never done anything else other than be a scumbag politician so what else is he going to do? (See his history on how he got elected to the NYC Council.)
The Democrat Party obviously condones and tolerates this, and other immoral and unethical behavior.
It has become the political party of scum, and it's enablers and apologists, er, I mean members are going to have to live with it, as indefensible as it is, they are going to have to live with it. It is what they have fostered with their intolerance, hate and prejudice. They indeed are reaping what they have sown.
Congratulations.
(I mean let's be real here, Teddy K killed a woman and stayed in power politics, Weiner's transgressions are nothing, and after all, maybe we are all just to uptight to think that what he was doing was that bad. I mean, with judgement like Weiner possesses we should be comfortable knowing that the future of the country is in able hands like his and all of his cohorts.)
From NYT - Representative Anthony D. Weiner planned to check himself into a treatment center on Saturday after House Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, called on him to resign and suggested he needed psychiatric counseling.
LMAO - now there is a new tack - they are going the Oprah route. Pelosi decided she had to recant, run for cover, but somehow find a way for The Weiner to stay in the House. And now he will have to do EXACTLY whatever Nancy says. He's become a hand-puppet.
The Democratic Party has jumped the shark and is nothing more than a total lying joke.
Anyone surprised by Weiner's rehab route hasn't been paying attention to how scandals are managed in this country.
Of course he's going to rehab.
The Dems still should demand that he resign.
We'll see if they mean it.
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