Fuck its silent in here.......

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Weinergate. His performance in this press conference is beyond amazing.  For a guy whose account got hacked, he sure acts like a guy who accidentally hit "@" instead of "d"...

I thought that Weiner showed amazing patience.  The only reason that Weiner didn't take a swing at the guy he called a jackass was the fact that the guy appeared to be 7 feet tall.  That is a good reason for patience.  But the guy was a jackass.   Asking really perceptive questions.  "Is the reason that you are not answering my question is because it is true?"   "Yes.  Next question."   A New York Congressman is going to send a picture of his dick to a stranger 3500 miles away?  Give me a reason.  

Um... because he's a dude?  A dude who likes women?  You could also ask, if you were so inclined, why he was following this "stranger" on Twitter.  A few people have done so, but no answers seem to be forthcoming.  Even CNN (in the original link) can sense there's something going on here.

There is a more innocent explanation - that he simply has a ghost-tweeter, that he doesn't write them himself, and that the ghost-tweeter is the one whose dick pic went out - but the word "hack" implies a security issue that, given his earlier commentary on the subject, one would think he'd be interested in investigating.

I just took a case involving a high school teacher whose student opened a phony Facebook page in the teacher's name and filled it with salacious stuff that could easily get the teacher fired.

Well, that sucks for that guy.

EDIT: I meant that what happened to that guy sucks... I just realized that this could have been taken as a pejorative against your lawyering skills, which I assure you I had no intention of making.

What morph is trying to say is that his investigation of Weiner will not rest until Drudge and Breitbart can confirm that the dong in question does *not* belong to Common.

Spoiler: It was THE CHINESE...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576359770243517568.html

[Gilgamesh]

In the middle of high-level talks between the White House and the House Republicans on the debt ceiling, and after being chided by Rep. Paul Ryan for calling his Medicare plan a "voucher system," the President managed to either embrace the butthurt or bring teh funny.

YOU DECIDE!

"I'm the death-panel-supporting, socialist, may-not-have-been-born-here president."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-gop-debt-20110602,0,7998900.story

Intrepid Reader MikeC: "HE FINALLY ADMITS IT!!!  I KNEW IT!!!!"

[Gilgamesh]

[CBStew]

I have been commenting here about the ballot proposition making circumcision a crime punishable by a year in jail.  Here is the link to the website of the sponsors.   You should have no allusions about the motivation of these folks.  Nazism is alive and well in 2011.

http://foreskinman.com/

Foreskin Man's symbol is really subtle.

[CubFaninHydePark]

I have been commenting here about the ballot proposition making circumcision a crime punishable by a year in jail.  Here is the link to the website of the sponsors.   You should have no allusions about the motivation of these folks.  Nazism is alive and well in 2011.

http://foreskinman.com/

Foreskin Man's symbol is really subtle.

I was too busy trying to look past the muscle bound Aryan versus the sinister looking guys with long grey beards.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I have been commenting here about the ballot proposition making circumcision a crime punishable by a year in jail.  Here is the link to the website of the sponsors.   You should have no allusions about the motivation of these folks.  Nazism is alive and well in 2011.

http://foreskinman.com/

Foreskin Man's symbol is really subtle.

Holy shit.

Also: Anti-Semitism (and "Monster Mohel") aside...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/07/backer-circumcision-ban-in-california-city-withdraws-proposal/

Troutman, a lactation consultant and mother of two, told FoxNews.com that her focus was "never about religion" when she submitted the initiative, which was written by a San Diego-based group called MGMbill.org, the same organization that authored the measure to ban circumcision that will appear on the ballot in San Francisco this November.

"I don't have the time or the energy to argue with everybody, but you shouldn't go around cutting up your little babies," Troutman said. "Why don't people [expletive] get that? For me, this was never about religion. It was about protecting babies from their parents not knowing that circumcision was started in America to end masturbation."

An intactivist lactation consultant? This shit has got to be like crack to Wheezer.

http://www.wholebabyrevolution.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/us/08circumcise.html



That's apparently a "Genital Autonomy" symbol around her neck.

Also also: Look, puns...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=90529
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/06/circumcision_ban_jena_troutman.php
http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2011-06-06-71950.113116-Backer-of-circumcision-ban-pulling-out.html

[Gilgamesh]

Well, isn't this lovely?

[R-V]

Having a hard time finding anything to argue with here.

Yes, Anthony Weiner lied -- about something that is absolutely nobody's business but his and his wife's.  If you're not his wife, you have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to know about -- let alone pass judgment on -- what he does in his private sexual life with other consenting adults.  Particularly repellent is the pretense of speaking out on behalf of his wife, as though anyone knows what her perspectives on such matters are or what their relationship entails.  The only reason to want to wallow in the details of Anthony Weiner's sex life is because of the voyeuristic titillation it provides: a deeply repressed culture celebrates when it finds cause to be able to talk about penises and naked pictures and oral sex while hiding behind some noble pretext.  On some level, I find the behavior of the obviously loathsome Andrew Breitbart preferable; at least he's honest about his motive:  he hates Democrats and liberals and wants sadistically to destroy them however he can.  It's the empty, barren, purse-lipped busybodies who cannot stay out of other adults' private and sexual lives -- while pretending to be elevated  -- that are the truly odious villains here.

[morpheus]

Having a hard time finding anything to argue with here.

Yes, Anthony Weiner lied -- about something that is absolutely nobody's business but his and his wife's.  If you're not his wife, you have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to know about -- let alone pass judgment on -- what he does in his private sexual life with other consenting adults.  Particularly repellent is the pretense of speaking out on behalf of his wife, as though anyone knows what her perspectives on such matters are or what their relationship entails.  The only reason to want to wallow in the details of Anthony Weiner's sex life is because of the voyeuristic titillation it provides: a deeply repressed culture celebrates when it finds cause to be able to talk about penises and naked pictures and oral sex while hiding behind some noble pretext.  On some level, I find the behavior of the obviously loathsome Andrew Breitbart preferable; at least he's honest about his motive:  he hates Democrats and liberals and wants sadistically to destroy them however he can.  It's the empty, barren, purse-lipped busybodies who cannot stay out of other adults' private and sexual lives -- while pretending to be elevated  -- that are the truly odious villains here.

So you (and Greenwald) felt the same back when this happened?  (Maybe you did... I'm just curious.)

[BH]

Having a hard time finding anything to argue with here.

Yes, Anthony Weiner lied -- about something that is absolutely nobody's business but his and his wife's.  If you're not his wife, you have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to know about -- let alone pass judgment on -- what he does in his private sexual life with other consenting adults.  Particularly repellent is the pretense of speaking out on behalf of his wife, as though anyone knows what her perspectives on such matters are or what their relationship entails.  The only reason to want to wallow in the details of Anthony Weiner's sex life is because of the voyeuristic titillation it provides: a deeply repressed culture celebrates when it finds cause to be able to talk about penises and naked pictures and oral sex while hiding behind some noble pretext.  On some level, I find the behavior of the obviously loathsome Andrew Breitbart preferable; at least he's honest about his motive:  he hates Democrats and liberals and wants sadistically to destroy them however he can.  It's the empty, barren, purse-lipped busybodies who cannot stay out of other adults' private and sexual lives -- while pretending to be elevated  -- that are the truly odious villains here.

This is a bit different than someone actually stealing photos from his safe and posting them... it's between him and his wife, agree, but if you are are retarded enough to post boxerbriefboner pics on Twitter then lie about it, you shouldn't be surprised the media is all over it.

[R-V]

Having a hard time finding anything to argue with here.

Yes, Anthony Weiner lied -- about something that is absolutely nobody's business but his and his wife's.  If you're not his wife, you have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to know about -- let alone pass judgment on -- what he does in his private sexual life with other consenting adults.  Particularly repellent is the pretense of speaking out on behalf of his wife, as though anyone knows what her perspectives on such matters are or what their relationship entails.  The only reason to want to wallow in the details of Anthony Weiner's sex life is because of the voyeuristic titillation it provides: a deeply repressed culture celebrates when it finds cause to be able to talk about penises and naked pictures and oral sex while hiding behind some noble pretext.  On some level, I find the behavior of the obviously loathsome Andrew Breitbart preferable; at least he's honest about his motive:  he hates Democrats and liberals and wants sadistically to destroy them however he can.  It's the empty, barren, purse-lipped busybodies who cannot stay out of other adults' private and sexual lives -- while pretending to be elevated  -- that are the truly odious villains here.

So you (and Greenwald) felt the same back when this happened?  (Maybe you did... I'm just curious.)

I can't speak for my BFF Glennycakes but I don't/didn't give a shit about Chris Lee's pics. Other than the fact that he has a very nice chest.

[Bort]

Having a hard time finding anything to argue with here.

Yes, Anthony Weiner lied -- about something that is absolutely nobody's business but his and his wife's.  If you're not his wife, you have absolutely no legitimate reason to want to know about -- let alone pass judgment on -- what he does in his private sexual life with other consenting adults.  Particularly repellent is the pretense of speaking out on behalf of his wife, as though anyone knows what her perspectives on such matters are or what their relationship entails.  The only reason to want to wallow in the details of Anthony Weiner's sex life is because of the voyeuristic titillation it provides: a deeply repressed culture celebrates when it finds cause to be able to talk about penises and naked pictures and oral sex while hiding behind some noble pretext.  On some level, I find the behavior of the obviously loathsome Andrew Breitbart preferable; at least he's honest about his motive:  he hates Democrats and liberals and wants sadistically to destroy them however he can.  It's the empty, barren, purse-lipped busybodies who cannot stay out of other adults' private and sexual lives -- while pretending to be elevated  -- that are the truly odious villains here.

So you (and Greenwald) felt the same back when this happened?  (Maybe you did... I'm just curious.)

I can't speak for my BFF Glennycakes but I don't/didn't give a shit about Chris Lee's pics. Other than the fact that he has a very nice chest.

I can almost guarantee that Greenwald probably didn't care that much about that. Unless he found Chris Lee cute. He's usually much more concerned about abuses of power than sex scandals.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

[morpheus]

I LOLed.  Like, really loudly.

[Tonker]

Excellent.  Maggie Thatcher is senile as all get out, but even she knows that Sarah Palin is nuts.