Liberal Superhero Anthony Weiner has announced he is resigning from congress because of the whole “it’s been revealed that he sends dick pics to girls he’s not married to on twitter and facebook” thing, giving a speech that sounded a lot more like a campaign speech than a resignation speech.
Weiner was a left wing rockstar in Congress, my own favorite congressman and would have almost certainly been elected mayor of New York in 2 years if this mess hadn’t been revealed and he went with his plans to run in that election (for which he had already raised $4.5 million in donations)
The speech was interrupted by a heckler that was allegedly a Howard Stern plant. This summary of how it went down is a good micro-transcript of it all:
Weiner kicks off resignation statement w/nostalgia, family reminiscences. He is you.
“I am here today to Resign.” -Anthony Weiner
”Yeah! Goodbye pervert!” -Heckler
“He is not with us” -Heckler
“Are you more than 7 inches?”-Heckler
This is after more nude photos were released as a domino effect of betrayal by the hookers Weiner talked to, releasing his private Facebook conversations where he, for example, talked about banging that chick in Nevada from behind so they could both watch the Daily Show and photo’s he sent to various ladies of him nude or partially nude, Myspace style, from places that included (facepalm), the congressional gym…
While I initially supported Weiner, as many did, when he was claiming it was a hack and then still even when he said it was a prank and then still again when he said he couldn’t be for sure that the picture wasn’t of him – I had to abandone ship once he switched tactic from “you guys are silly. this isn’t a big deal. lets move on” to a creepy level of dishonesty and passionate denial. The fact that he also hasn’t registered his car got me annoyed since financial hypocrisy, while less attention getting than alleged sexual hypocrisy, is a lot more meaningful. Dude, don’t be a vocal advocate for bigger government and higher taxes while cheating the government out of taxes yourself. Much like fellow “raise taxes for everyone but me” Democrat Charlie Rangel however, no one really seems to care about this point – especially when there are dick pictures to discuss.
The weirdest hooker-domino in this series has been porn “actress” Ginger Lee who did the old Gloria Alred Press Conference thing when throwing Weiner under the bus. On the surface it looks like he coached her on how to lie to the press to cover up for him – which is true and happened – however, she also asked for help lying so… wtf. In one email to Weiner, sent on Jan. she says “Just tell me what to do or say, this stuff is so far out of my league I can’t even pretend to know what to do” and Weiner responded, “I want you to make decisions that help you be healthy and sane. We need to be zen about this.”
Weirder still is that in her press conference she stressed that she avoided dirty talk with Weiner, as if she has a reputation of sexual purity she has to protect. Idk what that’s about, but whatever. Hopefully this goes mostly-away now that he’s resigning and he can hurry up and start working on his comeback. This is the right thing for him to do.
UPDATE: Allahpundit said it better than I on the weirdness of a pornstar stressing to make clear that she didn’t talk dirty to a guy on twitter:
I’m confounded by her claim that she didn’t reciprocate any of Weiner’s sexual overtures in their chats. She has no reputation to protect so there’s no obvious reason for her to lie, but she’s also been known to say — publicly — “I want to have sexual relations with Anthony Weiner” and “He can get buck wild anytime I’m around.” He finally noticed her and sent her an e-mail, which escalated into sexual come-ons, and her response was to … try to steer the conversation back around to the debt ceiling or something? Everyconversation? Huh. Behold the world’s most cerebral, politically focused former porn star.
Alan Colmes was unhappy about the resignation and I think this is a good clip despite the uploader inappropriately calling it a “meltdown” (slight passion in ones delivery is not a meltdown, guys).