Of all the pieces to be yielded by Andrew Breitbart’s death, this one is handily the strangest: A report from Daily Mail columnist Toby Harnden that the controversial conservative pundit was working on a CNN show with Anthony Weiner, the New York congressman ousted by a sexting scandal last year. Read More
“You will surely make noise when I take you deep,” texted Representative Anthony Weiner, the great BlackBerry lover, to his virtual inamorata, Lisa Weiss, the famous dissident, aviatrix and Vegas blackjack dealer.
“Yes I will,” she texted back. “I will be sore for days.”
This past year took the world deep, and the world made noise, but unlike Ms. Weiss, it had, in its soreness, no luxury of bed rest. Read More
Since early June, we’ve been forced to resign ourselves to the inconvenient truth that New York is now, basically, the Midwest as far as the weather is concerned. Long days of oppressive, unrelenting heat (the kind that would wilt corn crops, but somehow does nothing to subdue the brunch crowds at Sarabeth’s) followed by sheets Read More
It appears as if Anthony Weiner is going to make it through the prime-Friday-afternoon-bad-news-delivery period without the much awaited resignation announcement.
But that doesn’t mean he isn’t reaching out.
CNN gets their hands on this apology note from Weiner to his neighbors, offering his mea culpa for the press hordes who remain camped outside his apartment. Read More
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post has made hay of the Anthony Weiner story–today’s coverline, “Pop Goes the Weasel,” deals (albeit tastelessly) with the just-announced pregnancy of Mr. Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin–and his London-based Times is chasing the story as well, with a smaller-than-might-be-expected touch of British restraint. Today brings the luridly-portmanteau’d “Wife of Read More
Anthony Weiner’s Republican opponents would seem to have one obvious advantage should they choose to challenge the embattled congressman in 2012: their to-date failure to distribute compromising photos of themselves (or parts of themselves) over the Internet. Read More
Through his own actions, Congressman Anthony Weiner has become a national punch line. It’s hard to imagine that he can effectively represent his constituents in Brooklyn when he is more likely to be seen on TMZ than on C-SPAN, more likely to be cited in a David Letterman monologue than in a news report from Read More
So, Monday was fun. Not only did we learn that embattled amateur underwear model and unwavering mayoral aspirant Anthony Weiner really did tweet that infamous crotch shot to Gennette Cordova, in addition to numerous other indiscretions conducted over social media (we couldn’t resist imagining how a certain member of–well, Mr. Weiner’s person–may have felt about the whole affair), but we also learned that Andrew Breitbart has no qualms about creating new photo ops for himself. Read More
If you really want to hear about it, the first things you’ll probably want to know are whether gray is my favorite color, whether I’m more comfortable in briefs or boxers, and if I was the one who tweeted that crude portrait from coast to coast. Well, no, I prefer maroon, in loose-fitting boxers, and Read More
What’s in a tweet? More data than you realize. Detectives in the media and political blogs have scoured the web for evidence to support or counter Anthony Weiner’s claim that he was the victim of a Twitter-jacking, which he initially called a “hack” but switched to calling a “prank.”
Was he or wasn’t he? The Read More
