This is probably the oldest story in the book had it not been for the man's last name...
Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York said today he has engaged in "several inappropriate" electronic relationships with six women over three years, and that he publicly lied about a photo of himself sent over Twitter to a college student in Seattle over a week ago.
"I take full responsibility for my actions," Weiner said. "The picture was of me, and I sent it."
The announcement came as ABC News prepared to release an interview with Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas who provided dozens of photos, emails, Facebook messages and cell phone call logs that she says chronicle a sexually-charged electronic relationship with Weiner that rapidly-evolved for more than a month, starting on April 20, 2011.
View an exclusive slideshow of images obtained by ABC News.
ABC News reached out to Weiner earlier today for comment about his possible ties to Broussard, but he did not respond to requests for an interview. At a press conference later, Weiner confirmed Broussard was one of the women with whom he sexted.
Broussard's story had threatened to expose the secret online life of one of the House Democrats' most popular members, and a man many considered a leading candidate for mayor of New York City.
It also raised new questions about Weiner's explanation for how a photo of a man's groin area ended up on his public Twitter feed on May 27. Today the congressman said he accidentally sent the image to a woman, Gennette Cordova, who was following him on Twitter, as a joke.
Man shows picture of his hot dog to woman, man gets busted, man tries to lie his way out of it, man gets busted again, man finally admits he is a lying sack of rat guts and cat vomit and is thoroughly chastened, but won't step down. This was first brought to you by none other than Slick Willie (William Jefferson Clinton, former President, now a wrinkled old fart you wish would just shut up and die, Jimmy Carter Jr)
I don't think there is a man alive who hasn't at some point said "Look, here is my package!!!! Ain't it great!!!!" Synapse fails to see the big deal here. Perhaps if money were involved, as with the John Edwards scandal, then I could see making such a big deal out of it. As it is, dunderheads come in all walks of life. Only Edwards wasn't going to get out of his peccadilloes what the other guy did and that is becoming the laughingstock of the whole nation. After all, no one ever referred to a penis as an "Edwards":)
Perhaps if Weiner had the common sense to know that the mere mention of his name in connection with his improperly packaged hot dog was going to elicit such sniggering and outright laughter after he spent a week whining that his Twitter was hacked but he couldn't say with certitude it was not a picture of him, then he might never have done it. We can go on and on and on saying that such locker room behavior has no place in the halls of Congress, etc. etc. etc. but the fact remains you can't polish a turd. Nor can you fix stupid.
And the press has now dubbed the whole affair "Weinergate". Which is an obvious play on the first widely publicized scandal of "Watergate". Perhaps there should be a new nickname for this one and that would be "Whinergate".
But seriously. I will never be able to eat another hot dog again without remembering this story. :)
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