Watch: Ex-N.Y. Congressman Anthony Weiner 'can't say' no more sexts Read more: http://www.nydailyne

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Source: NY Daily News

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner put the world on notice Wednesday: More women might step forward to say he sent them inappropriate texts and pictures.

Weiner has spent the past two weeks exploring a run for mayor after two years of self-imposed exile due to his sexting scandal.

But he gave two television interviews Wednesday that raised more questions than they answered.

In an interview with Dominic Carter on RNN, a regional news channel, Weiner said he could not rule out that more women might turn up.

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“If reporters want to go try to find more, I can't say that they're not going to be able to find another picture or find another ... person,” he said.

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And in an interview with Dave Evans on WABC-TV, Weiner dodged a question about how many women he'd sent inappropriate texts to.

When asked if it was six, he laughed nervously and shrugged.

‘I have tried to unpack every possible imaginable detail with my wife and trying to talk it through,’ he said Wednesday.

“Six is …” he said, before pausing. “It’s not 20 and it’s not 100.”

“I did it, with more than one person. It was wrong. I was doing it for some time, and I’m glad it’s behind me.”

At another point, he suggested that he didn't really remember.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/watch-weiner-hints-sexting-women-article-1.1326552

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Hmmmm.. oookay

[neffernin]

1. Seriously

Even if he is a good politician with the last name he has and this scandal... how can he ever hope to get re-elected? Kind of like the Colbert-Busch race...

[harmonicon]

14. Well, there's the whole thing where he was an excellent congressman...

and faithfully represented his constituents. But fuck that, right? I mean, there's the puritanical outrage that just HAS to be directed towards him (and it's obviously just a coincidence that puritanical outrage is directed towards a leftist Democrat who did nothing illegal but not towards Republicans who illegally hire prostitutes).

[psychopomp]

34. It is a matter of judgement

High-risk behavior from someone in such a position of responsibility is not something generally conducive to stewardship of the country or even a city.

[harmonicon]

35. I think it's more a matter of you being easily manipulated by rightwing tabloid "journalism."

Ask yourself why you know anything about this man's personal life, and why you know about this aspect of it. What was the motivation of those making you aware of these things?

What was "high-risk" about Wiener's behaviour, other than being a leftist, of course, which is what brought the figurative lynch mobs out for him? What's the risk? He would think about women who aren't his wife while he masturbated? The horror. The horror.

[neffernin]

40. Don't get me wrong

Our countries extreme fear of sexualism (abstinence instead of safe sex, no sex ed, etc.) while at the same time supporting capitalism which likes to promote thongs for middle school kids http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adora-svitak/would-you-buy-this-for-yo_b_925117.html is just downright painful to watch. Seeing a man going through a mid-life crisis on twitter and texting random women pictures of his... erm... Anthony's Weiner... is a big joke and really shouldn't be seen as anything other than a blip in the road.

That being said, a guy named Weiner was caught showing off his weiner. That will ALWAYS follow him. If his name was Clinton people would have forgotten about it already. Any campaign is going to be full of that guys rooster all over the place, he will get absolutely no cross-vote and many constituents will be turned off (though some may be turned on) by what's presented to them.

[Ian David]

2. A Country Song for Anthony Weiner, by Eric Schwartz ("There's a Picture")

A Country Song for Anthony Weiner, by Eric Schwartz ("There's a Picture&quot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017114500

[alp227]

3. Why doesn't Anthony take the Howard Dean route

of campaign consulting and media commentary? With this suggestion "there are more" he can kiss any future election ( with an L not R) within the next 5 years goodbye.

[frylock]

4. because he's an attention whore?

[harmonicon]

15. Because he's actually great at being a politician and wants to represent people in government? (nt)

[alp227]

18. Sadly I find his conduct far too inappropriate to be an elected official.

If he did NOT spend all that time covering up his Twitter misdeeds I would forgive him.

[harmonicon]

19. How does his completely legal personal conduct which has no impact...

on or conflict with his governmental/legislative duties become "inappropriate"? He did nothing illegal, and he did nothing that made any of his political positions hypocritical. I don't see anything inappropriate about it.

[alp227]

20. Most people would find his actions perverted.

And I went to Wikipedia and found this NYT article suggesting that Weiner was entrapped.

[harmonicon]

21. A straight man flirting with women is perverted?

It may surprise you to learn that married men will sometimes flirt with women who aren't their wives - shocking, I know. It's especially more likely when people try to set them up by coming onto them in hopes that they'll respond in kind so that their normal impulses can hypocritically exploited as "perversion" to sully an exemplary legislative career, making an otherwise likely-to-be-successful mayoral campaign by a leftist Democrat unsuccessful.

That's what this has always been about. The point was the he was going to be the next mayor of the largest city in the US. Political operatives and the media (which is just the propaganda machine for certain business interests, at this point) set this whole thing up to make such a mayoral victory an impossibility. You're only helping them, and you're not even getting paid (I assume).

[alp227]

22. I think it's perverted to break your marriage vows.

I'd turn the other cheek if Weiner were an eligible bachelor. But I think it was horrible judgement for him to be doing that to the mother of his child. Weiner will have to explain to his son why he had to walk away from Congress. And let me tell ya this. If I caught my father doing the kind of stuff Weiner was doing, I'd stop talking to my father.

[harmonicon]

23. I haven't been to a wedding in awhile...

but I don't remember ever hearing "I will not flirt with people online" as one of the marriage vows. One of my best friends is getting married in a few months in a non-religious wedding. I'll ask if they're going to have that as one of the vows.

I don't know how someone would explain the complexities of why he had to walk away from congress to a child, that's for sure. However, only a small part of that has to do with explaining how the US was founded by insane puritans, and despite being a supposed "melting pot," that insane puritanical principles are still expected of certain types of public figures... but only when criticized by the media. Then the real complicated bit starts where you'd have to explain the rise of cable "news," the existence and then repeal of the fairness doctrine, the inherent conflict of interest between "free" media in a voracious capitalist economy and objective journalism. Man... and then there's even more.

[alp227]

24. I think Anthony Weiner's son is in for a childhood of teasing.

The last name an obvious target in K-3rd grades, and then when he's a teenager chances are some of his buddies at school will know about what his daddy did...combine that with the last name...UGH.

In non-open marriages, shouldn't intimacy be reserved between spouses?

[harmonicon]

26. What business is it of mine to tell someone how to live their personal life?

Assuming they aren't doing anything illegal, I don't see how it's anyone's business who isn't involved with them on a personal level.

Do you think FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton were unfit for public office? They had actual affairs (you know, "mommy/daddy" style touching, but not between mommy and daddy) when married and in public office.

Do you think marriage should be reserved for straight people? Are gay people unfit for public office because they have intimate relationships different from the straight majority?

Do you think your personal relationships and sexual practices should be scrutinized by your employers?

A political hit was carried out against Anthony Weiner; a political hit with legs, apparently.

[alp227]

29. First of all how did gay marriage get thrown in this conversation?

And doesn't the way one handles his personal relationships reflect on one's character? Take Newt Gingrich for instance, after an affair he had enough poor ethics to serve a wife with divorce papers WHEN SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL! Just my personal opinion. I think though we'd be in a Big Brother society if employers got to quiz us about our personal relationships.

Speaking of Weiner's online photos. I wonder if there's evidence the women who received the photos consented?

[harmonicon]

33. I thought the relationship would be clear.

People who would outlaw homosexuality itself and now want to keep gay marriage impossible are simply projecting their chosen sexual practices in their private life into the law and public discourse. How is you demeaning Anthony Wiener for doing nothing illegal in his personal life any different?

So, do you want to live in "a Big Brother society"? You seem to if you think that means an employer quizzing an employee about their personal/sexual life while at the same time wanting to likewise quiz public employees.

Will you please answer my question about FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton? Were they unfit for public office? At what point do you think they should have resigned?

[alp227]

36. Ok about that question on FDR etc

By law they cannot be considered unfit for public office, the Republican witch hunt for Clinton notwithstanding, but their conduct must have cost their party votes. Besides, were JFK's affairs known mostly after his death?

[harmonicon]

37. Wait... is your problem that you know about someone's personal life?

What you don't know can't hurt you - something like that?

It's absolutely correct that there was a witch hunt against Clinton, and there also was for Wiener.

Do you think FDR having affairs made him a worse president? Did having an affair have a negative impact on how he served the American people? I doubt it.

Private lives used to be private, and that was a good thing. I don't know why I should know anything about the personal life of an elected official. I really think it's none of my business. Now, if they're breaking the law, that's something different.

I think Anthony Wiener was a great congressman, and I think he would be a good Mayor. I can't imagine what his personal life could have to do with that.

[alp227]

38. I do not think FDR was worse because of his affairs.

So if politicians' personal lives should be private I ask again, what about Gingrich? Should he be scrutinized more to see if he practices the "family values" he preaches?

[harmonicon]

39. Being a hypocrite is different.

I'll give you that. The problem is that every politician is now in this weird spotlight. They're set up to not just be bureaucrats, but exemplary people. Their politics are often ignored, with the focus being about who is the best person or something. I think being an exemplary legislator is more important to being a legislator than being an exemplary husband is. Anthony Wiener only has to be a husband to one person at a time. He had to be a legislator to many, and I've never seen any evidence that he didn't do that incredibly well.

[MADem]

27. Wow--interesting article. Elaborate ruse, indeed.

He was a jerk, but WTF is up with the right wing that they would pull this kind of shit?

I mean, here's a Congressman, taking pictures of his Little Anthony and his dorky chest and sending them out to strangers...compare that to SENATOR David Vitter, who likes to get powdered and diapered by prostitutes.

Never mind the old "¿Quién es más macho?" SNL routine, I think the senator wins the ¿Quién es más kinky? contest....

People in glass houses shouldn't be tossing rocks, is all I'm saying...

[marble falls]

5. Like no one saw that one coming. He was sooo good in Congress, too bad he couldn't....

keep his winky to himself.

[harmonicon]

16. So, does your boss get to know about your sex life?

Is your personal life the business of your employer, especially when you're doing nothing illegal?

[MADem]

28. When your boss is your constituents, and you conduct your

private life on semi-public twitter with people you do not even know, well, that's risky behavior.

People are interested in this kind of stuff. It's human nature. He's a public figure, not an anonymous cubicle slave--his conduct is a matter of public interest.

Will he be able to overcome his past? Some say the sins of the flesh are the most easily forgiven...others don't feel that way. Time will tell...

I'm not a New Yorker. They have the right to choose the mayor that suits them. If it's Anthony, hopefully he'll keep Little Anthony out of harm's way for the duration of his term.

[marble falls]

30. That's half of the equation and your boss does get to know your sex life once you put it out there..

and he gets to react within the law (and Wiener wasn't fired - he quit). Do you have the right to send me a photo of your winky with no how-do-you-do whether or not its against the law?

[harmonicon]

32. I'm going to assume winky=penis.

I'm an adult. I have a penis. It's ok. I can use adult words. Other adult men have penises too. We use them for sex acts. It's part of normal life, and it's completely ok.

[marble falls]

41. Penis, dick, cock, phallus, Mr Weazle (my personal choice), Eveready, .... whatever. I choose winky,

"we're here, we're blase' .... eh, so what?"

[LiberalElite]

6. To Anthony Weiner -

If there's more than 6 but it's not 20 or 100 sorry but that begs the question - Is it more than six, less than 20 or IS IT MORE THAN 100? You were doing it "for some time" !?!?!?!?! You don't remember? Is that because it's too many to remember? If you can't tell us how many more women you stupidly sexted, then it's NOT behind you. You were doing a great job in the House. I wished i was in your district so I could vote for you. I loved your complaint during the Obamacare negotiations - "we've already compromised the compromised compromise." But you f***d up and let your wife and the rest of us down. Nevertheless I was considering voting for you in the mayoral primary; not so much now. Why should you be elected again for anything and then have to leave the post because another forgotten text or lurid photo surfaces? You have to come clean before you can even think of asking for our votes.

[harmonicon]

17. How did he let you down?

I would rather have a great representative, governor, mayor, etc. who videotapes him or herself engaged in shitloads of anonymous, filthy sex than any of shitty representatives I've been able to vote for in my life.

[marble falls]

31. That's true, but you get to make that choice for yourself. Some may wonder what is wrong wth....

someone who is in a public position who can't keep the private aspect of his life that may not sit well with others private. I have concerns about someone who couldn't keep it covered or sent it out over the internet willy nilly. I think Anthony Weiner was a great Congressman, an equal to Alan Grayson, but it pisses me off he pissed off his carreer and gave up his seat to a Republican.

[AAO]

7. He's already toast.

[Sunlei]

8. Twitter was newish in those days. A lot of people still learn nothing is private on the internet.

Especially in todays politics. Both sides probably set traps- to catch these men whos' brains seem to be in their pants.

I bet even the old aol chatrooms are saved on some server out there. Scrolling chats of hundreds of old men linking pics of their genitalia and other things quite shocking to a youngster!

[Tab]

9. In "those days"?? It was June of 2011

Not even 2 years ago. It was pretty clear at that point the dangers/silliness of inadvertent tweeting.

[Sunlei]

10. yes that is newish, remember the tea party had 'learn to tweet' twitter groups, a couple years ago?

And wasn't it old dead Briebart who grabbed the Weiner tweet pics off server?

Weiner learned the hard way why a politican shouldn't be so stupid.

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13. Stupidity has no expiration date

It persists to this moment.

[neffernin]

42. My god

I think someone was just stupid again.

[Tom Ripley]

11. I ran into one of his former online friends yesterday

She is a very nice woman

[olddad56]

12. what do women do when they recieve a text with a picture of anthony's weiner.

they have it enlarged.

Badda Boom Badda Bing.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. Karma's a bitch, Weiner

I remember how quickly he piled on to helen Thomas to score quick poutrage points, saying that any paper who carried her reporting 'had no credibility.'

And then he lied to all of his supporters with his "Yikes! I was hacked!" playacting.

Was he any worse than Vitter? No, but that's not saying much. We can do better.

Let this self-absorbed jerk fade into obscurity.

Here's hoping his comeback deservedly fails.