My husband and I live in New Jersey, close enough to New York City that when Terry goes to the local convenience store for coffee, he can also buy the New York Post. He loves the paper’s clever, double entendre headlines and pull-no-punches stories. So when he heard Anthony Weiner was going to run for mayor of New York, he was thrilled. “I can’t wait to get the paper,” he chortled. “It will be full of Weiner jokes!”
Yesterday the news broke—Anthony Weiner was at it again, sexting women he never met.
He held a press conference declaring that his behavior was wrong, it was behind him, and he was still a candidate for New York City mayor. His wife Huma Abedin was by his side. She read a statement, saying she loved and believed in her husband, forgave him, and they were moving forward.
By the time the 10-minute press conference was over, I was furious. Anthony Weiner glossed over his atrocious behavior as if it were as insignificant as jaywalking. The man had no shame, no remorse. I’ll bet that the only reason he apologized was because as a candidate, he had to.
I’m not sure what to make of Huma Abedin. She was obviously uncomfortable during the press conference. So either she feels trapped by her marriage to Weiner, and the fact that they have a child, or she is also a political animal willing to tolerate her husband’s infidelity as part of a quest for power. Frankly, I hope she leaves Weiner.
Weiner, with wife at side, says lews exchanges happened after resignation, on CNN.com.
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner
Then there’s the mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner. On Monday, his former communications director, Irene McCormack Jackson, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. And apparently McCormack is just one of many women that Filner allegedly harassed. It was so bad that the mayor’s deputy chief of staff told him he needed “extreme therapy,” and many political supporters abandoned him.
For his part, Filner admits he has a problem, but says McCormack’s claims are untrue.
San Diego mayor: I think claims in sex harass suit untrue, on CBSNews.com.
Even though we loved Weiner jokes, this is no longer funny. The sense of entitlement, recklessness, and hubris of these two men is appalling. One way or another, they both need to vacate the mayor’s office.
San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com
After that %$#@....... Sanford actually got elected I posted a comment on the CNN news clip with my extraordinarily unflattering opinion of him. It still shows up if you do a google search under my name. I’m proud of that because I wrote what I think and I’m not being stalked. For all of you dealing with stalkers please be careful not to use your real identity….for those who can, I say inundate CNN with our opinions of these predators.
Don’t forget disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, the hooker scandal, now running for comptroller of New York City.
Also the sex scandal surrounding former New York David Patterson.
Donna, just in case your husband missed any:
Collection of Anthony Weiner jokes
The Weiner story just keeps getting worse. According to the New York Post, yesterday he sent out an e-mail to campaign workers – because he hasn’t quit the mayor’s race – blaming his sexting on his marriage!
I am convinced the guy is a sociopath. The sense of entitlement, blaming others, lack of remorse, recklessness, extreme pursuit of sexual gratification, egocentricity, grandiosity, pursuit of power, lying, narcissism yes folks, we have a live one on our hands.
The woman who outed Weiner revealed her identity yesterday – her name is Sydney Leathers (really?) – and more lurid details.
New York Post:
Limp XXXcuse: Weiner blames rocky marriage for sext relapse
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sext_maniac_limp_xxxcuse_HktQV0G7A3eKCerugOvmJP
“Sydney Leathers”??? With a fake name like that, she HAS to be a porn star, right?
Redwald – OMG – maybe it is her name! She doesn’t look like a porn star! Here’s the latest from the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/weiner_i2wCb3opRaz6jeHYZ4tYfI
As a New Yorker….. NYC no less, I watch the election show in utter bewilderment.
I’m a community activist and have almost daily dealings with a host of our elected officials. The self-aggrandizement that motivates their decisions, principally fueled by the construction/development dollars that support their campaigns, is mind boggling.
I believe that just as corporate culture rewards the testosterone laced drive toward achievement of psychopaths, success in politics is also most easily achieved by morally disordered folks. The candidate who is glib, charismatic, swift talking, and can create instant rapport, often has the edge. I’m sure all of you recognize those characteristics as the traits of a morally disordered mind.
Makes you wanna run to a deserted island where you can easily recognize the reptiles you’re dealing with. They don’t wear suits!
Jm
Joyce – LOL – recognize the reptiles!
Gee, I was wondering… could it possibly be a mere coincidence that Weiner is a shoe fetishist and this gal is sporting the name of “Leathers”?
Besides, real girls don’t have names like “Sydney” anyway. Sydney is a boy’s name. So Miss Leathers is in flagrant violation of Lansky’s Third Law.
If anyone is wondering what “Lansky’s Third Law” is, it’s something I remember from a long time ago when I lived in Massachusetts. An article appeared in the Boston Globe about a guy named Lansky who’d written a book of rules for naming children. Apparently this guy hated all of his own names, including the Lansky part, because people were always asking him if the gangster Meyer Lansky was a relative of his. This inspired his campaign to persuade parents to give their children proper, appropriate names they could live with for a lifetime. Lansky had numerous guidelines, like not mixing up names from different ethnic origins (“Antonio Goldstein will never make it,” he said), shunning those awful “cutesy” spellings (in later years I counted six different spellings of “Brittany” at our daughter’s grade school alone), and being careful of what the initials spell (nobody wants to be David Isaac Miller if their initials spell DIM). But his three cardinal rules for a given name were that you should be able to
1. SPELL it;
2. PRONOUNCE it; and
3. Know WHAT SEX it is.
Of course there are unavoidable exceptions. We all know there are long-recognized spelling variants of certain names (like “Nora[h]” with or without the “h”), and a small handful of names traditionally used by both sexes (Lee, Leslie/Lesley, Evelyn…) I expect we all know that John Wayne was christened “Marion,” as a few other boys were in his day. No wonder he changed it! Lansky also had something to say about the “images” that attach to certain names. I expect he would have agreed that porn stars are likely to have strange, “in your face” kinds of names… for instance, anyone named “Wendy Whiplash” has just got to be a porn star!
Have I ever mentioned that I absolutely love all of you???
As I sit here laughing at these jokers and you guys’s analysis I send big hugs and a huge thank you.
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner will enter intensive therapy for two weeks but refuses to resign.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-diego-mayor-enter-intensive-therapy-accusations-sexual/story?id=19782928
Link sent by a Lovefraud reader.
I hope I’ll be forgiven for wondering why anyone needs “intensive therapy” to correct this kind of behavior. Couldn’t he… um… just stop?
Or is that too simple? 😉