Over here on this side of the Atlantic, the media has been riveted to the saga of professional footballer Ryan Giggs whose multiple affairs and legal manuervering to hide it from the press and public, spawned a much larger debate on the issues of privacy, and legal injunctions which are often used to prevent the press from reporting on private indiscretions. The story here has been so big, that I nearly missed the latest bit of fun and frolic from back over on the other side of the pond....
Back in the U.S., a well known member of the U.S. Congress, found himself on a scandal of his own, where a whole series of jokes have been writing themselves!
(via the GuardianUK...)
A painfully embarrassing week for the New York Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner was brought to an excruciating denouement when he admitted that he had sent sexually suggestive photographs of himself over the Internet, confessed to lying to cover it up but said that he was not resigning.
In a half-hour press conference during which he at several times was fighting back tears, Weiner made a total and grovelling apology. After days in which he had at first claimed the photographs were hacked out of his computer and sent without his knowledge, he said he took responsibility for his "dumb" actions.
"To be clear, the picture was of me, and I sent it. I'm deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife, and our family, my constituents, my friends, my supporters and my staff," he said.
(Insert ready made "Weiner" joke here.....)
Sigh... and for that matter.. eww! (I won't post the pictures in question here, if you are really curious, you can Google them for yourself.) A number of friends of mine on the political right have had a great deal of fun with this "scandal" over the past few days. Right on cue the Republican Party was in front of any camera and microphone with calls for "Congressman Pervert" to resign. After all what Congressman Weiner did was shameful, and... icky...., AND he had the audacity to LIE about it! That is certainly a "beyond the pale" offense... right?
Mind you , the REPUBLICANS would never tolerate that kind of thing in their caucus... right?
You have to love this age of digital media we are living in... Cue Rachel Maddow with today's reality check....
Now as much as I find what Anthony Weiner did, to be ... Well, I was about to say unbecoming of a member of Congress, but apparently this sort of thing is par for the course there... That being said, as much fun as it would also be to rehash famous GOP "Sexting" scandals, (one of the more famous ones of which involved underage congressional Pages.) It hardly seems worth the effort.
It's gotten to the point where blogging about Republican hypocrisy doesn't even require any real work. It is a narrative that writes itself.
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Another story that was hardly worth the time the press put into focusing on it, while ignoring other real stories of fare more importance. Also when will politions learn that if they tell the truth right off the bat the story will despair so much faster!!
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