Former NYC congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony “I’m not sure if that was my weiner” Weiner has joined Business Insider as a political columnist. The disgraced Weiner joins the disgraced Henry Blodgett, who has been banned from the securities industry for life.
But Weiner, unfortunately, hasn’t been banned from politics, and if you don’t think he still lusts after being mayor of New York, note that his new column is called Weiner!, just like the Broadway musical was called Fiorello!
We’ve all seen Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) threaten to throw NY1 reporter Michael Scotto “off this f***ing balcony” for daring to ask a question about Grimm’s campaign finance investigation. We also saw how high up they were at the U. S. Capitol, and what a looooong way down it was. Grimm also said Scotto was “not man enough” and “I’ll break you in half. Like a boy.”
If the situation were reversed, and Scotto had threatened Grimm in the exact same way, Scotto could be facing a federal criminal offense.
In December 2012, Grimm directed a “bizarre and scary” rant against two other NY1 employees, Bob Hardt and Errol Louis, for asking him about the same issue, and said they should “take it outside.”
Grimm clearly has a very poor relationship with the First Amendment. Reporters should be able to ask legitimate questions without being physically threatened, and Grimm should resign.
Politico reports that Grimm is getting media advice from Anthony Weiner. Hell, Michael, why don’t you call A-Rod while you’re at it?
Anthony Weiner finished dead last in the New York City Dem primary for mayor. He got about 5%.
It’s still unclear if Bill de Blasio got enough votes (he needs 40%) to avoid a runoff against Bill Thompson.
And whoremonger Eliot Spitzer lost his primary race for comptroller to Scott Stringer.
Sean Hannity will interview Anthony Weiner’s former sexting buddy Sydney Leathers on his show tonight. Eeeeeeeew.
They report, you decide — to change the channel.
Disgraced exhibitionist and fading NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner told BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith that he knows what role his wife Huma Abedin will play in Hillary’s 2016 campaign.
So Weiner appears to have made Hillary’s announcement for her. I didn’t think the Clintons could be more pissed at him, but I expect they are.
Whatever happens to Keith Olbermann (and I think we all know his upcoming stint on ESPN will end badly), I will always remember fondly that when Sen. David Vitter (R-SC) was caught up in his prostitution scandal back in 2007, Olbermann would quickly and quietly mutter “diaper” when referring to the Palmetto Perv.
Vitter was named in the DC Madame scandal, but then it emerged that just as members of Congress have homes both in DC and their states, Vitter had ho’s both in DC and back home. And he managed to stand out among his brothel’s clientele in New Orleans because he liked to let his good times roll while wearing a diaper. Yes, he managed to shock NOLA prostitutes in how he preferred to be “Pampered.”
And if you think things couldn’t get weirder, let me add that when Vitter was running for Senate, one of his ads showed him changing one of his kids’ diapers.
I bring this up because last night MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry was talking about Vitter’s bill banning a federal bailout for Detroit (no one is proposing such a bailout, but that never stops the party from the alternate universe), and she referenced his “unlawful and, shall we say, infantile infidelity.”
More subtle than Keith, but much appreciated anyway.
So make your Weiner jokes, GOP, but don’t forget that members of both parties can be equally bizarre and creepy when it comes to their members.
This really is the Summer of Love (or at least Lust), people.
As we wait to find out who Eliot Spitzer is shtupping (or we can do this ourselves by process of elimination — I think we can rule out Christine Quinn, Sydney Leathers, Lauren Silverman, Lena Dunham, and Ivanka Trump, for example), former Secretary of State Colin Powell, 76, is denying that he ever had an affair with Romanian diploma Corina Cretu, 47, whom he met about 10 years ago.
Powell’s email got hacked, and there are some extremely personal and friendly exchanges between the two.
Just as Bill and Hillary are struggling with Weiner and Huma, Monica’s back and just where you’d expect to find her — the National Enquirer, of course.
They are publishing an old tape she made for him after their affair ended, begging to see him alone and proposing that she take off her clothes, plus assorted love notes.
In one note she refers to Gingko Biloba as Gingko Blowjoba.
In the last photos I saw of Monica, taken in New York City, she looked like Rosie O’Donnell.
I can’t stand either Mark Sanford or Anthony Weiner.
It’s hard to think of two men who are more different from each other than this good-old-boy South Carolinian and this brash New Yorker, but they both give me the creeps.
In his NYT Magazine interview, Anthony Weiner blames Twitter for his over-sharing of his penis:
“And if it wasn’t 2011 and it [Twitter] didn’t exist, it’s not like I would have gone out cruising bars or something like that. It was just something that technology made possible and it became possible for me to do stupid things.”
Damn you, 2011, as Jon Stewart would say. Um, Weiner, I’m guessing you would have found a way to do stupid things, cause that’s just the kind of narcissistic, immature, obnoxious little prick that you are.
More Weiner:
“I wasn’t really thinking. What does this mean that I’m doing this? Is this risky behavior? [Duh!] Is this smart behavior? [Double Duh!] To me, it was just another way to feed this notion that I want to be liked and admired. [For your penis? You were a congressman with a pregnant wife, not a thirteen-year-old boy.]”
Embattled Farmers 