Holly Bailey:
Anthony Weiner confirmed Tuesday that he was behind a series of newly released explicit messages sent to a woman who was not his wife that were allegedly sent after a sexting scandal forced him out of Congress in 2011.
The Dirty, a gossip website, posted screenshots of exchanges the former congressman had over the social networks Facebook and Formspring with a woman he met online — conversations she says she had with Weiner as late as August 2012, more than a year after he left Congress.
In a statement to reporters, the Democratic mayoral hopeful confirmed he sent the messages, some of which were sent under the name “Carlos Danger.” But Weiner did not address the issue of when the messages were sent.
“I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have,” Weiner said. “As I have said in the past, these things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from Congress.”
He added, “While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong. This behavior is behind me.”
Weiner said he had apologized to his wife, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and that he was “grateful” for her “forgiveness.”
“I want to again say that I am very sorry to anyone who was on the receiving end of these messages and the disruption that this has caused,” Weiner said. “As my wife and I have said, we are focused on moving forward.”
Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011 after he was busted sending explicit pictures and texts to several women. The former lawmaker largely stayed out of the public eye until earlier this year, when he announced he was exploring a last-minute bid to replace outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
New York, New York, wonderful town.
The Bowery is up, and the Battery down.
They sure know how to pick ’em in NYC.
This means we can get back to Weiner jokes.
Are you sure this is not from the Onion?
Huma needs acting lessons.
If she is going to stand by Tony all sad-faced she shouldn’t be grinning like a Cheshire cat just as she goes on stage.
Tony is actually behind in the latest poll, but methinks the fix is in for him.
Apparently Weiner went full Monty this time on showing his Weiner.
Weiner may be ridiculous, but he at least hasn’t taken “loans” like Bob McDonnell. It’s interesting which of the two stories is considered more newsworthy.
The ridiculous Weiner story seems to be overshadowing all sorts of news. North Carolina republicans, for example, are quickly pushing through legislation that will cut early voting by a week even though 78 percent of North Carolina voters used it last election, will prevent election boards from extending regular voting hours even if there are long lines already waiting, and will prevent hundreds of thousands of long-time voters from voting unless they’ve got state-issued ID. They’re also ending same-day registration, even if you’ve got the documents you need to prove you qualify. This is the sort of crap they get up to, the moment the Voting Rights Act is put on hold.
Then there’s Darrell Issa’s modest proposal. He wants to end door-to-door mail delivery by the U.S. Postal service.
Syria? There was something a while back about an Israeli submarine-launched missile attack on Russian arms, supposedly accomplished with the cooperation of the United States. Who knows, maybe Syria fell completely off the map.
Sorry for the interruption. I really have nothing more to say about Weiner’s Weiner.
@Greg: Nice try Greg but stick to the story at hand. Your diversionary tactics may work for your liberal wacho friends but mean less than nothing here!!
Weiner has just CONFIRMED he is a filthy P O S …. and Democrats confirm THEY ARE TOO, by FOR demanding he NOT RUN for NYC Mayor!
Face it. Greg supports Voter Fraud. And is willing to aid it all he can. Done.
Greg never ceases to disappoint. So entrenched and self righteous in his beliefs and he’s so generous in imparting his brand of nonsense on us all. Never once looking inward but always sure he’s correcting those who disagree.
I’m sure Greg is just riveted to his seat waiting to hear about a loan to Bob McDonnell. I hope he doesn’t lose sleep over it.
And of course according to Greg , that evil Darrel Issa is single handedly trying to kill off the post office.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/USPS-May-End-Door-To-Door-Delivery.htm
I don’t know what Greg does but he might have a career in the fertilizer business.
@Common Sense, #5:
Yeah, that was a blatant attempt to change the subject. Any talk about this guy at all is more than enough. Weiner is a walking, talking embarrassment, in need of professional counseling and a new career outside of politics. His suggestion that he might run for mayor of New York was like news from Bizarro World. He might as well have announced that he was considering the possibility of pedaling a bicycle to Mars.
Maybe Weiner should consider relocating to San Diego. He might have a shot at replacing Bob Filner as mayor.
@Mully:
Never mind that the USPS has been eliminating door-to-door postal delivery for a long time. Drive into any new subdivision or apartment complex and you will see all the mail boxes grouped together, not in front of individual residences.
@Greg: I live in San Diego and totally agree with you!! Not often but this case is correct!! Filner is a Democrat liberal wacho slime that has done less than nothing for the city of San Diego!! Hopefully he will resign sooner versus the recall that will happen if he doesn’t!!
@Mully: If you ever press him for proof it becomes a circle jerk without end!!
@Mully, #8:
Killing off the United States Postal Service has been a group effort.
One big problem is that Congress has required the USPS to prepay the cost of their retirees’ health insurance plan 75 years into the future. The USPS has forked over $44 billion since 2006, which is “held” in a pre-payment account. (We all know how that works.) That’s a requirement that no private corporation has to contend with.
The USPS isn’t funded by tax dollars. It’s operating funds come from the sale of the various services it renders. The USPS is mandated to charge the same for delivering a letter anywhere, regardless of differing costs involved. You can send a letter from Key West, Florida to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, for the same price you’d pay to mail it across town. Congress is forcing the USPS to maintain Saturday deliveries, even though a majority of Americans have no objection to having weekend deliveries curtailed, and even though the USPS saw this as a means of improving its budget problems. To all of that, add the prepaid retiree health insurance shakedown.
Privatizing the USPS as it was done hasn’t been sufficient, apparently, because it didn’t allow this Constitutionally mandated government endeavor to be cut up and sold off to the private sector as spoils.
Oops! Once again, I’m failing to stick to the topic of Weiner’s weiner. My sincere apologies.
Greg is upset, because if Weiner gets busted, Greg won’t get any more of the texts from him that make Greg’s days (and nights I’d wager) ! LOL!
You seem to be missing the fact that I think Weiner’s a total idiot. It annoys me just seeing a picture of his face, let alone anything else.
YOU seem to miss the fact, he’s ONE OF YOURS, and YOUR PARTY.. BACKS HIM!!! TOTAL IDIOT notwithstanding!
And you wonder why we see LIBS as we do ???
How ironic Greggie is arguing for the continuation of the USPS when there is very little in the Constitution that he approves of. I would warrant that Greggie is one of these who believe the Constitution is a living document, to be changed and tweeked according to the will of elected politicians and statist judges.
Being the case, with the advent of the internet for mail, bill paying, etc. what is the purpose of the USPS outside of filling our mail boxes with junk mail?
@Hankster58:
I don’t divide people along partisan lines the way you seem to do. There are idiots who are democrats and there are idiots who are republican. Neither side is free of people who are serious embarrassments.
@retire05, #17:
I received a CD from Japan yesterday, as a result of a cooperative effort between Post Japan and the United States Postal Service. I ordered it last week. Flying to Tokyo would have involved a lot more inconvenience.
@Greg:
Guess you never heard of UPS?
Buying pirated CDs from Japan now, Greggie?
@retire05, #20:
The CD is Japanese. The Japanese don’t pirate their own products, let alone anyone else’s.
The lowest UPS rate to ship this smallish package from Tokyo to my home would be over 5,000 Yen, which is in excess of $50. Post Japan and the United States Postal Service did the same job for under $15.
@Greg:
And we wonder why they’re broke and so deep in debt they will never get out?
The United States Postal Service is the best postal service in the world. That was the conclusion of a British study, not a U.S. study. The USPS isn’t supported by taxpayer dollars. And it wouldn’t be running at a loss, if Congress weren’t placing demands on it that no private concerns have to meet, and if Congress allowed it to make necessary adjustments.
@Greg: I agree with Greg on this one!! He has come clean and admitted that Weiner is a slime, for that he deserves credit. With respect to my congressman Issa he of course is way off base. Issa is doing a terrific job and eventually will prove what liars the 0-blama regime is!!
@Greg:
Times have changed for the post office. They need to make changes to stay viable. People are using the service less and less. It must change. It may need to be fully turned over to the private sector.
You complain congress is the problem which is odd to me as liberals are the ones who usually advocate for more government intervention not less. Obama has been in office for more than 4 years and he has done nothing to work on this issue to any result. In fact he’s done nothing to work on our entitlement issues, except for making them worse by adding to it with new ones. He’s like your loud mouth neighbor; the guy who talks a good game but when it comes time to put your hands on and actually turn the wrenches to fix the problem he fouls it up and blames everything else. Then leaves you in worse shape. Obama’s idea of working on things is to make speeches talking about how wonderful he is and how Washington is broken. When the fact is HE IS WASHINGTON.