Weiner falls limp to the pressure, strokes his way out of office.

Edit: Here's his chat transcripts. He basically cybers with a girl until the pictures surface, when he stops responding to her messages.

http://www.radaronline.com/sites/radaronline.com/files/Wiener-Facebook-Transcript-Watermarked.pdf

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Yup, Weiner has announced his resignation after the Twitter photo scandal.

What's your opinion on his resignation? Did the press force him out? Or were his actions bad enough themselves?

Here's a link by the way. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20071659-503544.html

Penis.

Weiner.... ?
strokes ?
 
who's jacking whom off

I will be forever a fan of this guy after this rant for healthcare to 9/11 heroes:

ill ask what everyones thinking. Anyone got a link to the picture?

Damn. I kinda liked that guy. Although he wouldn't be a politician if he wasn't involved in some sort of sex scandal at some point in his life. Everywhere you look there's another political sex scandal. And journalists act shocked every time it happens, as if each new scandal is the first.

@benjaebe said:

Fucking lame, really. You can have Republican sex scandal after Republican sex scandal, but the moment a Democrat tweets a picture of his junk to some chick he's never met and he's basically forced to resign.

I'm not doubting you, but Clinton stayed in office after his scandal and he's a democrat.

I would've kept the job, personally. Just because someone leaks a picture of my wang doesn't make me any less of a politician.

@TurboMan: that weiner video was invigorating!

@benjaebe said:

Fucking lame, really. You can have Republican sex scandal after Republican sex scandal, but the moment a Democrat tweets a picture of his junk to some chick he's never met and he's basically forced to resign.

I'm not doubting you, but Clinton stayed in office after his scandal and he's a democrat.

@TurboMan: that weiner video was invigorating!

@TurboMan said:

I will be forever a fan of this guy after this rant for healthcare to 9/11 heroes:

This. He was one of a few Democrats who was willing to confront Republicans.

He should've started a war based on lies and not tweet dick pictures. He would've kept his job.

@Toms115 said:

@thoseposers said:

@TurboMan: that weiner video was invigorating!

i certainly feel like my opinion of weiner was hardened upon watching the video.

It'll definitely hurt the democrats to lose their weiner

So the dude has base human urges and that's somehow bad enough that he needs to be pressured into quitting his job as a representative of the people?

Whatever.

@Toms115 said:

@thoseposers said:

@TurboMan: that weiner video was invigorating!

i certainly feel like my opinion of weiner was hardened upon watching the video.

It'll definitely hurt the democrats to lose their weiner

@TurboMan said:

I will be forever a fan of this guy after this rant for healthcare to 9/11 heroes:

Oh man it is that guy. Sucks he had to back down. This video is so awesome.

Also, one of the chicks was 17 years old.

So the dude has base human urges and that's somehow bad enough that he needs to be pressured into quitting his job as a representative of the people?

Whatever.

I will be forever a fan of this guy after this rant for healthcare to 9/11 heroes:

If he did his job well, I don't think he should be forced to resign. I remember reading a statistic which indicated that 25%+ of Americans have had affairs, and all he did was send a woman a picture of his genitals. If it was unwanted, then it could be considered sexual harassment, but all stories that I've read indicated that they were both sending each other sexual images of themselves.

In a perfect world no one would really care. I'm dead certain that quite a few US presidents have had affairs. I'm 100% that a huge amount of your congressional representatives and senate members have or are having affairs (they just cover it up more). Hell, a huge amount of Americans have done similar things, yet they get to keep their job.

You can say that "well, he's supposed to represent the people" - well, gathering by what I see on TV, he is doing a fine job representing what a sizeable amount of US citizens do. It's a bit humorous - the media is bagging on this guy for having an affair, yet then proceed to make TV shows and films in which having affairs is almost celebrated! The only "bad" thing Weiner did was get caught.

Then again, sure, fire him. I'm not under any delusions - yes it's silly for Republicans to demand the head of this guy, but I'm not going to pretend that the Left would behave any better if it was a Republican. Both the Left and the Right have made politics poisonously personal and now they have to live with the consequences of their actions.

To those who seriously call for Weiner to be fired: Why? Did he break any laws? Did he hurt anyone? Oh, you say, "he acted inappropriately". Well, so did Clinton. So has Newt Gingrich. So has Rush Limbaugh. So has John Edwards. Big Wigs on all sides of politics have behaved like this, because they are human. Why are you so shocked that a government official would behave this way? They're flesh and blood too. And why is it that people are so willing to demonize someone on the other side of the political fence for offences that, really, arent' offences, yet are so willing to forgive and dismiss similar personal "offences" committed by members of their own side?

"Clinton's a bad man! He had sex with someone who wasn't his wife! What about the sanctity of marriage! Liberals have no morals!" Republicans chortle, while conveniently forgetting Gingrich's numerous affairs and Limbaugh's drug abuse. Democrats say "Oh, people like Gingrich can't keep it in his pants", but remain curiously silent when Edwards was revealed to be cheating on his cancer ridden wife.

Face it - both sides use personal issues unfairly to demonize the other. They're almost like children - "ewww" they cry, "YOU'RE side is icky because they did X" but when their side does X it becomes a game of "Nuh-uh, your side's grosser than mine!" "No, YOUR SIDE!", "No, YOUR SIDE!" "no, YOUR SIDE!".

But that's politics - where character assassinations, pointless, idiotic, trivial issues and lies are routinely awarded by the public who vote for whoever says the most pleasing soundbites, not on what policies they pass.

I really don't care what a politician does with his sexual life. If he's a good politician, he could be a porn-star for all i care in his spare time.

@Korolev said:

If he did his job well, I don't think he should be forced to resign. I remember reading a statistic which indicated that 25%+ of Americans have had affairs, and all he did was send a woman a picture of his genitals. If it was unwanted, then it could be considered sexual harassment, but all stories that I've read indicated that they were both sending each other sexual images of themselves.

In a perfect world no one would really care. I'm dead certain that quite a few US presidents have had affairs. I'm 100% that a huge amount of your congressional representatives and senate members have or are having affairs (they just cover it up more). Hell, a huge amount of Americans have done similar things, yet they get to keep their job.

You can say that "well, he's supposed to represent the people" - well, gathering by what I see on TV, he is doing a fine job representing what a sizeable amount of US citizens do. It's a bit humorous - the media is bagging on this guy for having an affair, yet then proceed to make TV shows and films in which having affairs is almost celebrated! The only "bad" thing Weiner did was get caught.

Then again, sure, fire him. I'm not under any delusions - yes it's silly for Republicans to demand the head of this guy, but I'm not going to pretend that the Left would behave any better if it was a Republican. Both the Left and the Right have made politics poisonously personal and now they have to live with the consequences of their actions.

To those who seriously call for Weiner to be fired: Why? Did he break any laws? Did he hurt anyone? Oh, you say, "he acted inappropriately". Well, so did Clinton. So has Newt Gingrich. So has Rush Limbaugh. So has John Edwards. Big Wigs on all sides of politics have behaved like this, because they are human. Why are you so shocked that a government official would behave this way? They're flesh and blood too. And why is it that people are so willing to demonize someone on the other side of the political fence for offences that, really, arent' offences, yet are so willing to forgive and dismiss similar personal "offences" committed by members of their own side?

"Clinton's a bad man! He had sex with someone who wasn't his wife! What about the sanctity of marriage! Liberals have no morals!" Republicans chortle, while conveniently forgetting Gingrich's numerous affairs and Limbaugh's drug abuse. Democrats say "Oh, people like Gingrich can't keep it in his pants", but remain curiously silent when Edwards was revealed to be cheating on his cancer ridden wife.

Face it - both sides use personal issues unfairly to demonize the other. They're almost like children - "ewww" they cry, "YOU'RE side is icky because they did X" but when their side does X it becomes a game of "Nuh-uh, your side's grosser than mine!" "No, YOUR SIDE!", "No, YOUR SIDE!" "no, YOUR SIDE!".

But that's politics - where character assassinations, pointless, idiotic, trivial issues and lies are routinely awarded by the public who vote for whoever says the most pleasing soundbites, not on what policies they pass.

Well said, Korolev. I have nothing else to add to this reply, but I wanted to let you know you're absolutely right. I mean correct, not right, if you take my meaning.

They could have just as easily deleted the pics without turning it into a pointless media circus. They didn't even know the guy.

He sent out several illicit photos of himself using his government blackberry...think I remember that right. At a minimum, dude is very stupid. Maybe even some sort of sick deviant.

Oh and as much as it's fun to watch him yell at the GOP, I'm sure it accomplished the opposite result he was after...not very politition-esque of him. :/

@Commando said:

@benjaebe said:

Fucking lame, really. You can have Republican sex scandal after Republican sex scandal, but the moment a Democrat tweets a picture of his junk to some chick he's never met and he's basically forced to resign.

I'm not doubting you, but Clinton stayed in office after his scandal and he's a democrat.

also: jfk. but he ended up getting shot so that's not really a great example.

My favorite headline that came out of this whole ordeal:
 
"Teen asked about Weiner."
 
I wounder what they said. On second thought, no I don't.

@Korolev said:

If he did his job well, I don't think he should be forced to resign.

This is all that needs to be said.

@Famov: I fail to see how there isn't a double standard. I'm not trying to make this a partisan issue, especially when Democrats were calling for his resignation too. But when we have Republicans on one side openly campaigning on "moral family values" who call for the resignation of a man who sent pictures to a woman (which can be seen as cheating or not depending on your PoV), yet they don't do the same for members of their own party who committed FAR worse acts in terms of infidelity or even legality? That sounds like a double standard to me. Whether or not Weiner likes to tweet pics of his junk has nothing to do with his ability to perform his job, a job that he has done remarkably well at considering the majority of his constituents don't want him to resign.

Edit: @Korolev did a really good job at summing it up as well.

That guy resigning is a huge loss for the politcal landscape in the US. I knew of him because of his great rants in Congress. What a shame ... and what an idiot he is for ruining his career with silly shit like that. Power and popularity seems to have that certain weird effect on some people.
 
He should've just went to a prostitute or something to deal with his horniness. Or how about using a different twitter account for potentially embarrassing shit? Nope, too easy... not risky enough...

The guy woulda been fine if he didn't lie and just admitted it from the start.  People can forgive a sinner, but they won't forgive being treated like idiots who don't know a weiner when they see one. 
 
Also, for those attempting to compare this with other situations where the politician survived the scandal: Weiner is a representative in a Democratic district in a Republican house.  Legislative outcomes will not be affected in the short term and the balance of power will not be affected in the long term.  Another over-educated democrat will take over his district, everyone knows, so they're willing to throw him under the bus to burnish their own image on values.   
 
I'm not trying to make him out as a victim, though.  As I said, he made a bad move.

Yes I'm not afraid of a few dick jokes thank you.

I'm confused as to why he continued sending pictures when the press was on his ass about it. Did he just want to cock slap the Fates?

I wonder what Boehner says about this.

I'm actually sadden by this. As a Democrat, I'm ashamed at how spineless and submissive most democrats are. Weiner was different and we need more people like him.

@Surkov: Yeah even Nancy Pelosi was asking for him to resign...

lame.

I'm actually sadden by this. As Democrat, I'm ashamed at how spineless and submissive most democrats are. Weiner was different and we need more people like him.

Why do people even bother getting married if all they're going to do is cheat and send naked photos of themselves to other people? 
 
It doesn't matter how different/special he was, there are standards that he must uphold as a member of Congress.

@Surkov said:

I'm actually sadden by this. As a Democrat, I'm ashamed at how spineless and submissive most democrats are. Weiner was different and we need more people like him.

Don't the Dems already have enough people with impulse control problems and embarrassing acts in their past? Heck, Barney Frank is a poster child for that nonsense.

@MikeinSC said:

@Surkov said:

I'm actually sadden by this. As Democrat, I'm ashamed at how spineless and submissive most democrats are. Weiner was different and we need more people like him.

Don't all politicians everywhere throughout history already have enough people with impulse control problems and embarrassing acts in their past? Heck, Barney Frank is a poster child for that nonsense.

Fixed.

@Wrighteous86 said:

@MikeinSC said:

@Surkov said:

I'm actually sadden by this. As Democrat, I'm ashamed at how spineless and submissive most democrats are. Weiner was different and we need more people like him.

Don't all politicians everywhere throughout history already have enough people with impulse control problems and embarrassing acts in their past? Heck, Barney Frank is a poster child for that nonsense.

Fixed.

Thank you. That was bugging me.

@MikeinSC said:

@Surkov said:

I'm actually sadden by this. As a Democrat, I'm ashamed at how spineless and submissive most democrats are. Weiner was different and we need more people like him.

Don't the Dems already have enough people with impulse control problems and embarrassing acts in their past? Heck, Barney Frank is a poster child for that nonsense.

Both sides have their pariahs, but at least Weiner was good at his job.   

Why do people even bother getting married if all they're going to do is cheat and send naked photos of themselves to other people?  It doesn't matter how different/special he was, there are standards that he must uphold as a member of Congress.