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The Rep. Anthony Weiner media blitz that has consumed this half of the week continued today on NY1, where the Congressman got a chance to address his constituency but showed a flicker of exhaustion at the interminable “Weiner” jokes to which he has been submitted this weekend. After an introduction where Inside City Hall host Errol Lewis gave the viewers “the long and the short” of “weinergate,” Rep. Weiner had to ask: “You did not just introduce that by saying ‘the long and short of it,’ did you?”

It started as a quiet radio talk show—a dialogue between two journalists from competing Hispanic television networks. Both were praising the way their stations had been covering the ongoing hearings of Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was the usual display of Hispanic pride, respect for the accomplished judge and her mother, and [...]