Rep. Weiner Mocks Reporter: You Did Not Just Say ‘The Long And Short Of It,’ Did You?’

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by Frances Martel | 7:49 pm, June 1st, 2011

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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?”

Weiner has had a long day of interviews, beginning with MSNBC’s Luke Russert, CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer, and continuing later tonight with Rachel Maddow. In between, the Congressman dropped by local media to explain himself to his constituents, and the stress of the interminable mockery appears to have gotten to him, at least a bit. The irreverent rhetorical question was followed up by a subtle double entendre of his own (“this thing popped up,” he explained of the photo), so whatever immediate ruffling occurred seems to have subsided quickly. Rep. Weiner also explained that, while he happened to be on his Twitter account at the time, he did not see the transfer after deleting it. “I did not send it; she did not get it,” he asserted of the woman to whom the photo was allegedly dedicated. “This looks like a prank,” he concluded, “but it is a prank that has gotten an enormous amount of oxygen and attention, for reasons that I contributed to but are still hard to explain.”

The segment via NY1 below:

"Inside City Hall, Anthony Weiner, CNN, Errol Louis, fox news, msnbc, NY1, WeinerGate

Jaurez

He was on twitter at the time but “didn’t see it?” LOL!
Barack Must Go

They should force this little, tiny weiner to reinact the photo, packing the Hebrew National and all………or just find out if his wife is staying with her mom or sister, then ask her.
notsofast

Weiner, if YOU were hacked, why did you immediately start deleting things from your account? Since hacking is a a federal crime, you were destroying evidence.
Gasket

Jaurez said:
He was on twitter at the time but “didn’t see it?” LOL!

Actually, you are wrong. He saw the pic “pop up” and deleted it. It’s IN the darn video, a video that’s only 1:30 min long YET YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO EVEN COMPREHEND IT!
OxyCon

First pervie, and now racist?
tsk tsk…
ChrisNH

Obamo, seeing the economy get more disastrous on HIS WATCH, implored Weiner to ‘take one for the team’ by distracting everyone from the ruination Obamo has himself caused.
hanoisteve

You would think that the American press would have something more improtiant to report on.
4 wars, crumbling instrfastucture, ecomoney in the tank, massive debt, nuclear power plants in California unprepared for an earthquake, failing schools, and the story about a photo that was sent but never received is the most talked about news? WTF?
ganymede

Welcome to the world of social media! I’m still trying to figure out what this is all about. Obviously, Wiener did something that offended the puritannical sensibilities of a lot of rightwingers who are so socially and sexually correct themselves. The way you’re going on about this one would think he was molesting, pandering, or sexually abusing women.

I’m beginning to detect the smell of ‘Birthers’ in all this. You’re just coming off the high you had for months on end about Obama’s being born in Timbuktoo or some other alien place and not being a real American. Fortunately, that’s been played out and you’re looking for a new gig. So you’ll probably go on for the next few weeks about how immoral and low down liberals are because of whatever awful thing Wiener did. I would like one of you geniuses to explain what terrible thing Wiener has done and why you’re so offended. By the way, I think this will turn out well for Wiener because while most of you hate him and everything he stands for, he happens to be one of the more effective Congresspersons in terms of what he’s actually done to help all the people in this country. People will now look more closely at his record. Yes, he’s an ultra liberal. He voted against going into Iraq; he’s for single payer universal health care which despite your stupid protestations, we will have within a few years; he’s definitely for taxing the uber-rich individuals and corporations who have taken so much and given so little and he will be re-elected with even a bigger margin.

Yes, the Weenie is a terrible person and history will remember him only for his disputed Jockey Shorts, although its doubtful they’re really his, and if they were, so what! My God, how did Conservatives and Republicans fall so low. Do you realize that unless you come up with some real help for our struggling country, you will all be tossed out in 2012, and it will be much worse than what happened to the Democrats in 2008.
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

Oh well, a Republican posts a shirtless video online, a Democrat posts his penis.

Who gets told to resign by his fellow constituents?

{imagine the Final Jeopardy tune}

Anyway, he should go places if it Clinton is any indication.
jddoubleu

ganymede said:
Welcome to the world of social media! I’m still trying to figure out what this is all about..

then why do you keep making yourself look like a dipshit by posting this in every thread?
notsofast

ganymede said:
Obviously, Wiener did something that offended the puritannical sensibilities of a lot of rightwingers who are so socially and sexually correct themselves.

Yeah, I’m sure YOU send crotch shots to your mom all the time, son.

In your lib world, there is no right or wrong, just choices.
purveyor

Ah, so nice to find the usual crew of degenerates and misfits. Imagine finding us all here, together again?

Anyway, It is a shame that Wiener is unpleasant individual, I have to give him credit for a quick wit and mind. However, I am almost certain he was the kid in middle school that everybody picked on.

How does someone with an awful demeanor and disposition, coupled with dogmatic political inclinations, get so far in the Political arena?

Ah, er, forget I asked that!
purveyor

To: OXYCON,

I used to have a RORER 714 T-shirt, but then it changed to LEMMON 714 and I couldn’t keep up with the fashions.
purveyor

ganymede said:
against going into Iraq; he’s for single payer universal health care which despite your stupid protestations, we will have within a few years; he’s definitely for taxing the uber-rich individuals

GANYMEDE,

Too bad, despite your subject matter I was enjoying your writing style. In fact, I was considering giving you a “Thumbs Up” based only on that. Then you had to insert the part about “stupid protestations”.

Remember this day, GANYMEDE, the day you stood on the precipice of greatness, and stumbled, back into obscurity.

PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC
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Dem4Ever

This guy is a creep.
Gorgegirl

ganymede said:
Welcome to the world of social media! I’m still trying to figure out what this is all about. Obviously, Wiener did something that offended the puritannical sensibilities of a lot of rightwingers who are so socially and sexually correct themselves. The way you’re going on about this one would think he was molesting, pandering, or sexually abusing women. I’m beginning to detect the smell of ‘Birthers’ in all this. You’re just coming off the high you had for months on end about Obama’s being born in Timbuktoo or some other alien place and not being a real American. Fortunately, that’s been played out and you’re looking for a new gig. So you’ll probably go on for the next few weeks about how immoral and low down liberals are because of whatever awful thing Wiener did. I would like one of you geniuses to explain what terrible thing Wiener has done and why you’re so offended. By the way, I think this will turn out well for Wiener because while most of you hate him and everything he stands for, he happens to be one of the more effective Congresspersons in terms of what he’s actually done to help all the people in this country. People will now look more closely at his record. Yes, he’s an ultra liberal. He voted against going into Iraq; he’s for single payer universal health care which despite your stupid protestations, we will have within a few years; he’s definitely for taxing the uber-rich individuals and corporations who have taken so much and given so little and he will be re-elected with even a bigger margin. Yes, the Weenie is a terrible person and history will remember him only for his disputed Jockey Shorts, although its doubtful they’re really his, and if they were, so what! My God, how did Conservatives and Republicans fall so low. Do you realize that unless you come up with some real help for our struggling country, you will all be tossed out in 2012, and it will be much worse than what happened to the Democrats in 2008.

I think we can all assume that the Jockey shorts and their contents belong to either O’Keefe or Breitbart.

Another scam like was done on ACORN, the New Black Panthers,, Planned Parenthood and even the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana.
LeviCoultify

6 out of your 7 FRONT PAGE stories are about the Weiner story mediaite. Why is anyone pretending this site is anything but a celebrity gossip page for politics?
purveyor

“Scurry”, good word…
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

Gorgegirl said:
I think we can all assume that the Jockey shorts and their contents belong to either O’Keefe or Breitbart.

Another scam like was done on ACORN, the New Black Panthers,, Planned Parenthood and even the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana.

rabid dogs with a bone. they get hold of a falsehood, and just.won’t.let.go no matter how many times they are told they are wrong, proved what they are saying is false.
Just4thefax

Gasket said:
Actually, you are wrong. He saw the pic “pop up” and deleted it. It’s IN the darn video, a video that’s only 1:30 min long YET YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO EVEN COMPREHEND IT!

Fact: What’s to defend here even you can’t save Weiner taking Weiner shots of his crotch.
seek

Gorgegirl said:
I think we can all assume that the Jockey shorts and their contents belong to either O’Keefe or Breitbart.

Another scam like was done on ACORN, the New Black Panthers,, Planned Parenthood and even the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana.

Funny, nobody has mentioned that, because it’s just not true sweets. You know the other points you raised – well they were scams and they got caught. Sorry you missed that.
seek

Actually Gasket, I wouldn’t be throwing the “YET YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO EVEN COMPREHEND IT”, phrase.
You my friend, have been had and you’re not taking it very gracefully. Weiner did it – now we just get the pleasure of watching him try to weasel out of it.

You should have your condition of denial checked out – might be some medication to deal with it (like a healthy dose of reality).

tah tah
justanotherconservative

hanoisteve said:
You would think that the American press would have something more improtiant to report on.4 wars, crumbling instrfastucture, ecomoney in the tank, massive debt, nuclear power plants in California unprepared for an earthquake, failing schools, and the story about a photo that was sent but never received is the most talked about news? WTF?

that’s what the leftielunatics always say…
lane

Breitbart is not a journalist, so all you can do is take what he says as a jumping off point to investigate, but that’s true of many sources. They hate him because he’s effective. Be honest about it.

Sherrod was fired because the Obama administration over-reacted to a possible scandal. Don’t worry, they did the same thing with Gen. McCrystal. I don’t blame the Rolling Stone on that either. The administrationn is so fearful of media stories, they’ve consistently over-reacted to the cable news media machine.

ACORN was grossly mismanged, already had a huge embezzlement scandal, and should never get public funding due to incompetence. Planned Parenthood instituted training programs to improve volunteers to recognize and assist sex slavery victims.

He’s has many faults as well, but in total, he’s accomlished quite a lot. On this one, he’s simply posted what facts they know, and reported it fairly. On Sherrod he did the same, as Mathews noted. What people did with it, of course, was not fair.
dummy123

Weiner basking in the media spotlight even though he is a liar.
Narcissist X 100!!