Gennette Cordova, Recipient Of The Original Weiner Tweet, Still Doesn’t Get The ‘Joke’

Gennette Cordova gave her first post Weinergate press conference interview to the New York Times and revealed that she didn’t even think the photo was real when she first saw it.

She claims she and Congressman Weiner had merely been friendly before the famous bulge photo. She had just retweeted his posts often enough that he decided to follow her back. Their relationship grew somewhat closer because Weiner’s twitter critics started harassing her.

But Cordova claims that their direct messages were strictly complaints about politics and the men who were trying to take down Weiner until the infamous bulge shot. “He was just casual,” she said “it wasn’t like talking to a U.S. Congressman.” But apparently their relationship was completely appropriate: when asked if she was surprised by the photo that launched a thousand puns she responded earnestly: “Oh gosh, yes.”

The Times article paints Cordova in a light that is shockingly different from the other Weiner women. She comes across as an innocent, if naive girl who happened to get unlucky in the politician she decided to support.

Cordova noted that she doesn’t “condone” Weiner’s behavior but said that it’s a “personal matter between him and his family.”

She was critical of one thing though. When asked about the joke Weiner claimed the photo was a part of Cordova said, “I still [don’t] get the joke part of it.”

Ouch.

(h/t NYT)

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