Overkill? New York Post Blasts Anthony Weiner For Buying Cheap Flowers

For the segment of the NY population whose thirst of anti-Weiner vitriol has not yet been properly slaked, we present the following report from the NY Post. It seems that recently disgraced (and former House Representative) Anthony Weiner not only has a lot of free time on his hands now that he has resigned, but that he recently purchased flowers for his pregnant wife Huma from a local bodega. The outrage? They were cheap flowers. For shame!

Writing for the NY Post, Don Kaplan reports:

The disgraced former congressman was spotted outside his Queens home yesterday toting a bouquet of cheap flowers for Huma Abedin, his pregnant spouse who endured weeks of lurid revelations about her husband’s sexting. He spent a whopping $22.97 on them at a bodega, according to the iPad publication The Daily.

But the gesture won’t work, experts told The Post.

“It’s ridiculous, and it could make her angrier,” said Elayne Rapping, a professor of American Studies at SUNY Buffalo. “He knows there are photographers and reporters outside of his house. He could have easily called up a florist and had flowers delivered to her — this seems to be more of a gesture for the press than for her. A way of him saying, ‘I’m being a good husband.’ “

Read the entire write up here, but I’m reminded of a scene from an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer has taken a side job as Krusty the Clown, and unfamiliar with the ways of Krusty Burger, ruthlessly attacks a “hamburgler” character that comes to steal some product. An innocent child upset by Homer’s relentless brutality screams “stop! he’s already dead!”

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