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By Amanda Hess
Steel yourself for Weinergate, Part Deux: The gossip website The Dirty has published another round of sexually explicit messages between Weiner and an anonymous woman. Weiner has admitted that the chats, published on Facebook and Formspring, sometimes under the alias “Carlos Danger,” are his. "Carlos" messaged the then-22-year-old woman to tell her things like, “I must have cum thinking about you and looking at you 100 times. How does that make you feel? Gross?” and “I turn you around and bend you over the back of a chair. Your pussy asking for it.”
Yawn. This is not, of course, our first peek into Anthony Weiner’s dirty mind. The new flood of messages is potentially relevant to Weiner’s mayoral campaign for one reason: The Dirty alleges that these conversations occurred after Weinergate first broke in June of 2011, meaning that Weiner’s initial public apology to everyone he “misled” by his actions was yet another cover-up for his continued sexting of the American people. The conversations are undated, but in one message to the woman, he alluded to the scandal: “Sadly my pics are out there to look at. Have you ever?” She had, and she was “quite impressed.” If the messages are really dated post-Weinergate, they call Weiner’s current bid for New York City’s trust into question.
But some critics are using the publication of these private messages to insinuate something much worse about Weiner: That the dirty talk in his cybersexing sessions reveals him to be a particularly depraved (and even criminal!) candidate. To that I say: Let he who has not sexted cast the first stone.
Understandably, Twitter is on fire with jokes about Weiner’s absurd online alias, “Carlos Danger.” It is, in fact, an extremely stupid name. But don't pretend that Weiner wasn't in on the joke. Before Weiner became infamous for thinking with his dick instead of his brain, he was known for his incisive sense of humor on the talk show circuit. He probably thought the name was hilarious, too. Other takes on wave two of Weinergate, meanwhile, insinuate that Weiner is more dangerous than he is foolish. The Daily Caller focuses its piece on one message in particular in which Weiner told the woman, “would you let me hold your hair while you gagged on my cock?” The implication is that Weiner is, at best, porn-addled, and at worst, potentially violent. But hey, some women are into talk like that. The anonymous woman’s response to Weiner’s question was simply, “Absolutely.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/23/anthony_weiner_s_new_sexting_scandal_carlos_danger_isn_t_a_predator_or_a.html
(Thats pretty bad, the idea of being called boring, damn)
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customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)And whether his wife stays with him is her business, but I expect the voters to reject him over it. Anyone with that impulse control that poor is likely to disappoint everyone who supports him.
If this is what he does as a disgraced resigned Congressman, what would he do if he were the mayor of the leading city in the United States?
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Weiner Sexts and Sanford runs off to Argentina on the taxpayers dime.
Not excusing it, but keep it in perpective. It's poor judgement for sure.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)of that congressional district who voted Sanford back into elective office. I'd like to think two things, first that NYC voters are better than that, and second, is this the best we have to offer?
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)2nd Is there better canidates? I mean, not picking at it but what others are running?
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I can imagine Weiner and Spitzer campaigning together, they'd have to call it "Tour de Pants"!
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)
dairydog91
(951 posts)He KNEW the level of political trouble that he could get in by doing this stuff, and despite having a potentially viable second chance at a good political career, he kept doing it. He could have just slunk off to a Nevada brothel for secret sexy times, but instead he pulled the exact same stunt. That certainly doesn't speak well for his ability to control himself.
Also, I nominate "Luke Thighwalker" as his next sexting handle.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)
anneboleyn
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Odious justice
(197 posts)It gave legitimacy to the "scandal". Good leaders are hard to find.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)oppress the Palestinians, poor judgment, no impulse control asshole.
I'm happy to see his career flame the fuck out.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)I liked his pro healthcare stuff.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Yep, Weiner=Shelly Adelson on I/P
http://zoa.org/2007/11/10630-jta-dinner-with-zoa-two-morts-a-weiner-bibi-sr-a-berkley-hawk/
The keynote address was delivered by Benzion Netanyahu, the 98-year-old professor, former Jabotinsky lieutenant and father of Bibi. Another scheduled speaker was Shelley Berkley, a Jewish Democratic congresswoman from Las Vegas who is one of ZOA’s top allies, especially on her side of the aisle. I say “scheduled” because another Jewish Democratic congressman with strong ties to ZOA, Brooklyn’s Anthony Weiner, continued his annual tradition of showing up for the dinner and giving an impromptu speech. And, of course, he broke out his usual line, saying that he and Berkley “come from the ZOA wing of the Democratic Party.”
Weiner took what everyone I talked to understood to be a swipe at AIPAC:
There is no organization in Washington, no organization at the grassroots that is more in keeping with making sure that Israel stays strong and our relationship stays solid than ZOA. Without fear of contradiction I’ll say this: more so than even that better known organization that does some very very important work.
ZOA is the organization, Weiner said, who can be counted on to take positions “without the fear of who’s going to say what and is it really the right political thing to say.” He added:
With Shelley Berkley and I standing up now as we are to make sure that we don’t make this ridiculous deal where we’re selling high-tech armaments to Saudi Arabia, some organizations are trying to figure out the right thing to do — ZOA knew instantly what the right thing to do [APPPLAUSE]. When we took the floor and said that this was folly providing more and more money for the Palestinians, not a single dime, not a single shekel should go. While other organizations hemmed and hawed, and looked to the editorial page, ZOA said we agree, there shouldn’t be any more funding [APPALUSE]. When Shelley and I said, sure maybe we should be providing some aid to Egypt, but should we provide it with high-tech military hardware, year after year after year after year? Some organizations prevaricated, ZOA said absolutely we should not and stood with Shelley and me [APPLAUSE].
Weiner’s comments come at a time when AIPAC is already facing heat from one of its top donors, casino mogul and GOP supporter Sheldon Adelson, for supporting a congressional letter urging more financial support to boost Abbas.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)This stance crosses the line
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)At the celebration in downtown New York last night marking the Supreme Court's ruling against anti-gay marriage legislation, Weiner told a questioner that he still believes Palestinian territory of the West Bank isn't militarily occupied by Israel. A tipster, who asked to remain anonymous, sent a video of the notoriously anti-Palestinian politician to Open Zion. In the exchange, outside of the famous Stonewall Inn, the questioner asks, "Do you still believe the West Bank is not occupied?"
Weiner quickly responded: "Yes, I do. The status of that area is left to be decided by the people who're there."
"So it's not occupied by Israel?" the questioner persists.
"I gotta tell you: there are disagreements about what constitutes the West Bank," Weiner said, before walking away to gladhand Stonewall revelers.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/27/anthony-weiner-stands-by-claim-that-west-bank-isn-t-occupied-by-israel.html
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Thankfully this asshat got out of the way so we can keep looking for some!
frylock
(34,825 posts)what legislation bears his name? what progressive causes did he lead?
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...so that things about a person's private lives will always get more attention than almost anything else they do. Weiner could have found a cure for cancer and the media would still obsess with pictures of his junk and his sexting like a bunch of high school kids. While they castigate on one side, they seem to be titillated on the other and obsess endlessly about it.
I find it interesting that Weiner's latest mess comes out as the Zimmerman story is fading away...the next "bright shiny toy" that the media glams onto...
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)George Lucas could write a better scene. And what the fuck, weiner, where is your "is"? Ironically your sext is missing a copula, and it makes it even dumber! I know most people have very dull sex, but come on! It's a fantasy! Fantasize! It's a phone, not a keyboard, it was designed to be used one-handed!
Bro-tip... never preface a conversation about your crotch with the word "sadly" unless you're talking to your doctor about "performance issues." Also, there's a joke here about "low hanging fruit" that I have too much dignity to actually use.
Same thing here. If you're confident enough to tell a lady you've masturbated to the thought of her enough times to father an entire Roman centuria, then don't suggest she should be grossed out by it. because that indicates you're grossed out by it. You made yourself sound like the creepy guy who rides the early train.
heels are not a shoe fetish. Softball cleats are a shoe fetish.
Seems to me that the last thing I'd ever want near my own dick is someone else's stomach acid and half-digested lunch. Hey, some people are into that I guess, but I can't relate in the least. I think the article is right - too much porn. And again from a writing perspective! If you're going to be "gagging" her on your cock, then you're not going to be "holding" her hair, you're going to be pulling, yanking, or some other active, harsh verb like that. Keep your tone consistent through the piece!
But hey, you know what? Maybe I'm too critical. E. L. James has made a mint by writing bad porn for people with a dull sense of sex. Maybe Weiner's future isn't politics after all. Just remember your "to be" tenses!
frylock
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bunnies
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SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)classes would have given him a better base
I mean this is pretty low level dirty talk and not well constructed at all
shows little originality and relies on well established themes of the past
im a little ashamed as a dirty talker myself over his performance
in my day we didn't have texting we just passed notes
my best work was a Spanish translation of "it is the strongest wish of my loins that you ride me like a moped over 5 miles of bad roads"
spent 2 days in the library working on that for a girl who spoke no Spanish
unfortunately she spoke no Spanish and she didn't go and translate it at the library
she went to the Spanish teacher
and when the Spanish teacher translated it to her it sort of didn't turn out like I hoped
as an aside has anyone seen his actual pics? would there even potentially be "gagging" involved?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)those pixels are hard to get down
I don't know if you are male or female but can you see a nekkid pic being the way into a womans heart(pants)?
I am getting kind of old but to me this is like foot fetishism
I just do not get it no matter how hard I try I just don't get it
Tierra_y_Libertad
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NJCher
(35,713 posts)He needs to get the hell out of the way.
We don't need leaders so badly that we have to accept this.
Cher
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Have you never been in a hot, lurid relationship?
One dripping with endorphines, where just thinking your girlfriend or S.O's delectable form doesn't give rise to passionate, erotic texts to her? Sit there waxing poetic about her (or your S.O's) various charms?
Of course Weiner was rather pedestrian in his writing, more like grade school text really. Not to mention just showing a total lack of judgement.
One of the more famous results of a short term passionate affair was this song. The Lead singer wrote it about his girlfriend of the time.
The lyrics are defientley raw.
Oo my little pretty one, pretty one
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Oo you make my motor run, my motor run
Gun it coming off of the line, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up with a touch of the younger kind
My-ee ey-ee by-ee ahee ah woo!
Ma ma ma my Sharona
Come a little closer, over here
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona
Keep a little mystery, kissin' me
Runnin' down the length of my thigh, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up from a touch of the younger kind
My-ee ey-ee by-ee ahee ah woo!
Ma ma ma my Sharona
Ma ma ma my Sharona
When ya gonna get to me, get to me
Is it just a matter of time, Sharona
Is it a destiny, a destiny
Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up from a touch of the younger kind
My-ee ey-ee by-ee ahee ah woo!
Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
Myee ey-ee by-ee ahee ah woo!
Ma ma ma my Sharona
Ooooh my Sharona
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)I have better things to do today than read it.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)To experience passion is to enjoy the icing on the cake of life.
You have a good day
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)One need only read your posts and your attitude seeps through.
Again have a great day
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)performance art.
I mean, the absurd alias, Carlos Danger? Zero fear of public disapproval in continuing the behavior?
Obviously, this is a cleverly executed performance piece by a serious artist attempting to challenge society's conventional perceptions of privacy in a post NSA world.
The man is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
allin99
(894 posts)i'm surprised Huma didn't realize that. I know she didn't want to wait cuz she was totally in love with him and maybe she thought she could pull a hillary and after the first coupla cheats he would become a better person, but he just wasn't ready and his actions were his last hold on bachelorhood.
