Shit. I just realized: Anthony Weiner = Chandra Levy!

Remember her? Unless you were on Mars a decade ago, of course you do! The disappearance of the Congressional intern on May 1, 2001 set off a months-long media frenzy: Cable news channels led with her story every night. Hell, even the broadcast networks had her at the top of the evening news most of the time from May to September: Oooooooh, how could such a young, attractive (read: white) woman go missing in a public park? Was she sleeping with Congressman Gary Condit? OMG OMG might Condit be RESPONSIBLE FOR HER DISAPPEARANCE???

The band played on.

In the meantime, two major stories were going virtually unnoticed: First, the Bush tax cuts---you know, the ones that led to the economic disaster we find ourselves in now---were going through smoothly, with relative quiet. (Except among those freaks who didn't seem to recognize the vital immediacy of a missing white girl. Did I mention that she was attractive?)

Then there was that other thing going on in the summer of 2001. Uh, what was it again? Help me out, here. Ah...I think it had something to do with Germany and Afghanistan.....yeah, yeah, I believe so. Something about a plan to, uh, to, er, harm us in some way. Yeah, that's it! Unfortunately, Our Glorious Free Press was so concerned with the (ultimately quite sad) case of Ms Levy that no attention was focused on news items that might have made the public question exactly who was getting the biggest tax break, and what long-term effect it could have, OR might have caused people in the government to focus more sharply on warnings they were getting from national security sources.

Ten years on, we have a Republican Party doing its damnedest to fulfill McConnell's Mandate to deny Obama a second term by pushing us toward a Depression (if we're not already in one). Hey, don't sweat it: Their friends will be just fine! As well, there's talk of us staying on in Iraq, plus whatever the smoke-and-fucking-mirrors show is being presented vis-a-vis Afghanistan!

But hey, we don't need to worry about any of that! C'mon, let's focus on Weiner's weenie, Palin's impression of LeBron James 2010, the new iPhone that'll be obsolete by the time you finish reading this sentence, and all the pretty colors!

You don't really need to find out/What's going on/
You don't really wanna know/Just how far it's gone/
Just leave well enough alone/Eat your dirty laundry - Don Henley, 1982

Frighteningly prophetic, huh?

That same summer shark attacks were all over the M$M..

It was so obvious the lame stream media had completely ignored the REAL threats facing this country and the world.

Didn't those idiots realize that Condit's weiner was a greater threat? And now it's coming back to us with an ACTUAL Weiner!

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At the same time that Chandra Levy disappeared and Condit got media grief, Republican Joe Scarborough had an actual dead intern in his office. The media chastised Condit mercilessly, while Scarborough got a free pass and scant media attention.

Just like Weiner gets merciless media attention, but David Vitter gets a free pass.

Liberal media, my ass.

talking about the out of state coroner that they flew in to cover it up, how dare you.

Joe Scarborough is a Fine American. You can tell this by the fact that he loves Pat Buchanan! :rofl:

and if you want to see a man do a slow boil, ask Scarborough about that poor young woman whose name and life were besmirched in his macabre efforts to protect himself.

Only to have him turn out to be totally innocent. Still catch it on reruns on Comedy Central.

Therefore, you and I must be blood enemies until death! }(

Libertarians my ass.

down. That is worse than anything else that has happened regarding Weiner. I am furious. I may not vote next election because of this. HOW DARE the Democratic Party do this? Is there anything democratic left in the party?
I tried to email her (Wasserman-Schulz). her website says talk ot your own congressman; I'm too busy. You bet I will.

Please go fuck yourself.

Maybe one of her staffers will read that. Accomplishes the same goal.

You're welcomed.

and you want them to read your email, then pretend you are from their district or state. If you dont think you want to do that, then dont bother sending them an email. It's easy. Look at the addresses of their local state offices and get a city and zip code. Then use those when you send them an email.

It may have been "inappropriate" to have an affair with an intern (even though she was an ADULT), but the Levy family and MSM destroyed him in front of the country. And have yet to hear an apology a year after the real killer was convicted.

She never apologized,either, for her Condit interview where she repeatedly accused him of lying.

Last I heard, she was workin' in Maury's DNA lab. :rofl:

It was all Chandra, all the time. I remember catching a blurb for the evening news; "Tonight's top story; no new leads in the Chandra Levy case". I remember thinking; Really? there is absolutely nothing else going on?

And now, a decade later, it's even worse.

3:26 AM is way past my bedtime. G'night!

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Our Fearless "Leaders" are calling for his head: Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz, and now Van Hollen, ranking Dem on the Budget Committee. :(

Just saw her on This Week.

On a lighter---actually, a fucking hilarious---note, Piggy No One described Weiner's situation as "End-of-the-Roman-Empire Decadence." And, since she lived through the Roman Empire, I guess we have to take her seriously. :rofl:

Meet The Press with NOT Tim Russert. (Reed was present, Israel's call for resignation was mentioned.)

is barely covered. But - oh - there's a Congressman sending shots of his junk all over the country. Of course that is what the media covers. Dirty laundry indeed ...

Unless they do find some young girl he made advances to or some other major bombshell, the shelf-life of this latest bright shiny toy will begin to fade. There's be another "scandal" or "outrage" or another Congresscritter caught with their pants down. Chandra Levy's sad saga dragged on for one big reason...we didn't have a body, thus the speculation could go on and on...which it did. The Weiner case is nowhere near as nebulous and has already been prolonged due to Weiner's own stupidity and arrogance. He'll fade from the scene while he tries to put his life and career back together.

Nothing short of an attack on our very shores could put an end to that shit.

Julie

The only silver lining of 9/11 was that it got that fucking story off the news.

Don't see any similarities at all.

It's astounding to see comments like this on a dem. board, seriously.

The guy engaged in cyber sex with adult women. Since when did this party become the party of family vaulues that sees 'guilt' in sex?

Unbelievable how easy it is for the Breitbart's of the right to control the message on the left. The bully yells, and scared little kid gives him his lunch money.

don't feel this way about Wiener.

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And I thought it was just government overspending that caused the economic crisis we are in.

Yes, they were both big stories that took over the news and distracted from other things. But the Chandra Levy story was about a young woman who was DEAD. The Weiner story is about a bunch of extremely tame "naughty" pics and, as far as I know, no one got so much as a hangnail.

It really bothers me to equate a story about a WOMAN BEING MURDERED with a story about some dude's cyberflirting. Chandra Levy wasn't just a prop for a media flurry. She was a human being.

the good of the Progressive Wing and secondarily the Party. You may not agree with that. And that's okay.