I just don't care about the Weiner pseudo-scandal. Anybody else?

[Brigid]

Really, is this the most important thing going on -- with the economy still in the tank, three wars, a huge budget deficit, and other various and sundry problems facing us -- we go insane over a picture of somebody's underwear? Let's grow up here. I mean come on now -- this is ridiculous.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Of coarse it is.

At least they are losing credibility.

Do you think anyone that is thinking about the problems going on is watching the news with any sense of it being relevant.

They got a few viewers not thinking, just coasting along, but they don't vote much anyways.



It would take a few minutes to explain the ideas of targeted justice, and why people like to gossip about sex smears, and why they are used so often.


It is not relevant, and as the news grabs that anchor into the black hole.


Although there are lots of good songs.


Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFx3WX4DES0

[babsbunny]

5. nope, I don't care

But who would ever do such a thing when your name is wiener?

[DJ13]

2. I dont care either

It has no impact on his ability to be a public servant.

[lunatica]

3. Nope

[GKirk]

4. Will you care if...

...he is replaced in Congress by a Republican?

[Puglover]

8. He won't be. NYer's aren't stupid.

[Arrowhead2k1]

9. I honestly don't see Brooklyn-Queens electing a Repuke to represent them anytime soon.

Unless Weiner turns out to have had sex with everybody's sister.

[GKirk]

25. but it might hurt in another

closely contested race, and that would be a shame

[KharmaTrain]

10. In His District? Doubtful

That's a heavily Democratic district. If he were to resign, there'd be a special election held and my bets are the seat would remain in Democratic hands.

[Johnny Harpo]

6. It's Distraction...But From What?...What Else Is Going On.....

while we pay attention to this?

[DJ13]

27. The financial records released by Justice Thomas

Lying for 20+ years about his wife's income, and the payment of $20,000 by Citizens United to help cover his legal costs when he faced the Anita Hill inquiry.

Notice how the MSM hasnt said a single word about that, even though it came out the day before the first Weiner photo hit the net?

[JuniperLea]

7. LOL!

I just posted a similar OP... I wonder what we all missed today... something important I'm betting.

[Puglover]

11. Nope. Could'nt care less.

All the pearl clutching is cracking me up.

[Cleita]

12. No I don't.

Compared to other scandals, this is on a par there with boys behaving badly, not the crimes that has been done by the BFEE, BP, the Cheney's and the mockery the Palin clan are doing to our national image and democracy.

[RevStPatrick]

13. I care about it, and here's why...

While I don't think it's very important in the scheme of things, I do think it's important in this way:
I just had a discussion with a friend over Facebook. She's an attractive young woman, lives in Weiner's district and voted for him. She's communicated with him over Twitter about matters pertaining to their district. She's totally skeeved out now over the notion that he may have been "this close" to tweeting her photos of himself. He's just lost some credibility with people who had respect for him.

Not cool...

[DevonRex]

14. Had Weiner grown up

the discussion today wouldnt have been about him or his junk or his lies or whether the girls he was sending pictures to were even adults.

[TheKentuckian]

18. I don't consider "grown up" as a two week tizzy over a picture of a man in his underwear.

Scott Brown's centerfold was infinitely more racy as are the Obama beach pictures.

[DevonRex]

21. How nice for you.

[KharmaTrain]

15. It's Done...

It wasn't if he would have to come clean but when and today he did what he had to do...own up. The corporate media will fuss and obsess and moralize and gfaw for a couple days and then be off to the next bright shiny thing.

What Representative Weiner is guilty of is stupidity. What hurts is that however the pics were released, he's given credibility to Breitbart and embolden this shitstain to continue to destroy Democrats with the embrace of the corporate media. That's what the real damage that was done here.

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. My Pearls are being clutched as I write

I don't give a fuck about it, I think its much ado about nothing.
considering when you know what the fuck is really going on with the real things that matter......like war, banksters, homelessness etc.

[Justitia]

17. no, don't care, just see it as a pain in the ass because it is ALL we're going to hear about

ad nauseum - ugh

Also, I love Anthony Weiner in Congress & it pains me that he could be so dumb in this technological age.

[kelly1mm]

19. I do care as the upcoming ethic committee hearing on this will drag this

out, put lots of Democrats on the hot seat to distance themselves from Rep. Weiner, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, change the focus of the media that was starting to look into the SS/Medicare plans to the continuing scandal.

[Old and In the Way]

20. Nope...but I am interested in Thomas's conflict of interest.

What Weiner does on the internet is between him and his wife. He doesn't proclaim to be a family values moralist...so he's not a lying hypocrite like those in the Republican Party (ie Vitter, Ensign, et al). The fact that he's willing to expose Thomas's conflict of interest in any healthcare law that comes in from of SCOTUS - that affects me and millions of Americans. That I care about.

[rurallib]

23. Also interested in Christie using gummint property like he owns it.

[Raine]

30. No he's not a lying hypocrite, he's just a plain old liar.

If he had admitted this last week the whole thing probably would've blown over. Thomas would be talked about now. When will politicians ever learn that denying and covering up makes it all worse. Denying has drawn it out and made the media more suspicious and anxious to dig.

[guitar man]

22. Me either

I haven't had a raise in 4 1/2 years, had to give up health insurance because I couldn't afford it anymore, probably looking at the end of my job soon and prospects for an older guy like me aren't good....lot's more to worry about than a congressman tweeting his weiner.

[BlueIris]

24. Right here. nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

26. I sure dunt.

;)

[Raine]

28. Well some need to GROW UP and number one are politicians

who do stupid immature stunts like sending out pictures of themselves in their underwear. Instead of spending time working on all the problems they were sent to Washington for they spend time like 12 year old boys. GROW UP and do your fucking job, save the pictures for when you're out of office. Duh of course the media is going to jump on it, don't give them anything to be distracted over.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. Politicians have sex? Politicians lie? The media eats it up? Who could've guessed?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. He was man working on all those things and just lost his credibility over it

Thanks for playing.

[devils chaplain]

32. I feel the same way. N/T

[housewolf]

33. Me. I intentionally kept the news off my tv ALL DAY 'cause I just needed a bread

from the circus. Should have known better than to check into DU to see what's going on here.

Oh Weiner. You F'ing idiot. Why the H did you have to do something SO STUPID????????

[HardWorkingDem]

34. You should care because....

For one thing, he has just created a giant in Breitbart and his lying machine.

Not only that, there are probably many more images and probably more graphic.

[EFerrari]

39. Get real. Breitbart does what he does regardless of the facts.

He doesn't need anyone to actually do anything.

And that jackass may get a bump from this, he's still himself. A sleazy, second rate wannabe blogger who has allied himself with the Tea Klan which is going out of business. This will work for him for about five minutes.

[Johonny]

35. well it should be rather funny on the late night shows

but no as for real politics. But I imagine some well deserved humor coming our way.

[fascisthunter]

36. Danke! (nt)

[GeorgeGist]

37. Well he is an idiot.

[PeaceNikki]

38. Here's why it matters; why our guys need to be better than them:

If our guys screw themselves out of their elected positions they screw us out of decent representation. They need to take their jobs seriously and seriously address issues like war and poverty and working families. This is important shit and they can't be so brazenly stupid at such a critical time.

There's a direct correlation to the economy and wars and the deficit and ALL of that when the strongest voices advocating our positions are silenced by their own stupidity.

[pnwmom]

40. You don't care if he instructed a porn star to lie about their relationship?

If he did this just a few days ago? If he suggested having a member of his "team" help her draft up some lies? You wouldn't consider that an abuse of his office, if that team member was a Congressional staffer?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1250146

[EFerrari]

41. Nope. It's bullshit. And just part of the pattern

of playing whack-a-mole which anyone in government who tries to do the job.

[pnwmom]

43. Is this bull-shit, too?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1250146

[EFerrari]

46. Yes, it is. While the panty sniffers are trying to oust Weiner,

the Pentagon is trying to tank a pull-out from Afghanistan, Obama met with the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Hillary is slighting the new president of Peru, and Oh, yeah, Clarence Thomas is still sitting on the Supreme Court.

Chasing after what adults do in private instead of attending to the business of this country is bullshit, straight up.

[pnwmom]

47. This isn't about sex anymore. It's about lying and abusing office.

If he's offering Congressional staffers to help a "friend" lie about her relationship with him, he's crossed the line.

He's not indispensable. His district can find another good progressive to represent them.

[EFerrari]

48. Baloney. This is a ginned up scandal to take him out.

And it will likely work.

I imagine you'd be arguing for the ouster of JFK and Teddy Kennedy, too. FDR had a live in lover, I guess if it were up to you, he would have been history, too.

It's bullshit.

Maybe we really do get the government we deserve.

[pnwmom]

49. This is a scandal he brought on himself through sheer ego and stupidity. n/t

[EFerrari]

50. LOL. Yeah, sure.

[Whisp]

42. I didn't care until I found out how much of a lie he spun.

well, I don't really care I guess, just spouting a bit today. In the end I don't give a fuck what the little turdweasel liar does. What a weakling.

[pnwmom]

44. And the lies keep coming.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1250146

[La Lioness Priyanka]

45. i do in a sense. i want him as nyc mayor and i doubt that will happen

so in a sense i care about all this

[WinkyDink]

51. It's a wee bit more, even if not illegal:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000386/Anthony-Weiner-scandal-2-women-claim-used-Capitol-assets-sexting.html

[Arrowhead2k1]

52. I care.

These kinds of indiscretions can hurt the party. I for one am not going to pretend not to care and fail to hold our leaders to appropriate standards. We only hurt ourselves and our credibility when we fail to apply standards of conduct selectively to certain people and not others depending on where they stand ideologically.

[newspeak]

53. My girlfriend once told me that she didn't care who a politician

was screwing as long as it wasn't the American people. Now some politicians with "holier than thou" symptoms and pointing fingers and manufacturing scandals for their own benefit, then get caught themselves, I have no sympathy. And those who have actually harmed millions of Americans, fabricating lies for war, speculating on WS, torture, financial fraud (that we could not in a million years get away with), well to Washington, that's small potatoes.

I will stand for anyone who defends and stands for us; labor, seniors, children, etc.... So, I've stayed away from the National Enquiresque media, who actually determine which scandal they wish to air 24/7, over and over again, and which scandal they may mention once or not at all.

Weiner's faux pas is quite shallow compared to the shite that has hurt most americans economically, with corporate congress critters still crying deregulation, deregulation, and attempting to cut one piece at a time the social safety net that is very much needed NOW!

No, I'm not interested, just concerned that we'll actually lose another one that seemed to be fighting for us. And those who actually fight for us in congress, the list is already quite small, just getting even smaller.

[Initech]

54. I've hidden well over 200 threads on the subject.

[tnvoter]

55. don't care. he didn't proclaim to be a family values politician or

call out other politicians for their "immorality" for their failings. He made a horrible, stupid-ass mistake. But I don't think it makes him less effective as a representative of his constituents.

[Obamanaut]

56. And you started a new thread because you could not type this in one of the other ones? nt