I don't see what all the fuss was/is about(Weeniegate)

[Hubert Flottz]

If he'd been waiting to get on an airplane the TSA would have been passing around all sorts of pictures of the congressman's show weenie.

[pipoman]

1. The fuss is/was about

the lie more than the act.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Show me a politician that don't lie and I'll show you a dead politician.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

7. + 100,000 n/t

[pipoman]

9. Everybody lies, a little or a lot,

this lie led to an FBI investigation, accusations against people who had no involvement, debate about the security of Twitter and the image hosting site, and supporters clamoring to try to help him prove his lie who later have to 'eat crow'.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. How long did the lies about Whitewater keep the FBI tied up?

$50,000,000.00 that investigation cost the taxpayers and it tied up about 50 FBI investigators for thousands of man hours, that might have been better used instead to bust the crew that was setting up the 9/11 strike on the USA, instead of political witch hunting.

"Nancy calls for an investigation"...she should have done that when the NeoCONs were lying to start a war or lying about torture and spying on you and me?

[Nevernose]

34. It was closer to 125 million

Ironic since all they found was that the Clintons had lost $25,000 on a land deal in Arkansas fifteen years earlier.

[Hubert Flottz]

36. The GOPers didn't give a damn about running up the deficit then.

And what about Tom Coburn...did he resign yet? Tommy covered John Ensign's lying ass buy lying and helping John Ensign hide the truth for a long time. When will Tom Coburn resign?

[Dappleganger]

43. Yep.

[XanaDUer]

2. Was he sending these pix to women he knew and was involved with?

Or just women out there in cyberland?

[pipoman]

10. The latter

which goes to his state of mind.

[XanaDUer]

39. So, he can go to Hell

that is crap. Why should some anonymous woman see that crap, just to make him feel better about himself? I would say, if this was just sexting between consenting adults, or tweeting, or whatever it was. But sending out pix of his dick? Asshole.

[pipoman]

42. Oh..

It sounds like he would begin talking to female respondents on his Facebook page or would respond to someone else's Facebook page, then it would progress from there to texting. My issue isn't about the act as much as the completely predictable outcome of doing this as a US Congressman or any high profile person..the potential for scandal is so blatantly obvious it would require mental illness to not predict or complete disregard for self preservation, IMHO.

[XanaDUer]

44. Well...

Okay. The fact that that moron didn't think this would come back and bite his weiner, is absurd.

[Skidmore]

3. The fuss right now exists only because a RW creep trickster

was on target for the first time. It adds insult to the injury of a politician being stupid.

[Syrinx]

4. the thing that's got me puzzled...

Jon Stewart and others talking about how big his thing was. I'm not saying it looked small. Just that I couldn't make much sense of the photo one way or the other. It seemed like a low-information photograph to me. But I haven't upgraded to HDTV yet...

[Broderick]

19. Snicker

[Hubert Flottz]

5. This just in...(2013)

Former Senator Larry Craig being looked at to HEAD the Transportation Security Administration. "Mr. Craig has plenty of airport experience, and is cutting edge when it comes to checking out packages in airports," said pResident Sarah Palin.

[robcon]

8. The fuss was/is about Weiner's lies.

Weiner: “This is a Twitter hoax prank that was done. I’m the victim of it.”

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Well at least his lies didn't start a war in Iraq that killed thousands

and wounded thousands more. His lies didn't cause the taxpayers a trillion dollars like Bush, Cheney, Rice and Powell's lies about WMD in Iraq did. His lies didn't cause people to stay near a Nuke Plant that was/is melting down, when TEPCO knew the danger involved.

The Congressman lied to a bunch of other liars. At least he didn't shit his diaper.

[robcon]

12. Huh? Unless you kill thousands, it's ok to lie?

The relevance of the comparison to the deaths of thousands suggests that logic is wasted on you.

Weiner lied. Repeatedly and vigorously. He should go.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. "logic is wasted on you"

Why are you attacking me?

[robcon]

15. You dismiss lying, that's why.

Lying is not mass murder or any other horrific crime - nor did anyone on DU suggest that it is.

Lying is, however, a reason for Weiner to resign.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. The idea I was TRYING to impart was...

How little press coverage the lies that BushCo told for 8 years received in the MSM, compared to Weenie-Gate.

Will over four thousand American kids die in some shit-hole because of the congressman's lie? No! But you'd never guess that Weenie-Gate wasn't the biggest story since the year 33AD, by watching the MSM coverage of this BULLSHIT!

FIRE HIM! STONE HIM! He's not my congressman. Mine's Shellie Capito a lying republican.

[lonestarnot]

24. Funny that! Also funny that

no response. :rofl:

[frylock]

38. so take it up with the MSM..

your apples oranges comparison is stupid, at best.

[xoom]

18. so its ok to lie right to a camera when asked a question?

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I guess it is!

I've watched Popeye on TV since 1954, but I never thought it was real. Do you think you get the straight skinny on TV?

I wouldn't do it unless I needed to cover my ass.

Weenie Dipping 101
Rule Number One...A good scout don't shit too close to the trail.

I can forgive a little white lie, to save your family grief, or even to cover your ass, but gross stupidity is not a very good quality in a leader. I can't defend this guy for being stupid anymore than I can David Vitter.

[xoom]

21. I cant defend or support any public official who lied to my face.

If he can lie to me once, it can happen again.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. Trust is all but extinct in American politics.

With it dies democracy. The example these "Leaders" set for the next generation, threatens Hope too.

[xoom]

28. so who cares if we get lied to, lets keep the lier's around

Instead of finding honest people to vote for.

[Hubert Flottz]

29. Who do you have in mind?

I'd like to see your long list...maybe I'd find some that i believe.

[xoom]

30. my neighbor down the road.

Or do you want a career politician because you believe it will be different next time?

[Hubert Flottz]

32. How do you know your neighbor is not a "lier?"

I never vote for folks who sleep standing up.

Luke 20:20

Snip...

"liers" in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous," Like Dave Vitter or George Bush?

[lonestarnot]

25. ROFLMAO!

Then what are you advocating? Don't vote? FUCK THAT.

[xoom]

27. how the hell did i advocate not to vote? I'm saying vote that lier out of office.

[lonestarnot]

37. By that definition, since all politicians lie, you wouldn't vote for any of them.

:shrug: so may as well stay home? :shrug:

[RB TexLa]

17. Cause it's been on "dat der Tee Vee! Means it important!"

[madokie]

23. Deflection for his taking on of Clarence Thomas and his wifes under reporting of their income

Is what this is all about. We've seen it in so many cases where when a Dem shines some light on the pukes underhandedness this kind of thing happens. Too many times has this same shit happened that I won't even try to list them.

[Hubert Flottz]

26. I think they went digging and found what they needed to flatten

the guy politically. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes to light that Rupert's crew really did the digging the way they were doing it in England. Still I wish the folks/"leaders" in Washington would take the term "honorable" placed before their names a little more to heart, when the wrong head threatens to overpower the right one.

[robcon]

31. I think that conspiracy theory won't wash.

Nobody made Weiner send the photos, and especially, no one made Weiner lie repeatedly about it.

I think the photos are next-to-nothing (except as a source of jokes), but the lies will be the end of his political career.

[Hubert Flottz]

33. "lies will be the end of his political career"

If he was a republican Gawd would have forgiven him last week and he'd be elected again like Diaper Dave Vitter.

[madokie]

35. I agree wholeheartedly

I served my country honorably and there were guys shooting at me but yet I was able to keep the right head in control and I was just a kid when this was going on. No where near in position of the wisdom I've gained the last 40 years

[anneboleyn]

40. It's the deliberate, extensive lying to the media that bothers me. The repeated interviews

with various members of the media and the repeated lies ("I did not send that tweet," "My account was hacked," etc.). It was the extensive lying over time. If he'd flubbed initially and then apologized, or just apologized from the outset rather than attempting a whole inane cover-up starting with the "My twitter account was hacked!" announcement, then it wouldn't be so distasteful. But it dragged on and on, with Weiner calling reporters in for interviews in which he spun a web of deceit. He went out of his way to lie in fact.

[XanaDUer]

41. If he did this to women who worked for him

and it wasn't consensual, would it be harassment?