Rachel Maddow rates Weiner on the ‘political sex-scandal consequence-o-meter’

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By Kase Wickman

Rachel Maddow Monday night asked just how big of a deal Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) lewd Twitter photo scandal was, in the context of other politicians’ sex scandals.

Well, as she said, “there’s a graph for that!”

Watch Rachel Maddow position political sex scandals along axes of prosecutability and creepiness on the “post-Bill Clinton American political sex-scandal consequence-o-meter.”

Originally aired on June 6, 2011 on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” embedded courtesy of MSNBC

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/rachel-maddow-rates-weiner-on-the-political-sex-scandal-consequence-o-meter/

[Scuba]

1. Flirting with adult women. Henious crime. Rachel's bit was pretty good. n/t

[blm]

2. Rachel's WRONG about Arnie - If Edwards is indictable, Arnie and his GOP operatives are indictable

because they were spreading alot of bucks around to keep his MANY MORE sexual escapades and love-children secret when he was running for office.

I don't say this often, but, Rachel made the wrong call on Arnie.

[jberryhill]

3. I thought Larry Craig merited more creepy points

Sex in a public bathroom in an airport is, IMHO, pretty creepy.

That sort of thing should be confined to the TSA security line.

[sabrina 1]

4. Lol!

That sort of thing should be confined to the TSA security line.

:rofl:

[blm]

5. that's another one that I had a problem with. She also missed that dumbass from NJ

whose scandal took up 2 weeks of valuable airtime during the 2004 campaign - right after the Dem convention.

[jberryhill]

6. McGreevy - he was in her chart

As the least creepy, least prosecutable

[blm]

9. I must have turned the station by the time she got to him.....

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[0rganism]

8. oooh! looks like a DUzy!

Heck, I think I'm gonna turn that into my sig line if you don't mind... :rofl:

[backscatter712]

10. Yeah, and David Vitter gets more creepy-points because of the diaper-thing...

and the mysterious "suicide" of the DC Madam.

I personally would have lowered Weiner just a skosh on the Creepy axis - he didn't engage in prostitution, and his tweets and Facebook messages were to potentially consenting adults. Unwise, but not even close to Vitter or Foley.

[jberryhill]

7. Not for federal election purposes, though /nt