I don’t keep close tabs on goings on in political stories, let alone tabloid-political stories, but it has been hard for me to avoid hearing about “Weinergate”. Here’s Gothamist:
Rep. Anthony Weiner told reporters this morning that he was “desperately” hoping to get back to work as a Congressman today: “This prank has apparently been successful. After almost 11 hours of answering questions, any that anyone wanted to put, today I’m going to have to get back to work doing the job that I’m paid to do.” But just because he isn’t talking about it doesn’t mean that everyone else has stopped talking, gossiping and joking about the strange ongoing saga that is Weinergate.
If you don’t know what the “prank” alludes to, I recommend Google News. But the short of it is that someone with access to congressman Weiner’s twitter account sent a link to a lewd picture to a Washington state journalism student. But it wasn’t a direct tweet. It was available on his public stream!At this point the scandal shows no signs of disappearing. Weiner initially claimed he’d been hacked, which is eminently plausible considering how transparent most passwords are. But of late he’s been a bit unclear and evasive about specifics, so instead of expiring the story has blown up. I don’t really care too much, he’s just a member of congress (albeit, one with ambitions toward the New York City mayor’s office). But for the purposes of this weblog the question that comes to mind is where is Huma Abedin?
If you don’t know, Abedin is Weiner’s young wife. She was the former “body” person for Hillary Clinton, and has been covered extensively on this weblog. She’s an American with an Indian parent and a Pakistani parent who spent significant time in Saudi Arabia. Abedin and Weiner were married last summer. It was a major political/”society” event, at which former president Bill Clinton officiated.
Huma hasn’t been heard from…so far. Here’s Time, Weinergate Unravels: The Congressman Denies the Tweet Was His, but Can’t Place the Picture:
As the story churns on cable, it’s worth bearing in mind the effect it has on others-including the photo’s unwitting recipient, and Weiner’s new wife Huma Abedin, a Hillary Clinton aide. “She’s a remarkable, remarkable woman,” he said. “Hopefully my marriage survives my first anniversary.”
I guess she should have married Abhi. No, no–wait–this is good evidence that, as they say, “5 minutes of alpha is worth 5 years of beta.”
You ask “where is Huma ?” ?
Huma is at her mom’s house, somewhere in New Jersey, eating a pint of ice-cream, slowly sobbing into a wad of tissue. Her mom is trying to be supportive, and holding back from saying “I told ya so!” Her dad hasnt said a word. yet. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has advised Huma to suck it up, ignore feminism, womens-lib and all that jazz, and to run for office next year just to spite her hubby. It worked for her.
Personally, I think she should divorce his ass and take half of everything. Get on the air, and tell people how small his penis really is (which is not surprising, he’s Jewish) If her parent’s India-Pakistan union is a testament to love bridging borders (and I’m not saying it is, it couldve just been arranged that way), then Huma and hubby are a testament to ….oh I dunno…Jews Weiner-ing around with Muslims. Btw, a while ago, Anthony Weiner was my “possible boyfriend in another world” contenders. no more. no more.
I just learned that 3 years ago, when Hillary was running for the Dem ticket, someone was spreading rumors of her having a lesbian relationship with Huma. I’m looking at you Obama.
Also, as per this post about Huma’s wedding: http://usspost.com/huma-abedin-12257/
“The pair represents, Bill (Clinton) said in his toast,… “the world’s future to be.â€
Oh well, no one-state solution on the cards for Israel and Palestine I guess (like that was even ever possible)
The trophy white came with a wandering pedestal.
Why so bitter that she married a white guy? Totally uncalled for. Besides, anyone with two brain cells would tell you that this was a prank. Move on, people! This is not even newsworthy.
it was definitely someone wanting to cause friction by getting between them.
“Is that boner yours Weiner?”
sounds more and more like “when did you stop beating your wife?”
Obviously nobody would post something so stupid so openly directed at someone he doesn’t even know. This is clearly a prank. Do people even know what exactly happened? A photo of some guy’s boner (many believe Weiner’s) was publicly sent from Weiner’s Twitter account to a female journalism student (2000 miles away) who had no connection to Weiner. It has been shown that the picture’s meta-data doesn’t even match Weiner’s other pictures… pointing to the possibility that someone else took it and sent it as a prank.
Please watch the TYT response if you are not yet convinced: http://youtu.be/y81vQz3WEZY
I dont know where she is, but I guarantee she got a call from an uncle the very second this story came out telling her
“See what I told you about those people!”
The abundance of Indian child spelling bee competitors is like the similar glut of South Korean female golfers. An odd social quirk that arose from parental peer bandwagoning after some parents observed, “hey my kid could do that”, and more critically the lack of focused competition due to general lack of interest in the field by society at large.
makes sense.
most indian girls are quite frigid especially the ones that marry late and are over ambitious.
Weiner was just looking for some fun on the side.
“Move on, people! This is not even newsworthy.”
Umm… Apparently, it IS newsworthy because it’s all over the news.
You must have skipped class on the day they taught the meaning of the word “DUH!” LOL!!!
“Get on the air, and tell people how small his penis really is (which is not surprising, he’s Jewish)”
Sorry, you’re an indian guy, you’re not allowed to make fun of anyone’s willy 😉
i think anyone with sense realizes it was a prank and it’ll probably blow over in a few weeks
“Umm… Apparently, it IS newsworthy because it’s all over the news.
You must have skipped class on the day they taught the meaning of the word “DUH!” LOL!!! “
You know, just because something is all over the news, doesn’t mean that it’s newsworthy. DUH.
The public choice theory of gender dynamics on capitol hill:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/89330/anthony-weiners-skeeziness
utterly predictable.
ithunk
“Get on the air, and tell people how small his penis really is (which is not surprising, he’s Jewish)”
— The thing is, as small as it is, its still bigger than Muslims penises.