{"id":6567,"date":"2011-06-02T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6567"},"modified":"2011-06-05T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T02:44:35","slug":"where_is_huma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/where_is_huma\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Huma?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"humaweiner.jpg\"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<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/i><\/p>\n\n

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<\/i> 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<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>. 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Huma hasn’t been heard from…so far. Here’s Time<\/i>, Weinergate Unravels: The Congressman Denies the Tweet Was His, but Can’t Place the Picture<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}