Weinergate

It is difficult to ignore the latest alleged episode of a politician caught sending lewd photos of himself on social media. Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York allegedly tweeted such a picture to a woman who had sent out a tweet about Weiner being her boyfriend a few weeks ago. Now I say "alleged" since Weiner claims that he did not send the photo but that his Facebook account was hacked and used to Tweet the suggestive photo. Of course, the hacker also sent copies of the photo to all 50,000 people who follow Weiner's tweets. Weiner managed to find out about the hacking in just under 4 minutes and to delete all photos and history in his account. Amazingly, the woman who got the tweet also deleted all her photos immediately. Oh, and Weiner who normally wants the government to do everything no matter what the problem decided not to call in the police when the security of his accounts was allegedly breached. Why would a US Congressman care that his internet accounts were hacked? After all, Congressmen have no secrets, right? No need to call security, right?

When Congressman Lee of New York was discovered to have sent a shirtless photo of himself to someone on Craigs List, he resigned and the media played it up as a big deal. Now that Weiner has allegedly sent pictures of his own weiner to someone on Twitter, certain media in Weiner's own city cannot be bothered to even cover the story. Could it be because Weiner is a Democrat and a political ally of the New York Times? Allegedly.

The real truth is that if I were on a jury and had to rule on the evidence presented so far, I would find that Weiner is lying and covering up his attempting to cheat on his new wife. Allegedly.