Month: June 2011

Can Weiner Stay in Office?

Buck Banks

If the facts keep coming out more and more, and people start freaking out, he talked on the congressional phone or something like that, it’s going to be, it’s going to be iffy. And one of the reasons is he is a talented guy, but he’s not a particularly popular guy in the caucus … They are really mad at him. You can just see former speaker Pelosi is furious.

— James Carville, in an interview on ABC News, on whether Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) can remain in office after admitting to lying about sending lewd photos to women online.

Good/Bad: The Weiner Scandal

Pensito Editors

scalesNow that the Anthony Weiner scandal is receding in the rearview mirror (kind of), we weigh in on the good and bad results.

Bad thing: Andrew Breitbart gained credibility, though he lost some of that when he upstaged Weiner at Weiner’s own press conference, and came off like a egomaniacal ideologue on the order of Joe McCarthy.

Good thing: Distracted media from Sarah Palin for a nanosecond.

Bad thing: Timing — distracted everyone from the fact that Weiner is on the committee that was going to look into Justice Clarence Thomas’ tax returns and Ginny Thomas’ missing income, like nowish.

Good thing: Weiner’s social media incompetence has encouraged everyone else to study up on how to send a direct message on Twitter and how to reply on Facebook.

Bad thing: The long-lasting vision of Weiner’s gum-smacking e-paramour being interviewed on TV.

Good thing: Mrs. Weiner had the good sense and class to not stand by her man at the press conference.

Bad thing: Weiner’s a pervo loser who got caught in a sex scandal, and now doesn’t even have the pleasure of remembered actual sex acts; all he has are crotch shots — of himself.

Good thing: Tighty whiteys are all the rage on Capitol Hill this summer!

She’s Lying Again – It Was Not a ‘Gotcha’ Question

Jon Ponder

What have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit?

– The question to Sarah Palin from a reporter in Boston to which she infamouly replied, “He who warned, uh, the…the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and um by makin’ sure that as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warnin’ shots and bells that uh we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free…and we were gonna be armed.” When called on the massive flub later, Palin falsely claimed she was responding to an ambush question: “And in a shout-out, gotcha-type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.”