The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Fake Twitter Girls?

Friday, Jennifer Preston at the New York Times had an intriguing story about the “Betty and Veronica” sideshow of WeinerGate. I was up to my neck in Right Online at the time, and so didn’t get around to blogging about it Friday, but to those of us who followed WeinerGate in-depth from Day One, this is […]

VIDEO: Breitbart Talks WeinerGate

MINNEAPOLIS Everybody I saw downstairs this morning at the Right Online conference kept telling me, “You look rough.” As well I should. My flight out of Dulles yesterday was delayed more than an hour on departure. By the time I arrived, checked into the Hilton and had dinner — bangers and mash at a British-style pub downtown […]

‘Moving On’ to Right Online!

DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT By the time you read this, I’ll be on board a jet preparing to depart for Minneapolis and the 2011 Right Online conference. I’m still recovering (and by “recovering,” I mean sick as hell) from pneumonia, and the strain of Three Weeks of Weiner have probably hindered my recovery. Both Don Surber […]

BREAKING: Weiner to Resign

It is being reported that Anthony Weiner has told Nancy Pelosi he will resign from Congress. UPDATE: New York Times: Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House in the wake of revelations of his lewd […]

Weiner’s Teen Tweeter

Today’s big story about embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner focuses on the fact that his wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, has returned home to deal with the scandal. (Also, the National Enquirer has published a photo of Weiner, as an 18-year-old college student, wearing a bra as part of some sort of […]

That’s Good to Know

President Obama says he would resign if he ever got caught sending photos of his penis to women he’d never met: “I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,’’ Obama told [NBC’s Ann] Curry. . . . “When you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can’t […]

Who’s Up for Some More Weiner?

I’m kind of Weinered out today, frankly, but I know readers expect their daily dose of Weiner updates, so here goes: Mickey Kaus has too much fun at the expense of Markos Moulitsas, Howard Kurtz and Jeffrey Toobin, who are apparently addicted to being wrong. Peter Beinart gets all preachy: “How many of the pundits mocking […]

Gennette Cordova: Still Pro-Weiner

That’s the most important takeaway from Aaron Worthing’s online interview with the 21-year-old student to whom Anthony Weiner send the momentous May 27 crotch-photo Tweet. Reading everything she said, taking it all at face value, it is impossible to escape the conclusion: Gennette Cordova is a liberal Democrat and her chief regret of her role […]

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