Ginger Lee—a porn star, stripper and fan of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY9)—was ecstatic on March 13 2011:
Ginger Lee’s tweet said: You know it’s a good day when you wake up to a DM from @RepWeiner. (I’m a fangirl, y’all, he’s my trifecta of win.)
[NOTE: DM is a Twitter abbreviation for Direct Message, in which a tweet is sent privately and only to the one recipient. To send a DM, the person you wish to message must be following you on Twitter. Ginger must have been following @RepWeiner for him to DM her. He would not necessarily have to have been following her to send the DM. However, a tweet was publicly broadcast by @patriotusa76 back on April 12 saying that Weiner only followed 91 people at that time, and it names “PORN star Ginger Lee” as one of them. PatriotUSA76 aka Dan Wolfe appears to have been on Weiner’s trail for some time now and has been tweeting his curious finds to various blogs and conservative websites, apparently to no avail.]
Following Ginger’s excited announcement of receiving a DM from Weiner, a few Ginger and/or Weiner fans piped up with questions:
@MilesLord asks @GingerLee: How do u DM people, and why the heck is Congressman Weiner DM-ing u??? To which @GingerLee replies: Because he is one of my heroes, & a DM from him is like a DM from Buddha.
And then there was this:
Ginger Lee tweeted to @starchild111: He thanked me for the shout-outs and said he likes my blog. (I died a little inside…in a good way.)
A couple months ago, around the time of this message, @Starchild111 was a high school girl who was trying to get Weiner to be her prom date. She was overjoyed when he followed her, upset when conservatives laughed that Weiner was trolling the school yard, and dismayed when he unfollowed her. Starchild has deleted her twitter account. I only just found her last night, so I have no knowledge of when she deleted it, but I have found tweets by her as recent as May 18.
Starchild is not the only teenage girl with a crush on Weiner that he has followed. There’s another one that he has apparently had an on-again, off-again following involvement with for a couple months. And he’s currently following her again now.
This pattern of behavior, following and DMing young women that apparently have no relation to his district or his work, fits in with the suspected behavior of him DMing a crotch shot to a college girl in Seattle. Weiner is claiming his Facebook account was hacked, which doesn’t explain how the photo was uploaded to his yfrog account and then tweeted from his twitter account (that he was tweeting on around that time, including after the supposed hacking).
For more coverage on #Weinergate, see these excellent roundups:
- The Other McCain: MSM Starting to Cover ‘WeinerGate’ and Weiner’s Wiener?
- Verum Serum: Rep. Weiner’s Twitter Account Hacked by Horny Look-Alike
- Big Government: WeinerGate: MSM Ignores Trifecta of Sex, Politics, and a Rising Political Star
I have more that I have found. Still sorting through it to see if there’s anything else to contribute to fleshing out the full extent of #Weinergate.
UPDATE [5/29/11 6:00pm]
Thanks to The Other McCain for the linkage. Welcome, TOMers.
Yukyuk: In a bit of irony, back in May 2004, Rep. Weiner introduced legislation to stop sexual harassment on college campuses:
“Institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to establish clear boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable conduct on campus,” said Rep. Weiner. “That means putting students on notice from day one that sexual harassment of any kind will not be tolerated.”
Perhaps Weiner’s just been conducting online research for some new legislation?
UPDATE II: [5/29/11 6:30pm]
Thanks for the links from JustPaste.It and Uncoverage.net
UPDATE III: [5/29/11 7:15pm]
Thanks for the links, DaTechGuy and DailyCaller!
UPDATE IV: [5/29/11 7:25pm]
Oops…and not to forget, thanks to Velvet Hammer at Ironic Surrealism, Gateway Pundit and AceOfSpades.
Another yukyuk: The Wall Street Journal has posted a very short little AP story regarding Weinergate. Note the pronunciation key they give in the first sentence. When was the last time you read an AP story that had that?:
NEW YORK — A spokesman for New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE’-nur) says a lewd photograph sent from the Democrat’s Twitter account is just “a distraction” perpetrated by a hacker.
Weiner spokesman Dave Arnold told The Associated Press in an email Sunday the Twitter episode was “a distraction” from the congressman’s “important work representing his constituents.”
The photo showed a man’s bulging underpants.
It first was reported Saturday by BigGovernment.com, a website run by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. The site said the photo was tweeted to a woman in Seattle.
The photo was quickly deleted.
Weiner later joked about it on Twitter, asking whether his kitchen blender would be next to “attack” him.
UPDATE: [5/30/11 9:00am]
Thanks for links from Doug Ross, The Pajamas Media Tatler, American Power and Verum Serum.
UPDATE: [6/1/11 1:30am]
Thanks to the following linkers (and welcome to their readers!)
Daily Beast
Gawker
American Spectator
Patterico
Plus, thanks to Socialite Life, Carolyn Castiglia, Newsvine, Just Barking Mad, Temple of Mut, Ragan’s PR Daily, Conservative Blogs Central, and Texas Sparkle.
UPDATE [6/1/11 11:45]
The Daily Caller has a new story in which Ginger Lee emailed them a nonresponse to all of their questions, except to say:
“I haven’t met Rep Weiner. I follow him on twitter because I support him & what he stands for,” Lee said in an email to TheDC. “I have been hounded by his political opponents but that hasn’t changed my view of him and what he fights for.”
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So Buddha was a needle dick too?
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This would matter 1 bit if he was running on a moral purity platform like 100% of conservative family values candidates you all love so well. He doesn’t, and good thing enough people in this care more about what’s important like improving education and opportunities for the greatest number of Americans. Anthony Weiner stands for that.
This would matter 1 bit if he was running on a moral purity platform like 100% of conservative family values candidates you all love so well.
So, your defense of Weiner is that since he never said he wouldn’t screw around with people who could easily blackmail him, there’s no reason to be upset.
Pretty low standards you have.
Guess you didn’t see my first update, where Mr. Weiner has assigned himself the role of protector of young, vulnerable college coeds in attempting to pass campus sexual harassment legislation. If you’re of the old-school feminist camp, and it looks like you would be, then wouldn’t Weiner’s powerful role as a mighty congressman make his underwear tweets sexual harassment, as opposed to just plain skeazy?
Get down off your high horse, hairy. Just because you all don’t strive for “moral purity” doesn’t grant you a license to behave without any morals at all. You may be proud to rebuke decency. The rest of us don’t think it’s much to crow about.
err … do you mean “skeazy” or “skeezy?”
Don’t make me revoke your copy editing award, Weinie. Of course I mean “skeazy.” It’s a Palinesque mash-up of “sleazy” and “skeezy.” As in, don’t try to refudiate my coinage of the word “skeazy.”
Looks like you should take advantage of some of those edumacational opportunities to improve your grammar and prose there bushboy.
Liberals love to play the moral equivalency card. They (including you bushboy) seem to suggest that because they have no morals that they shouldn’t be held to any moral standard(s).
That’s akin to saying that criminals shouldn’t be arrested and held accountable for criminal activity because they are criminals. But wait, I repeat myself, that’s exactly the liberal/progressive mindset. You shouldn’t be able to protect yourself (own guns) because a criminal may get hurt or even killed while practicing their vocation.
No one who supports gun control uses that logic to defend it. Also, it doesn’t matter it’s JUST A BONER, we all get boners, well men that is, who cares! Its none of our business even if it is his boner. Republicans can’t stand the fact that Dems don’t really care about their senators/reps personal sex lives, because no matter how it’s spun it’s nobody’s business but their own. Hairybush is right, the right campaigns on family values and on the stump riding around on their moral high horse while they are most likely thinking about last nights coke bender with a 14 yr run away boy turned prostitute.
sheesh. another “look at me/us/Democrats! we have no standards so we can do whatever we please, no matter how low or shameful, and you can’t say a thing because we’re proud we have no standards!!!!!!! we only criticize people who try to have standards. nyeah! now let me try to say something really vile about right-wingers” comment.
I wouldn’t make any further statements about Weiner’s ‘Stands’. That’s sorta what all of the fuss is about!
So, what you’re saying is, because he makes bad decisions in his personal life, they don’t carry over into his professional one? Interesting stance. I’m not asking anyone to run on a moral purity platform, I’m simply asking people to answer simple yes or no questions with a yes or no, and tell the truth at the same time.
If you can’t understand that, then I feel sorry for you.
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His account was hacked. You wish it were true, but even if it was, conservatives have the unfortunate position of being on the moral high horse. That’s why it’s so much more titillating when one of them falls in the mud, and is exposed as a scum-bag.
His account was hacked.
Prove it.
Occam’s Razor, Mr. Porn Name. If you look at the preponderance of the evidence, what is the most likely explanation for the image being sent? Liberals don’t even apply the standards for logic consistently.
Occam’s Razor?? That’s your justification, are you serious?
Let’s look at this logically and actually APPLY the Razor, rather than toss around phrases.
Explanation 1: Not one, but two separate accounts get hacked in order to post a photo.
Explanation 2: He posted the photo to his yfrog acct and then tweeted it.
Now which is the simplest explanation? Let’s not forget that Mr. Weiner has not yet contacted the authorities- he’s retained an attorney before doing so. Care to let Occam shave that one as well?
You want to do Mr. Weiner a favor? Hold him accountable for his actions. In the long run, that will serve him, his wife, and their marriage much better than concocting dubious, elaborate conspiracy theories to avoid laying the blame at his feet. Or Underoos, whichever the case may be.
Hi, Prudence. Followed the link over from Ace of Spades. Great job.
For some reason hairybush is setting off my troll alarm, but it might be serious. Not sure.
thanks, dan! serious in what way?
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Note: Ginger Lee’s tweets did not say that she got a picture DM’d to her. She only talked about what he said in the DM. No mention of a picture by her.
It’s hard to prove a negative in this case. We don’t know that he sent a pic to her, however, we don’t know that he didn’t, either. I’m wondering more about the porn star’s non response. Why exactly should she care what he stands for or represents? Does she live in his district? He has over what 22K followers. Why should those that don’t live in his district have an influence on his actions?
As always, the non response raises more questions than it answers. We are truly living in End Times.
(AP)Weiner(D-ik) sends pecker-pik. Michael Jordan, Hanes hit hardest (softest?) Found your site from the other morons @ Ace of Spades. Gonna have to bookmark. BTW
All yur small peanus r belong too us!!!
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Re: AP phonetically respelling Weiner — I used to work at the New York Daily News, and all AP stories that come over the wire contain the phonetic respelling of most of the subjects’ names. When the items are reposted by a news outlet, the respellings usually are removed. Sometimes they get missed by the posting editor.
thanks, editor! i didn’t recall seeing those on wire reports, but it’s been a quite a while and i rarely worked with them before they hit some secondary source, so i’m happy to take your word for it and glad you sorted that out.
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[b] There was No Hack.
There is no appearance of a Hack even.
The first lie is very telling, Weiner says he was on-line Posting about Hockey when he saw it. False, he was inactive for 204 minutes (probably surfin’ Porn).
He’s worked up – and he sends it where it can be seen by everyone.
There were pictures on that girl’s account where she was thinner, and she’s a dead ringer for Weiner’s wife in those pictures.
Please someone tell me the evidence of a Hack other than Weiner and his Spokesperson, who depends no Weiner for a check?
The Twitter account has been in the Verified state throughout. The FB looks unaltered. The Federal authorities have not been contacted. Weiner and his office have no fear that a hacker has compromised any of the accounts in any way (they’ve been in use throughout).
I would wage a bet that the Picture taken was taken with a Government-Paid Blackberry or other Smartphone, uploaded to Weiner’s own yfrog photo account and then sent using his Twitter.
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I will wait to see if the FBI is called in. Hacking is illegal under any circumstances, and, if this is a case of hacking, I hope the book is thrown at the folks responsible. If not, then hacking will become part of both party’s dirty tricks, and could potentially be used against Republican and TP candidates.
What was the line from Jon Edwards (not the evangelist)? “These rumors are just tabloid trash.” Clip o that, clip o these denials would juxtapose nicely.
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Prudence, you & your followers are truly pathetic. If you think that you have any REAL evidence of Rep. Weiner behaving illegally or inappropriately, present it. The stuff you’ve posted here is garbage, proving & signifying nothing. Talk about a tempest in a teapot! Typical teabagger BS: when losing on the issues, try a smear campaign instead!
Hey, Tonya? Get a life. That would be good advice for all of dear prudences’s followers here: I haven’t seen so much conspiracy-mongering since, well, since I looked at Breitfart’s blog.
Surely you people can find something more constructive to do?
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I think a picture of Weiner’s face is porn!
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What a complete non-issue. Grow up, people.
so honored you used your time to read and then comment on a “non-issue.” you must have much free time on your hands. glad we gave you a chance to express your superiority in such a thought-provoking, well-reasoned argument.
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Well done, Prudence. Thorough and convincing. You had it cold a few days before it was consensus.
And witnessing progressive & productive people losing their cookies over “non-issues” never gets old.
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