So much for New York’s Rep. Anthony Weiner: it’s “buh- bye” to his blossoming career as a TV star, his self-depreciating jokes about his name that “killed” before roaring-with-amusement crowds, his hope to be New York City’s next mayor, his role as a high-profile Democratic Party surrogate and probably his House seat.
So much for New York’s Rep. Anthony Weiner: it’s “buh- bye” to his blossoming career as a TV star, his self-depreciating jokes about his name that “killed” before roaring-with-amusement crowds, his hope to be New York City’s next mayor, his role as a high-profile Democratic Party surrogate and probably his House seat.
When he said in his widely televised apology-fest: “I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters, and the media” he only hit on part of it. His lying will have consequences, even if what he was lying about was not the world’s biggest sin.
He has propelled Breitbart into a more respectable status. Just as Matt Drudge made his media bones with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Breitbart has made his media bones with Weiner. Although some past Breitbart revelations were discredited, he proved correct on this and those who decry the trend of partisans targeting people in an opposing political party can decry it all they want. It will continue.
Weiner has now made the press more wary of politicians. Weiner had raised eyebrows and created sympathy due to the earlier indignant way he went after the press before he confessed.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.