Weinergate

[edthecynic]

Is the Liberal Press intentionally ignoring this scandal? It looks like it to me. If Weiner was a Republican i'm pretty sure Liberal Media outlets like CNN,NY Times,and NBC would be reporting on this 24/7. It reminds me of how they tried to cover for ole Slick Willy and John Edwards. My guess it that they will be forced to cover this eventuality. They'll stall and cover for Weiner for as long as they can though. The truth always come out in the end.

NY Democrat Rep Anthony Weiner has hired an attorney and denies that it was a photo of his genitalia which was sent to a woman via Twitter. He also claims his Twitter account was hacked and it was the hacker who sent the lewd photo...

Weinergate | Anthony Weiner | Won't Refuse | The Daily Caller

Just another BigotBart smear.
I wonder why the "Liberal media" isn't reporting that!!! Obviously the "Liberal media" isn't very Liberal.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

He's a Democrat so CNN,NY Times,and NBC will stall and even defend Weiner. But eventually even they will have to report on this scandal.

 

[boedicca]

Curiouser and curiouser:

Consider this timeline:

03/13/2011 00:00 @GingerLee (porn star) boasts that she received a direct message from Weiner

04/09/2011 00:00 @GennetteNicole tweets "I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to right now"

04/10/2011 20:15 @Solzilla observes that "@GennetteNicole's @RepWeiner crush is cute."

04/12/2011 00:00 @maggiehenning, a school girl, tweets "talking to Rep Weiner ... right now! is my life real?"

04/13/2011 00:00 @patriotusa76 jeers "@repweiner talking to high-school girls now. Freak."

04/19/2011 00:00 @patriotusa76 notes that "@RepWeiner ... unfollowed 1 school girl. Now has 1 left ... initials: GN..."

04/19/2011 00:00 @GennetteNicole replies: "Are you insinuating that I'm a child? Don't mention in anymore tweets..."

05/13/2011 00:00 @maggiehenning, a school girl, tweets "@RepWeiner you used to follow me don't forget me!!!"

05/27/2011 16:00 @RepWeiner tweets that he is "Heading to 30 Rock to chat with Rachel at 9. #Thats545InSeattleIThink"

05/27/2011 19:30 @GennetteNicole re-tweets @RepWeiner's "30 Rock" message along with "#Thats545InSeattleIThink"

05/27/2011 20:00 @RepWeiner tweets "@GennetteNicole http://yfrog.com/h25m3luj"; the skinny white male erection photo

05/27/2011 20:04 @RepWeiner tweets "Killng me!! RT @kknapp1: @RepWeiner that is a tragedy! #EpicGame"

05/27/2011 20:05 @RepWeiner tweets "my tivo ate the hockey game! #WhoCanISue?"

05/27/2011 20:08 @RepWeiner tweets "@kknapp1 just kill me now."

05/27/2011 21:00 @RepWeiner tweets "Tivo eats the hockey game and Versus taunts me with endless postgame."

05/27/2011 21:10 @RepWeiner tweets "Followers of my lame hockey tweets recall i picked tb and nashville. #NotSoBrilliant"

05/27/2011 21:24 @RepWeiner tweets "Tivo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next?"

05/28/2011 14:00 Gennette Nicole Cordova's social accounts are deleted (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

05/28/2011 14:00 Congressman Weiner's yfrog photo albums are completely deleted along with suspicious tweets

05/28/2011 18:00 Gennette Nicole Cordova's web references, including her byline on school news stories, are deleted


Rather than preserve the "evidence" of the "hack", Weiner, Cordova and perhaps others involved have done precisely the opposite. They have laid waste to online evidence linking them. They have seemingly reviewed every web cache and social network attempting to delete stories, photos, names and any other possible references to their relationship.

And, somehow, the "hacker" -- in the midst of a series of tweets by Weiner -- was able to compromise both his Twitter and YFrog accounts, post a photo of someone who resembles Weiner, and then have control of the accounts wrestled back by the Congressman in a matter of a couple of minutes.

The Complete #Weinergate Timeline: Crack investigative journalists at Politico ignore overwhelming evidence it really was Weiner's wiener

 

[Avatar4321]

will he resign? Will the left even care?

We have nutjobs like Weiner in office and we wonder why our governments screwed up.

 

[American Cowboy]

Anthony Weiner is a little bitch

 

[Steelplate]

Yeah... I bet the hackers hitting PBS and Lockeed Martin are also cover stories too.

Why don't we wait until the smoke clears to judge this one. And no, I am not being partisan... I hope John Edwards gets hung up by his nuts, and I am glad that Charlie Rangel is out.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

You never really know these people. Weiner's "Hacker" story just doesn't seem credible. But that's just my opinion anyway. I don't believe there ever was a hacker.

 

[boedicca]

Help Iowahawk bring the Weiner Hacker to Justice!

Help Me Bring the Weiner Hacker to Justice

I have never been much of a community activist, but I can no longer sit idly while America remains at risk of attack by the most nefarious identity thief in the history of Internet. And cheap page views are to be had.

The Weinergate facts, as we so far know them: on May 28, @RepWeiner, the verified Twitter account of US Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), posted a tweet of a y.frog photo of a slightly-built white male straining to pitch a pup tent in a pair of grey Hanes Underoos. Within seconds, Congressman Weiner arrived at the scene of the cybercrime and instantly recognized it as the work of a hacker who had simultaneously broken into his Twitter, Facebook and y.frog accounts. Working quickly, and without regard to his own safety, Congressman Weiner used his elite law school-honed internet security coding skills to wrest back control of his accounts, delete the offending tweet and photo, as well as unfollow a Seattle coed to whom it was sent. His Twitter perimeter once again secured, the intrepid Congressmen sent out a new tweet explaining how he was victimized by an Internet criminal mastermind.

(snip)

I say no - we cannot as an online community let this tragic crime go unpunished. That it why I am announcing the Weiner Hacker Prize Fund to award a generous bounty for information leading to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of Pubic Enemy #1 - the pervert who stole Congressman Weiner's underpants identity. To get things rolling, I will seed it with $1000 of my own personal 2010 federal tax refund. I am leaving the comments section on this post open for anyone who would like to add their own contribution to the bounty, as well as tips and clues to pass on to law enforcement officials. Please though - do not interfere with any official crime investigation. Let's leave the detective work to hardboiled gumshoes like Jim Treacher and Ace of Spades.

So let's get involved and work to get this mysterious criminal off our online streets. Until he is brought to justice, remember: You May Already Be a Weiner....

iowahawk: Help Me Bring the Weiner Hacker to Justice

 

[Avatar4321]

Yeah... I bet the hackers hitting PBS and Lockeed Martin are also cover stories too.

Why don't we wait until the smoke clears to judge this one. And no, I am not being partisan... I hope John Edwards gets hung up by his nuts, and I am glad that Charlie Rangel is out.

Rangel is out? since when?

 

[Steelplate]

He's out as the ways and means chairman, and believe me, he's out once his term is done.

 

[lehr]

Is the Liberal Press intentionally ignoring this scandal? It looks like it to me. If Weiner was a Republican i'm pretty sure Liberal Media outlets like CNN,NY Times,and NBC would be reporting on this 24/7. It reminds me of how they tried to cover for ole Slick Willy and John Edwards. My guess it that they will be forced to cover this eventuality. They'll stall and cover for Weiner for as long as they can though. The truth always come out in the end.

NY Democrat Rep Anthony Weiner has hired an attorney and denies that it was a photo of his genitalia which was sent to a woman via Twitter. He also claims his Twitter account was hacked and it was the hacker who sent the lewd photo...

Weinergate | Anthony Weiner | Won't Refuse | The Daily Caller

why blame the communist media and the communist demokrat party - the useless republicans always run away from their seats - look at rep. lee - he just took a pic of himself without a shirt - the guy wanted to get laid ! who cares ? now the seat is in communist demokrat hands in n.y. = communist demokrats never run away - you need a crow bar to get them out of their seats of power - communists juice of life is " POWER" !

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Is the Liberal Press intentionally ignoring this scandal? It looks like it to me. If Weiner was a Republican i'm pretty sure Liberal Media outlets like CNN,NY Times,and NBC would be reporting on this 24/7. It reminds me of how they tried to cover for ole Slick Willy and John Edwards. My guess it that they will be forced to cover this eventuality. They'll stall and cover for Weiner for as long as they can though. The truth always come out in the end.

NY Democrat Rep Anthony Weiner has hired an attorney and denies that it was a photo of his genitalia which was sent to a woman via Twitter. He also claims his Twitter account was hacked and it was the hacker who sent the lewd photo...

Weinergate | Anthony Weiner | Won't Refuse | The Daily Caller

why blame the communist media and the communist demokrat party - the useless republicans always run away from their seats - look at rep. lee - he just took a pic of himself without a shirt - the guy wanted to get laid ! who cares ? now the seat is in communist demokrat hands in n.y. = communist demokrats never run away - you need a crow bar to get them out of their seats of power - communists juice of life is " POWER" !

You do make a valid point. Democrats do tend to cling to Power at all costs. I still don't get why that Republican resigned for appearing shirtless in a photo. Appearing shirtless in a photo seems pretty harmless to me. I suspect there were other factors that led to his resignation. From what i heard,he engaged in very questionable behavior in the past. So i don't think it was the shirtless photo alone that forced him to resign. But i definitely hear ya on the Democrats. Charlie Rangel not resigning,says it all about Democrats and their desperate need for clinging to power. A Tax Cheat writing the Tax Codes for our Nation? Yikes!

 

[Foxfyre]

Here's the 'Good Housekeepingz Seal approved' Redstate version complete with a link to the actual photo in question:\

A major hat tip goes to Ace of Spades for this. Today on Twitter he completely destroyed the hack claim, and he’s right.

First, he posted three hours before the alleged hack post, and four minutes after. This means he somehow wrested control back from the hackers quickly. How is this possible? That would be quite a feat, either through password guessing or some sort of Twitter security hole. If it happened, why didn’t we hear about how?

Second, if he lost control of the account, standard Twitter practice is to remove the “Verified Account” status until Twitter can confirm the account is back under the control of the named person. Yet, the @RepWeiner account as of this writing is still Verified.

Third, as pointed out the recipient of the photo is somewhere between Seattle and Vancouver, but that evening Weiner posted on Twitter a note about Seattle time. Funny coincidence, that.

Fourth, such hacks these days are crimes, and are especially serious when directed at Members of Congress. If his Twitter account has been compromised, what else would the attackers have access to? Instead of reporting the attack to the FBI though, Weiner has made jokes, and in fact keeps joking about it. This is unreasonable behavior in the face of an actual attack, however if it weren’t hack, then to report one would probably be a crime in itself.

So, Congressman Weiner, it’s up to you: Admit the truth, or file a formal criminal report with the attached penalties for filing a false report. Your own party has been making a big deal about “Cybersecurity” lately as a pretext for an Internet Kill Switch and other power grabs. Set an example, or admit the old Reichstag routine. Your call.

Update: Moe Lane has more on how the “hackers” seem to be deleting the entire online presence of Gennette Nicole, the intended recipient of the original Twitter message.
More here:
Anthony Weiner and his eponymous Twitter “hack” | RedState

And this is presumably the infamous photo:

 

[boedicca]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! Where's the Brain Bleach??!!!!??????????????????

 

[Foxfyre]

And here's Newsmax's version which somewhat contradicts the other accounts:

Rising Democratic star Rep. Anthony Weiner has lawyered up in a desperate bid to quash rumors after a risqué picture was sent from his Twitter account to a 21-year-old co-ed on the other side of the country.

The newly married New York congressman insists that his account was hacked into. Genette Cordova, the woman who received the shot, backs his story, but that is doing little to halt the flood of questions about the affair.

Chief among them is just who was the model for the picture of the bulging pair of gray underpants, and exactly what is Weiner’s relationship with Cordova, who lives outside Seattle, nearly 2,500 miles from his congressional district.

Cordova says someone using the same Twitter account has harassed her for several months. “I assumed that the Tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the congressman and harassing his supporters,” she said.

Despite the denials, the congressman and the journalism student have a past — at least online. Less than two months ago, Cordova sent out a Tweet saying, “I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to.”

Cordova now claims that was meant as a joke, saying, “Contrary to the impression that I apparently gave from my Tweet, I am not his girlfriend. Nor am I the wife, girlfriend or mistress of Barack Obama, Ray Allen or Cristiano Ronaldo, despite the fact that I have made similar assertions about them via Twitter.”

Weiner’s Twitter account shows that, although 45,000 members follow everything he says on the social networking site, he follows only 97. Most of those are media outlets and fellow politicians, although they also include a handful of attractive young women, including Cordova.
More here:
Dem Weiner Fights to Control Lewd Photo Scandal

 

[boedicca]

If his accounts were truly hacked, then the proper thing to do is to report the matter to law enforcement for a full investigation.

 

[boedicca]

It's time for ijustine to do a "Leave Weiner Alone" youtube:

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[boedicca]

Why has this thread been moved to Media when other ones are in Politics?


This is a Political topic.

 

[Foxfyre]

If his accounts were truly hacked, then the proper thing to do is to report the matter to law enforcement for a full investigation.

That would certainly be what you would expect when a Congressman's account is hacked.

BUT.....note in the Newsmax account:

1) Genette Cordova is backing Anthony Weiner's version of what happened. (Other accounts say that she is not backing his account. So which is correct?)

2) Even more interesting, the Newsmax account reports: "Cordova says someone using the same Twitter account has harassed her for several months. “I assumed that the Tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the congressman and harassing his supporters,” she said."

Oh really? This has been going on for months???????????

And it is just now surfacing?

Does this strike anybody but me as just a little bit odd?

 

[boedicca]

If one applies Occam's Razor, the more likely scenario is that Weiner did indeed send the pic, and that he typed an "@" instead of a "D", making it public instead of private.

The hacking story is lame. But if he's going to put forward that theory, then law enforcement authorities should investigate.