by Datechguy | June 6th, 2011
The number of leftist heads blowing up right now must be stunning!
Daily Kos, Charles Johnson, Joan Walsh. This is the day that the MSM has to apologize to Andrew Breitbart. That alone makes it special.
Lesson to Joe Scarborough et/al. If Robert Stacy McCain says something is a story, BELIEVE HIM!
As far as Weiner goes, it’s the smartest move he could have made to have a shot to save his seat. I think he manages to do it.
Update: It’s pretty bad when Rep Weiner admits he is wrong before Charles Johnson:
And I’ve been getting a flood of hate mail, much of it demanding that I “apologize” for something. So here’s my official response to this demand:
Not a freaking chance. If Weiner admits to sending the pictures in question, I’ll be surprised and disappointed, but I’m never going to apologize for calling it as I see it.
And I’m certainly never going to apologize for pointing out that Andrew Breitbart is a sleazy fraudster, with a well-documented and very tawdry history of deception.
So to those demanding that I apologize: try holding your breath until you turn blue. Maybe that will do i
I don’t demand anything, I prefer you show yourself as you are, but right now who has more credibility, Charles Johnson or Andrew Breitbart?
Update again: the left’s new meme Should we care?
Update: To be clear, his apology to Andrew Breitbart was part of a general apology to everyone in the media who he misled. Now the media wants to know whether he had what he would call “phone sex.” At this point, given that what Weiner did was a personal failure, these questions seem way over the line.
Update : Without condoning Weiner’s personal behavior, the amount of media attention this story has received is even more outsized than the photo that started this circus. I’d love to one day hear a politician get questioned this aggressively about a matter of actual substantive importance.
Update 3: Cannonfire was hitting Breitbart even as the photos were coming out, no updates since the confession.
Oh here is the Breitbart Press conference
Update 4: Pelosi calling for an ethics investigation.
Update 5: At Kos there is a parody suggesting that Weiner’s presser was faked, that a healthy sign over there, but at Cannonfire the guy is INSISTING that Weiner is LYING ABOUT SENDING THE TWEET!
Suppose that Weiner had said: “I am guilty of improper relationships with half a dozen women, and I am guilty of sending these women erotic photos, but I did not send that picture to Gennette Cordova on the 27th.” What would be the result?
Obviously, the journalistic feeding frenzy would continue for months.
More importantly, Breitbart would, under those circumstances, release the ultra-explicit photo, which probably depicts an erection. That shot would be published ad infinitum for the rest of Weiner’s life.
Faced with that rotten choice, I would have gone with the “Get it over with as soon as possible” option.
I’m sorry at this point your beliefs have crossed the line from opinion to religion. I would apply for the Tax exemption now.
Tolerance delivered by government guns. Reactionary views in the guise of progress.