MSNBC Hosts Spin Wildly After Weiner Fesses Up
In a desperate attempt to save Rep. Anthony Weiner, who has even been abandoned by the leaders of his own party, MSNBC is still refusing to acknowledge that Weiner's actions should jeopardize his House seat.
Lawrence O'Donnell, host of "The Last Word," ridicules the idea that lying should be grounds for resignation, Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show," describes the situation as "more gossip than news," and Cenk Uygur, MSNBC political commentator, says that "he lied, so what."
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While the remarks from MSNBC are not all that surprising, their refusal to even consider the idea of Weiner's resignation are, following many prominent Democrats calling for him to step down.
In O'Donnell's take on Weinergate, he thinks American politics are is moving in a "more prudish direction" following "a brief detour in the 90s toward the French and accepting everything Clintonian."
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Maddow similarly says Weiner should not be held responsible because he did not win his seat based off his sexual morality, which is apparently not necessary for good judgement in other areas.
Finally, Uygur maintains that even though Weiner did lie, it doesn't compromise his overall political standards. He references his own past when sympathizing with Weiner, asking, "You know how many times, when I was single and I had girlfriends, you know how many times that I lied to them? What does that mean? That you're not responsible on any other issue?'
The same misguided talking point is espoused from each of these MSNBC journalists: Weiner's lapse in moral judgement should not reflect an overall lack in political judgement. Of course, if the same story was unfolding about a Republican congressman, their opinions would be much different.
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This statement says it all
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:41pm.
Uygur: "You know how many times, when I was single and I had girlfriends, you know how many times that I lied to them? What does that mean? That you're not responsible on any other issue?'
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
That means you're a perfectly normal and healthy liberal...
Submitted by Tailgunner on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:59pm.
...in good standing with NOW, Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wassermann-Schultz.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
During his apology, Weiner
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:43pm.
During his apology, Weiner said he had not done anything to violate his oath to uphold the Constitution. How much is an oath worth from a guy who baldfacedly lied to America on national TV for 10 days?
Why don't these MSNBC shills just come right out and say it? "He lied, but he's a Democrat! It's okay!"
He may have said that, but he voted repeatedly to wipe his ass
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:43pm.
with the constitution. This POS needs to resign NOW. I cannot believe how the idiots on M.S.S.R. (MSNBC) can defend the indefensible. Remember Eric Massa? His ass got run out of congress so fast that he couldn't even pack his own luggage.
Excellent point
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 11:03am.
I hope he doesn't resign and the media keeps up the feeding frenzy on Weiner
and
that MSNBC every night has to go out and defend the little turd.
I hope the Dems keep calling for his resignation and that he digs his heels in and becomes the old Weiner with the pompous self righteous arrogance that got him into this wonderful Alice in pornoland story.
I also hope the Repubs shut up and let the Dems eat themselves. a little prodding now and again but they have had their share of scandals and should not be finger pointing.
It's more fun to watch them eviscerate themselves.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:53pm.
The Left will alibi if not outright defend lying by its politicians regardless the circumstances. Conversely, they claim that every conservative in a liar.
The Dolts
Submitted by TC Lynch on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:00pm.
They are banging away to defend their favorite guest like the fangirls who Weiner was sending pics. Maddow and Uyger keep howling about Vitter still being in the Senate, but skip over the fact that after he got in trouble, the voters in his state gave him 57% of the vote and sent him back to DC.
I hope Weiner does not resign. I want him there, the neutered "pitbull," who anytime he gets near a camera or microphone will be mocked and reviled, an albatross handing around the DNC's neck.
A perfect example of why the left prides itself on their
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:06pm.
"shades of grey" -- because they have a very cloudy moral compass.
Weiner blamed the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy for his problems.
Submitted by HelloDare on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:11pm.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11159/1152152-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml
Weiner blamed the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy for his problem, just like Hillary blamed the VRWC on the Today Show when Bill was in the middle of the Lewinsky scandal. Hillary knew the real story when she blamed conservatives, so did Weiner.
I guess that kind of behavior is okay with the folks at MSNBC who still want to see Weinergagte as nothing more than a sex scandal. When you cover-up a sex scandal, it's no longer about the sex, it's about the cover-up.
There's something seriously wrong with the folks over there as MSNBC.
Hey I want a "VRWC" polo
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:34pm.
Hey I want a "VRWC" polo shirt! Where can I get one?
All over the place
Submitted by Rukus on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:46pm.
Right off the bat!
Hahaha. Thanks!
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:11pm.
Hahaha. Thanks!
So I guess it is ok to say...............
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:44pm.
M.S.S.R. (MSNBC) is "strapping on" to Weiner's reelection campaign?
So Weiners oath of office is sacrosanct...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:51pm.
But his oath to his wife is NOT? He stabbed his wife, who is carrying his unborn child, in the back every single time he tweeted his BS to another woman. Not to mention the scumbag pictures.
We are to believe that this scumbag holds his oath of office in higher esteem than the oath he made to a woman he gave his name to? The same woman that will bear his child?
A dog will not defecate where it sleeps. Weiner sh!t all over his wife, his unborn baby, and the rest of the country. Where has his PRIDE gone? What legacy will that child have, if not aborted by "pro choice" supporter parents?
From wikipedia: The defecation cycle:
In the adult human, the process of defecation, or the defecation cycle, is normally a combination of both voluntary and involuntary processes.
This jerk did it voluntarily. And the msm tries to wipe up the mess...
Remember one thing about this horrible network
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:05pm.
Weiner was always on this network preaching his Progressive crap to the masses over there and they swooned to this POS with every word he had to say. The hosts on that channel demonize traditional marriage and anyone that is pro-life. They are pro-Jack Kavorkien and Pro-Dr. Tiller, aand especially anti-religious. Traditional values are what Progressives despise, and anyone who disagrees with Progressives would probably deserve a visit from the Progressive Brownshirts. These people have taken their masks off and we see them for who they really are. I will tell you this: Election Night 2012 on M.S.S.R. will go down in the ANALs of television history when Barack Milhaus Nixon and his Socialist Progressives in the US Government get thrown out on their asses. The disgusting hosts on this network WILL NOT hold any of their rage and hatred towards the anti progressivism American people in a way that should garnish the heaviest of fines from the FCC.
Semper Fi, recruiter
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:08pm.
You're on target with this- MSNBC, and other Weiner supporters (ha) are trying to move the narrative from his predatory acts and complete disrespect for women, religion, and his office to the thing that we all know politicians in general do best: lying.
It's not the lying; that I could leave to his constituents to judge. His despicable acts are the reason he is unworthy -which is a hard thing to be (ha, again) given the basic nature of democratic pols. In the Corps- you'd get time then a big chicken dinner.
A big chicken dinner would be the good part, bkeyser...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:44pm.
The hard part would be facing my pregnant wife, after she found out about it through the media, who continue to blame Breitbart for the revelation of my very own perversions! "Breitbart, the known liar...". Exactly what did Breitbart lie about here? I saw the Michael Maddow Show (That's no woman...I mean, check out the double Adam's apple on that gullet...) drag out Breitbart's liberal progressive equal, the great larry flynt! Or should I say that they wheeled him out?
Mr. Flynt, and I quote: "I uuugghhh thinkkaahhh Brrreeitbaarrrrhdt izzz ahhh frauuhhhdddd!"
Bob Livingson RESIGNED in 1998 for his infractions, as the republicans rightfully went after the country's first black president, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. And Chris Lee went away asap. Slick Willey still signed the big chicken dinner for accused adulterers serving in uniform while he enjoyed cigars and pizza in the Oral Orifice. Ted Kennedy killed a woman and LIED about the whole incident. He went on to become a crusader for the rights of women and every time Chappaquiddick is brought up, the media cry foul! Bwarney "Hot Bottom" Fwank, Gerry" No ID required boy intern" Studds, Jerry "Take a personal Check?" Springer, Jim "Gay American" McGreevey, (Surprise honey, I like boys! It's on the news now...), Jesse "Illegitimate Child" Jackson, Gary "Hairless" Condit, Eliot "Client #9" Spitzer, Chris "Waitress Sandwich with Teddy" Dodd... And those are just the sex scandals...
A Jewish man treats a Muslim woman like this, and it is not a recruiting tool for the jihad johnny gang? Where is the Muslim community on this? Silence, as demonstrated after 9/11, is agreement. This silence is deafening!
First on Target. The Nation's 911 response force...
Nothing to add
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:08pm.
couldn't say it any better. Nice summation.
Liars move forward in the Democrat party
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:20pm.
Weiner , Pelosi ,Wasserman and Obama are the face of the lying Democrat party, because they are great liars.
they lie about Obamacare, they lie about the economy , they lie about illegal immagration they lie about Republican motivations, they lie about their polices,they lie about the debt, they lie about taxes, they lie about why Jared Laughner shot somebody, they lie about welfare , they lie about race relations. You name it Weiner will lie about it.
If you ask a liar and a thief what do think about some
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:30pm.
other liar. What do you expect him to say? The people that give weenie a pass are just as bad and all should note this and remember the lack of morals whenever they offer their advise/opinions on anything.
Through this whole "Weinergate" rigamarole---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:55pm.
I must confess (even knowing ahead of time that neither Weiner, nor any of the liberal media or any of his apologists and those who offer up rationalizations in Weenie Boy's defense have ANY sense of shame whatsoever) that watching this smug, smarmy, snarky, shameless, arrogant, petulant piss ant of a progressive politician get his ass kicked has been most satisfying.
I have enjoyed every single solitary moment of this entire episode of " D.C.Politicians: -(entitled)- Hard at work at the business of doing Americans."
MD
In Other Words....
Submitted by mrt721 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:14pm.
"Lean Forward"
Now, cough.
My Dr. tells me...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:37am.
"Exhale and relax".
The most outrageous lie I
Submitted by povertypimpin on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:23pm.
The most outrageous lie I heard today was when James Clyburn(D) SC was asked about Weinergate and he responded that he was too busy trying to reduce the deficit to worry about Weiner.
And of course
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:04pm.
We are all supposed to take him serious. If any hypocrisy from the dimwits surprises anyone at this point, well,,,,,,,
I find the best way to convert dimwits, is to enlighten them on whats going on in their name. But then, there are the drones, witch cannon be reached.
He lied. That's bad.
Submitted by delmar on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:23pm.
Then he had others go out and knowingly lie for him. Thats worse. Then he duped others into unknowingly lying for him. That's evil. Then he smeared the people telling the truth about him as liars. That's about as bad as it gets.
Good Gawd!
Submitted by Rukus on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:29pm.
How can any sane person watch these jock-straps is beyond me! Guess it says a lot about their audience. Sheesh!
Biggest Lie
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:01pm.
Biggest lie ever told was when Uyger stated he lied to his girl friend. What normal female would waste a minute spending time with this jerk?? Maybe he lied to his mommy
HYPOCRITES.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:32pm.
REMEMBER.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Larry O'dumbo's guest, Melanie Sloan, said...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:33am.
"Right. They are trying to say that this, this is gonna hinge on the misuse of official resources but frankly people use official resources all the time to make phone calls, to make their weekend plans, they send a fax, ahh they send an email and all of that is permissible. So it's really hard to see exactly what the ethics committee would hang its hat on here to say this conduct, this is what violates the ethics rules. Others who said maybe it's the lying, what so, so now no politician has ever lied to us before? I mean that's the kind of thing, we see it all the time. So, I... I, he did behave dis credibly, but I don't think it's enough for a full fledged ethics... ahh um censure."
OH REALLY? ALL elected officials send pictures of their genitals using government resources? Please name them! THEN they lie about it, after calling a press conference to deny it, on our time and our dime? Spin it all you want honey, but politicians who use government property for personal use or gain, are wrong. We pay for the office phone to conduct government business. The elected officials can most certainly afford a personal communications device to conduct personal business, and should do so. Then they can tweet weeners anytime they want, except while in the performance of their duties. Because politicians lie to us all the time, it does NOT MAKE IT RIGHT, nor should we allow them to get away with it! Shame on your arrogant defense of a potential sexual predator.
Let's see what the creep did on our time, and how he did it, before we hang him. If we send this example to the ruling class, they may begin to see the light... If not... to the gallows!
Hey Melanie, is it ok for your girlfriend to tweet nekkid genital pictures to A Weiner? How would you "feel" if A. Weiner twitted his genitals to your mother, sister, teenage daughter, or girfriend? Would that be ethical?
Melanie Sloan. With citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington... Really? Sounds like 1984 doublespeak to me. What a damn joke. Don't we have a waste, fraud, and abuse department in the government? Shouldn't they be looking into citizens for responsibility and ethics for fraud, and then at themselves for waste and abuse for NOT going after the ethics committee?
As Jenkoff Uigur would howl... "Of couuuurrse...." And that's the media scum-job of the day.
He lied...and commited a
Submitted by Rowane on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:50am.
He lied...and commited a crime. A crime that they're convicting school kids of, in some states.
Sexting has to be the dumbest trend I've seen in my 50 years here on earth. It figures that a stupid democommie congressman would be caught at it sooner or later. Has anyone thought that obombus may have been up to the same thing...he IS addicted to his crackberry, ya know.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything. (Aaron Tippin)
It would be interesting
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:42am.
I would like to see some relative comments that these slimeballs make when it's a Republican scandal.
How often did they call for R's to resign?
Vitter? Sanford? Ensign?
We Are The 53%
Aha....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:31am.
but see, when a Republican does it he must resign because Repub's "claim to have morals". When Dem's do it, they DON"T have to resign because they DON"T claim to have any..........and it appears they don't.
MSNBC
Submitted by jessieH on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 9:38am.
What the morons at msnbc have to say is irrelevant. We already know they are pond scum. Weiner is unfit to be a United States Congressman. He's unfit to be a dog catcher.
He's a liar and it's OK with the left.
Submitted by peteydee on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:30am.
What can you expect from the left when they have bumper-stickers:
"Clinton lied and no one died".
I just returned from FL..
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:33am.
where I heard a female (certainly no "lady") radio talk show host say to a caller that she just couldn't get 'offended' at something she knew that "every other man in the country is doing".
I have to admit, that made me angry. I have never sent any photos like that to anyone and I don't know anyone who has. Like most of her "progressive" colleagues, she thinks she knows a hell of a lot more than she actually does.