Weiner at today's press conference (AP/Seth Wenig)
Representative Anthony Weiner, whose self-tweeted crotch-shot put him at the center of a whirlwind media circus for the past three weeks, just gave a press conference in Brooklyn in which he resigned from Congress, amidst a series of catcalls from the audience. He apologized for "the distraction that I have created."
Now, Weiner says, his "colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative." And most importantly he and his wife can focus on their relationship.
Weiner, who repeatedly referred to himself as a distraction, now says he is going to be "looking for other ways to contribute my talents."
Durring his speech Weiner was interrupted a number of times by heckles from the Howard Stern's very own Benji, who repeatedly asked "Are you seven inches?" He was escorted out by police afterwards.
Before leaving the stage, Weiner made a pointed effort to not only thank his family for their support—especially his wife Huma Abedin who, though she wasn't with him for either press conference, "has stood with me throughout this entire ordeal"— but also to thank his staff who "are young people who are not paid very much."
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At least he's a real New Yorker -- no Ohio transplant.
JackBrat
WEINER: A democrat attack dog who yelled (past tense!) at the top of his lungs to demagogue every issue; keeping it away from any rational, reasoned thought on the subject. . . Geez- It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
Of course this was all a big Congressional scam as it redraws district lines thus, in the future, eliminating the Ninth Congressional district... The felons in Congress didn't want to face the wrath of the 9th district voters in eliminating their district so they trumped up this charade leading to Weiner's resignation.. Making it easy on themselves ousting Weiner and then the district... The only sex scandal without any sex... Weiner should have stood strong and flipped Congress the bird.. Hell no, I won't go !!
The reference was to Charlie Rangel's district, which is in Harlem.
Guest
Now that it's over and he's resigned, I wonder how much more the moral crusaders will SAP outta this guy's cock. They won't leave him alone until the next time a congressman will do something silly. Maybe one will even touch a child? Oh, that's happened already? And the media didn't give it this much coverage? Why? Well, because there were no pictures of it, of course. The media is filled with human garbage.
Rocknrope
And to think this was the result of a slip of a finger - if he DM'd his dickpic instead of Twittering it, we would never had known a thing.
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