Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said earlier this week that the lewd photo send via Twitter from his account to a 21-year-old college student was the result of hacking or a prank. End of national semi-sex scandal? Not really.
Mostly because now he's told NBC's Luke Russert, in what sounds like lawyer-speak, that he "can't say with certitude" that the photo isn't of him. Isn't whether a picture of a crotch is one's own a question that should be pretty easily and definitively answered? Evidently not.
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart says he's "mystified" by this handling of "Weinergate" and urges Weiner to tell the whole truth, suggesting that it just might be something along the lines of, "Weiner is a red-blooded American man who uses his tech savvy to not just tell but show his beautiful, high-powered and hyper-traveled wife how much he misses her." (And the hacker/prankster got his or her hands on the evidence of that.)
Whatever the truth may be, the mother of Gennette Cordova, the college student who received the photo, is infuriated by the way the politician is handling the issue and says it's a huge distraction for her daughter, who is trying to concentrate on finals. "I'm really upset. I feel like he's a person of power and influence who can make a statement and make all this go away," she says.
Given the question about who's really in the photo, we can say two things with "certitude": 1) Weiner wishes it would all go away, too, and 2) that's not going to happen until he tells the whole story.
Read more at the Washington Post and News One.
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