It was less than a year ago that it came out in the press that Brett Favre, having overextended his career by another few months by playing his annual shell game with the press and football fans alike, had made some rather lewd passes via text messages to a woman who, like Favre at the time of the incident, was employed by the New York Jets. The scandal, coupled with an injury late in the season, may have been what finally convinced Favre to hang up the cleats once and for all and concentrate on just collecting endorsement paychecks from Wrangler.
Congressman Anthony Weiner won't be getting any endorsements any time soon, not even from Oscar Mayer, but the same sordid story is playing out again in New York. Weiner was cheating on his wife via lewd text messages to some young hottie, and the resulting scandal has virtually torpedoed Weiner's chances of running for Mayor of New York City, much less any higher office. There are those who are calling for Weiner to resign from his current office, but he says he's not. Who is he kidding? As long as he remains defiant on this particular front, the story will linger far longer than it has any right to, and the pressure will intensify.
And, then, splashed on the front pages of the tabloids in NYC today, comes word that Weiner's wife is expecting their first child. New York Daily News editorial cartoonist Doug Bramhall is having a field day with Weiner, but how long will it be before he plays his joke (Weiner dressed only in a pair of boxer shorts and socks) into the ground? To me, it's getting old real fast.
Weiner, it's also been reported, was secretly involved with some no-name porn actress. Oh, please, give me a break! We went through that with Tiger Woods last year, too. Hasn't Weiner learned anything from either Woods, Favre, Charlie Sheen, or even former Governor-turned-talk-show-host Eliot Spitzer? Apparently not. In scandal-crazy NYC, Weiner's just another weasel.
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He was also reported to have had an affair with a female Las Vegas bartender.
To take everything about the news reports at face value, I think Weiner is a despicable excuse of a human being.
There's a reason he resigned though... politicos have a deep history of protecting their own, but Weiner was cut loose because he was no longer "useful" to the party to warrant protection. How else did other scummy politicians (in both parties) manage to stay in officce despite loads of evidence that would have folks like you and me in orange jumpsuits?
There are a few other things that the news outlets have chosen not to report, but it doesn't make Weiner any better in my eyes.
In time, the Weiners and other weasel politicos will all be hoisted on their petards. Seems that a lot of these guys feel empowered by being elected to political office, and fell, to borrow a line from Travis Tritt, ten feet tall & bulletproof. They're not, not in this day & age.
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