Anthony Weiner Sentenced To 21 Months In Sexting Case

So by LSM you mean what toddlers call the main stream news well in a couple two micro seconds I found that. it was published by CNN, NEW YORK TIMES, LA TIMES, HUFF POST, NBC, CNBC, NYBDAILY NEWS, FOX AND FAUX NEWS NETWORK, Wash Post, CBNS, NOR , USA TODAY , Chicago tribune, FOX NEWS, CBS NEWS, BLOOMBERG, TIME MAGAZINE, NY POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, SLATE ROLLING STONE, Daily beast , VARIETY, WASHINGTON EXAMINER, THE HILL, NEWSWEEK, THE BLAZE .....

You are correct in that I did not see LSM Network listed ...

 

That needs to be a separate free standing thread!m

 

IT's typo ... I hope you can survive the trauma

 

BS, this forum was wall-to-wall Russian conspiracy stuff for months and you took every bit of it in. Now that none of it has panned out do you wanna take a stab on how many hundreds of threads and posts you immersed yourself in?

 

Child molestors aren't treated very well in jail.

At least he will be culturally enriched.

 

People who have been on this forum for hella days know remember all the waves of play to players.

 

He's going the country club route; nothing but him and his fellow white collar scumbags.

 

Frankly, I don't think jokes about Weiner are kosher.

Especially as Weiner's not relishing his time in jail; he may not be able to cut the mustard.

I can see other inmates teasing him now: "Is that a cell phone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

 

I hear Weiner is sexting his appeal to a higher court now...

 

I'm here all week; try the cocktail weiners...

 

While this was obviously in terrible taste and unacceptable (and perverted), I can't help but think though that this is, in one way, furthering the setting of a precedent for the criminalization of information. Think about it. All he did was take a picture and then hit a few buttons to send that digital information to someone else. That's a perspective on one level.

Bad conduct and he probably got what he deserved, but this whole thing makes me feel... uncomfortable.
Today, sexually inappropriate pictures, tommorrow maybe free speech...

I don't know... In an ideal world there's got to be some way to protect 16-year-old girls from perverts in their online social life and iPhones without criminalizing electronic data.

Maybe that's just really Liberal of me and the Conservatives have the correct perspective on this one.
Might be interesting to hear what Ron Paul would have to say about these concerns.

 

That’s about the long and short of it.

 

Here's more:

http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/25...pologized-anthony-weiner-conspiracy-theories/

Why Hasn’t Rachel Maddow Apologized For Her Anthony Weiner Conspiracy Theories?
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 By Daniel Payne
Anthony Weiner is headed to prison, and Rachel Maddow owes her viewers an apology. Maddow, the iconic host of her self-titled MSNBC show, has made a name for herself over the past decade as a kind of white-knuckle television warrior, one of the original “destroyers” that progressives are always going on and on about.

There is something oddly generic about her, a kind of capital-L liberal sensibility, a charmingly forgettable political ethic: she’s like that guy who shows up to every student protest on campus, the fellow you see almost every day for four years but whose name you never actually know.


Maddow has jumped aboard the liberal conspiracy bandwagon over the past nine months, becoming a premier peddler of dark and shadowy theories related to President Trump’s alleged connections to Russia. Maddow has, predictably, a bit of a hobby horse about Trump: back in March she dredged up about 4.1 million viewers’ worth of frenzy over Trump’s tax returns, which turned out to be…two pages from Trump’s 2005 1040, revealing a 24 percent tax rate on about $150 million in income. Neat stuff.

Yet well before the Era of Trump, Maddow was at times a dedicated hawker of conspiracy theories. In 2011, when Anthony Weiner’s career began to fall apart due to his sexting scandals, Maddow went on the offensive on his behalf, dedicating a bizarre and rambling six full minutes of her primetime cable news show to wild-eyed speculation about Weiner’s tweets. At the time Maddow called the scandal “the great big national freakout of early summer 2011,” and presented her viewers several theories as to “how it could have happened” that Weiner was, in his own words, “hacked.”

We know now, of course, that the allegations were true, and that Weiner had been sending sexual pictures to women for years at that point. Yet even at that time, it seemed fairly obvious to any experienced political observer that Weiner had done what Andrew Breitbart said he had, and that the claim that he had been “hacked” was self-evidently bogus.

Never the matter: on her show, Maddow delved into a series of conspiracies with great detail, proposing, “a photo-shopping scheme elaborately played out on the Internet” (“one of our producers,” she added, “was able to replicate [the scheme] in less time than it takes to make a two-minute egg”).

She also put forth “a theory” proposed by “a number of other blogs” involving the metadata of the obscene picture Weiner tweeted, noting that the picture in question was from a different source than Weiner’s other Twitter photographs. Maddow also proposed that someone may have “generate[d] a program” that hacked into Weiner’s image transmission service.

Even after six years, there is still a febrile intensity to Maddow’s rambling, a clear and desperate desire to defend a member of the tribe from outside aggression. By itself, such political tribalism is understandable and unremarkable. Yet Maddow’s position—as a well-known television personality with a relatively enormous viewership—dictates that she not act on mere impulse. Something more measured and thoughtful is required of people in her position. Spreading tinfoil hat conspiracy theories to protect a Democrat from public retribution is unbecoming of television hosts, even those hired by MSNBC.

It turns out that Weiner’s pathology was even more perverted than previously imagined: earlier this year he admitted to sexting a 15-year-old girl, and this week federal authorities claimed he asked her to strip and watched her fondle herself over the Internet. Weiner’s saga is enraging, disappointing, and even heartbreaking in a pathetic kind of way.

Even more pathetic, however, is the desperate partisan television show host who turned to a bunch of goofy crackpot conspiracies in an attempt to shield the disgraced congressman from the professional and personal consequences he was so justly due. Although it has been more than half a decade, Maddow should apologize to her viewers for spreading bonkers paranoia due to her political vanities.

Daniel Payne is a senior contributor at the Federalist. He is an assistant editor for The College Fix, the news magazine of the Student Free Press Association. Daniel's work has appeared in outlets such as National Review Online, Reason, Front Porch Republic, and elsewhere. His personal blog can be found at Trial of the Century. He lives in Virginia.
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So Weiner is being prosecuted for having Cyber-Sex. Explain to me why that should be illegal.
(i.e. that's not really like real sex, is it?)

 

Still, I bet he comes out wearing a dress.

 

Let's just say that when the scandal erupted, it was as if every newspaper editor's inner teenager came out of hiding:

 

You can really feel the lefts love for wiener.

 

Never thought I'd say this, but Rachel Maddow seems to be into weiner.

 

Again, far less than your ridiculous conspiracies. That said, your Russia fake news is complete BS!!!!

 

More likely Huma will slip someone a shiv, Weiner destroyed her career and played a small part in Hillary's most hillarious defeat...

 

Maddow is seriously nuts; she makes Limbaugh look like Plato.

And not too feminist of her to defend a dude who preyed on a 15 year old, eh?

 

^ Thread win.

 

Intellectually dishonest post. Your "messiah" Trump isn't keeping his promise and isn't going to "lock her up." Go whine to Trump about Clinton.

 

Not nearly enough.

 

HAHAH OMG those are hilarious!

I always loved the Post. They are more clever than your average newspaper.