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On right now until 4 (maybe 5): Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 OP
I love Weiner ThePartyThatListens Nov 2024 #1
... demmiblue Nov 2024 #4
"It was the Democrat's biggest mistake to get rid of him" Xavier Breath Nov 2024 #5
He pled guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 year old. TheProle Nov 2024 #9
Right. H2O Man Nov 2024 #16
No thanks... dude is a creeper. demmiblue Nov 2024 #2
He's done his humility and mea culpa without qualification. no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 #6
Nope, still not interested in that creeper. n/t demmiblue Nov 2024 #7
He was a good legislator. He was a terrible human being. n/t Dennis Donovan Nov 2024 #3
I agree. H2O Man Nov 2024 #17
He was tangentially tied into the release displacedvermoter Nov 2024 #8
Incorrect. no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 #10
It is never yesterday's news with right wing media displacedvermoter Nov 2024 #12
1. It's not brought up in any case. no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 #13
Yep. demmiblue Nov 2024 #11
More than tangentially. What reopened the closed case was HRC emails on his computer karynnj Nov 2024 #18
I couldn't care less what that pervert has to say. doc03 Nov 2024 #14
if the democrats want to improve their messaging, putting the Bozo on the radio isn't the answer. Takket Nov 2024 #15
It's not the Democrats putting him on the radio displacedvermoter Nov 2024 #19

TheProle

(3,903 posts)
9. He pled guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 year old.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:35 PM
Nov 2024

What in the fucking holy trumping hell is this defense?
Fuck his thoughts on anything.

H2O Man

(78,645 posts)
16. Right.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:51 PM
Nov 2024

I look for patterns ..... in people like Anthony's internet communications with teens, people's patterns in posting on internet forums, etc. Those patterns always show up. Sometimes early.

no_hypocrisy

(54,295 posts)
6. He's done his humility and mea culpa without qualification.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:20 PM
Nov 2024

He has interesting views on Trump, Republicans, and more.

H2O Man

(78,645 posts)
17. I agree.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:56 PM
Nov 2024

He was an outstanding politician, with unlimited potential. I had such high hopes for him. But he had a terrible flaw.

displacedvermoter

(4,138 posts)
8. He was tangentially tied into the release
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:31 PM
Nov 2024

of the Comey letter, emails from him to his wife -- a Clinton campaign insider as I recall -- that purported to "reopen" the classified email "investigation" I imagine WABC keeps him around to keep the Clinton case alive 8 years later, and also have at least one sleazy Democrat they can use for a both-sides example.

no_hypocrisy

(54,295 posts)
10. Incorrect.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:35 PM
Nov 2024

1. WABC didn't use him at all. The station lets him talk freely and other hosts don't bring up the Comey/Clinton issue. It's yesterday's news.

2. And Weiner had a "sleazy" past. But it's just that: past. When he participates in the program "Right versus Left," he really holds his own, sometimes shouting in frustration at the RWNJs who can't counter his arguments, let alone support their own positions.

displacedvermoter

(4,138 posts)
12. It is never yesterday's news with right wing media
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:41 PM
Nov 2024

But glad you enjoy listening to him, any way! No longer in the New York Metropolitan area, used to listen to Lynn Samuels on WABC, then she lost the plot, too.

no_hypocrisy

(54,295 posts)
13. 1. It's not brought up in any case.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:47 PM
Nov 2024

2. I religiously listened to Lynn Samuels too. She kind of left the path when she became adamant that O.J. Simpson was "set up". And of course, the birtherism of Obama.

demmiblue

(39,251 posts)
11. Yep.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:37 PM
Nov 2024
Emails in Anthony Weiner Inquiry Jolt Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.

In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, which law enforcement officials said was an F.B.I. investigation into illicit text messages from Mr. Weiner to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, is married to Huma Abedin, the top aide.

Mr. Comey's letter said that the F.B.I. would review the emails to determine if they improperly contained classified information, which is tightly controlled by the government. Senior law enforcement officials said that it was unclear if any of the emails were from Mrs. Clinton’s private server. And while Mr. Comey said in his letter that the emails “appear to be pertinent,” the F.B.I. had not yet examined them.

...

The new development in the saga over Mrs. Clinton’s handling of classified information came months after the F.B.I. closed the investigation without charging Mrs. Clinton. The announcement, less than two weeks before the election, left Mrs. Clinton’s team furious and scrambling for explanations while bolstering the spirits of Donald J. Trump after a wave of controversies and Republican defections had led many to write him off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/us/politics/fbi-hillary-clinton-email.html

karynnj

(60,783 posts)
18. More than tangentially. What reopened the closed case was HRC emails on his computer
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 04:00 PM
Nov 2024

That was really more his wife's fault. She used a computer he also used to access HRC's email because she worked for her. The FBI got access to all his devices because of his sending inappropriate messages to a minor. The Clinton emails were found. I am shocked Clinton did not have practices in place where Huma would not have used a shared computer.

This caused Comey to reopen the case because he wanted those emails checked out. They all were in fact duplicates of what they had.

Both of them did something wrong.
The Clinton emails should only have been downloaded to a private work device used just by Huma. Obviously, he committed a crime that was despicable and it made sense the FBI had to check his devices.

However, Comey did not need to announce he reopened the case, just as he did not mention the case opened on Trump and Russia. He has explained he did so as allies in NY of Guilliani intended to leak this. A pretty strange argument. As it was about 2 weeks later they closed the case again. They could have not announced and checked things. If it did leak, they could have explained they were looking at it or had looked at it and there was nothing there.

Takket

(23,482 posts)
15. if the democrats want to improve their messaging, putting the Bozo on the radio isn't the answer.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:50 PM
Nov 2024

displacedvermoter

(4,138 posts)
19. It's not the Democrats putting him on the radio
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 05:02 PM
Nov 2024

WABC has no interest in improving the Democratic message. Weiner is the only sort of Democrat, a tainted one, that they would give a forum to.

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