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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn right now until 4 (maybe 5): Former Rep. Anthony Weiner
https://wabcradio.com/listen-live/#You can call in if inspired.
The ONLY Democrat on WABC (NYC)
https://bsky.app/profile/anthonyweiner.bsky.social
ThePartyThatListens
(340 posts)It was the Democrat's biggest mistake to get rid of him
demmiblue
(39,251 posts)Xavier Breath
(6,477 posts)And Huma's best decision.
TheProle
(3,903 posts)What in the fucking holy trumping hell is this defense?
Fuck his thoughts on anything.
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.
demmiblue
(39,251 posts)no_hypocrisy
(54,295 posts)He has interesting views on Trump, Republicans, and more.
demmiblue
(39,251 posts)Dennis Donovan
(31,059 posts)H2O Man
(78,645 posts)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)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)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)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)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)WASHINGTON The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clintons 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. Clintons 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.
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The new development in the saga over Mrs. Clintons 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. Clintons 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)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.
doc03
(38,838 posts)Takket
(23,482 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,138 posts)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.