Ranting/venting a bit, sorry if it's a bit rambly.
Exempt from hate: Huma Abedin, who Lawrence O'Donnell correctly identified as the real victim of this mess.
Andrew Breitbart - his "journalism" since the opening of Big Government has consisted of a mixture of a) passively reporting anything that could be used against a Democrat with no real fact-checking, b) being actively involved in manufacturing scandals to gain press and notoriety. With the breaking of Weinergate, his smug-as-hell press conference hijack, and his picture stash (that pledge to not release the dick picture lasted all of 2 days), Breitbart now gets "credibility", ensuring the next James O'Keefe video "controversy" will get breathless coverage.
Democratic/Republican leadership - Grouping these together for stupidity and hypocrisy, respectively. David Vitter stays standing, John Ensign hangs out right up until the day before he would've likely been expelled, and you wouldn't know it from the Democratic response. When it comes to calling out actual sex scandals with real legal implications, Democrats do what they do best: not so much "fail" at politics as refuse to even play the game.
Meanwhile, the Republicans who sat idly by during these scandals have no problem turning Weiner into a national issue. Eric Cantor's old logic of letting constituents decide for themselves is apparently fine for Louisiana but no good for NYC. Hey, let's make a bullshit scandal out of people Weiner gave some money to (Democratic response: sure, we'll give the money back)! Yeah, Chris Lee got tossed out quick: precisely to avoid the type of protracted media scandal Weiner ultimately got. Details of the actual scandal aside, following the actions of leadership during the scandal can tell you a lot about the parties and how they operate.
Mainstream Media outlets and 'political reality' - I'm honestly curious what Hannity's show is going to be about now: I don't watch him in full but I tend to check out of curiosity, and you'd think it was the only thing happening in America.
It really shouldn't be too surprising Fox would take delight in this, but it's somewhat amusing that any "serious" journalist covers the Weinergate story by including a line or two about real news, and how it's being avoided in favor of Weiner coverage (the most often cited line being Clarence Thomas's financial disclosures, an issue which Weiner was pushing before the scandal broke). Then comes the latest developments. Over and over again.
The sad truth is, the nature of this scandal accounts for why Weiner resigned a lot more than any of the substance. This is because: a) Weiner's scandal involves embarrassing chat logs and photos, b) the nature of Weiner's communications means that this story could have a "breaking news" element pretty consistently for three weeks, and c) the puritanical standards of news broadcasters, detailed well by Glenn Greenwald. This is "political reality": that the Weiner story is a distraction from The Real Issues, but that it needs to be reported endlessly, and that because of that fact (and not the story itself), Weiner needs to go. On that note:
Anthony Weiner - places himself as a leader of the progressive movement, and then does something this stupid. Sending out dickpics is pretty dumb. Sending them without people asking for them is worse (not 100% sure where this is standing). But then he makes up a hacking story, has the worst media tour in recent memory (which only brings the story higher profile), declares his innocence despite the nature of the scandal making it obvious that this is going to break open at some point, and lies to a bunch of people in the process, AND tells other people to lie to help him out! It's not the crime, it's the coverup - for all the other bullshit listed, Weiner did a lot to bring this on himself.
Me - for following this whole mess. And I guess being a hypocrite about the mainstream media outlet complaints, since I'm writing a damn diary about it.
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