Anthony Weiner made his final television appearance of the campaign last night on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. What happened next cannot be accurately described as an interview, as much as an all-out assault.
Just a couple of months ago, people were saying things like "I'm not a huge Weiner fan but I guess I'd rather vote for him than Quinn" and "The real question is, who faces Quinn in the runoff?" and "I like de Blasio but I don't wanna waste my vote on a guy who has no chance." Things have changed. H ... More >>
The West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights yesterday was turned all the way up to 11, and the candidates for Mayor took the chance to grandstand for possibly the last time before the primary in a little over a week. While Christine Quinn and Bill Thompson were busy dragging down de Blasio, Anthony ... More >>
The Anthony Weiner campaign denies paying for plants at the August 11 Dominican Day Parade, an accusation levelled at it by report yesterday in the Post. While the story does get Spokewoman Barbara Morgan to issue a disappointingly tame denial, Weiner himself took to Twitter to rail against the stor ... More >>
Anthony Weiner has one video production team working in overdrive. Yesterday his campaign released yet another ad addressing his receding sex scandal (thank goodness), with the minor difference of being entirely in Spanish.
After yesterday's post that a reader provided us with a second photo of the same man, this time with a different, equally bizarre sign: "CHRISTINE QUINN HATES STRAIGHT MEN. VOTE WEINER!" At first we thought this was a one-off, one picketer speaking out against prudishness (something I can get behin ... More >>
A reader took a picture of a man standing in Union Square last night holding a sign reading "Anthony Weiner AKA Carlos Danger is #1." #1 in relation to what, you might ask? Oh, I get it. It's a metaphor.
We are all chatting about Weiner and not Detroit. This is a Democrat ploy of misdirection.— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) July 31, 2013 It seemed like it couldn't get any worse, and then it really, really did. A spokesperson for Anthony Weiner's soaring mayoral campaign offered some colo ... More >>
It's been eight days since the Anthony Weiner sexting saga began anew. Not that I much mind being bombarded by cell phone photos of hard dicks. In my house, at the office, on my phone, on TV. Whatever. After all, I get by in a city of assholes just fine. So when Anthony Weiner's new campaign video ... More >>
A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Great, because we're sick of words on the subject of Weiner's weiner. So without further ado, we present to you the most original and winning contribution to the Anthony Weiner morass to date (Sorry, Crain's, no quarters in the tip jar for you).
Even as we were processing the latest details of Weinergate Redux last week, new problems were brewing in Camp Weiner. Over the weekend, as the Times first reported, Anthony Weiner's campaign manager abruptly quit. It's almost impossible to figure out why 30-year-old Danny Kedem might have felt the ... More >>
Blech. Ugh. Blorgh. Hork. Sorry. Just had to fight down a little vomit and some journalistic pride in order to write this post. Where were we? Ah, yes. Weinergate: The Return. A whole slew of polls in the last 48 hours show that Weiner's slim lead over City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the may ... More >>
Who doesn't love a good Weiner joke? They're simple, yet effective, and since Tuesday--the day New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner publicly confessed that "some" of the explicit photos and chat logs unearthed by TheDirty.com were legitimate--comedians (and people who just think they are c ... More >>
Nik Richie is the proprietor of TheDirty, the gossip website that posted dick pics and dirty chats that Anthony Weiner sent to a 22-year-old he met online--after resigning from Congress and in the midst of a year-long apology tour that preceded an announcement that he intended to run for mayor of Ne ... More >>
One of these days the Democrats' mayoral primary will be behind us, and we can return to a world where the various uses and locations of candidates' sex organs don't drive citywide political debate. Until then, the agony and the ecstasy of the 2013 mayoral race (mostly agony) continues. The latest Q ... More >>
There's a giant rat on the streets of New York. No, not the one living in the Coke can between the A Train tracks. Or the one raising a family under your bed. This one's 12 feet tall, parked outside Anthony Weiner's apartment on Park Avenue South. Over the weekend union activists set the rats up to ... More >>
Have we heard enough, directly or indirectly, about Anthony Weiner's penis? Yes? Enough to last many lifetimes, please stop? Too bad. Because now, as Weiner leads in the polls, Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota wants to hear from ladies who have seen and interacted with it, i.e. Weiner's exes. ... More >>
In late April, the polling team at Marist released a survey titled "Weiner Candidacy for Mayor Could Scramble Democratic Primary Contest." it projected major percentage points of approval for the former congressman, should he decide to step into the fray. A few weeks later, he did. And, nearly two m ... More >>
Since he launched his campaign two weeks ago, former Representative Anthony Weiner had yet to face in-person backlash against his mayoral aspirations. His inaugural subway trip from Harlem to the West Village was met with questions rather than taunts; his support for teachers in the Bronx was welcom ... More >>
Like any strung-out millennial, I can admit to myself that I, at several points in my career, have held the title of "intern" (an unpaid intern in certain cases, to say the least). I've interned for the menswear magazine GQ, the blog-magazine hybrid Newsweek/DailyBeast and, of course, here at the Vo ... More >>
The rocky relationship between Mayor Bloomberg and the city's teachers has been the defining narrative of New York's educational politics for the past decade. Troubled by layoffs and recession-based attrition by the Department of Education, the United Federation of Teachers has basically cut all tie ... More >>
"I'm trying to gauge not only what's right and what feels comfortable right this second, but I'm also thinking, How will I feel in a year or two years or five years? Is this the time that I should be doing it? And then there's the other side of the coin, which is, am I still the same person who I th ... More >>
You hear a lot of buzzing about Anthony Weiner's possible return to the game--some pro, some horrified--but I have to admit I'm quite OK with it. Yes, sexting his noodle was indiscreet and trying to cover it up the whole thing was wrong, but by now Weiner's certainly been repentant enough, and besi ... More >>
Overall, it's been a solid few weeks for Anthony Weiner. Rumors of his mayoral campaign have been met with serious speculation and, given his reputation, has scored him some major points in hypothetical polls. He's back on Twitter - the social platform that led to his demise - and, in an interview ... More >>
After a few months off the Twitter grid (for good reason), former Congressman Anthony Weiner returned to the social network yesterday with a fresh, new account. And that might've been done for a few reasons. Maybe he's finally stopped having night terrors of tweets gone terribly wrong. Maybe he's ... More >>
When word spread last week that former Representative Anthony Weiner was contemplating a mayoral run, the questions of what it meant for the electoral future immediately arose. How would his candidacy affect the race? Would the Democratic primary become a showdown between Weiner and Quinn? Could peo ... More >>
Maybe this is exactly what the mayoral race needs. Or maybe we've all just gone crazy. If you haven't heard by now, the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy profile of former City Councilman and Representative Anthony Weiner yesterday, in which he mentioned that he's seriously considering a ... More >>
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is back in the news as he ramps up his plans for a potential mayoral run. If you have forgotten, Anthony Weiner resigned two years ago after a scandal in which he mistakenly tweeted lewd photographs he had intended to send to a woman who wasn't his wife. The entire ... More >>
Today the Post reported that disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner was considering a run for the city comptroller's office. According to several anonymous-yet-well-connected Manhattanites, pollsters are calling around to suss out the levels of support Weiner might receive if he decided to run. ... More >>
When asked about rumors that he was plotting a run for mayor, shamed former Congressman Anthony Weiner claims the highly publicized tale is a "clown story, bro."Yet, he recently sat down for an interview with People Magazine, in which he rolls out his young son in an apparent attempt to come across ... More >>
Don't call it a comeback...Shamed former congressman Anthony Weiner has chimed in on reports that he's considering a run for mayor. Long story short: it ain't happenin'..."bro."Reports swirled over the weekend that Weiner -- who was forced out of office after tweeting pictures of his dick to several ... More >>
Remember that guy who got himself elected to Congress, landed a powerful/gorgeous wife, then sent pictures of his dick to several women, lied about it -- repeatedly -- and then had to resign from his House seat in disgrace? Well, now he apparently wants to be your mayor, New York.That's right -- sha ... More >>
Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner may be considering a return to politics, according to the New York Post. Sources close to Weiner told the Post that the former congressman, who resigned from office after tweeting a lewd pic at a young lady who was not his wife, is "desperate" to return to politic ... More >>
Anthony Weiner, the sext-loving, dick-pic tweeting, disgraced former congressman, used some $13,000 campaign money for damage control. The Daily News says that Weiner paid private detectives to investigate the bogus claim that his Twitter account had been hacked, before he owned up to sending the p ... More >>
Here they are, folks, in all their illustrious loserhood. Step up and throw a spit ball at them! (6) President Obama He had some triumphant moments, mind you, but he couldn't seem to polish the rotten economy he inherited, despite some poignant efforts. It was downright painful to watch ... More >>
Please welcome Jordan Zane Weiner, the new baby son of recently-mustachioed Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin. The Post reports that the "wee democrat" was born yesterday 10 days ahead of his due date and weighed in at just over seven pounds. This is happy news for a family that's had s ... More >>
As ABC News points out, the former Congressman now known most infamously for his mislaid sexts, a/k/a, Anthony Weiner, is cultivating his facial hair, per a photo snapped in New York's own Soho on Black Friday. Is this sporty-go-lucky mustache for Movember (note: Movember ends Thursday) or is it per ... More >>
Despite the character-defaming rumor that men think about sex every seven seconds of every day, a figure that would make for "more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours," scientists have determined that actually, guys don't think about sex that much! According to a recent study tha ... More >>
Traci Nobles, the cheerleading coach from Georgia who is one of Anthony Weiner's former sexting partners, is publishing a book. Of course. It's called I Freinded You [sic], and claims to contain real text message exchanges between Nobles and Weiner. In some of those text messages, Weiner com ... More >>
Via the Observer, this...thing: Yes, that is an Anthony Weiner Halloween costume. Who's behind this? You guessed it -- Ricky's, purveyors of the charming Anna Rexia costume.
Anthony Weiner, sometime New York congressman and prolific sexter, is moving. His Forest Hills apartment, which he and wife Huma Abedin took off the market during this spring's sex scandal, is now in contract. A receptionist at Madeleine Realty refused to confirm or deny the apartment's sale ... More >>
The disgraced sexting congressman has not yet outrun the punchlines, however tired they may be, and likely never will with that name of his. The new issue of the Al Qaeda online magazine Inspire features a full-page fake ad teasing the one-time tough-talking Anthony Weiner, who targeted Al Qa ... More >>
Aw. Democrats long for much-maligned sext-scandalized former Congressman Anthony Weiner after all! Because, if nothing else, he was really good at baseball. Now that he's gone, Democratic politicians are concerned about their chances in the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Via the New York ... More >>
When he's not shopping or practicing being a husband, Anthony Weiner is making calls about his old job as a Democratic congressman in New York City's 9th district, which he left after lying about his affinity for dirty messages. The New York Post reports that Weiner has been in touch with Que ... More >>
Recently resigned Rep. Anthony Weiner was spotted again -- first it was buying spinach, then bad flowers -- this time with his wife Huma Abedin in Manhattan, where the couple, who are expecting their first child, ate "plain pizza, a salad and pasta" in Chelsea, while "chained to their cellpho ... More >>
There are three trendy-shmendy, foreign sounding words that are always bandied about in liberal journals, so let's put them together in a way that makes sense and in fact helps illuminate current events. Think of it as an intellectual challenge, the reward being your own surprising cogency u ... More >>
The Daily reports exclusively (and with pictures!) that the recently resigned Rep. Anthony Weiner made a quick trip to the store yesterday, where he conspicuously picked up $22.97 worth of carnations -- three bundles altogether -- in red, white and blue. A day after he was spotted grocery sho ... More >>
Are you curious as to what Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation signature says about him? If so, you are in luck, because it has been analyzed! Thank you, Internet. Via the New York Times City Room blog, the signature, which resembles a lowercase "n" written by someone who might be having some s ... More >>
Sexting congressman Anthony Weiner said he'd call it quits from the House of Representatives back on Thursday, explaining that the "distraction [he] created" -- with his penis, mostly -- makes his work "impossible." Today came the official letter, addressed to New York Secretary of State Cesa ... More >>
