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Anthony Weiner Headlines Skip Weinergate Dick Puns on the Front Page

The Most Mature Paper in Town​More than a week into the Anthony Weiner scandal, the shit hit the fan, but our local New York newspapers were already running on empty if this morning's front pages are any indication. Last week brought us New York Post gems like "Battle of the Bulge," "Weiner Ex ... More >>

Spirit Airlines Hosting 'Weiner Sale' With 'Hard' to Resist Deals, Limited Pun Creativity

​Let's hand it to Spirit Airlines, the budget travel company, for making a real stretch to capitalize on current events. Instead of leaving cheating website Ashley Madison all of the post-Anthony Weiner glory, Spirit connected a New York congressman to purchasing air travel with only one under ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart of Big Government Hijacks Anthony Weiner Press Conference

​Media gathered at the Sheraton hotel in New York City on Monday afternoon to hear Anthony Weiner explain today's onslaught of embarrassment, but got another circus instead. Before Weiner eventually spoke, Breitbart seemingly hijacked the press conference microphone, taking questions from the ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Admits in Press Conference That Dirty Pictures Are of Him, Sent By Him

Looks like Weiner... without a shirt​"The picture was of me and I sent it," Anthony Weiner admitted at a press conference on Monday of the infamous boxer picture that started Weinergate. Rep. Weiner went on to admit to "several conversations" with women he met online, having exchanged "message ... More >>

Meagan Broussard Revealed as One of Anthony Weiner's Online Lady Friends

Broussard's Facebook​As we spin numbly in the media circus now surrounding Weinergate, yet another character has been added to the mix. Her name is Meagan Broussard, and she is a 26-year-old single mom from Texas. ABC News reports that Broussard provided them with "dozens of photos, emails, F ... More >>

Anthony Weiner: Grilled, But Not Done Yet

Anthony Weiner, in a PG-13 photo from his Facebook page​Clearly, Anthony Weiner's belated and Breitbart-crashed take-his-medicine press conference this afternoon was aimed at putting the lid on a story that's dominating the headlines. And with a week's worth of covering-up apparently done, it's a ... More >>

Anthony Weiner's Use Of TweetDeck: What Does It Mean For The Hacking Alibi?

​The Daily is semi-dropping bombs today in an article about Anthony Weiner's potentially incriminating use of TweetDeck. They obtained data from TweetCongress.org, which compiles all congressional tweets, and found that the third-party Twitter app was used for all of Weiner's tweets the night ... More >>

Anthony Weiner 'Can't Say With Certitude' If a Picture of His Dick Started Weinergate

​With evasive answers and all-around awkwardness, Anthony Weiner is making sure #Weinergate doesn't go away any time soon, as we guessed it might yesterday before a head-smackingly bad press conference made the guy look guilty as hell. This afternoon, Weiner told Luke Russert of NBC News that ... More >>

Anthony Weiner's "Weinergate": Did He Tweet a NSFW Picture to a College Girl? (Update)

​Last night, Anthony Weiner may or may not have purposefully tweeted a picture of his boxer-clad erect penis to a college girl in Washington state. Well, the @RepWeiner account certainly did tweet it, but Weiner is saying he's been hacked. The girl in question is reportedly one Gennette Cordov ... More >>

NYC Congressmen Propose Bill to Give Bin Laden Bounty to 9/11 Survivors

​Democratic representatives Anthony Weiner and Jerrold Nadler are proposing a bill that would award the $50 million in Osama Bin Laden bounty money to first responders, survivors, and families of victims of 9/11. (This is something I didn't know: In 2001, the Rewards for Justice Program set up a $ ... More >>

Anthony Weiner is Taking Questions on Reddit

​To mark the 1st anniversary of President Barack Obama's health care reform, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York's 9th congressional district is taking questions on the popular social news site Reddit. The "IAmA" section, which has been home to people dying (but actually lying) and Jeopardy! champ ... More >>

What to Do With a Statue Nobody Likes? Sell It on Craigslist, Says Anthony Weiner

​A statue of a nude, muscle-bound, leaf-festooned, sword-bearing man "standing atop two bare-chested mermaids" has stood at the corner of Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike for 90 years. It's called "Triumph of Civic Virtue," but people just hate it. They've hated it, like, forever! Back in t ... More >>

9/11 Health Care Bill Gets House Approval, Finally

​Remember back in July when Anthony Weiner went nuts over the defeat of the 9/11 health care bill -- which would have paid for the health care of people who got sick from the toxic ash they inhaled while helping people/cleaning up/living after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11? H ... More >>

Gays Still Can't Give Blood

​You'd think anyone who wanted to fight in the armed forces would be hugely welcomed, especially with an international crisis going on--but no, not gays! You'd suspect that anyone crazy enough to get married should be given carte blanche to do whatever they want about it--but no, not gays!

Anthony Weiner Discusses Healthcare With Confused Peggy Noonan

The healthcare debate has been a little light on things to enjoy, so be especially grateful for Congressman Anthony Weiner reducing Wall Street Journal pundit Peggy Noonan to more-than-usual incoherence on Morning Joe yesterday. Highlights: Noonan's airy set speech on Obama's "fatally off point" mis ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Gets Vocal about Health Care and "Altar" of Moderation

​Anthony Weiner's been speakin' out a lot lately, and continues the trend. Earlier this month, Weiner growled about the President's bipartisan health care outreaches, "Good luck with that. The GOP has been the 'Party of No' all year." Now that it looks like the Democrats are trying to push t ... More >>

Yanks' Yom Kippur Shanda Repaired By Anthony Weiner

​In April Anthony Weiner, at the behest of Jewish groups, made good and sure that the Jets didn't play football after sundown on Yom Kippur, getting the league to change the time of a September 27 game at the Meadowlands. Weiner did the same thing to Major League Baseball treatment this week: ... More >>

Weiner Continues Senior Town Halls; Accused of Communism, Delaying Lunch

Anthony Weiner is no longer getting away with short-notice, low-impact health care town halls. He went to a senior center in Midwood yesterday and, per the Daily News, got an earful of finely aged rage. "I came to eat and I came to eat on time," one retiree said. "They are having chicken marsala tod ... More >>

Post Finds Seniors "Roasting" Weiner at Howard Beach Town Brawl

You gotta get up pretty early to put one past the New York Post. Last week Anthony Weiner, obviously hoping to avoid the rough treatment his fellow elective officials (the President excepted, of course) have been getting at Health Care Town Meetings, did a quickie with little advance notice at a sen ... More >>

Weiner On the Street Where He Lived: I'm Out of It!

Anthony Weiner had the press meet him at his parent's brownstone in Park Slope this morning to say he's not running for mayor -- all over again!It was a repeat performance for the congressman from Brooklyn who had the same moment of truth in front of the cameras in the exact same spot ("This is wher ... More >>

New York Mag Wag Does Anthony Weiner

By the time Anthony Weiner bailed on the idea of challenging Mike Bloomberg for his City Hall job, New York Magazine's own ever-resilient Mark Jacobson already had enough fun bits in his notebook to make a good read on the life and loves of this self-described "scrawny dork who graduated from Platt ... More >>

Weiner: House Bill Could Give NY 2,100 New Cops

If Anthony Weiner does decide to get back in the Mayor's race, he'll have something to brag on besides standing up for Jewish Jets fans: his bill to reauthorize the federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program just passed in the House. If it gets through the Senate unscathed, Weiner ... More >>

Weiner on Housing Crisis and a Cranky Mayor

For a guy who put his would-be race for mayor on hold weeks ago, Anthony Weiner is busier than ever these days. Last week he was getting the Jets to change their schedule so it didn't conflict with Jewish high holidays this fall. This afternoon the topic was the city's housing crisis which he addres ... More >>

Your Quarter to Buy 10 Minutes Less in New Parking Meters

Chicagoans are sore about their expensive privatized parking meters. Here in New York, when our overlords want to squeeze more money out of us, they don't try anything so likely to get attention. The city has quietly begun changing the time a quarter buys on a parking meter from 30 to 20 minutes. Th ... More >>

Weiner Steps Up War Against Smoking, For Profit

Between the recent jump in taxes on city-sold cigarettes and Congress' bill to put the FDA in charge of tobacco products, smokers have been getting it in the neck lately, and some may consider buying their smokes tax-free online to save a few bucks. Anthony Weiner wants to put a stop to that. He is ... More >>

Weiner Suddenly Not So Hot to Declare for Mayor

Just a month ago, Anthony Weiner toured the five boroughs and said, "there's a conversation we need to have in the city... and I'm going to be leading that conversation." He's been raising money for a mayoral campaign. So you may be forgiven for thinking Weiner is running for mayor. But not quite, ... More >>

Car Talk: Cell Phone Driver Sweep, Non-Resident Bridge Tolls

It's not only that we can't afford a car -- driving in the city just seems a nightmare. And it's about to get worse. The NYPD has announced a sweep to crack down on drivers using cell phones behind the wheel. That's a hundred-dollar maximum fine, folks, and "mandatory surcharges of $60." And though ... More >>

Weiner Comes Out Fighting -- Kind Of

Weiner Does 5-Borough Tour, Proposes GPS for Sex Offenders

Congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner stepped up his game this weekend. On Saturday he put out a release complaining that there are "109 Sex Offenders Living within 10 Blocks" of local YMCAs, YWCAs, YMHAs and YWHAs. His proposed solution is $100 million in federal funds for GPS tracking t ... More >>

Loose, Funny (!) Weiner Blasts Mayor, Council

Anthony Weiner: GOP Got It "Off Their Chest," Will Deal on Bailout

You Better Work! (With a New Class of Visa): The Foreign Model Dilemma

Tony Avella is Mad as Hell (And Running for Mayor)

Hate 2006? Relive 2005!

Weiner Thinks I Need a Raise

Weiner: Out on My Own

Weiner's Graceful Exit

Poll Vault Buzz at Weinuh Rally

Katrina's Impact Hits Weiner

Anthony's Homework is Missing

Roosevelt Island Seethes!

It's Raining Endorsements

Goin' Hungry After Weiner Policy Pitch

Nice Guys Finish Third

Weiner and Miller are fighting to make the runoff. Or are they?

Weiner & The Rating Game

Dems Debate: Not Easy Like Sunday Morning

Weiner Hospitalized On Debate Day

Statistics Still Do Lie

Ferrer and Undecided lead muddled Democratic primary pack

Weiner's Cash Stash Grows

Weiner Runs on Faith