Anthony Weiner stands by spokeswoman who went on rant calling ex-intern a 'f--king slutbag', a 'tw-t

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: NY Post

Anthony Weiner’s foulmouthed flack Tweeted a mea culpa today — posting a photo of ‘swear jar” crammed with $100 bills and a Visa credit card after she blasted a former campaign intern as a “slutbag” and a “c-nt.”

“Not my best day yesterday,” Morgan wrote in the Twitter post. “Should’ve know better, been better. Gotta pay up.”

The posting came after Morgan let loose an explicit, profanity-laced tirade against former Weiner intern Olivia Nuzzi, who wrote an article about her experience with the embattled campaign.

Weiner today said he is sticking with his potty-mouthed press secretary, telling reporters “You bet!” when asked if Morgan still had a job after her maniacal meltdown.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/anthony_weiner_spokeswoman_barbara_MplV8ar11xDSC6JPEd8TxJ

[Fuddnik]

1. He'll be reduced to doing Enzyte commercials soon.

[hrmjustin]

11. lol.

[Marie Marie]

25. Smilin' Weiner???

[BeyondGeography]

28. Carlos Dangerfield

No respect, I tell ya.

[Journeyman]

2. As I read this I picture a sketch from the Dave Chappelle Show, and the voice over intoning. . .

"The Weiner Campaign. Keepin' It Real."


From Wikipedia:

When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong – A documentary style sketch which serves as a cautionary tale about when not to "keep it real" (be completely honest). The sketch depicts events in which a character is just minding their business until someone else says or does something that the first character doesn't like. The character is given a choice: ignore the alleged provocation, or "keep it real" (get confrontational and be antagonistic with whomever provoked them), with the character going with the latter, all the while boasting about how they "keep it real." Eventually the character's decision backfires severely on them, thus ruining their life, while the person who provoked them is having the time of their life, and the character's friends shunning the character's choice to "keep it real".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappelle%27s_Show

[awoke_in_2003]

27. Yeah, I remember those skits...

it seems Weiner is one big "Keeping it real gone wrong"

[alp227]

3. WHY WEINER WHY?????

Is he stupid or something? Sadly, even a "liberal Democratic" man proves why the USA needs feminism. Weiner wouldn't have a problem hiring right wing misogynists like Rush Limbaugh or Erick Erickson!

[BainsBane]

6. Yes, he's stupid. nt.

[MADem]

18. When you break down this guy's career, what has he ever really DONE?

What legislation has he passed? What causes has he touted and when has he made a difference?

I kind of think he's made a career out of blabbing about what he's "gonna" do, not what he's done.

I just get the impression that he's all talk, no walk..... completely aside from his creepy habits of body display to strangers.

[Hekate]

32. Weiner is a flasher in need of a trench coat

A man for whom the word "schmuck" was invented.

[joshcryer]

35. He knew all the right talking points and policy positions.

And he could elucidate those positions pretty well.

That's all it takes to be considered a good progressive to some.

[MADem]

37. Mucho talk, poco walk. Too many words, not enough deeds! nt

[joshcryer]

38. Policy positions are sometimes incompatible with political compromise.

So if you hold a position that is really strong on something it is very difficult to compromise on that position.

[MADem]

47. True that. It sometimes makes for a lousy politician, though.

Rigid die-hards don't get much done, don't make friends in their legislative chambers, and no one is inclined to "go to the mat" for them.

Even Ted Kennedy, the Liberal Lion of the Senate, knew when to cut the deal. I've just never seen Weiner's name on anything--he likes to talk, he apparently doesn't like to do the tough work of crafting legislation. All I've ever seen of him are news clips where he delivers clever repartee about issues--usually with FauxSnooze anchors ("Megyn, Megyn" comes to mind). That's not a resume for a legislator--that's more like a PR flak.

Granted, I am not from NYC, and I am an advocate of letting people pick their own politicians, good or bad. All politics IS local. He just never impressed me by his deeds. I knew by his words that he'd vote the right way, but I never saw any works that suggested he'd carry the ball down the field. More of a fan than a player, if you will...!

[PatrynXX]

4. hell the way everyone is now

Clinton really would have been kicked out. It's still no scandal and none of my biz. Can't imagine the stress coming from all sides from possible liars. Money Grubbers etc

[BainsBane]

7. Don't put Clinton in the same category with this fool

How you handle a scandal matters. This guy has no clue.

[matthews]

17. If I recall correctly, they both handled it the same way until they were faced with proof.

Didn't they BOTH deny it? It wasn't until things were a full-blown shit storm with the family's involved that they finally figured out that the truth was going to come out, eventually.

Clinton then went the Webster's Thesaurus route and decided to base his defense on the meaning of two and three letter words. i.e. 'sex' and 'is'.

Weiner has simply gone batshit crazy.

[BainsBane]

22. Clinton didn't stand behind a foul-mouthed communications director

hurl sexist epithets at an accuser. There are many other differences. He also had a legacy of success to back him up. Weiner's got nothing but stupidity.

[matthews]

24. Yeah, Clinton was a pure as the driven slush (as an old comedian once said) nt

[Hekate]

31. Yeah, yourself. We knew Clinton was the Big Dog, not "pure". He also had a solid...

... record of accomplishment as both governor and president. The Big Dog embarrassed himself, and the GOP was the crowd that pushed impeachment, not the rest of us. "Censure and Move On" was founded for those of us who thought the whole thing was stupid past belief.

What is Weiner by now? He's a half-term congressman. He'll never be elected to dogcatcher, much less mayor of NYC.

Weiner is a guy who needs a trench coat if he's going to go around flashing himself.

[matthews]

33. I'm not sticking up for Weiner or his weiner. I can't believe he's even back trying to run for

public office, let alone mayor of NYC. That was what made me pretty sure that he was batshit crazy. And now with all this other stuff coming out, he must be crazy. He's sure not the kind of guy that I believe capable of having the good judgement and critical thinking skills necessary to run one of the greatest cities on the planet.

As for the other one, Bill Clinton came into office when the dot.com bubble started to grow and left office just as it was starting to blow. He was lucky to inherit an economy that was going to be the 'service' economy? Remember that? I.T. and innovation and all that stuff. We were going to be doing all the world's record keeping and we would king of the intertubes (which lasted until corporate America decided India was the place for everything 'servicy'). But that's okay, gave us CAFTA/NAFTA, signed the repeal of Glass-Stegall, and took all them Cadillacs away from them deadbeat welfare mamas.

Bill's pecker is the least of what I feel Clinton's problems are/were/always will be.

[24601]

21. And did Clinton ever promise he wouldn't do it again? Don't recall that he did. Voters also don't

like another broken promise.

[eilen]

46. During Clinton's first campaign for president

he had some problems with fidelity and truth. Then the scandals didn't stop, --Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey-- so when Lewinsky came around, some people were just tired of it. Some were already so jaded they did not care. However, he was a serial cheater and lied about it which doesn't make him any better than Weiner in that regard except that Weiner did not cheat. Thing is, if Bill had access to social networks as they exist today, things would prob. have been worse.

Of course, this is all in regard to their personal behavior, not professional which is also open to debate but not one I am willing to participate in at this time.

Weiner participated in some internet flirting. The nature of the flirting was tawdry and probably personal and NOMB but last I checked he was not engaging in Craigslist hookups, trasnporting and cavorting with prostitutes nor were any policy decisions informed by his flirtations.

[hrmjustin]

5. I can't believe I was going to vote for this guy.

[BainsBane]

8. I'm glad you're not

He has no judgement and is a complete idiot, from what I can see.

[hrmjustin]

9. We found out today here that he did this stuff a year after his resignation. No control whatsoever.

[Common Sense Party]

29. Is there any proof that he tried to hush up the sextee woman by offering her a job?

Or is that still an unconfirmed rumor?

[Stuckinthebush]

42. I think a lot of people are saying that

He is scum and needs to be far away from power.

[customerserviceguy]

10. I guess he's trying to hang on

to whatever 'friends' he still has, no matter what.

[TriplD]

12. Morgan's first name is Barbara

Funny how everyone else has a first and last name in the story. I guess they didn't think it would have the same effect if they didn't allow their readers to assume Morgan was a man.

[quakerboy]

13. Umm... What difference would that make?

Without knowing the first name, I understood the press secretary to be a woman. I doubt they would have gone with "potty mouthed" otherwise. The whole tone of the article reflected this, Pretty sure a guy would have gotten "foul mouthed" and the tone would have been harsher.

[TriplD]

14. A woman calling another woman a cunt

is hard to spin as sexist, while implying it was a man who said it makes being a sexist virtually a given.

They saw fit to give everyone else involved first and last name. It seems they were deliberate in leaving Ms Murphy's sex ambiguous in order to conflate Weiner with sexism.

I don't believe forgetting to add her first name or a title/prefix to "Murphy" was simply an editing mistake. Not from the NY Post.

[jobycom]

23. The headline calls her a "spokeswoman."

The pic at the top of the article identifies her as "Barbara Morgan." Her name is on the tweet cap halfway down the article.

[Psephos]

30. You think that only a man can be sexist?

You don't seem to realize that makes YOU a sexist.

"A woman calling another woman a cunt is hard to spin as sexist, while implying it was a man who said it makes being a sexist virtually a given."

[Sheldon Cooper]

40. Wow. Are we reading the same article?

Her gender is right in the headline! Anthony Weiner stands by "spokeswoman"...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/anthony_weiner_spokeswoman_barbara_MplV8ar11xDSC6JPEd8TxJ

Here's a picture of her:


And here are some quotes from the article. I added the emphasis:
Anthony Weiner’s foulmouthed flack Tweeted a mea culpa today — posting a photo of ‘swear jar” crammed with $100 bills and a Visa credit card after she blasted a former campaign intern as a “slutbag” and a “c-nt.”

Here's her Twitter:

BarbaraKMorgan @BarbaraKMorgan
Not my best day yesterday. Should've known better, been better. Gotta pay up


Weiner today said he is sticking with his potty-mouthed press secretary, telling reporters “You bet!” when asked if Morgan still had a job after her maniacal meltdown. “It’s a very tough job. Everyone who has ever worked for him understands the pressure she’s under,” a former Weiner staffer said of Morgan.

Morgan – who left a $105,000-a-year gig with the New Jersey Dept. of Education to work for Weiner -- started coming unwound last week, after she and others in camp Carlos Danger were blindsided by news that their candidate had continued having cyber sex with random women more than a year after he resigned Congress in disgrace.

Last week, an incensed Morgan called Post reporters and editors and unleashed several expletive-laden rants on Weiner’s behalf. She later said her curse-filled diatribes were “off the record.”

Yesterday, Morgan called Nuzzi a fame-hungry “bitch” who “sucked” at her job in a rant to TPM, a political website. She went on to call Nuzzi a “f-cking tw-at".

Women can be every bit as nasty and sexist as men, and there's no need to 'spin' any of that. It was quite clear to me that Morgan is a woman - kinda hard to miss it, really.

[Freddie Stubbs]

39. The headline from the article identifies her as a spokeswoman

Spokeswomen are usually female.

[kestrel91316]

15. If he's not a repuke he's sure doing a pretty good imitation, lol.

(yes, I know he's a Dem)

[marble falls]

16. Each the only one that would endorse the other. How much more surreal does it get?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. I'm glad she wasn't fired

There is just too much entertainment yet to be had here. Besides, I bet she's got a few pics of The Wiener's junk on her iPhone.

[frylock]

20. no telling what she may disclose if he were to cut her loose

[Nye Bevan]

26. Is this simply the worst campaign for anything, ever?

Does anyone have a worse one?

[DeSwiss]

34. ''Ehh, I don't know what everybody is getting so upset about!''

[center]
''My staff are a reflection of ME, okay? Hell, I talk like that all
the time. Huma says my potty-mouth is my best feature....''[/center]

- I tend to cut New Yorkers a little slack seeing how they have to live with Bloomberg as their mayor. That'd drive me crazy for sure......

[Pelican]

36. Might as well...

He has about as much chance of becoming mayor as I do...

[Skidmore]

41. What nasty sleazy people.

In what universe is it acceptable to treat one another with such disrespect?

[Stuckinthebush]

43. The sooner this fool is off the stage, the better

Why in the world hasn't he quit yet? Does he not get it?

Lord.

[Sunlei]

44. what will they do with the million cash in the swear-jar?

[Dash87]

45. Such class...

Because publicly smearing someone's name in a profanity-laced rant will totally make you believable and the other person look bad.

[Pterodactyl]

48. That's digusting. People who say things like that about women have no place in campaigns.