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Friday, June 10, 2011

Politics / SEX Did They Learn Nothing From Monicagate?

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:42 AM

No one thinks it's a good idea for politicians to get consensual-but-adulterous blowjobs from interns in the Oval Office or to send embarrassing sexts to random people who follow them on Twitter. But voters know sex that sex and desire are messy and that politicians are human and, like other humans (including voters), politicians sometimes do stupid, reckless things in pursuit of sex. So long as their actions aren't illegal or hypocritical, voters are pretty willing to give wayward pols a pass. So Clinton is an elder statesman now, Vitter got his diaper-clad ass reelected, Spitzer is on the teevee, and Newt is stumbling for president. There's no reason Weiner should resign. (Edwards may be the exception that proves the new rules.)

And Weiner says he isn't resigning. And his constituents don't want him to resign. So it's time for the folks who are calling for Weiner's resignation—shiteating Republicans, cowardly Democrats, handwringing pundits—to STFU already.

 

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But didn't Weiner lie about it, on camera, for several days? I think your defense of the sexting is a straw man argument - that's NOT what people are upset about. It's the dishonesty.
Posted by Reymont on June 10, 2011 at 9:58 AM · Report
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Wasn't it called 'zippergate'?
Posted by Allan on June 10, 2011 at 10:04 AM · Report
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IT'S NOT THE PICTURES!!! IT'S THAT HE LIED ABOUT THEM FOR DAYS!!! So why don't you STFU already!!! (I see that you skipped the whole 'he lied for a week part, can't blame conservatives for half truths when YOU are willing to use them to make YOUR point!!!)
Posted by buggybison on June 10, 2011 at 10:23 AM · Report
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NEWS FLASH!!!!! Politicians lie all the fucking time about matters that are way more important than whether that is their junk in that picture, and frequently nobody calls them on it.

Who the fuck cares whether he lied about a private issue that the media had no business sticking its nose in to in the first place? The very questions that they were asking him were intrusive, creepy, and reprehensible in the first place. ie "Is that your junk in the picture?" They do not deserve a pass, nor do they deserve to benefit from that kind of creepy badgering.
Posted by guspasho on June 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM · Report
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....and we've now resurrected most of the arguments from the Sam Adams scandal, in just four comments. Good job, everyone.
Posted by Reymont on June 10, 2011 at 12:43 PM · Report

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