(AUDIO) MILLER: Anthony Weiner’s lewd jokes

*Warning: The following report includes lewd content. The language has been transcribed verbatim ?to highlight the inappropriate behavior of a Member of Congress, especially in reference to jokes of a sexual nature he made to women in a professional setting.

The high value target for reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday was Rep. Anthony Weiner. However, the New York Democrat looked non-plussed as he strode off the floor of the House of Representatives after casting several votes on appropriations bills.?

Mr. Weiner is the subject of a sexual scandal involving a close-up photo of a male crotch sent from his Twitter account to a female college student. He denied sending the photo, but refused to say whether the photo is of himself in gray underwear. He has claimed that his account was hacked, but refuses to report the internet cyber security issue to the U.S. Capitol Police or any other law enforcement agency.?

I saw the congressman walk out the the glass doors that lead off the House floor to the Speaker’s Lobby, an area reserved only for the media to interview Members as they go to and from votes. ?As he walked into the hallway, I quickly turned to approach him. To my shock, he stopped directly in front of me and offered to answer questions. He stood a mere six inches away from me while he rebutted our questions, while bizarrely making repeated penis jokes.?

You can click to listen to the audio of Mr. Weiner’s off-camera press conference today. I missed taping the first minute of the impromptu event because I was fumbling to get my tape recorder and hit record while he stood so close to me. Here are some of the highlights, or rather lowlights, of the encounter:?

Weiner: We don't know where the photograph came from. We don’t know for sure what’s on it. We don't know for sure if it was manipulated. If it was taken out of one place and dropped something else. And I’m going to let this firm get to the bottom of all that. Jon Stewart might have actually been right last night.?

The comedian Jon Stewart and Rep. Weiner have been friends for 25 years and used to stay at the same beach house in Dewey Beach, D.E.

Miller: Are there pictures out there of you have undressed? Do you have pictures that exist?

Weiner: You know this is part of the problem with the way in which this has progressed and one of the reasons that I was, ?perhaps -- you’ll forgive me -- a little bit stiff yesterday.... [laughter as Weiner smirks at a male reporter]

Reporter: We’ve used the word firm, we’ve used the word...

Weiner: Can I ask, is there a weiner joke that hasn’t been used in this context?

Miller: You’re making them all, though...?

Weiner: I’m making them all?

Miller: You’re making all those....

Weiner: I would refer you to any of the coverage of this case, the jokes kind of write themselves.?

Mr. Weiner’s penis jokes didn’t stop there.?

Miller: How did someone get a picture of you in your underwear, if that’s possible?

Weiner: We don’t know where this photo came from, if it’s been manipulated, which is a possibility. As Jon Stewart alluded to last night, there are reasons to believe it might have been. [Weiner smiled at a male reporter and laughed.]

On his Tuesday night show, Mr. Stewart made the joke that he remembered his friend as being less well-endowed. “In real life, my memory is this cat had a lot more Anthony and a lot less Weiner. This is not what I remember,” said the Comedy channel host.?

Weiner spoke about being a private citizen and said the whole incident was about getting spam.?

Weiner: We don't know that it’s a police matter. I got spam yesterday....

Reporter: How can it not be?

Weiner: How can it not be? Very easily. Every day all of us get spam. Every day all of us have people responding to us, ‘“ can’t believe you’re sending me this.”

Reporter: You’re a Member of Congress

Weiner: I’m a Member of Congress. I’m also a citizen. There’s nothing official about someone sending... by the way....

Miller: You’re standing in the Speaker’s Lobby, having 40, 75 reporters around you. If this is an issue of the Capitol Police, if this is....

Weiner: Why?

Miller: Because you’re a Member of Congress standing in this Capitol...?

Weiner: But a Member of Congress doesn't mean when someone sends a piece of spam to my account, doesn't make it a federal offense

Miller: But this whole issue could go away....

Weiner: I am trying to find out, and I think I have taken steps to do so. If you’ll forgive me, I know we’re now in the weeds of a particular issue. If you can take a step back-- not literally-- you can step as close as you like.?

Let’s remember what happened here. A congressman named Weiner who has a rather edgy, perhaps aggressive Twitter feed. Where he was spending the whole day poking at Clarence Thomas, gets a Twitter picture of fill in the blank.?

This was a prank, intended to derail me or distract me, whatever it is. It is not a federal case. Now maybe it will turn out --- forgive me --- that this is the point of al Qaeda’s sword [laughter] ...

and that this is the effort, this is where it’s going to begin. And I’ve asked internet security to take a look at my private internet feed. my private twitter feed that has 45,000 followers, more than Michele Bachmann, I want to point that out, I finally passed her.?

At the end of the media scrum, Mr. Weiner said loftily that that there were areas of the scandal which he would not discuss. ?He said that "at some point I have to draw a line and I'm drawing that line now", and then he went on CNN and Fox News.?

Listen to the full audio of Mr. Weiner here.?

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Weinergate: The Best Late-Night Jokes About Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter Scandal

New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has become the butt of late-night jokes after nearly-nude photos were sent via his Twitter account to a 21-year-old college student.

At first, the politician tried to downplay "Weinergate" by saying his Twitter account had been hacked. But he released a statement Wednesday admitting the photo -- of a man wearing just boxer shorts -- may be actually of him.

When asked on MSNBC if the photo was him, Weiner said, "You know, I can't say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated, pictures can be dropped in and inserted."

Joked Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's the Daily Show Wednesday: "I'm not certain of a lot of things. But there are three things in this world that I know for certain: Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. OJ killed those people. And what my erect penis looks like in my own underwear from a bird's-eye view."

Stephen Colbert also got in on the action: "I see only two options here: Either Anthony Weiner has too many photos of his junk to keep track of, or 'Certitiude' is his nickname for his penis."

Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson also mocked Weiner. "Congressman Weiner's Twitter account was hacked 'allegedly,' and someone texted a picture of his 'junior senator'? to a college girl. Now this is good news for me because I can Google 'wiener photos' at work and not get fired."

Weiner has downplayed the scandal, which broke over Memorial Day weekend, as a joke too.

"Tivo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next?" he posted on Twitter with hashtag "#TheToasterIsVeryLoyal."

He also posted on the microblogging site, "Touche Prof Moriarity. More Weiner Jokes for all my guests!"

On CNN Wednesday, he said, "When your name is Weiner, it goes with the territory.”

But, Weiner, who is married to Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, admitted, "There are photographs of me in the world, yes."

The photos first showed up on conservative blog Breitbart.com.

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Anthony Weiner Talks Israel, Finance Reform, "Weiner" Jokes On Reddit

Anthony Weiner Talks Israel, Finance Reform, "Weiner" Jokes On Reddit: Gothamist 32° our cities: AustinBostonChicagoLondonLos AngelesNew York CitySan FranciscoSeattleShanghaiTorontoWashington DC  Pledge Of Allegiance Back In School After Parents Complain  Cue Tiny Violins For Williamsburg Luxury Condo NIGHTMARE  Quentin Vs. Coen Art Show: This Is What Happens When You Dig On Swine featured Anthony Weiner Talks Israel, Finance Reform, "Weiner" Jokes On Reddit

 
Rep. Anthony Weiner In honor of the one-year anniversary of Obamacare passing yesterday, Rep. Anthony Weiner decreed it, "Ask Me Shit On Social Media Day." And more than anywhere else, he was inundated with questions on Reddit, in a thread which got more than 4000 comments by the end of the day. Some tough issues were addressed, some "weiner" jokes were made, and there were no awkward moments regarding his alleged mayoral aspirations. Here's a sampling of some of his responses to those hard-hitting questions on Israel, healthcare, his fear of The Count from Sesame Street, and bike lane jokes gone wrong:

On his "unconditional support" of Israel:

i dont think i let anyone slide - including my own beloved nation. but i proceed with a set of values that leads me to support Israel strongly: i support democracies. i support nations that have thriving debate and press freedoms. i support nations that respect women. and i support nations that support the rule of law.

Israel is not perfect. but they are surrounded by violent enemies.

the plight of the Palestinians is untenable. i pray for two states living side by side in peace. but that can happen only through negotiation.

He also discussed the differences between Democrats and Republicans:

my colleagues are mostly good and honorable people but the gop has a fundamentally different view of the world than I. i see the disparity of income and the pressures on the vanishing middle class and i line up to help those struggling. im a democrat.

they line up to defend the status quo and the winners in the deals. they are Republicans.

Weiner said he was against a long term extension of the Patriot Act, and "certainly against a permanent extension." He said that he thought President Obama is "doing a great job leading the nation and an average job leading our fight. i think when the president looks out his window he sees a cacophony of disparate voices shouting at each other and feels the need to quietly pursue the best deal for the american people." He went on to criticize the President for compromising too much, and for not coming to congress before taking action against Libya; he also said he regretted his own great compromise, voting for the Iraq War.

On the subject of "weiner" jokes, he said:

i heard my last original weiner gag in the 5th grade."vote for weiner, he'll be frank"(thank you. please tip your waitresses)

About his controversial bike lane quote, he said it was a joke-gone-wrong: "first it was a joke. but it make the story because we now have open and unnecessary warfare over bike lanes. its a false choice : bike lanes and true civic planning." Someone brought up Weiner's sardonic Click and Clack speech, and jokingly asked if he would fight to take away funding from Sesame Street, "a show about street hoodlums and cookie junkies." He responded: "I am so with you brother. do we really think that thing that lives in a trash can isnt a freak out to our children? and the vampire that counts stuff?! im scared just talking about it."

To the question of campaign finance reform, he said:

it is the foundation of so much of what ails the nation today. the supreme court has become an outgrowth of the pro business wing of the gop. we need a couple of things fast : transparency and improved rights of investors to stop public companies from crash landing on political campaigns.

im a middle class guy. if we dont have public financing soon, congress will have no more weiners. uh, let me rephrase that...

Weiner added that he'd keep reading through the thread, and return on Friday to "answer the top 5 upvoted questions via video." So if you have any burning questions for a future mayoral candidate who seems to understand how best to use social media, post your question here.

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips. By Ben Yakas in News on March 24, 2011 12:48 PM anthony weiner bike lanes healthcare israel questions reddit social media weiner jokes Other Interesting Stories Comments [rss] Tyler Colby HillHere's my political analysis...

JSK's progress and popularity made her predecessor, Iris Weinshall, look worse than Iris was already perceived by her Park Slope neighbors. And JSK did all this in a little black dress.

But push really came to shove when JSK ran a bike lane right up Iris Weinshall's alley, so to speak.

Seething, Iris warned her husband, the powerful US Senator Chuck Schumer, that there will be no Iris Weinshall sugar until Chuck does something about that skinny b***ch.

Chuck, ever wary of becoming known as Senator Pothole the Second indirectly orchestrates a media and legal campaign in attempt to discredit JSK - all just to win back Iris' sweet sweet lovin'.

Try as they might the paid hacks at the New York Post and even the New York Times cannot really ignite public outrage at JSKs bike lanes.

So Chuck, desperate and truly in danger of becoming Client #10, turns to his trusted mini-me, the appropriately named Anthony Weiner.

Weiner is a congressman from a district on the known edges of human civilization. Weiner, desperate himself to emerge from the swamps surrounding runway 22, eagerly accepts Chuck Shumer's directive without a second thought and begins to trash JSK and her project. He does so in front of Mayor Bloomberg and the New York Times and says "f****g" which, of course, guarantees press coverage.

Anthony, now having destroyed his credibility with the 18 to 88 year old demographic is backpedaling every so slowly hoping no one notices he's rolling the wrong way down a heavy trafficked lane.

And the irony of all this is that Chuck is still not tasting any Iris Weinshall honey.spiritrossOh so now he is just "joking" about his comments on bike lanes.

He realized he gave the middle finger to most any person 18-40 years old and now if covering his political arse.

The most frustrating thing about government is no one who is ever sincere ever runs.

At least Howard Dead will be president in 2016.Homer2323He is full of white guiltmoe pintourRecently at a talk at the New School, he said Israels borders were all of historic Palestine. 'From the sea to Jordan.'

So how come the Arabs living there dont have the same rights as Israelis? I'll tell you why, cause they arent Jewish. And thats what Israel is all about, seeing that Jewish people have a priviliged position and majority over the indigenous people living there, and then making out that they're the victim when the natives revolt. Forget that. Thats what we call racist where I'm from.HypocraticOathWhat are you blathering about? Arabs who live in Israel retain the very same rights as Jews. Can that be said for Jews who would dare to live in Arab nations?

I guess where you are from is a pretty crazy place.moe pintourThe West Bank and East Jersusalem are between the Sea and Jordan that Weiner says are Israel. Two Million Palestenians live there, so do 500K settlers and the IDF. Those Palestenians have NO rights in Israel despite their lives being wholly controlled by Israel.

This is why Israel is an aparthied state, because they control the land but don't the people in it rights...because those people are not Jewish. Because if they had EQUAL rights, they Israelis would lose their priviliged position.

capesh?

nice jobgo ask an arab-israeli if he feels he has the same rights as his jewish neighbors. i'm sure he would tell you a different story. the discrimination is rampant. they are not equal.ch_renterIs that arab woman a beard? I thought Weiner was gay.LazyNannyYup, a total closet case.
Anyway I wish Weiner would STFU. I can barely stand that other windbag Schumer.Amber Chandlerno way he's married to a hottie, one of hillary clinton's aids http://bit.ly/extyx9LeoMoonHis line about Israel sounds like a cop-out, but other than that, so far so good. But all politicians are liars.freddynycI guess back in the day before cyberbullying, kids like him actually had to endure physical beatings...MordicaiI hope he doesn't get hurt in the squared circle of the House! Or wait, it isn't a "fight club." I guess he might not get the armchair warrior vote, though, huh?tijuanatornadoThat pic looks like one of Ned Flanders' kidsblog comments powered by Disqus ? PreviousHome send a tip Got something to share? Let us know! From tips@gothamist.com

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