OK, I admit it: when I heard this morning that Rep. Weiner had supposedly sent a coed a picture of his (encased) genitalia via Twitter, I assumed that somebody was just having his or her little joke by hacking into the man’s account and indicating that Weiner is, as I put it, one of the bigger d*cks in Congress. But that was before Ace of Spades demolished this argument utterly (H/T: Neil Stevens) (remember, folks [and bad Moe!]: identity theft is a crime), so now I am taking this seriously as a possible scandal, and I found something interesting going on. Somebody’s scrubbing the recipient’s Internet presence, even as we speak.
The coed’s name (one Gennette Cordova) was (obviously) easily accessible, thanks to the wonders of screenshots (such as the ones done by Doug Ross, via The Other McCain), so it was a fairly trivial exercise to do a search for her name, prior to May 2011. Turns out she’s a writer for her local college: examples here and here and here. Except that Cordova’s name is no longer on those articles: compare this to this, and this to this… and compare this to this, which has an extra layer of scrubbing going on. That last one is most interesting, because it’s the one that Lee Stranahan over at Patterico noted was an article apparently written by Cordova that talked about how sites like Twitter and Facebook would allow people opportunities to meet their ‘celebrities.’
Whether or not those sites also allowed one specific person an opportunity to meet one particular, specifically-directed set of celebrity genitals at one remove is still up in the air: but I am very much wondering why it was suddenly necessary to remove Ms. Cordova’s name from all of her article bylines.
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By the way: Weiner has apparently not actually done anything about his account being hacked, past making jokes about somebody committing identity-theft on a sitting Congressman’s online presence. Odd, huh?
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I think the issue is that he didn't cover up enough
rickbull Sunday, May 29th at 1:44AM EST (link)before he snapped the picture. Is it just me, or do we have WAY too many perv’s serving in our legislature?
WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).
Yep. Every time Dominique Strauss-Kahn struck
usdebateboard Sunday, May 29th at 10:17AM EST (link)there was a cadre of his true believers goading his victim into hushing up, because he was a “socialist politician with a bright future.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721094/posts
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/24/friends-strauss-kahn-reportedly-offered-hush-money-alleged-victims-family/
Doubling down on the scum.
Oh, I wish I wasn't Anthony Weiner
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 2:35AM EST (link)nt
Does all (or any) of this imply...
merryj1 Sunday, May 29th at 2:41AM EST (link)…that there’s a young woman with enough basic brain-power to make it into an institution of ‘higher learning’ who actually wants to meet,, let alone, apparently, have some kind of one-on-one interaction-thingy going, with that vicious, nasty little worm?
And this ‘warm fuzzy’ developed, presumably, from the way he presents himself and comes across on media interviews?
Wow. That thought just makes my skin crawl. This one should be filed in the same basket of inexplicables as the “fan letters” some distrubed women send to serial killers.
Oops.
merryj1 Sunday, May 29th at 2:43AM EST (link)“distrubed” should have read “disturbed.” Apparently the afore-mentioned budding “Like” was more… well, disturbing, than I realized
Anthony Weiner: Hypocrite
Jake W (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 3:04AM EST (link)http://www.weiner.house.gov/news_display.aspx?id=610
He introduced legislation last week to stop sexual harassment on college campuses.
“College should be a place where young women can go to explore their interests, learn, and grow in a safe, nurturing environment. But for too many women, campus life includes sexual harassment.
According to a Department of Justice survey, college women experience a wide range of sexually victimizing behavior on campus, including unwanted sexual comments or contact, threats, coercion, stalking and rape or attempted rape.”
And now, this…………..
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So is that a hint
Gmac Sunday, May 29th at 8:39AM EST (link)that she’s about to “disappear” literally and figuratively?
Is she going to be placed in a witness protection program for his sake?
Should a resignation date pool be started?
Oh wait… He has a ‘D’ after his name…
In the immortal words of Rosanna Rosanna Danna: "Nevermind!"
rickbull Sunday, May 29th at 4:00PM EST (link)NT
WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).
Actually, that would have been Emily Litella
ceili_dancer (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 4:33PM EST (link)Roseanne Rosanna Danna would have said, “It’s always something you have a wennie roast, or you have a roasted Weiner.” or some thing to that effect.
Oops! You are 100% correct.
rickbull Sunday, May 29th at 5:20PM EST (link)Please pardon my faux pas.
WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).
Does it really matter?
doncorleone Sunday, May 29th at 9:54AM EST (link)From the tax money “rangler”, to chucky the “attack poodle”, no need for a psuedonym wiener, the duped limosine libs, blacks and jews in n.y. will vote them back in hands down. Scandals are a badge of honour for democrat legistators. We have ours on our side too, most have the “decency” to resign or retire.
Unlike its treatment of Chris Lee...
usdebateboard Sunday, May 29th at 9:59AM EST (link)Nothing short of a full blown expose’, Gawker is non-plussed.
http://m.gawker.com/5806545/did-anthony-weiner-tweet-pic-of-his-weiner
A roaring front pager for the NYT, sure
johnt Sunday, May 29th at 11:02AM EST (link)You can’t fool the sophisticates of NYC, a Bloomberg, a Weiner, a host of other degenerates and revolutionaries. I bet he gets reelected, don’t doubt it. I won’t even start going into the precedents for pervs & freaks, Democrats, returning to office. It must be their compassion.
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Where'd "they" get the pic of him to post/hack, anyway?
frankieb (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 12:18PM EST (link)He’ll slither out of this, I’m sure. But the most disturbing sentence referred to him was as a potential candidate for mayor of NYC. First Nanny Bloomberg and then, possibly, Wormy Weiner? Talk about killing off tourism!
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The Twitter Pic is not the Congressman
bkeyser Sunday, May 29th at 1:57PM EST (link)A photo from a 2010 fundraiser is more revealing.
Mods, in my opinion, this link should be removed. nt
Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 2:18PM EST (link)The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)
Done. nt
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Wow
bkeyser Sunday, May 29th at 3:04PM EST (link)Didn’t expect the link above would be offensive. My apologies.
exif data
crispian Sunday, May 29th at 3:35PM EST (link)Did anyone download the original picture (not just a screenshot)? If so, has anyone compared the exif data to that of other Wiener pictures? Would be quite exceptional for the hacker to use the same camera.
So what did he screw up?
jeffreywturner (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 3:43PM EST (link)Obviously he didn’t mean for everyone to see this.
Did he just tweet something publicly that he meant to be a private message? Or are we thinking he was actually drunk or high enough o do this on purpose?
“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”
Moe, you may want to get a screenshot of this before it disappears
sharonmcp (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 4:06PM EST (link)Unfortunately for little Anthony, google’s not the only search engine in town with cache capability.
A cached page of the young lady in question’s Facebook page. Ironically she listed “Conspiracy Theories” as one of her interests. LOL
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%40GennetteNicole&d=4963277300567237&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=1b60e9df,45979a57
Plus cached pages of the articles with her name scrubbed.
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Gennette+cordova&d=4508912703571684&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=9d432a25,d9ebdce0
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22Doug+McKeever%3a+Solid+as+a+Rock%22&d=4901945159911808&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=ac4081cd,8043cf58
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22hit+the+ground+running%22+by+gennette+cordova&d=4909207939715476&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=bd7059c4,1a90c228
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madconservative Sunday, May 29th at 5:18PM EST (link)There’s always a job at CNN if he doesn’t keep this one. Maybe he can co-host with Client #9.
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Gennette Cordova has issued a statement
sharonmcp (Diary) Sunday, May 29th at 9:54PM EST (link)http://www.nydailynews.com
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I can see it now, GOP hitmen take aim at Weiner
johnnyd (Diary) Monday, May 30th at 10:48AM EST (link)They are saying this is a hit job on Weiner.