Anthony Weiner Heckled At Press Conference: Hecklers Shout Obscenities (VIDEO)

In announcing that he will resign from Congress on Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) was heckled as he addressed the media at a press conference in his New York district.

"I'm here again today to apologize for the mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused," said the embattled lawmaker, who had become embroiled in an online sexual controversy. "Today I am announcing my resignation from Congress."

Cheers from some in attendance could be heard as Weiner announced he was stepping down from his post. My Fox NY relays what happened next as the New York Democrat continued making his remarks:

One man continued to heckle Weiner, making it hard to hear his speech. The man yelled "bye-bye pervert" and asked him about the size of his penis.

Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife and a close adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, did not appear alongside her husband at the press conference.

Click here for a timeline chronicling the controversy leading up to Weiner's resignation. Click here for a rundown on the various women who have been linked or involved in the scandal.

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Comments

[camerateacher]

11:53 AM on 06/19/2011

we reap what we sow....Mr. Wiener is yet another narcissist sciopath that infect our political offices.

[JaneBowen1]

07:21 PM on 06/18/2011

LMAO!

[itemsold1]

06:45 PM on 06/18/2011

You're just now discoverin­g how weak democrats are? It took them two years to pass obama care with HUGE majorities­. Thankfully­, democrats are profoundly impotent. ==========
As the great William Butler Yeats wrote,

"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Just because you can yell louder and swing your beer belly around to knock people out of the way, it doesn't make you better or right...it just makes you a fat boor.

[JaneBowen1]

07:27 PM on 06/18/2011

This is just idiotic of you... Regardless who one decides to back in politics.... An Independent, Republican, Dem. GRASS ROOTS...etc., I am stunned at your NARROW MINDED BRAIN~ YOU to actually Wrote...."YOU'RE JUST NOW DISCOVERING HOW WEAK DEMOCRATS ARE?" ....lmao~ Do you really put EVERY POLITICAL GENRE into ONE category??? So...? Every Democratic person is weak....Hmmm??? well, you've got a pretty small opinion doll~ Seems pretty tough of you....lol...omg~ I ASSUME YOU ARE A NEGRO HATER TOO~....lol FREAK!!!!!!!

[camerateacher]

11:58 AM on 06/19/2011

Jane...Do you actually believe that what you said to items sold will actually be taken to heart and will affect some sort of paradigm shift?

[itemsold1]

06:41 PM on 06/18/2011

Where are the hecklers for John Boehner?

[Catholic Charities]

02:14 PM on 06/18/2011

Honestly people, it's easy to tear him down over this sophmoric social networking, but this is peanuts compared to the Pelosi, Boehner, Cantor, Graham closet skeletons. Weiner was getting to vocal so they got him. Yeah he did some stupid stuff, but in the bigger landscape I don't think it's even measureable.

[Veganie]

04:44 PM on 06/17/2011

Now that Congressman Weiner has resigned, who will take on the issues he was shining a light on such as Clarence Thomas's unreported household income from his wife and powerful conservative groups.

[airsyspro]

11:49 AM on 06/18/2011

How about Rangel, bet he is your kinds of guy. No unreported income from him.

[Veganie]

12:21 PM on 06/18/2011

Sounds more like your tax dodging billionaire friends

[fort9erdon]

02:13 AM on 06/19/2011

HE WAS AN ASS ! A RUDE, LOUDMOUTH, TYPICAL LYING, LIBERAL, SPINMASTER, NARCISSISTIC PIG! HE NEEDS TO FINISH THE JOB, AND JUMP OFF THE HIGHEST BUILDING IN HIS "EX-DISTRICT". HE WOULD NOT KNOW TRUTH, IF IT BIT HIM IN THE ASS!

[SonyaInTx]

04:16 PM on 06/17/2011

Well, that's the New York press. They can, and do, get pretty ugly.....even in the face of a man admitting his guilt and walking away from his career.

I honestly wish the memebers of the press, incluing shock radio personnel, would have given Congressman WEiner the chancve to leave with what little dignity he had left.

[airsyspro]

03:37 PM on 06/18/2011

Weiner gave up what dignity he had (if any) when he decided to resign by holding a press conference. He would have been smarter to just send a letter of resignation. Instead, he just showed that he was another clown under the big top that people laugh at.

[ProfessorDuh]

03:30 PM on 06/17/2011

New hysterical distraction wanted to fill immediate opening. Ideal candidate will be trumped-up, panicked, alarmist, jingoistic, essentially trivial and fundamentally speculative. In a pinch, pictures of some guy's wee-wee will do. Apply with references to CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

[jemamosa]

03:28 PM on 06/17/2011

What Weiner did was stupid, unprofessional and juvenile. The media coverage was painful to watch. I understand the comedians having a field day with it, but there were certainly more newsworthy events to cover. Interesting how Republicans, as soon as one of theirs is in the spotlight, come up with words like "lame-stream media" and stand up for their people. The Dems, however, seem to fold in face of any kind of criticism

[luapmi2]

04:02 PM on 06/17/2011

You're just now discovering how weak democrats are? It took them two years to pass obama care with HUGE majorities. Thankfully, democrats are profoundly impotent.

[jemamosa]

04:38 PM on 06/17/2011

I couldn't say Thankfully that democrats are profoundly impotent, although unfortunately I agree, but the alternative to the democrats, republlicans who are totally in the pockets of big corporations and oil is not exactly anything better. Yes, there are many dems in the same pockets, but they appear to want to help the middle class - which is diminshing. Corporate wealth has increased, which is fine, but not when everything else is decreasing. As unhappy as I am with the democrats, I am really afraid of what would happen with the Republicans in charge.

[GulfportM]

02:39 PM on 06/17/2011

Defenders of Wieners WEENER PICS ON TWITTER AND ELSEWHERE WHICH WE WILL NEVER HEAR ABOUT. UNITE HERE AT HP. LETS STAND UP FOR Weiners rights to show his weener in public. There is nothing illegal about showing your weiner. Oh wait maybe there is. Time shall tell.

[lmn1965]

02:24 PM on 06/17/2011

That heckler was Bengi. A Howard Stern fan. Hes an idiot trying impress Stern. Where was he when Vitter and Ensign were announcing their bad and illegal behavior? Howard Stern needs to tell his idiot followers to shut up.

[BCS]

02:02 PM on 06/19/2011

I am sure that Stern is a huge Republican supporter-RIGHT!

LOL.

[Heather Garver]

05:13 PM on 06/20/2011

Stern has always been a conservative in terms of his politics actually.

[Don Quixote]

01:39 PM on 06/17/2011

Another exhibit proving the ongoing vulgarization of our society.

[luapmi2]

04:03 PM on 06/17/2011

Agreed, but that's why Wiener resigned

[Don Quixote]

12:29 AM on 06/18/2011

Of course. All of it. Vulgarization is no respector of party affiliation or ideology.

[zenbamboo]

01:38 PM on 06/17/2011

I am actually thinking about dropping Sirius XM because Howard Stern was behind this. I doubt I could get enough people together to form a boycott though.

[Ricardo01]

01:06 PM on 06/17/2011

Why did they let Breitbart in again?

[DevonTexas]

12:44 PM on 06/17/2011

What Weiner did lacked discretion but those yelling insults were tasteless and crude. I can only say they were in the right place to exhibit that. It made Wiener look better by comparison.

[mohl]

03:00 PM on 06/17/2011

Geez, those yelling insults were tasteless and crude while Weiner merely lacked discretion? You have a strange barometer for determining levels of bad behavior.

[seiedvard]

03:18 PM on 06/17/2011

There is surely a difference between private and public no?
I smoke cigarettes on my property, I don't in public places so it really has no effect on you
just a thought

[DevonTexas]

09:26 PM on 06/17/2011

was he doing it in public at a news conference? You obviously are missing something. What Wiener did was private and legal between adults. More than I can say for the GOPpers caught recently.