Anthony Weiner Scandal

Weiner Still In Limbo One Year After Career-Destroying Scandal

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2012

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One year after an x-rated photo of Anthony Weiner surfaced on Twitter and effectively launched the beginning of the end to his congressional career, t...

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PHOTOS: Republicans' Not-So-Nice Valentines

Posted 03.27.2012

The Republican National Committee got into the Valentine's Day spirit Tuesday with a line of teasing e-cards that were less hearts than arrows directe...

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Nancy Pelosi Discusses Her Feelings Towards Anthony Weiner

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.12.2012

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reflected on retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and the lewd online activity that eventually led to Re...

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MAD Magazine's 5 Dumbest People, Events and Things of the Year (Exclusive)

Bryan Young | Posted 02.05.2012

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The usual gang of idiots over at MAD Magazine is releasing their annual list of the stupidest people, events, and things of the year next week and we have an advanced look.

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PHOTOS: Gloria Allred vs. Sex-Scandalized Politicians

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso & Mollie Reilly | Posted 01.09.2012

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Gloria Allred's involvement in the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal, as the lawyer representing one of the GOP presidential candidate's accusers,...

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Weiner Takes Unusual Route Post-Twitter Scandal

New York Times | By LAURA M. HOLSON | Posted 01.05.2012

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On Halloween night at the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, a small group of men huddled around a television set while changing into their hockey uniforms, s...

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New Anthony Weiner Revelations Emerge

Posted 10.13.2011

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Traci Nobles, the 35-year-old former cheerleading coach from Athens, Georgia who exchanged explicit text messages with former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N...

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Anthony Weiner's Congressional Seat To Be Filled Tuesday

Patch.com | By Matthew Hampton | Posted 11.13.2011

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Since former Congressman Anthony Weiner stepped down, head slung low in a self-flagellating press conference on June 16, the question on the minds of ...

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David Wu Latest On Ever-Growing List Of Political Sex Scandals

Posted 09.25.2011

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Yet another politician fell victim to a sex scandal Tuesday, as Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) announced that he would be resigning in the wake of an allegati...

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Time for the U.S. to Wake up Before It's too Late

Marty Robins | Posted 09.13.2011

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A few months ago I might have started this column with something like 'I don't mean to sound like an alarmist...' but now I think it's time to be an a...

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Weiner And Abedin Celebrate One Year Anniversary

nypost.com | Posted 09.10.2011

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Anthony Weiner escaped to Miami for a romantic weekend with wife Huma to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Witnesses told us that the couple, who m...

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Sex, Drugs, Twitter -- and Anthony Weiner

Christina Patterson | Posted 09.04.2011

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The story took the usual course. Denial. Reluctant confession. Refusal to resign. Resignation. And then, the vital coda to every modern cock-up. Remorse? Are you joking? Rehab.

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How the Weiner, Schwarzenegger and Edwards Scandals Helped Me Help a Client

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 08.29.2011

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My client had started going to meditation classes and liked them, but he was still feeling terribly depressed. Then, as suddenly as it was unexpected, he confessed to me that he had had several affairs during the course of his marriage.

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5 Types of Scandals That Are Always Disappointing

Cracked.com | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011

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In the old days, you'd just hear some tidbits about scandals, about rumored "goings on" between the wealthy railroad scion and the Senator's wife, and...

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A Closer Look At Weiner: Ruminating On Irksome Jewish Names

Eddy Portnoy | Posted 08.27.2011

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Changing one's family name has often been an enormously useful device for those attempting to assimilate into other cultures. Take the 1933 case of Warsaw dry goods merchant, Moyshe Hitler.

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They're Just Like Us

Elizabeth Nicholas | Posted 08.23.2011

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Stars, politicians, fighting hard battles, they're just like us and the people we love, fighting hard battles too. They will do things we hope our children, our husbands, our parents, we ourselves, would never do.

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Morality Poll: Who's Worse?

Posted 08.22.2011

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By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Americans are tougher on politicians for their financial misdeeds than their sexual ones, ...

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Handwriting Experts Weigh In On Weiner's Signature

nytimes.com | ASHLEY PARKER | Posted 08.21.2011

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Anthony D. Weiner's letter of resignation was a matter-of-fact two sentences, informing the New York secretary of state, Cesar A. Perales, and Gov. An...

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Public Exposure and Private Voyeurism: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 08.20.2011

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Be honest: Don't you feel a little bit ashamed of yourself when you succumb to the media circus? Say what you will about the media; you and I are the ones consuming it.

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Why He's Not A Sex Addict

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.19.2011

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it would be misleading for Weiner, those treating him and those of us considering this situation to label what he did as an addiction. To do so trivializes addiction, including sex addiction.

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WATCH: LA Mayor Weighs In On Anthony Weiner Scandal

Posted 08.19.2011

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa weighed in on Anthony Weiner's twitpics at NBC's Meet The Press this morning, calling the three-week media coverage a "circ...

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WATCH: Obama Impersonator Yanked From GOP Event After Mocking Obama, GOP Candidates

AP | By PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 08.18.2011

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NEW ORLEANS -- A Barack Obama impersonator was ushered off the stage after he mocked the Republican presidential hopefuls and joked about the real pre...

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Looking Away from the Train Wreck

Carine Fabius | Posted 08.17.2011

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What is it about train wrecks? Why can't otherwise decent people look away from mayhem, blood, end-of-life scenarios and the personal tragedies of fellow human beings?

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A Satirical Pundit Foreshadowed Anthony Weiner's Woes in 2009 Book

Terry Keefe | Posted 08.17.2011

For those who were shocked, shocked about Anthony Weiner's behavior, they were perhaps among those who never read the critically-acclaimed novel I Am ...

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The True Election Fraud

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 08.17.2011

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In an attempt to stifle our advancement and revert change, many conservative leaders are enacting new laws that make it just as difficult for the already disenfranchised to vote today as it was decades ago.

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