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Weinergate Shift: From 'Hack' to 'Prank'

The latest statement from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s spokesman on the Weinergate saga makes a subtle but perhaps important rhetorical shift. Apparently, Weiner’s office no longer uses the word “hack”; it now refers to the incident, in which a link to

#Weinergate:The "Would Your Spouse Buy It?" Test

Although I don’t think what Anthony Weiner is even accused of doing rises to the level of ‘love child while your wife has cancer,’ the #Weinergate story reminds me a lot of the post-Beverly Hills Hotel phase of the John

Gennette Nicole on Pic Tweeted from Rep. Weiner's Account

The Daily News has a statement from Gennette Nicole regarding the controversy swirling around an explicit image Tweeted via Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account. Mediaite has a fair assessment of where the story stands for now: It may be too

Rep. Weiner Spokesperson Lies To 'New York Post'

There are at least two demonstrably false statements issued to the New York Post on behalf of Representative Anthony Weiner by his spokesperson, Dave Arnold. Here’s the first [emphasis mine]: The tech-savvy congressman saw the picture almost immediately. He had

Rep. Weiner Spokesperson Lies To 'New York Post'

There are at least two demonstrably false statements issued to the New York Post on behalf of Representative Anthony Weiner by his spokesperson, Dave Arnold. Here’s the first [emphasis mine]: The tech-savvy congressman saw the picture almost immediately. He had