A scandal named Weiner

I'm not one who follows every political scandal under the sun.  The emphasis placed on this or that scandal is often up to the whims of the media, who recently had its bubble deflated when thirteen thousand emails of Sarah Palin didn't turn up a smoking gun.  I can't remember the last time a politician was forced to release over ten thousand emails, but then I can't remember a politician that the MSM both hated and obsessed with like Sarah Palin.  Alas, it looks as though they will have to build some faux narrative to tell the "real story of Sarah Palin' by way of the non-revealing emails.

Part of me thinks they were hoping to find something that would take the focus off Anthony Weiner.  A year or so ago, he was a rising super star in the Democratic Left.  Willing to say up yours, shut up, you hate the sick, and just about anything else to the Republicans, even while standing next to them in an interview, he was the darling of Left wing media, blogs, and politicians.  So it had to come as quite a blow to find out that he has been doing some of the dirty thing when it comes to keeping his pants zipped. 

At first, he denied it, and the press dutifully followed his lead, either focusing on hacking, or emphasizing the myriad other sex scandals in history.  Since he admitted he has been doing the naughty thing with women he doesn't happen to be married to, at least electronically, the MSM has rushed out to spin it again, wondering if such things should really force a man to resign.  After all, during the Clinton sex/perjury scandal, we were told that such things as sex, sexual misconduct (can there be any such thing in our modern culture?), lying, character, truth, values, morals, no longer mattered.  Certainly that should still apply.

According to at least one poll of his constituents, most don't care either.  Perhaps we've reached a time where such things really don't matter.  We truly have bought into the notion that what a person is individually has no bearing on what they are publicly or corporately.  We reject the notion that if a man treats his own family this way, he might treat others (like us voters) the same way.  Or we just imagine that all have sinned, there is none who are righteous, no not one...so who cares?  Apparently some, as a growing list of Democrats are begging for him to leave, though that could be less because of some lofty moral standard and more because he is taking away the steam they were building by convincing Americans that the GOP wants to end Medicare and kill senior citizens. 

I dunno.  I'm only spending about three ounces of care when it comes to this story, as he never impressed me anyway.  He came off as boorish and rude, and his denials, lies, victimization, and whining have done nothing to change my opinion.