Why I Admire Anthony Weiner

[AngryAmish]

"On Monday, former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for having lewd exchanges with a 15-year-old girl on Skype and Snapchat. The sentencing was just the latest act in Mr. Weiner’s nightmarish downfall fueled by his compulsive sexting habit.

Mr. Weiner cried as he pleaded guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor, a crime that carried up to 10 years in prison. “I acted not only unlawfully but immorally, and if I had done the right thing, I would not be standing before you today,” he told Judge Denise L. Cote in Manhattan.

“I was a very sick man for a very long time,” he said. Indeed, his behavior fits a commonly understood definition of addiction, which is persistent engagement in a behavior despite negative consequences. And those consequences were epic — loss of his congressional office in 2011, the implosion of his mayoral bid in 2013, public humiliation, the dissolution of his marriage and accusations of jeopardizing Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/weiner-sexting-sentencing-prison.amp.html

[Squinch]

1. WTF? What do you mean by that? You admire him because he sexted a minor?

Because he pled guilty and was sentenced?

[WinkyDink]

2. Not getting the "admire" point here. Unless you "admire" that a felon cried and claimed "sickness."

[DonViejo]

27. It's an Op-Ed in the NYT...

Opinion | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Why I Admire Anthony Weiner

By SALLY L. SATELSEPT. 25, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/weiner-sexting-sentencing-prison.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. LMAO.

[nkpolitics1212]

4. Weiner got busted showing his weiner.

He will be getting conjugal visits for 21 months.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. With who? Huma is divorcing his ass n/t

[Sanity Claws]

6. Conjugal visits? from whom?

You?

[linuxman]

10. Kids, if he has his way.

[Alice11111]

7. I think he's referring to other inmates, not really conjugal.

No admiration. He's a predator.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. If he want to share photos of his junk with strangers that's his business...

But he doesn't get to send photos of his junk to minors.

[guillaumeb]

9. He was desperate to avoid jail.

And said what he felt the Judge would wish to hear. But his compulsive and deviant sexually predatory behavior is why he was in court, and will now be in jail.

[joshcryer]

11. He cost Clinton the election.

The probe into his lewd behavior found the laptop that had emails on it which had been undeclared. It gave Comey reason to write the letter. And allowed doubts to foster leading up to the election.

[jalan48]

21. +1

No Weiner's weiner, no Comey investigation.

[FM123]

12. No! The OP is not saying he admires Weiner, that is the title of this Times piece.

[MichMan]

14. So many here aare clueless sometimes.......

You are 100% correct

[MineralMan]

25. Yes, and they make themselves look foolish for not

clicking the link and discovering that the title was quoted.

It's a moronic article, anyhow. I can't imagine admiring anything about a man who sends photos of his willy to underaged people. Not a chance. Crying in front of the judge doesn't change that.

[SharonClark]

16. Putting the title in quotes would have helped

[MineralMan]

22. So would have clicking on the link.

[OriginalGeek]

32. While I assumed it was a story title anyway

I rarely click links to other sites from DU posts. I think a word or some indicator from OP that this is an article published somewhere else is not too much to ask.

Especially a story as stupid as this. I'd sure as hell never want to risk people thinking I wrote such a moronic thing. I write plenty of moronic things on my own - I don't need credit for other peoples things.

[customerserviceguy]

19. It still strikes me as strange

that anyone would have that opinion about this miserable piece of shit.

[MineralMan]

23. The source link forgot the apostrophe and the "s"

"Why I Admire Anthony's Weiner"

I think that was the original title before an editor changed it, maybe...

[NobodyHere]

13. I don't get it either

His words were probably written by a lawyer.

With that said I hope he gets his mind right and becomes a better person for the experience.

[brush]

28. Talk about destroying his own life...boy...he lost everything.

His house seat, mayoral bid, public respect, his wife and child, now his freedom.

That's about as bad as it gets.

[Texasgal]

15. Fuck that!

This guy is sleeze and needs to serve time for what he did.

I have ZERO admiration for this pig! He has destroyed many lives in his process... his wife and CHILD for one! Fuck him!

[longship]

17. Who in the fuck admires Anthony's weiner?

To there goes madness.

[MrsCoffee]

18. Why did you post this?

It's a pretty sick opinion piece. There is nothing to admire about sexual predators. Especially when the prey on minors.

[MineralMan]

26. Now, that's an excellent question.

It was a moronic article.

[irisblue]

20. I feel sympathy for his kid &, his mom.

[dawg]

24. My heart kind of bleeds for Huma in this ...

both for her family, and for the way this was used against Hillary in the election. It had to be so painful for her ... on so many different levels.

[brush]

30. Got to be the trauma of all traumas for her.

Undoubtedly there had to be much disagreement in her family — her being Arab and him being Jewish — and then for the marriage to turn into such a humiliation.

Hope there are not a lot of "I told you so-ers" in her family.

[Voltaire2]

33. This was the second time.

I had a lot of sympathy the first time around. But the second time? Not so much. Plus, his toxicity bled right into the Clinton campaign. Huma should have been offered a choice of either getting rid of Weiner and working in the campaign, or not working on the campaign and sticking with this creep.

[dawg]

34. I think most people are willing to give a second chance ...

to the person they chose to share their life with. It's not an unreasonable thing to do.

The fact that Anthony chose to squander that chance is entirely his fault, not Huma's.

Also, it would have been the height of hypocrisy for the Clinton campaign to have issued Huma the ultimatum that you just proposed. Or have our memories really gotten that short?

[Voltaire2]

36. So the result was that right at the end of the campaign

Weiner's computers got searched, Clinton's emails were found on them and all that got us to Comey's statement.

So yes Humana should have been rejected as part of the vetting that should have gone on when Clinton's campaign team was put together. Precisely because of the history.

[Vinca]

29. What's to admire? This wasn't his first time around the block. He knew it was wrong.

Instead, he chose to humiliate and destroy his family. The man is one of the biggest fools ever. He had it all and lost it all. I remember when he was one of the most popular Democratic congressmen. Stupid and sad at the same time.

[Act_of_Reparation]

31. I admire his determination to fuck his life up so thoroughly.

He must get up early.

[bdamomma]

35. So sad that he hit

bottom. He was the most vocal Rep in the House when he was there. Too bad he got swept up in his own senseless crap.

[aikoaiko]

37. I don't admire Weiner or Sally Satel, the OpEd author

Weiner is despicable.