Randi Rhodes: Weiner Fatigue

OK, this Anthony Weiner story has dragged out a lot longer than anyone ever anticipated. People are running out of Weiner jokes—that’s how long it is. Get it? How long it is? What do you want? It’s been five days. Really, if we knew this would go on this long, we would have rationed the Weiner jokes. We would have just used as much as we needed to. That’s what they say Milton Berle did. When telling jokes, I mean. I’ll give Congressman Weiner a lot of credit. I think this is the longest I’ve seen someone go through a bizarre scandal like this without making something that everybody calls a “rambling statement.” Not that Anthony Weiner is making a lot of sense. Weiner says that he definitely did not send the photo, but he won’t say that the photo is not of him, or at least, of part of him. Weiner doesn’t know if that’s him in the picture? How is that possible? I always thought that those things were like snowflakes—no two are exactly the same. Maybe they meant they were like snowflakes in the sense that they tend to melt when things heat up. Check out this clip—it’s Donald Trump on Anthony Weiner’s penis. Okay, wait, that didn’t come out quite right. I should say this next clip is Donald Trump talking about Anthony Weiner’s penis. According to Trump, Anthony Weiner “obviously knows it’s him” in the picture. Odd, Trump is so quick to announce that a picture of a penis is Anthony Weiner, yet he refused to accept President Obama’s birth certificate. I’m surprised he didn’t insist on seeing the long form version. Donald says that Anthony Weiner’s handling of the situation was “lying or incompetent.” But really Donald, if you’re saying that the picture is definitely of Anthony Weiner, is there an incorrect way to handle your own penis? I assume Donald Trump thinks he would have handled Anthony Weiner’ s penis a lot better. I don’t know what’s going on, but I do know it shouldn’t be so hard to just say “that is definitely not my penis.” It’s something every woman has heard at some point… usually on a crowded elevator. >>> MORE