What could be worse than mounting a comeback mayoral campaign knowing full well that you were still doing the thing (sexting) that you claimed you had stopped doing after you resigned in shame from public office? Going on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show to talk about it.
We don’t know if this was the only interview Anthony Weiner could get, or if along with being an idiot, he’s also lost his mind, but sit down and talk to Geraldo he did.
Politico reports, in the 20 minute appearance Weiner partly blamed the media for focusing on that pesky sexting scandal for his loss in the mayoral race. Well, the media, and Carlos Danger, the Sex Schlong of Argentina, Brooklyn. While he says he attempted to run on the issues while he berated constituents and name-called opponents, he admitted that not stopping his digital cavorting led to his demise as a candidate. But here’s the kicker. He’s definitely not an idiot for entering the race to begin with because DUH! any sane person knew that he’d lose once the truth came out. WHAT?! We assume this was all part of some bigger plan, then? Some plan that ended in you winning the race because New Yorkers are just so forgiving to overlook boneheaded moves made by career politicians when words like “sexting” and “Sydney Leathers” are added to their mayoral candidate lexicon?!
“If you’re breaking the news here that the scandal and how it came back and the new things that came out … more things came out, yes of course, I’m not an idiot, I know it succeeded in derailing my campaign.”
So then, the Master Plan?
“I took this campaign, frankly, on a bet, and that was that something at the end of the day that was behind me should not stop me,” Weiner said.
Uh-huh.
“You had every tabloid in New York going bananas trying every day to derail me,” Weiner said. “None of the newspapers ever attacked my issues, none of the other candidates even bothered to take me out on the issues because they knew I would beat them.”
And this is where it gets weird.
“If my last name was Rivera and not Weiner, I mean that’s two-thirds of the crap I took,” Weiner said. “There’s no mistaking that the New York media world had a field day with my name and that’s part of the game.”
Rivera then suggested Weiner take his wife’s name, Abedin.
“I love my name,” he said. But, think about Carlos Danger! Obviously, Carlos is the real victim in all this. Yep, Carlos.
Whatever, Weiner. Put this photo on your mantle as the day you stopped being a sideshow and became a snide, groveling individual who takes selfies of himself in romantic poses with Geraldo Rivera! We’d like off the Weiner ride, thank you. Go away, now.
Funny dual Selfie- Weiner in my WABC radio studio. We’re posting video of his lively interview asap pic.twitter.com/JoLqp6Pjv0
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) September 20, 2013
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