When the media tried to save Anfeny Weiner

Ten years later.    The Media, especially the view wanted desperately to save him like they did their beloved Billy Bob Clinton.


https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2021/05/29/weinergate-10-years-later-medias-firm-defense-fell-flat

Fell Flat. But you can't fault them  for not trying...lying, defending, pretending..

t was ten years ago this May that Weinergate grew into a scandal that destroyed the career of New York Democrat Anthony Weiner. On May 27, 2011, the then-Congressman sent a sexually explicit picture of himself to a woman following him on Twitter. After the picture of his erect penis became public, Weiner spent days saying it wasn’t him and suggesting he’d been hacked. Bizarrely, liberal journalists attempted to defend him, offering all sorts of ridiculous explanations.

In the early days of the scandal, CNN and MSNBC tried to pin it on an elaborate conspiracy from the late Andrew Breitbart:

"In his defense, I think we do need to point out that the person behind this is Andrew Breitbart, who has made a practice of targeting Democrats — Shirley Sherrod most notoriously of all. And his stories tend to fall apart on close inspection."
— CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Anderson Cooper 360, May 31, 2011.

"Look, Breitbart is a proven liar, okay? He doctored the Shirley Sherrod tapes. He's done this over and over again. Why would anybody take this fool seriously?"
— 6pm ET anchor Cenk Uygur on MSNBC News Live, June 1, 2011.

Ken Vogel, now with The New York Times, formally of Politico, somehow used it to smear Clarence Thomas:







                   

On The View, liberal co-host Joy Behar imagined it was a conspiracy. Then co-host Barbara Walters praised the “good” Weiner.  

Co-host Joy Behar: "But, Barbara, couldn't he be fully clothed almost and then they photocopy it and put it like that?"

Co-host Barbara Walters: "Somebody has to go to a lot of effort to get you in trouble."
Behar: "Well, somebody is out to get him, apparently, 'cause they don't like his politics."
— Exchange on ABC's The View, June 2, 2011.

When the end was finally obvious, Walters insisted the Democrat had hit "rock bottom" and should be given a second chance.

When you're (the left) hoisted on your own petard...blame the right. LOLOL

I'll never understand why people do what they do if they don't have the balls (pun intended) to own it.