I don’t know about you, but I hate it when people lie to me. However, it makes me even more irate when someone lies not just to me, but also fibs to the people around me. So…I suppose you can well imagine how miffed I become when someone lies to the whole country. Not just a little, slightly unintentional lie. I’m talking about a full blown, blatant lie that was planned out in advance. If you do not know who I am alluding to, I will just tell you. I am (of course) talking about the now infamous Rep. Anthony Weiner. Anybody who has been following the sad, pathetic saga of Weiner knows all about his tragic performance on Monday during a disastrous press conference. According to USA Today, finally, after days of denying that he had inappropriate relationships with a woman over the internet, he told the world that he was actually guilty. I really do not understand how a person can just get on the air, proclaim to the world that he is not guilty, and then tell everyone two days later that he was actually lying. As if the scandal wasn’t enough to destroy his reputation, he really smattered his name on Monday by admitting that he was lying all along. He will never get reelected again. He might as well resign. He is now going into the same category as John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Nonetheless, according to the article, he is actually going to go up for reelection. He even said, “This was me doing a dumb thing, doing it repeatedly, and lying about it.” (Way to state the obvious, genius.) Now, I know that it is said that any press is good press, well, that’s not entirely true in the case of Anthony Weiner. Scandals, especially ones involving sexual lewdness, are not the best PR for someone looking to remain in their political position.
Anyway, in when it comes to Anthony Weiner, he has become another prime example of the media trying to set their own agenda. They are digging up as much dirt as they can find on the man to make him look even more like an imbecile. Actually, they are trying to make him look like a hypocrite. If there’s anything that the world hates more than a liar, it’s a hypocrite. According to the New York Times’ “Link of the Day”, Anthony Weiner had written something on a website entitled “Protecting Children on the Internet”. It is a piece that defames and degrades sexual predators on the internet, calling for better laws to rid the world of said criminals. Now, I don’t know about you, but if a child accidentally stumbles upon his lewd picture, I feel as if that goes in the same category as being a predator. In doing so, one is potentially mentally scarring a child. Images like that can be shocking to someone that is not old enough to understand it. Oh, well. It looks like the mass media really got me hooked on this topic this time. Whatever they are doing to make the public care about this, it’s working. I really do think that these cheaters and sexual predators do need to be exposed. I just don’t think that it should be the cover story for a week on every political page on every news source. That’s what really bothers me when it comes to the stories about people like Edwards, Schwarzenegger, and (now) Weiner. It’s the fact that the media makes it seem more important than things like one of the three foreign conflicts that we are currently a part of overseas. Even the debt ceiling should have precedent over some of the other stories that are posted. Scandal is not the most important thing going on in politics.
Onto 2012 Election news…it has been reported on Politico that Rudi Giuliani has decided to run. This is now seen as a threat to the biggest contender for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney. It has been predicted that the two men would possibly duke it out over the same states and vie for the same voters. I haven’t heard a lot about Giuliani in the news recently, so this is truly news to me. I was under the impression that he was still in hiding because he received so much flack back in 2008. I also thought that the GOP would be looking for someone that is a little bit more conservative than Giuliani. The man is literally the most liberal conservative that I have ever had the displeasure to research. Let’s take his stance on the culture war issue of abortion. Conservatives generally have a Pro-Life stance, but Giuliani has openly taken a Pro-Choice position. I really don’t think something like that will be okay with the Republican Party. Yes, he is popular. Yes, he has received a lot of media attention in the past and will get much more in the future. I honestly see Mitt Romney going farther than Giuliani. Let’s face it, even though three years have passed, the reasoning behind the flack he got in 2008 hasn’t gone away. Who’s to say that he won’t get ridiculed more this time around? No one. That’s who.
Well, it is now past my bedtime and I want to sleep. Believe it or not, I have to get up in the morning. Therefore, I will sign off saying, “Keep ticking, and stay informed!”
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