Breitbart shoots...he scores

weiner-chest-biggovt.jpgAndrew Breitbart, the Westside-based conservative activist and website mogul, doesn't always hit the targets he aims for on the left. On Monday, though, he leveled New York Rep. Anthony Weiner with a clean check. [Can you tell the hockey playoffs are on?] After Weiner's repeated and sanctimonious assertions last week that he knew nothing about his lewd picture on Twitter, which Breitbart had reported on, Breitbart posted a bombshell on his Big Government site early this morning.

A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely Rep. Weiner’s explanations that he was the victim of a “prank” or a “hack.”

The detailed new information suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs....

We will be updating BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com throughout the day with photographs, timelines, and other clarifying details. However, we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature.

Bingo. By afternoon, Weiner stood in front of the press admitting that, yes, he has had online sexual dalliances with at least six females he believes to be adults but whose ages he doesn't really know, that he has talked to some of them on the phone, that photos have been exchanged, and that his wife didn't know about it. All that stuff last week, blaming "hackers" and pranksters and suggesting Breitbart had been taken or worse? Lies. "I apologize to Andrew Breitbart,” Weiner said at his presser. Weiner, in fact, wouldn't leave the podium and kept giving reporters more tantalizing loose ends to track down. "If he isn’t addicted to sex, he’s clearly addicted to air time," says the Daily Caller's Mickey Kaus.

Entertaining note: Breitbart attended Weiner's press conference and spoke to the media before the congressman arrived. "I’m here for some vindication,” he said. NYT

Photo of Weiner: BigGovernment.com


More by Kevin Roderick:
Ralph Lawler of the Clippers and the age of Aquarius
Riding the Expo Line to USC 'just magical'
Last bastion of free parking? Loyola Marymount to charge students
Matt Kemp, Dodgers and Kings start big weekend the right way
LA Times writers revisit their '92 riots observations
Recent Politics stories on LA Observed:
Balboa Island has to decide if it believes in global warming
Kumar vs Smith: the political power in a name
LAPD, Trutanich add more muscle around USC
Hollywood Reporter gets political
Morning Buzz: Wednesday 4.25.12

New at LA Observed
Follow us on Twitter

On the Media Page
Go to Media
On the Politics Page
Go to Politics

LA Biz Observed
Arts and culture

Sign up for daily email from LA Observed

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner


Advertisement
LA Observed on Twitter and Facebook