Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Going after those who dared to take screen shots of the picture you sent instead of doing that takes us even farther into crazy-land.
Weiner isn't going after them, individual parties are investigating it on their own initiative.
Uh huh... While he sits back and attempts to duck the issue. So he's got a lot of liberals out there willing to carry water for him. I'm not sure how that changes things. You think it "makes sense" for them to make a big deal about completely irrelevant things semi-related to the scandal involving Weiner.
I don't think it "makes sense". Not unless the purpose is to attempt to turn attention away from from Weiner and in any other direction possible. Which is what I said from the start.
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Why this drives you to such distraction is... well, it's weird but I assume it's more of a partisan thing than anything logical. 'Cause it sure doesn't make sense.
It is a partisan thing Joph. If this was done by a Republican you'd be screaming and howling for his resignation. But because he's a Democrat, it's suddenly perfectly reasonable for third parties to smear those who revealed the picture sent from his account and point the finger of blame/suspicion at them. If a conservative group were doing that to protect a Republican, don't you think you'd be screaming about it too? Yeah. You would.
You know what the difference is? If this had happened to a Republican, I'd be saying
the exact same thing I am now: That he should be contacting law enforcement to investigate the alleged hacking and that we should not speculate in any direction until after said investigation has determined if he sent the message or not. I would certainly not be defending people who insisted we should investigate those who made the issue public, nor would I be defending the Congressman if he choose not to contact the police about the issue. If he did that, I would treat it as an admission of guilt and would be calling for his resignation.
But that's the difference between Liberals and Conservatives, isn't it? The ends always justifies the means for your side, and the end of keeping a Democrat in office trumps any act of illegality, impropriety, or abuse of office. Your ethics get tossed right out the window the second it's inconvenient for your own political party. That's why you insist it "makes sense" to essentially white wash this issue. You're ok with Weiner getting away with this. You don't care if your elected officials are sending pictures of their private parts to 21 year old college students as long as they vote in lockstep for the things you want.
That's where the partisanship is on this Joph. And you damn well know it.