This week's syndicated column
More than 5,000 words into the New York Times Magazine report on everything ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, want you to know about Weiner’s “sexting” scandal that led him to resign from Congress in 2011, reporter Jonathan Van Meter pauses the story.
Van Meter, a contributing editor at Vogue and New York Magazine, had worked diligently on this New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story – multiple interviews with Weiner and Abedin, both as a couple and separately. On some level, the prurient banality of what he was writing about must have gotten to him.
As he described listening to Weiner discuss the “original behavior” that culminated in the elected official, husband and father-to-be sending a photo of his own torso “wearing gray boxer briefs and an obvious erection” to 45,000 Twitter followers (rather than privately to a 21-year-old college student in Seattle), Van Meter writes: “I startled myself that day when, after two hours of listening while he unburdened himself, I heard these words come out of my mouth: ‘Maybe we should stop there for now.’ Never has an interview felt so much like a therapy session.”
And there were still 3,000 words and a crying outburst (Weiner’s) to go. This last event took place over the “enormous root-beer float” Weiner ordered after dinner, as opposed to his more restrained tearing-up over breakfast. Abedin broke down, too, or so she ‘fessed up to Van Meter, two days after the scandal went public. As a top adviser to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Abedin was en route to Africa when a supportive phone call came in from the White House.
“With tears streaming down her face, she turned to (Clinton staffers) and began talking about some issue that was on the Africa agenda. ‘They just totally went with it and got down to work. There was no attention paid to my tears. And I was like, “Thank you for just responding like that.”‘”
Like Van Meter, maybe we should stop there for now, too. Never has reading the newspaper felt so much like a therapy session. But how little these confessional torrents seem to have to do with genuine healing.
Under a headline describing the power couple’s “post-scandal playbook,” this extended peep behind the scenes and into the mental boxers with Weiner & Wife seems to be all about voter-vaccination. Weiner, as he told Van Meter at that first, slightly moist breakfast interview, is now running for mayor of New York City. His political action committee has already spent $100,000 on polling and research that revealed New Yorkers might give him a second chance at public office depending on what they thought of his behavior, or lessons learned, after his disgrace.
“By agreeing to be interviewed,” Van Meter writes, “Weiner and Abedin would seem to be trying to give voters what they want – and gauge public reaction.”
The cynicism is breathtaking, but to be expected from a pair of proteges of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who long ago proved they would exchange their souls to keep the motorcade running. But maybe the cynicism (or incompetence) of the New York Times trumps all.
In 8,000 words, the paper “of record” could find no room to mention Abedin’s far more significant scandal in her own right. I refer to Abedin’s extensively documented familial and professional ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
These ties start with Abedin’s parents, who were recruited by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure and later financier of the al-Qaida terror network, to run a Saudi-supported think tank in Jeddah. The think tank produces a publication called the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
Having studied the inter-relationships among the Abedin family, the Saudi government and the Brotherhood in depth, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy explains the academic concept of “Muslim minority affairs” – which, in effect, constitute the Saudi-funded, Brotherhood-supervised Abedin family business – as “shorthand for a long-term, high-priority policy to spread Islam until, finally, it comes to dominate the non-Islamic nations of the world.”
To be sure, this is a giant red flag over the background of someone whom Van Meter describes as the secretary of state’s “senior adviser.”
Meanwhile, he writes, “Clinton is a mother figure to Huma.” Bill officiated at the Abedin-Weiner wedding. How can anyone with insight into Abedin’s jihad-network connections – which includes her own long association with jihad financier Naseef – not wonder whether Muslim Brotherhood influence subverted the secretary of state’s policy-making during the “Arab Spring”? A less superficial investigation of the Abedin-Clinton relationship might help explain why the U.S. calamitously supports Muslim Brotherhood efforts to come to power across the Middle East.
As Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., discovered last summer, however, asking a responsible question about this apparent national security scandal is taboo. We finally accept that Alger Hiss was a Soviet agent executing Communist strategy through the secretary of state’s office in the 1940s, but we ignore evidence of global Islamic influence inside the U.S. government today. We find ourselves benumbed by sex-scandal details – the ultimate diversion from truly grave issues of fitness for office.
The fact is, if Abedin’s Muslim Brotherhood connections compromised the secretary of state, they would compromise her husband’s mayoral run in New York City – and, come to think of it, her “mother figure’s” run for the White House.
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What a couple of misfits - but then, this whole administration is nothing but. If New Yorkers vote him into office, they deserve all he can dish out and as far as his spouse is concerned, there should be a serious investigation on her back ground. But then again, Obama would never allow that.
What a pair!
A sample of what is in the administration. If you can find Honor, and moral dignity, please advise.
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If we care in the least about surviving as a Nation, we must get the clarity of the complete infiltration of communism as a fact regarding not only the illegal central government, but the sum total of both political parties, substantial parts of most State governments, the complete subversion of New York's and California's governments, and probably Illinois' as well, with major control in many states and some power in every state.
There is good reason no part of any government, not the central, not congress, not even the House, no state, no attorney general, no state's attorney no one but a sheriff, whose office is completely controlled by "the People of Maricopa County" has been even willing to accept the suggestion there might be something amiss in obama's fictional "documents", much less even consider examination.
There are many non-communists in government, however most accept "the powers that be", and go along to remain viable. Few are in such a position as Sheriff Arpaio, once absolutely secure in office, and now under full scale attack with the focus of power from every communist stronghold, the unions, the greens, but most of all, those powerbrokers behind the scenes, they are focused on the recall election of the one person who has investigated and proven there is not a single piece of "data" attached to the "document" portrayed as his birth verification document, which is not an "inserted" piece of data. The sole part of the "document" which was real is the erased original document, with its serial number, and some of the printed instructions and lines.
There is a reason the Clintons got into office, they both were subject to manipulation because of their criminal history. There is good reason the Bushes got in office, and good reason Jeb Bush is the focus for 16. All those who have chosen the new world order have good purpose, and any who oppose it must be destroyed, either politically, or killed.
Wiener is perfect for any political role because he is far beyond any "damage control", so is completely in the power of those who would run him, and have the use of his wife just as the Clintons were a "two for one bargain".
We have to note our Nation is being run by the communists, it is openly now, it has been since Nixon was disgraced, completely, except for President Reagan, who was never supposed to have the charisma to overcome the political clout of the communists.
We have to call them out as they are, we must acknowledge we don't control our Nation, it is exactly, precisely international communism and their American counterparts who run our government and rule the parties, controlling who we are allowed to elect.
We have many misfits in every corner, every aspect of government and bureaucracy, and we fight them all, or we simply lose. The whole underlying factor is the long work reaching to rule the world. We cannot let the communists hide and lie, pretending they are not exactly what they are. It is not our "best chance" it is our sole chance.
We have only a very short time left before it is too late to even have a chance to any more than die as we fight the unwinnable way down into the abyss. Americans are not overwhelmed by communism, we are not full up, but all our governments, all our bureaucracies, and most of those who would take office are, and they have pulled almost half of Americans to their view by their lies and buying votes with handing out privileges. We either get most of Americans accepting the truth of our infiltration, and need to survive, or we are done, end of story.
Semper Fidelis, John McClain, GySgt, USMC, ret.
AMEN! Lord help us JESUS! Open our eyes and ears and get us ready! the Muslim Brotherhood is evil!
I have to wonder what the weiner re-emergence is masking? As we focus on this idiot and his mb wife, what is going on behind the scenes....gun control bill amendments by the ratbag democratic senate leadership?....Benghazi lies being exposed and covered up?....gun seizures in NY state while the NY times reports on these two? As I said in a previous post...look at the looks passing between obozo and his acolyte, aberdin....total adoration there on both sides. It makes my skin crawl.
Is it wrong to pray every day that God blows up Washington DC when congress is in session...because that is what I am doing now.
I agree whole heartedly with you - where is the Korean idiot when you need one?????
First, we MUST pray. Then, after we pray, we listen for the answer. When we get the answer, we ACT...and acting is NOT calling, writing, emailing the TROLLS in DC. The action is taking our own states away from the Jihadi scum bags of DC. Period. It makes my heart so ill when I see people all over the place demanding that we CALL THEM AND DEMAND this that and the other thing...such a waste of time. Just ask the ones that USED to do that, including myself.
Thanks for the comment, Mark. Excellent and to the point! We are wasting our time talking about this kind of junk....that is, the "sexual" encounters, etc. All that is worthy of discussion is the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood in the government so when the time comes upon us to act we will be aware. Let's get back to discussing preparation!
They are all pigs!!!
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