Weiner Gone Wild

Should Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) get his own channel?

Like Lifetime or Oxygen, it would be called, simply: “Weiner”. Or perhaps his name should become a sport, like skiing. Whenever a lawmaker goes rogue on the House Floor, that would be, simply: “Weinering”.

The networks, it appears, can’t get enough of the lawmaker these days.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was eating up Weiner last night as she enthusiastically praised his Wednesday House Floor speech in which his words were taken down – which equates to a spanking for lawmakers when they insult one another on the floor.

Maddow called Weiner’s hot dog of a performance the “single most dramatic performance of the day other than the people at the Olympics.

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