Anthony, Anthony, Anthony.

The Shame you have brought to social media and the rudiments of basic instruction. Kindergarten students world-wide have laid bets that you also had trouble coloring inside the lines.

I’m personally not offended that you have disgraced the borough of Queens and humiliated Huma, your pregnant wife. Forget that your 17 year-old subject admitted that your interaction wasn’t actual “sexting,” and I’m even willing to suppress the fact that you don’t own a fly, smart-phone with “front-focus” camera capabilities.

Congressman Anthony Wiener, I am ten thousand ways “pissed” that a 21st century politician with mayoral aspirations doesn’t know how to properly TWEET.  And you call yourself a politician? (Gag reflex). Even my 21 year-old, college-student daughter has chimed in: “Clearly he shouldn’t have hit “skip” on the Twitter tutorial.” (Oh Anthony!)

(Link to Anthony Weiner USA Today Topic page)

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/ANTHONY+WEINER

I tried to maintain respectable Weinergate distance. I deemed this to simply be another political sex scandal worthy of sensational media coverage for a few weeks and then you’d shrivel like an over-boiled weiner (couldn’t resist). But then, I read a Wall Street Journal hard copy during breakfast at the Marriott and just chuckled my nappy head off when I learned you got yourself into this career-altering debacle because you meant to send a Tweet to one person, but accidentally tweeted more than 10,000 followers? Priceless. Way to go Tony. Me and Jimmy Fallon thank you. Oscar Mayer – on the other hand- is miffed.                                                                                              

Twitter Tutorial Overview

The only thing more humorous than your Twitter deficiency is your interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in which you not only lied, but improperly used the word, “manipulation.”  Gosh. I thought every politician knew the power and pitfalls of that pretty lil’ word (and its prefix). Then, you chose to “admit” that you lied. What happened, Bill Clinton ring your celly?

THEN, and this really is my last point, you fought hard and decided to “seek professional” help via a leave of absence. You would have been so much better off  just checkin’ yourself into Shady Oaks and sending an email to your trusted colleague Steve Israel. I guess in hindsight you did the right thing because gee, if you can’t Tweet, you probably would have accidentally blind copied the congressional listserv.

Penny Dickerson 2011