Summary: Congressman Anthony Weiner accidentally tweets a crotch shot to all of his followers on Twitter when he meant to send it as a private message to a college coed in Washington whom he had never met before. The message immediately disappears, and Weiner insists that his account has been hacked. He hires a lawyer to "investigate" the matter, and the media grabs hold of the story. For days he insists that he had no knowledge of this message being sent, and he "cannot say with certitude" whether the crotch shot is of his package. Cut to today and Weiner admits he was lying all along. He's been actively sending intimate pictures to young women he meets on the internet.
There's only one real reason this is a scandal at all. He lied about it and tried to hide it.
Who cares about a guy flirting online with girls? Really, only his wife should care about that. But it became a matter of national fascination because he tried to hide it. Seriously, if the guy had just admitted, "Yeah. That was me. I made a mistake of indiscretion. I owe my wife an explanation, but it's of no concern to you" the whole matter would have gone away without much ado.
Instead he insisted he had been hacked, which happens to be a federal crime, and tried to cover the matter up with much blustering. That only instigates investigation by intrepid bloggers and journalists. If they didn't think there was something to discover, if everything had just been laid bare, there wouldn't have been much attention, and there wouldn't be a scandal.
Seriously, who is coaching these politicians? In the age of camera phones, traceable data, and almost no privacy, the worst thing you can do is deny, deny, deny, because chances are, someone's got proof that you're full of it.
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