But didn't Weiner lie about it, on camera, for several days? I think your defense of the sexting is a straw man argument - that's NOT what people are upset about. It's the dishonesty.

Wasn't it called 'zippergate'?

IT'S NOT THE PICTURES!!! IT'S THAT HE LIED ABOUT THEM FOR DAYS!!! So why don't you STFU already!!! (I see that you skipped the whole 'he lied for a week part, can't blame conservatives for half truths when YOU are willing to use them to make YOUR point!!!)

NEWS FLASH!!!!! Politicians lie all the fucking time about matters that are way more important than whether that is their junk in that picture, and frequently nobody calls them on it.

Who the fuck cares whether he lied about a private issue that the media had no business sticking its nose in to in the first place? The very questions that they were asking him were intrusive, creepy, and reprehensible in the first place. ie "Is that your junk in the picture?" They do not deserve a pass, nor do they deserve to benefit from that kind of creepy badgering.

....and we've now resurrected most of the arguments from the Sam Adams scandal, in just four comments. Good job, everyone.