Updated: Brieitbart smears Rep Weiner with fake twitter grab

[cali]

—Did Anthony Weiner Tweet a Picture of His Weiner?Did liberal hero and would-be Mayor of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (D - N.Y.) Tweet a picture of his own, underwear-clad erection last night? Conservative bloggers sure seem to hope so!

The pic, according to BigGovernment.com writer "Publius", was posted last night to Weiner's official account on yFrog, the Twitter picture service, and sent out on his Twitter feed. It was apparently quickly deleted, but not before Publius grabbed what he says is a screenshot of the yFrog page. (The original Tweet still exists on archiving site Tweet Congress.)

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But conservative bloggers are positive that the picture is evidence that Weiner is having an affair, and doing their best to track down the woman to whom the Tweet was addressed — they seem to think she's a journalism student in Seattle who once referred to Weiner as "her boyfriend" on Twitter. (Needless to say, many men and women refer to Anthony Weiner as their boyfriend. Aspirationally, we suppose.) She's since deleted her Twitter, and what's purported to be her Facebook account, maybe because she was exposed as Weiner's mistress, or maybe because she or a friend was responsible for the hack.

Of course, all caveats regarding Andrew Breitbart's accuracy-challenged BigGovernment apply — but Weiner seems to be acknowledging that the pic was posted, even if it was a hack, as he claims.

http://gawker.com/5806545/did-anthony-weiner-tweet-pic-of-his-weiner

From kos: it's breitbart being his incredibly sleazy, lying ass self.

Forensic analysis of the screen grab shows...

big shock: it's been manipulated. Not the yfrog photo, but the SCREEN GRAB itself that Brietbart is posting as "proof."

What was altered? The name "RepWeiner." Here's the proof:

http://errorlevelanalysis.com/...

Notice how the name RepWeiner is not only the brightest spot, but devoid of spatterings of color? That indicates that specific area -- the name -- has been saved more times than the rest of the image.

Gee, I wonder why?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/28/979547/-Brietbart-to-use-SEX-SMEAR-on-Rep-Anthony-Weiner-UPDATE:-BUSTED!-Brietbart-FAKED-IT!-?via=siderec

[Nye Bevan]

1. You need to be especially careful not to do this sort of thing when your last name is "Weiner"

and if you live in New York. The NY Post headlines will just write themselves.

[MilesColtrane]

2. Republicans are sure obsessed with Democrat's penises.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. not just Democrat's

[Beaverhausen]

4. check out the update at KOS

the twitter account is fake - or something like that

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/28/979547/-Brietbart-to-use-SEX-SMEAR-on-Rep-Anthony-Weiner-Push-back-needed?via=siderec

[sufrommich]

5. There's a lot of holes in that story. Oh, how I would love for

Breitbart to get caught up in a lie about Weiner.Imagine the snark that would follow.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Happiness is a warm gun...bang bang...shoot shoot.

An old beatles song for those who can't see the snark.

[OHdem10]

7. Weiner is a Liberal and a Liberal who can go on TV effectively

articulate a message. It is not unusual for Liberals
like this to get attacked. After all, they only want
weak Democrats on Television. This keeps Republicans
looking strong and the only ones capable of leading.
On the House floor during debates Weiner gives the Republicans
as good or better than they send.

I give you Grayson. Yes, Grayson on a few occations went
over the top. This showed the GOP he was fearless. He had
to go.

[sufrommich]

8. So it's fake. Oh my God I can't wait to see Weiner pounce on

this! lol.

Breitbart obviously has a bad case of Weiner envy.

[madrchsod]

9. penis pictures? is that`s all he`s got left?

[still_one]

10. can this asshole breitbart be sued for libel or slander. /nt