Weiner photo is akin to a picture of a woman in a bra.

[Bonobo]

He didn't even show his 'stuff'. It is a picture of his (or someone's) underpants with a bulge.

How fucking juvenile and repressed are Americans?

[phasma ex machina]

1. How fucking juvenile and repressed is mass media? nt

[Jack Rabbit]

29. Specifically, how fucking juvenile and repressed is the gang of idiots at CNN?

CNN is doing a mighty good imitation of FoxNews this week.

[inna]

35. it's both, actually. the american people swallow all this crap that is being

force fed to them.

[HipChick]

2. Very....European ads are much more revealing..

[KittyWampus]

3. As someone noted- it looks like the photo on the Hanes package

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. This is BVD, more ahem..revealing

http://www.styleceo.com/images/stores/693/5/5-pack-white-brief-11193101

And that one...photoshop, half an hour...

[Canuckistanian]

13. Yikes

Looks like a "Wet Willie" contestant.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. BVD and images on the google

I suspect somebody had fun over the weekend. Metadata is your friend.

[ergot]

11. Well, it is a very nice package

:evilgrin:

[customerserviceguy]

23. Looks like Mitt's underwear. n/t

[spanone]

4. like he said...it's a weiner joke, he gets it. has all his life.

[merh]

5. I remember when I was a preteen there was a Sears Roebeck

catalog that had the photo of a male model in his t-shirt and bvds with a bulge. Kids passed that catalog around giggling over the photo, after the media had created such a fervor because Sears had asked that the catalog be tossed out because of the photo. Apparently they had received so many complaints about it Sears felt compelled to ask that parents throw away or return the catalog.

My mother used the image to explain some of the "fact of life" to me.

[KittyWampus]

6. Oh dear. Well, that's better than my Mom. She didn't say anything & I learned about sex

by doing it.

[Lars39]

7. I remember that!

That spread like wildfire,everybody snickering. :D

[Bonobo]

9. I just KNOW it couldn't be THIS one.

[merh]

21. Nope, not that one.

This is the photo I remember.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1259/was-a-models-penis-visible-in-a-1975-sears-catalog


Funny thing is, that is not the image that Sears had the most complaints about from that catalog.

The image at snopes was the one that had caused so much concern.
http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/sears.asp

[K8-EEE]

37. That looks like a Republican underwear scandal!

How did they get those pix of Mitt & Christie??

[zazen]

20. there was one in 77? with it hanging beneath the night shirt

Is that the one? One of my Dad's lingering hippie friends pointed it out to us (gee, showing a Sears penis to girls. . . nice).

[targetpractice]

24. I think you are thinking about this...

I remember the tizzy, too... http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/sears.asp

[merh]

25. Yes, I went back and looked it up.

If you see post 21 I reference that.

[Raine]

31. I must have missed that catalogue

if I had seen it I would've remembered it. :evilgrin:

[myrna minx]

10. This has been one of the silliest news cycles in my memory.

CNN is has devolved into "A Current Affair" type programming packaged as news. :eyes: I can't believe they devote any time to anything that Breitbart fraud peddles.

[LawnLover]

12. Why are you calling it the Weiner Photo?

Unless you're talking about an actual "weiner." ??

There's no proof that this is actually a photo of Anthony Weiner in his underwear, and I find it interesting that because someone said it was, we all assume that it is.

I can't believe actually "news" organizations are even reporting this.

[pnwmom]

14. I wonder why, when he's spent so many words on this, he hasn't just said,

"That isn't me!"

[Bonobo]

15. It is shorthand to refer to the issue.

What else can I call it in a subject header?

How about "The photo of the penis that is alleged to be that of Congressman Wiener"?

Nope, wouldn't fit.

[Ohio Joe]

28. How about calling it what it is... The fake Wiener photo

Instead of feeding the right wing propaganda.

[Bonobo]

30. Yeah, my OP is really "feeding" the right wing propaganda.

Gotta go, I'm expecting a conference call with Hannity in a few minutes!

[LawnLover]

38. So What Did Hannity Have to Say?

It couldn't have been anything very interesting.

All kidding aside, calling it the Wiener photo DOES feed into the right wing meme. In the scale of world events, it's no big deal, but if you multiply such things, the countless times we ALL fall prey to their nonsense and repeat it (even without meaning to), it starts to add up.

[demmiblue]

16. Taking Rep. Weiner out of the equation...

do you find that it is juvenile and repressed to expect that your partner refrain from providing bra/brief pics to some anonymous person on the internet?

:shrug:

[Bonobo]

17. No, but that would be a relationship issue.

Not an issue to judge whether or not a person is capable of having a job.

[Romulox]

33. Not honoring one's commitments is a character issue to many.

Essentially, I've always felt that if I witnessed a person (even a friend) lie to a third party, that it was likely that I had been lied to by that person. That is where the issue of character enters into it.

[kestrel91316]

18. Pretty fucking juvenile and repressed. I wish I got photos like that

sent to ME.

[WinkyDink]

22. I didn't know breasts were reproductive organs.

[Nye Bevan]

26. Agreed. And if a bulging bra photo was tweeted from Nancy Pelosi's Twitter account

to a young male college student, and she stated that she wasn't sure if it was her, and declined to call the police, the media reaction and interest on DU would be similar to the Weiner case.

[Swede]

27. More like a camel toe.

nt

[Dr. Strange]

32. True, camel toe would be a better analogy.

Wait, did I just type that?

[Ganja Ninja]

34. Taking self portraits of your crotch is unbecoming for a member of congress.

[w4rma]

36. It's just a character assassination attempt. That's what it boils down to.

The method of character assassination doesn't matter to them, as long as it works.