Rule #10) This is the most important rule: Never let little wiener do the thinking for big Weiner, because this tends to get big Weiner into trouble! This is actually a sensible rule for Congressmen, husbands and Catholic priests, come to think of it.
This whole thing could have been far more entertaining
Truth is, most of us boys -- grownup or otherwise -- figured out long ago how to keep our wieners out of the press and off the Internet. Some learn later than others, and some never learn at all and actually make a successful career out of showing their wieners to others. They're called "entertainers."
Of course, he could have just claimed he was tweeting his wiener pic to the TSA in advance of upcoming travel so that the professional molesters who work at the airports would know what's about to show up there. "This is a test of a new TSA security measure," Rep. Weiner could have sternly explained to the press. "It's called the tweet-your-junk-to-the-TSA screening program, and I volunteered to be the first to test it."
Many newspapers would have dutifully reported that as factual and true, by the way. We might have seen the headline: "Congressman Weiner pioneers new TSA security technology to catch underwear bombers ... followed by his explanation: "There is nothing I won't do to fight terrorism in America, including publicly proving there's no bomb in my own underwear."
A lot of people would have totally bought into that. It's too bad that didn't happen, because it would have been a far more entertaining media fiasco than the rather mundane discovery that another member of Congress is just a pervert with distorted social boundaries.
Because that's not really news, is it?
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