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I really don't think Congressman Weiner would agree to that statement . . . B) o.0
Based on some of his interviews before and since, I'd say he's like many politicians of this day and age in that they don't seem to know the difference between good press and bad. Or maybe for them there isn't any difference. He might actually agree with it. He would be wrong about that, but I doubt he'd care very much.
There's at least half a dozen GOP Presidential candidates and pundits who would fit this bill too (Newt and Palin appear to be the worst offenders on that side of the aisle).
Basically the criteria would be: is blowhard talking head of any ideological stripe (Weiner's another one of these types for those that know who he is, just from the left instead of the right), won't care about what attention is generated, exposure equals magical win mode.
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about" – Something like that.
Uh, what?!?
I sure do not know how you got all this BS out of a Weiner joke . . . . . . . :S
It wasn't much of a joke. Probably because you lacked a punchline and a drummer in the background to tell me that it was supposed to be one in the first place.
Besides, he's the one who took the pictures and sent them to others. Stupid though that be, it is very opposite your proposition that somehow his exposure matters to himself in the way that it might to you.
I don't think that Jay Leno would agree with you. The Weiner jokes on late night television seem to draw huge laughs without the jokester having to tell the audience that it was a joke. But then I guess you are not in that audience . . . .
Even a local lady newscaster lost it when she was reporting on the latest fubar that he had done(sending a photo of his genitals to some woman via twitter) and her male partner had to finish the story. She later stated that she informed her boss that she would no longer do any of the Weiner updates, that that would be the male partners job. I guess that even newscasters have a sense of humor.
Lighten up, STS, going through life so serious all the time is detrimental to ones well being.
1) Leno's not very funny either.
2) Weiner jokes are so 15 year old puerile humor. They are cheap laughs. There are ways to introduce some more sophistication to it and I'd be amused (indeed I've seen some good stuff on this even). But there are also ways to treat human sexuality and anatomy with some dignity and not laugh at every penis or breast reference that must be public. There's a middle ground here where our puritanical sensibilities haven't evolved to yet.
3) I have a sense of humor, but it apparently doesn't share much in common with yours. Nor does it come across often in text and written formats. Sarcasm doesn't transmit well. It's also a lot easier to marshal facts and opinions and record them over time than to have humor with staying power. A lot of good humor is based on timing rather than saying something funny. Once the time is past, many months later when someone might come across these words, it is no longer funny.