A Professional Liar Offers His Services

That liar would be Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY and NYC Mayor Neverwillbe) and he's offered his services in professional lying to a stripper:

Rep. Anthony Weiner encouraged a porn star to lie about their on-line relationship and offered her the help of his public relations team, according to a report on Tuesday.

Weiner sent emails to former X-rated performer Ginger Lee – to whom he’d previously acknowledged sending innocuous messages via Twitter – coaching her to deny that they had been communicating, reported TMZ, which obtained the messages and says the two had exchanged “scores of sexual emails over a long period of time.”

“The key is to have a short, thought out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it,” Weiner is alleged to have written in a June 1 email. “Have a couple of iterations of: ‘This is silly. Like so many others, I follow Rep. Weiner on Twitter. I don’t know him and have never met him. He briefly followed me and sent me a dm (direct message) saying thank you for the follow. That’s it.’”

The next day, Weiner asked Lee if she needed assistance in crafting a message to put out to the press and public. “Do you need to talk to a professional PR type person to give u advice? I can have someone on my team call. (Yeah, my team is doing great. Ugh).”

It’s not clear, though, if Weiner was referring to having someone on his congressional staff help her – which might violate House rules – or wanted a private sector PR consultant to help Lee handle press inquiries. House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that she has ordered an ethics probe of Weiner and the New York Democrat said he would cooperate.

As is often the case, the cover-up ends up being more of a problem than the original crime. When first confronted with this stuff on May 27th, had Weiner confessed immediately the impact of this whole sordid mess would have been greatly reduced. However, is first instinct was to lie and not just once, but over and over again in multiple interviews. He even tried the "how dare you question my credibility" ruse by becoming somewhat hostile in these interviews. However, since he couldn't even answer the simple question of whether it was him in the photo, nobody was buying it. It just spurred people on to find more damning evidence.

Had this been a Republican every media person he lied to would be demanding his resignation (along with every Democrat) and the Republican would be on a never-ending apology tour. Weiner will just try to fade away quietly with much of the media's help.

He was known as a liberal attack dog. Now, he's just a pit Yorkie, snapping at your ankles but unable to do any real damage and easily kicked out of the way.