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Even though Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed his various sextracurricular activities right before The Daily Show was set to tape, the comedy news program Tweeted, "Yes, we will be "covering" #ShirtlessWeiner tonight on the show! No story breaks too late for 'The Best F***ing News Team on the Planet'!" And Jon Stewart did discuss the story. While he was outraged—"The most upsetting thing about having a friend caught in a scandal of this nature is finding out that he's packing jumbo heat and that's he's ripped. I can't believe that this guy and I are the same f***ing age," adding that when he wakes up, he looks like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, right after capture—but it was actually pretty tame. So Stephen Colbert picked up the slack.
Colbert said, "I think we'll all remember where we were when we found out that this is, in fact, Anthony Weiner's [dick]." He acknowledged, "It's shocking. He's so thin. Naked he must look a wind sock hanging off a parking meter," and reasoned why Weiner sent topless photos of himself, "The guy is my age and he's totally cut. That is why I have made the moral choice to let myself go... I am in no way tempted to share this with anybody. I'm proud to say I have the torso of a 76-year-old man." Given that Weiner insisted he never had physical contact, Colbert was also proud that Republicans are "man enough to hit that thing" when they have sex scandals.
Of course, Weiner was the hot topic with all talking heads. Leftie Ed Schultz said on MSNBC that Weiner should resign from his house seat—and then run again in 2012—while prostitute-loving former governor Eliot Spitzer took up Weiner on his CNN program. Click through to see Spitzer's thoughts, Rachel Maddow's matrix and Sean Hannity's interview with sexting partner Meagan Broussard.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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