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Anthony Weiner Doesn't Think Yelling Is Cool Unless He's The One Screaming
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Ben Yakas
Published Jul 4, 2013
Modified Jul 4, 2013
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NY Times reporter Michael Barbaro has had some fun on the campaign trail recently following the merry adventures of our numerous mayoral candidates. This week alone, he picked up on Anthony Weiner's latest unofficial slogan ("It's just a couple of dick pics"), and witnessed him getting heckled on the Upper West Side. It seems Weiner is not a fan of yelling...unless he's the one doing the yelling.
"I’m not going to be bullied by people like you, now or when I become mayor," Weiner told the heckler, who was angry Weiner supported the war in Iraq in 2002. "If you want to have a conversation, I respect you enough to have a conversation. But yelling at the top of your lungs is not the New York way. We don’t roll like that." First off, it totally IS the New York way to yell at the top of your lungs when you're arguing, whether or not you realize you're doing so.
And more importantly, this is Weiner we're talking about—the guy loves getting theatrical and yelly any chance he gets, as you can see in the classic video below.
Even this highlight reel of his "best" moments is chock full of him talking over people and yelling at them while having "conversations."
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