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Anthony Weiner "Can't Say With Certitude" If Crotch Is His
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Garth Johnston
Published Jun 1, 2011
Modified Jun 1, 2011
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So maybe Anthony Weiner's wiener is that big? When asked earlier today by Luke Russert if the photo of a man's crotch sent from his Twitter account was his, he replied "You know, I can’t say with certitude.” He had to bring certitude into it? Don't most men know a) what their underwear looks like and b) when their engorged junk has been photographed?
Weiner continued by explaining “My system was hacked, pictures can be manipulated, dropped in and inserted. One reason I asked a firm to look at what the heck happened here … is to see maybe something was manipulated, maybe something was dropped in.”
The married Congressman continues to say he was hacked though. “We don’t know for sure what happened here,” Weiner added. “But let’s try to take a step back. This is a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the Internet, spoofed me, made fun of me, whatever. We’re taking it seriously in as much we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Here's the video, where Weiner's statement about certitude doesn't sound quite as strange as it reads:
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