NPR’s Nina Totenberg joins the ranks of feminists who are prostituting themselves – excuse me, sex worker-ing themselves – for Weiner. On Friday’s Inside Washington, Totenberg had the utter gall to spew the following drivel:
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: I finally felt sorry for Anthony Weiner at that press conference with people heckling him, making him a further spectacle. I mean the guy was finally resigning. You should be able to resign in public with a little, without, and control it a little bit without having people treat it as a spectacle. He’s gone, and it just seemed incredibly mean.
First, forgive me if I don’t take etiquette lectures from someone who wishes AIDS on people and their progeny. Totenberg finds it perfectly acceptable to wish AIDS on someone, and their grandchildren, because she thought his politics icky. But heckle a sexual predator who, in order to try to cover his own depraved arse, also lied and demonized innocent people for merely reporting on his reprehensible behavior? How gauche. And super mean! This isn’t actually surprising, coming from the same oh-so-unbiased ‘journalist’ who claimed that Michelle Obama gives out ‘warm and fuzzy’ feelings and asserted that another serial sexual harasser, Bill Clinton, is ‘the most gifted politician she’s ever seen‘.
Since I’m not a liberal feminist willing to sell myself and all other women out for an agenda – an agenda that is itself anti-woman – maybe I can explain a little something to Totenberg. Representative Weiner used and abused his power to harass women online to the point where he sent naked crotch shots to women, unsolicited. He further had no way of knowing the ages of the women to whom he sent these photos, which he referred to as ‘jokes’. From his demeanor and his own words at his first press conference, he did not even seem to care, either. He referred to his phone sex, which by all accounts was done from a congressional office phone on our dime, as ‘fun and frivolous.’ He referred to his sexting in the same way. Perhaps Ms. Totenberg should take a gander at his ‘fun and frivolous’ sexting chats, wherein he exhibited not only predatory behavior, but misogynistic and abusive behavior as well.
When caught, he preyed on the women further by first refusing to tell the truth, invading their privacy even more. Then again by trying to lure them into lying for him, a man in power. He made the trifecta of reprehensible by then also adding shameless and vile demagoguing of Andrew Breitbart and his team of writers for doing their jobs and reporting the truth about the atrocious behavior and actions of an employee of we, the people. Heckling was the very least that he deserved.
Furthermore, while I’d not ever want to aid Representative Weiner in any way whatsoever, if I were him I would have hoped for more heckling, in order to cover up the sounds of his pathetic and disgusting resignation speech. First, he thanked his parents for ‘instilling his values.’ The gall! If I were his parents, I’d be frantically issuing a statement saying ‘we don’t know with certitude that he is actually our son.’ Secondly, he grossly said that the most important reason for his resignation was so that HE would have ‘time to heal.’ He. As always, it’s all about him. Never mind the multitude of people that he harmed, and is continuing to harm.
So, Nina, not only is your sympathy horribly misplaced, but it shows that like all feminists you are a shill for what you claim to rail against; you are a shill for a Patriarchy. Only, it’s a pubescent patriarchy and one that has no respect for women, nor for the lives of their unborn children. In fact, it is aimed at the basest instincts of the worst kind of men to whom women are expendable objects and are merely reduced to the sum of their girly bits. But, hey, if he knocks you up, he’ll drive you to the abortion clinic and attend a Planned Parenthood rally with you to show how much he respects you, right?
And by the way, Nina, unless Anthony Weiner takes up Larry Flynt on his offer, he’s out of a job. He can’t even leave a hundred dollar bill on your nightstand.







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Who doesn't enjoy watching Lori take a sledgehammer to the Progressive Flute.
Who sucks worse? Is it Nina? Is it Joan or Katie? Or maybe Downer Deb or Gwen Ilfil or Gwen Paltrow? WOW! Even I'm amazed at how long the list goes.
I still think the chick who takes the prize IMO is Cenk Uygur. Not only does Cenk Uygur wear the accolades of Miss Progressive but so does West Host.
West Host. I know nothing about your business model or your marketing or sales strategy. But I do know this. If you advertise with Miss Progressive Cenk Uygur then you suck. And your product probably sucks worse. And that is saying something you don't want people to hear.
West Host? Bad host.
Hey Nina!– SHUT UP!
Lori—THANKS!!
Nina is just upset that someone is making fun of a member of her tribe.
Donchaknow by now that it isn't kosher to ridicule a Hebrew National?
…it just seemed incredibly mean.
Wow, really?
Nina, baby, sweetie, would you care to apply this to the left's treatment of Palin, Breitbart, Bush, Bachmann…et al?
Heckling a pervert who should know better is mean, but making fun of a toddler with downs syndrome is totally ok in the liberal mind.
I’ll never forget during the last GOP primary, hearing an NPR reporter on the radio mention a group of Romney supporters with self-righteous disdain dripping from her voice.
This is unbiased reporting? I think a lot of these “journalists” should start recusing themselves from coverage of anything but dog shows, church bazaars and PTA meetings.
But that sounds pretty bourgeoisie and since MSMers suffer from the delusion that Middle America is peopled entirely with Timothy McVeigh clones, I imagine they would pass on that.
What interesting nightmares MSMers must have.
Quite the contradiction in values, eh?
Totenberg is pretty much the heir apparent to Helen Thomas as the aging liberal news person who more and more can't help but throw her ideological biases out there for everyone to see, even though as both a pundit and a regular news reporter she's supposed to be able to keep those biases at least somewhat in check. Put her as the person at NPR most likely to blow a gasket next year and not give a damn about hiding it if the Republicans win the White House.
"First, forgive me if I don’t take etiquette lectures from someone who wishes AIDS on people and their progeny. Totenberg finds it perfectly acceptable to wish AIDS on someone, and their grandchildren, because she thought his politics icky."
Yeah. What's icky about holding up political candidates because they are black, and blaming HIV on the homosexuals? After all, according to Helms, "there is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."
Trying to hold up HIV/AIDS funding when it was the leading cause of death for those age 24-44 in the country because you're a racist homophobic jackass is worse in my book than sending obscene photos to followers on twitter.
It's also worth noting that she didn't say she wished AIDS upon him or his progeny.
Seems Weiner didn't leave a bad taste in Nina Totenbergs mouth after all.
Alas, Nina Totenberg never did want to ride Weiner too hard for too long.
Nina Totenberg and Weiner are joined at the hip.
Lori,
You're my hero! Keep blasting.
Of course the feminists support him , he's a lib, they can do anything they want, as long as they mouth platitudes about "reproductive rights". He could have been caught with a 12 year old and they wouldn't disown him. The dems are the biggest hypocrites in the world.
Hm. Refresh my memory here. Is this the same Nina Totenberg who, when presented with three history professors who took the the position that the 2nd Amendment was/is an individual right, went on the air to claim that the NRA could present no experts who would assert that the 2nd Amendment was adopted as an individual right? Is this the same Totenberg who falsely accursed a former boss of sexual harassment? That Nina Totenberg?
Reminds me of Gloria Steinem's characterization of Bill Clintons assault on Kathleen Wylie as "an ill timed advance".
Geez, Nina you're an authority on MEAN.
In fact, I think you're in the 'MEAN Hall of Shame' for the remarks you've made over the years, especially about Republicans..
Now…..Sit down and Shut up!
Yes, it's my every wish and desire that someone like The Weiner, who seems to have been grooming a 17 year old to join him in his sexting gets his 10 minutes of dignity. NOT!
Guess it sucks to be Tony Weiner, Nina. Pity you didn't find it in your heart to feel bad for George W. Bush when demented far-left liberals were calling him Hitler and every other name in the book. Not to mention some of the things Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy (when he was alive) said about him in Congress. Yet you find it in your heart to feel sorry for Weiner, a sexual pervert. Says a LOT about you, Nina.
Nina, you're just not too smart.
Yea, the tribe does stick together against the evil Goy.
I still say his actions were the equivalent of a high-tech raincoat flasher! THAT is criminal and reprehensible and sick. I am aghast that so many of the Left think of this as just 'antics' or 'private' behavior.
Yea, when Hillary posted photos of her monkey on the net, there was no such outrage!
Nina, it sucks to be bitten by your own dog, liberal tactics – - can you say? “Code Pink.”
NPR = Nina, Plagiarizing Reporter
You can't see me, but right now I'm playing a heart-wrenching little song on the world's smallest violin. This one goes out to you, vhistory. I hope it helps you feel better as you sob in anguish, trying to cope with the loss of your fallen idol.
To me, the heckling provided a moment of brevity in an otherwise humorless event. It was somehow just tasteless enough to be on par with the actions of the congressman. Honestly, if you want to get upset at something, watch the unions dress up like zombies and interrupt a group of handicapped athletes.
I would much rather it be a pink slip than a paycheck to disgusting reprobates like this poor excuse for a human being. Unfortunately, even though he has resigned, I think he still gets all of the benefits and pay of an acting Congressman.
Just disgusting…
she didn't say she wished AIDS upon him or his progeny
She sure as hell joked about Helms and his progeny getting AIDS. Also, she sure seemed to think infection of same with HIV was the work of a just G-d. What's absent from this clip of this exchange, is whether she believes in, or wishes for, a just G-d. If so, it'd be fair to say she wished AIDS upon them, because she believed they deserved it!
Hyperbole on all sides not withstanding, homosexual male copulation is the single most contributory factor to the spread of HIV in the US. Any claim to the contrary is just so much partisan posturing, and denial of this fact helps no one, especially homosexual men.
Quite the contradiction in values, eh?
Yeah still trying to figure how their brains are wired to be such hypocrites and not feel ashamed.
First off, I would not call Nina 'totin-dirty-water' Totenberg a feminist. She cannot speak for all women because to her only liberal women count. Like Lori points out, where was she when Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann were being trashed by Nina's liberal colleagues? Secondly, would she still feel sorry for Weiner if she had actually read and viewed all of Weiner's perverted exchanged with the young women. What about the 17 year old that was communicating with Weiner? Nina is not a journalist anymore than I am. She's a political hack that spends her time and taxpayer funds toting dirty water for turds like Weiner, Bill 'Horndog' Clinton, John 'heartless betrayer' Edwards, Charles 'tax cheat' Rangel and Bawney Franks just to name a few. Weiner deserves a lot worse than just hecklers. Maybe he should be forced to stand on the corner at Times Square with a sign hanging around his neck that proclaims in "I'M A PERVERT – I LIKE TO SHOW MY WEINER". If Nina thinks the hecklers at his resignation speech were mean, just imagine the verbal abuse he'd get with his sign at Times Square.
Must have something to do with all the drugs they took in the late 60's and early 70's.
"Trying to hold up HIV/AIDS funding when it was the leading cause of death for those age 24-44 in the country because you're a racist homophobic jackass is worse in my book than sending obscene photos to followers on twitter."
I'll take your bait.
I have nothing against homos. Nothing at all.
I have a close personal friend, who is a Doctor, who is recognized as one of the worlds leading AIDs research scientists. He is gay. I love him dearly, and respect him. With that being duly noted, AIDs is a lifestyle risk.
If "they" want to take the risk, then "they" should not expect me to subsidize their treatment.
Personally, were it up to me, there would be zero AIDs funding.
Lets see how long it took them to make the requisite lifestyle choices and change their bad behavior.
Precisely!
This is what I've been waiting years to see!
An organized defense against the organist offense of the left.
The game is on. Now let's get them!
@vhistory
I don’t think comparing Helms’ despicable behavior with Weiner’s actions excuses Totenberg at all.
Totenberg pretends to American voters that she is a journalist, which many voters still think means she will provide them with pertinent information without intruding her ideological bias.
But that’s a lie, and she is therefore defrauding millions of citizens.
Any “journalist” who buys into their ideological side’s memes and looks no further the way she does in not unbiased. Promoting the “Sarah Palin is vicious and dangerous” and “William Ayres is diversionary nonsense” memes instead of attempting to present all sides is not journalism.
vhistory 2
To call yourself a journalist when you value your side’s view over whatever an unbiased investigation might show is a big, fat, lie, and does just as much, if not more, damage than Helms’ bigotry.
The MSM may support agendas you also support now, but what if the pendulum swings the other way and journalism schools start producing hacks whose ideology opposes your aims? No one really wins when the people who supply our news are biased and unethical.
And I don’t know what you mean by holding up political candidates because they are black. If you’re referring to the MSM 2012-ready meme that RNC support of black politicians could only be a ploy to “appear inclusive” than you have been duped by liars pretending to be journalists.
They’re all geared up for 2012 with the MSM/DNC journalistic playbook – West and Cain are tokens and Cain is absurd anyway, and it’s just flat out open season on any conservative woman.
Lori – Blunt, and well written.
All of the apparent hypocrisy you catalog in your post, simply confirms that she is indeed a feminist, of the first water. American feminists today are nothing more than democrat apparatchiks who mouth pro-woman tropes for street cred, so that they have cover for when they advocate wearing presidential kneepads, accuse certain female Secretaries of State of Florida of wearing too much makeup, and call Condi Rice a house slave.
She does a good job.
I have never found fault with anything she has submitted.
It actually is true. All the AIDS cases CAN be traced to sodomy. There were unfortunately a lot of innocent victims along the way.
I wonder whether, when people excuse and defend Weiner's behavior, they really think of it – as Weiner would have us believe, and as the moron Totenberg obviously does – as a "fun and frivolous prank"?
Do they really put this on the same level as, say, the old handshake buzzer, or the woopie cushion? For anyone who does, I suggest the following:
Envision this reptile, sitting there texting with one hand. Now envision what this 46 year old congressman was doing with his other hand.
Because that's what he was doing.
I guarantee it.
Like a teenaged boy. Choking his chicken so furiously, he loses the presense of mind to properly send his dick-pic.
Maybe it was just sticky fingers.
Regardless, if that, to you, is a "fun, frivolous prank", then I guess you just rotflyao at the guy exposing himself on the subway platform as the train goes by.
Liberal "feminists" only care about women's right's when they are violated by a conservative. If the sexual deviant is a liberal attacking a female, than that is ok. Groups like NOW exist to advance the Democratic Party, not the rights of women. I challenge anyone to refute that claim.
What did I tell you folks? Agent Totemberg here puts our people above all others. That is why she was placed in her position. We Jews stick together.
Although I don't know if this is true, Totenberg likes Weiner.
Yup. THAT Nina Toke-a-turd.
hey nina they should have fired you not williams.i dont know what is dumber you or a rock.
Why did I read this story, when I can't stand Totenburg with her nasally disdain and Weiner with his, well, everything about the guy? I read it because, as you said: "Who doesn't enjoy watching Lori take a sledgehammer to the Progressive Flute."
Lori, you hit like a girl – - and that's good. Keep pounding.
Trying to understand why liberal women defend liberal male deviates is like trying to understand Muslim women who advocate allowing Muslim men to forcibly take conquered females as sexual slaves in order to protect the males sexual purity for marriage.
Oh, and add why liberal women defend Muslim men who agree with that action. It must be very difficult to live in the mind of a liberal woman.
Totenberg is the modern example of the classic Common Scold, communis rixatrix. At one time, there were appropriate penalties for such behavior; a scold's bridle comes to mind. Now we are limited to ridicule, alas.
Maybe Totenbergs is bigger and s/he is just looking out for the little guy…..
I think I just threw up in my mouth…
Did you have to go and insult the rocks? That's just mean.
Oh boo f*cking hoo! Don't hold a public press conference if you don't want hecklers.
Another NPR lame brain that drinks the liberal kool aid by the gallon. Funny how anyone other than a democrap gets nothing but a sledge hammer from the state run media, while none of them get anything but a bunch of b.s. EXCUSES, sympathy and a pat on the back as they head off to "re-hab". You know and I know he'd STILL be doing it if he hadn't been outed, and that's the ONLY reason he's "sorry". As Michael Savage says, "liberalism is a mental disorder". When you look at these freaks, listen to what they're spewing, then see what they're doing, you cannot come to any other conclusion than that. They're all friggin' nutso… libs suck
Like Nina, I too love Weiner.
After all, a more perfect face for the Democrat Party cannot be found.
Where were the"hecklers" when she made that stupid remark?
Yes, I believe that's probably what I meant.
Umm. Let's keep in mind who started the "spectacle". Don't expect it to conveniently stop on the consequences side.
Thank you kindly for omitting the link.
" I am aghast that so many of the Left think of this as just 'antics' or 'private' behavior."
Yes, it's useful to be reminded of this (left=immoral, amoral) from time-to-time, huh.
If the MSM applied half as much empathy to the Right, I might begin to take Totenberg seriously. Instead, she just comes across as the bully who cries the first time someone punches back. Her emotional reaction isn't commendable so much as terribly selective.
That someone can seriously defend this sociopathic lech – that a woman can do it, no less – while journalists were at about the same time salivating over the prospect of combing through Palin's e-mails in the hopes of digging dirt suggests to me that she has no self-awareness whatsoever, much less integrity.
Perhaps she and Wiener are cut from the same narcissistic cloth?
That's what I'm talking about. Let's re-institute the fine old tradition of shunning! It worked back then and it will work today!
Weiner had to go because the scandal was metastasizing to the highest councils of the party. Consider…Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Al Gore (the second chakra release/masseuse business), Elliot Spitzer, Barney Frank, all of the Kennedy stuff, and this in a very small circle of Dem elites. Bill Clinton used the hypocrisy card but since 1998 we had a chance to reconsider. If you have no values you could never be a hypocrite. Speaking of hypocrisy, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz just said the Republicans, "record is a war on women, and it's a priority with them". This whole business reminds me of the denouement of the Ice Queen in, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", lots of hissing and scales forming, and paradise lost for Tony. An offshoot of the affair is now we understand that Huma's family is neck deep in the Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood. There is a WTF moment for you! Aren't they the "non-violent, secular", group that wants to destroy Israel and rule the world? This thing will end in a bunker.
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