Here's Anthony Weiner Totally Melting Down And Exploding At A Voter Who Called Him A 'Scumbag'

[FarCenter]

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner melted down in a heated exchange with a voter on Wednesday, the latest signal of a crumbling campaign less than a week before the primaries.

The meltdown came in the neighborhood of Boro Park in Brooklyn, where Weiner was confronted by a Jewish voter. The voter started jabbing at Weiner and called him a "scumbag" as he walked out of an establishment, something to which Weiner objected.

"Yeah, takes one to know one, jackass," Weiner quipped back. "... What's that? You wait until I walk out to say anything — that's courage!"

Weiner and the man subsequently approached one another.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/video-anthony-weiner-voter-meltdown-2013-9

[Psephos]

1. just go away

far, far, away

[seabeyond]

2. Hey.... Wiener is simply being true to form. What he did was about character

He is merely being consistent

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. So he is supposed to stand still and be accosted on the street

because he showed a woman his weenie pictures? Seriously?

[seabeyond]

13. He was accosted? Seriously?

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. If I get jabbed at...I consider myself "accosted"

"The voter started jabbing at Weiner"

[seabeyond]

19. Oh... Kay...

[phleshdef]

60. Scum bag... married to an Arab... you're disgusting" then starts jabbing his finger at him...

...what the fuck else do you call it?

accosted: to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accost

[Renew Deal]

14. "accosted" "on the street"

He's running for office and a voter expressed their opinion. I'm sure he asked this guy for his vote.

[VanillaRhapsody]

16. it was more then an expression of opinion

"The voter started jabbing at Weiner"

[Renew Deal]

17. That's what happens when you run for office.

And the voter is correct

[VanillaRhapsody]

20. Jabbed at is correct behavior towards candidates?

I think I remember Jan Brewer just pointing a crooked arthritic finger at Obama and that was considered bad form at least.

[Renew Deal]

26. Because the president is somebody

Weiner is a has been at best.

[phleshdef]

62. Even "has been"s have the right to respond to bigoted insults and overly aggressive behavior.

[hrmjustin]

55. The guy went after his wife. I would be angry too.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=9236157

[phleshdef]

61. Yea a guy insults your wife's ethnicity, calls you a scumbag and starts jabbing his finger....

....at you, in a very, very physically close proximity, no big deal, he is just being a good faith voter expressing his valid, completely unbigoted opinion.

[brooklynite]

22. Actually, yes he is...

...he's a politician ruling for office. It comes with the territory. If you can't deal with a heckler on the street, how will you deal with another elected official?

[hrmjustin]

54. He verbally went after his wife so I think Weiner had cause to be angry.

[NOVA_Dem]

38. Guy Shouting at Anthony Weiner was Upset He Married an Arab

I'm not a Anthony Weiner cheerleader but some context would be helpful:
http://gawker.com/anthony-weiner-blows-up-in-absurd-shouting-match-with-j-1252261514/1253386399

Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign just posted a longer video of the candidate’s shouting match with a Jewish voter in Borough Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday morning. Beginning around 3:46, the same man depicted arguing with Weiner in the earlier video says, “You’re a real scumbag” and later adds, “You’re married to an Arab,” referring to Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin. Within moments the men begin shouting at each other over the voter’s insult.

[Fawke Em]

39. Shhhh... you're letting facts get in the way!

[NOVA_Dem]

41. I'm sure everyone is going to come back and apologize right?

He was just defending his wife but they just did their "drive by" and left.

[Fawke Em]

42. Maybe you should make your post an OP.

BTW, my first husband is Arabic and, obviously, our son is half-Arabic.

I would have punched that dude if he'd called me disgusting for that. Weiner had more control than I would have.

[JI7]

51. she is not arab, she is south asian (indian and pakistani)

i believe her parents worked in saudi arabia or some other arab countries where she was raised for some time.

[hrmjustin]

53. I am not voting for him but the guy called him a scumbag and said your married to an Arab.

I would be angry as well.

[Savannahmann]

3. Is anyone at the DNC explaining to Weiner that political life is over?

I mean, at the least someone should come by and help him update his resume for life in the private sector, not that anyone is in a big hurry to hire a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen, but there might be some job he could do. Perhaps on third shift, he could manage the late night janitorial staff, so long as someone was there to tackle him when he offered to send them some texts.

[KittyWampus]

7. this mayoral run was never about him winning anyway. It was to use his leftover money and help for

"next time". Lose now but get it under his belt so he can come back in a few years.

That he ever took the lead was dumb luck.

[msongs]

8. or he could be the janitor instead of the manager nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. if there was a lawsuit to be had...it would have already happened

why someone is a "scumbag" because they sent dirty pictures to a willing participant is beyond me...

Going to be really hard to find candidates in the future based on this standard.

[Savannahmann]

21. Nah.

First, the lawsuit is for whatever he did as an employee of the company where he was the manager of the fictional third shift janitors. Not for what he's already done, but what he'll do in the future.

Second, future candidates. We all make mistakes, we all exercise bad judgment from time to time. The trick is this, don't make the same mistake twice. If you screw up one thing, don't do it again. Just about everyone understands that mistakes happen, and just about everyone knows we screw up, we're human, and it goes with the territory.

Let's say (for the sake of argument only as I never have had) I've had an affair. Either my wife finds out, or I tell her. Either way we argue, she's hurt. We go to counseling, and we agree to communicate better and work towards a strong marriage. She's forgiven me for a period of weakness, a time of bad judgment, and believes I will show better judgment in the future. Then as the sessions of our counseling end, I have another affair, and she finds out. What is my excuse then? What is the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

Many people could and did forgive his behavior once. Nobody will forgive anyone who makes the same mistake again after getting caught.

[VanillaRhapsody]

23. but that is not the actual case is it?

His wife forgave him.....

Who are we to judge then?

[VanillaRhapsody]

24. right cause no one that ever gets pregnant ever has a second abortion right?

they should lose their potential job prospects and be told they are a "scumbag" right?

we are talking dirty pictures not even abortions....

[Savannahmann]

27. We are the Democratic Underground

We are the Democratic Party Base. We are the ones who have to run candidates in our districts to try and beat the Republicans. We are the ones who have heard, and will hear about that ass Weiner and his behavioral issues. We could have, and New York did forgive him the first time. Now, he's not even a punch line in a joke. He's in even worse taste than that.

We are the ones who donate time, money, and our energy to the campaigns that succeed, and those that fail. We are the ones who keep fighting when it looks like all is lost. We keep fighting for ideals, principles. Not some perverted idiot who can't go ten minutes without shooting pictures of his junk to every woman in his phones contact list.

[VanillaRhapsody]

29. So what? When did we become the Moral Majority?

I don't give a shit what he does legally when not working...just as I don't care whether you send naked selfies after you get off work!

So anyone who has ever taken a naked picture of themselves or someone else is officially a pervert now?

[Hekate]

32. We're talking electability here. HE made his privates public, and by now ....

... he just looks like a subway flasher in search of a trench coat.

Go ahead -- you donate your time and money to this loser, but as for the rest of the voting public I think all they'll donate is a fork, because he's done.

As for what you do with yourself after work: if the CEO has his nose rubbed in it and it looks like your activities will make the company look bad, you can kiss your own career prospects goodbye even if you hold on to your current position. If you're a teacher and the School Board must take notice, you'll have an even faster exit.

The Court of Public Opinion has its own logic.

[VanillaRhapsody]

33. Only because OUR side is acting this way...

after Bill Clinton you would think we would have learnt to let this kind of shit go...

but no....


and no...a CEO cannot fire you for sending selfies after work. Try that and see if the Labor Board won't get excited for you!

[Hekate]

35. Bill Clinton never sent out photos of his indiscretions. As for your putative CEO/NLRB clash...

You can be the test case for an at-will employee.

[VanillaRhapsody]

36. So sending out pictures without even touching another human being....

makes you garbage that deserves to be "jabbed" in public....but Bill actually having an actual affairs with multiple women is AOK with you? Somehow the photos are the more egregious offense?

You are a hypocrite...

[hrmjustin]

44. As a voter in the city of NY it is my right to judge his ability to be mayor.

His issues is why I switched from Weiner to de Blasio.

[VanillaRhapsody]

45. Yes they do...but not because he sends weenie shots....without pushback from me...

that is just so hypocritical. Let he who is without sin cast that first stone! Oppose him for policy not because he took some photos of his junk.

[hrmjustin]

50. I judge him by his sins as well because he has no self control. Why would I vote for

someone who has shown he has no control. Again I will judge him on his character as well as policy.

[Renew Deal]

12. Pretty sure the primary next week will solve that

[Common Sense Party]

5. I wish weiner would move to my town and run for Mayor...

...just so I could vote against him.

[Romulox]

6. A truly repellant man, who, at the end, doesn't have the class to just go away... nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

10. because he sends dirty selfies?

sheesh.

[Romulox]

15. It's only a symptom of an obvious larger problem with impulse control. He's not fit to lead. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

30. So anyone who has sent more than one naked selfie has an "obvious large problem with impulse control

Is that what you are saying? So you voted against Bill Clinton when he was putting cigars in a young woman's HooHaa right? Bill was a bit of a serial cad wasn't he? Did you call him a Perv too? Did you claim he had an "obvious larger problem with impulse control that made him unfit to lead"?


I guess he should be put on the sex offenders list too huh?

[VanillaRhapsody]

46. did you say that about Bill Clinton too?

[AtomicKitten]

11. I wouldn't have believed he could make things worse for himself

... until I read this.

Oy.

[In_The_Wind]

25. So, Weiner still behaves like a jerk.

[VanillaRhapsody]

47. No someone ELSE acted like a jerk

No one should have to put up with other people putting their fingers in their faces...

[In_The_Wind]

48. Didn't he have some kind of security that could have stepped in.

[VanillaRhapsody]

49. why would he need that? Because he sent a few selfies?

[hrmjustin]

28. Weiner being in the news everyday helps de Blasio, so I am for him getting in the news.

I am voting de Blasio.

[Whisp]

31. gawd, what a creepy little nowhere man. n/t

[VanillaRhapsody]

34. the guy was an orthodox Jew who said:

"At this point, the man approached Weiner and, with a finger in the candidate’s face, proceeded to berate him. “You have the nerve to even walk around in public,” he said. “You’re disgusting.”

"So apparently some here at DU agree that Wiener shouldn't even be allowed to walk around in public"


So good to know that some here at DU have the same moral outrage as an orthodox Jew.

(fyi...that's like agreeing with a Fundamentalist Southern Baptist's Moral Outrage).

[Whisp]

37. Wiener was the one ranting like a lunatic.

The other guy looked calm and reasonable.

I'd vote for the other guy.

[Fawke Em]

40. You'd vote for a guy who called someone disgusting for being married to an Arab?

My first husband is Arabic and our son is, obviously, half Arabic.

I think you need to read the entire story and learn WHY Weiner took it personally or leave DU and head to Freeperville with those anti-Semitic feelings (and, yes, Arabs are ALSO Semitic).

[JI7]

52. the guy is an idiot, first Huma is not Arab but some people think all muslims or brown people

are arabs. she is indian and pakistani descent .

[Fawke Em]

64. You are correct; however, she's still "other."

[hrmjustin]

43. I am not voting for Weiner but the guy was at fault. He also apologiezed for insulting his wife.

Weiner was not at fault.

[Moses2SandyKoufax]

57. What the hell did he apologize for?

If he said it in the first place he meant it. Weiner was in no way at fault or in the wrong. The idiot who heckled him should consider himself lucky that he wasn't knocked clear into next week.

[hrmjustin]

58. I thought Weiner was rather calm compared to what I would have said.

[Moses2SandyKoufax]

63. I guess Weiner is an easy target around here.

I don't know how anyone can put the blame on him for this incident.

Funny how Mark Sanford can make a political comeback, Newt Gingrich wins presidential primaries and remains relevant in the world of politics, and David Vitter easily gets re-elected every 6 years, but Anthony Weiner is a pariah. To live in a world where a candidate's policies are the only thing that matters when selecting Representatives and office holders.

[Fla_Democrat]

56. His campaign posted this?

On purpose? I mean, it wasn't like their account was hacked and the footage leaked... they wanted this out?

[phleshdef]

59. This is one time that people should have Anthony Weiner's back. He was rightfully angry at this guy.

Watch the whole thing...

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/weiner-heckler-made-married-to-arab-comment-video

The guy was badgering Anthony on his way out of the place. Anthony tried to blow him off at first but the guy kept on and basically said that Anthony Weiner was disgusting for being married to an arab.

Look, I'd never vote for Weiner for anything at this point, but he has the right to get pissed off when some dick head bigot is making comments like that.