COOKED

New York’s Having A Weiner Roast

By Elizabeth Coady

NEW YORK CITY IS THROWING ITSELF A SPECTACULAR SUMMER WEINER ROAST and a schleppy former Congressman is the dog getting cooked.

Anthony Weiner, a Democratic candidate for the New York City’s mayoral race, has been outed a second time for sexting pictures of his penis to women he met on the web. The 48-year-old is evidently proud of stuffed skin; why else would he keep showing it off?

At least, that’s the question that everyone’s asking, even as his online pseudonym — “Carlos Danger” — hints at the thrill. The name is also serving as blunt force object for the Rev. Erick Salgado who’s also seeking the mayoral post. “Every time many people do wrong behavior, it’s always a Carlito, a Pedrito, a Miguelito,” Salgado charged. “…It’s an insult.”

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Guliani told Fox’s Sean Hannity. “I mean, I think he needs help. It’s quite obvious that he is crying out for help and the best place to do that is privately, not, you know, running for office.”

“I never understood Anthony anyway when he was in city council or — strange guy, I mean, he’s really, really strange guy, obviously even more trouble than we originally thought,” the Republican commented.

Guliani called Weiner a “terrible congressman” even before he was forced out of his Congressional seat after the first sexting scandal broke in 2011.Since the latest revelations were outed on the raunchy website The Dirty, Weiner has …drooped in the polls.

Meanwhile, the slutty siren at the center of Weiner’s latest contretemps is 23-year-old Sydney Leathers of Princeton, Ind. who’s been busy seeking her 15 minutes in the spotlight.

“I am extremely sorry for my part in the hurt and pain that she’s obviously feeling right now,” Leathers poured out to media this week. But an acquaintance of hers told the New York Daily News that the college sophomore “knew exactly what she was doing.”

“Sydney plays victim best,” the woman said. “She is not the victim here … He is obviously weak and she has nothing to lose by this, but he does. They are both morons.”

A second storyline in the unfolding drama is Weiner’s treatment of his long-suffering wife, Huma Abedin, and her apparent resignation to his cyber infidelities.

“I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him and as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward,” Abedin, a former aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, told reporters at a press conference Tuesday.

While many partisans suggest Abedin stays in the marriage out of political ambition, the Huffington Post admonishes us to “stop pretending we know why” she stays. Meanwhile, The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that Weiner’s betrayal of his wife is evidence that he lacks both the savvy and compassion to lead.

“I do not believe that it is the fate of all men to send dick pics hurtling through cyberspace,” he scolds. “And I do not believe that Anthony Weiner is the best we can expect from maledom, to say nothing of New York liberals.”

The second biggest mystery — next to ‘why’ — is whether Weiner will drop out of the race. “As the soap opera continues to play out, other candidates and newspaper editorials are imploring Weiner to bow out of the race for the good of the city,” a PIX11 newscaster reported.

But Andrew Sullivan argues Weiner should stay in the race.

“Weiner should not, er, withdraw prematurely,” Sullivan opines. “He should do us all a favor, if his wife agrees, and plow on until we can all smoke a collective cigarette. In this new Internet Age someone has to be the person who makes sexting not an excludable characteristic for public office.”