Anthony Weiner Thought It Would Be a Good Idea to Pimp His New Show on ‘Hannity’ — It Wasn’t – Opinion

Not that thoroughly disgraced and hopelessly humiliated former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-FOOL) is a card-carrying member of Mensa or anything, but even The Weiner Man™ — in all of his “Carlos Danger” glory days — did not appear to be stupid. All sexual weirdnesses and all pathetic proclivities aside.

Despite that, I was left to wonder out loud. “What the heck was he thinking?”It was a surprise to me that Mr. Danger showed up on Fox News’s “Hannity,” along with Curtis Sliwa, founder, and CEO of the Guardian Angels, to pimp their new show, “The Left vs The Right,” on WABC Radio.

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Weiner told Hannity he was ready for “tough questions.” Let the show begin.

The ever-acerbic Hannity — this time, justified — went after Weiner right out of the gate, grilling the admitted sexual pervert on whether he has “changed” since he pled guilty in May 2017 to sexting (sending pictures of his junk) a 15-year-old girl.

Weiner said he’s “not out to persuade anyone” to feel differently about him, as reported by Fox News, after Hannity began to go full-metal HannityYou can find him.

Hannity opened the celebrations in this manner:

“I guess the first question that I have is you pled guilty, Anthony, to sending obscene materials to a young girl, 15-year-old girl … You served jail time. Are you different? Are you a different person?

Weiner, who was sentenced 21 months imprisonment, and served 18 of those years, did not anticipate the question.

Umm… I believe so. I don’t think anyone can go through that kind of experience, and I think this is probably true of people who have been through other types of adversity. I don’t think you go through that type of experience and don’t emerge changed.

You must stop the taping.

“Go through that type of experience”? After his release, the dude was deemed a Level-One sex offender. Weiner man, a 15-year old girl. How was her experience?

Hannity wasn’t having it, either:

“Wait a minute. That’s an obscure answer – ‘I think so.” Either you know in your heart if you changed or you know … if you didn’t change. Can you assure people, because you’re going to now try and draw in an audience, and they’re going to want to know if you changed — or not. Have you changed?”

Weiner said people can “judge for themselves,” adding:

I’m not out to persuade you or anyone else that I’ve changed. It’s a radio program where people can call in to ask any questions. This Saturday, we had one. Curtis asked me many questions. I answered as best I could.

But in terms of like, I’m trying to draw someone, you know, I’m not trying to make someone like me or someone be persuaded of any particular outlook on me. We’re going to have some conversations about things going on in New York City and other places, and hopefully, people will tune in to the show.

But I’m not terribly interested in trying to make them feel any differently about me.

“But I’m not terribly interested in trying to make them feel any differently about me.”

Yeah, no arrogance there, whatsoever.

Far be it from me to judge Weiner — or anyone else — but so much “me” talk and zero talk about how his perversion impacted the victim(s), his now former-wife Huma Abedin — not all that squeaky clean, herself — the voters who entrusted him with a seat in Congress, and no doubt, countless other people.

Contrition? Hardly.

People like Anthony Weiner are arrogant and completely unaware of their own self-awareness. They don’t usually feel genuinely sorry for anything that they do. Weiner no doubt sees himself not necessarily as a “victim,” but someone who sounds an awful lot like he believes he deservesMoving forward, to judge him solely on the things he does in future.

He does not. He was sentenced for lewd sexual conduct affecting minors. He is an active sex offender. While he should certainly not be denied the opportunity to redeem himself financially and otherwise, Weiner was what he was — and he remains just that.