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The Real Reasons Men Like Anthony Weiner Risk Their Careers For Sexting

Michael Bader, AlterNet. June 16, 2011.

Anthony Weiner stepped down from Congress today over his "sexting" scandal. But why do powerful men get caught up in risky behavior in the first place?

The Worst Thing About Weinergate? The Total Obliteration of Sexual Privacy by Ideologues Like Andrew Breitbart

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. June 7, 2011.

This scandal may represent the end of the presumption of sexual privacy for anyone people like Andrew Breitbart deem interesting enough to harass.

Why Progressives Should be Mad at Anthony Weiner

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. June 6, 2011.

Having cyber-infidelities may be a privacy issue, but by lying about his sexy TwitPics, Rep. Anthony Weiner may have put important progressive issues at risk.

What's Really Behind "Weinergate"? A Right-Wing Attempt to Smear "Loose" Women

Amanda Marcotte, Comment Is Free. June 1, 2011.

The uproar over the improper photo sent from Rep. Weiner's Twitter account fits a larger pattern of rightwing culture warriors ganging up and sexually harassing young women.

Glenn Beck Mocks Obama Daughter; Issues Apology

Ben DiMiero, Media Matters for America. May 29, 2010.

Defying his own pronouncement that the children of public figures should be off-limits, Beck mocks Malia Obama, in a skit of despicable mimicry.

Rep. Anthony Weiner Calls for Investigation into Glenn Beck's Hawking Gold for Shady Company

Will Bunch, Media Matters for America. May 19, 2010.

Beck works with gold companies to create anxiety, fear and gimmicky solutions that enrich both him and the companies.

Watch: Ultra Zionists Take Manhattan, and Demand the Holy Land

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. April 28, 2010.

Speakers at an extremist rally lash out at Jewish groups and Dem politicians, warn that cozying up to Obama would endanger Israel and imperil the settlement enterprise.

Grayson Issues Apology for Calling Woman a "Whore," Weiner Apologizes for Calling Grayson Bad Food -- and Why They're Both Jerks

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. October 28, 2009.

I loved him for standing up to Republicans on health care. Now that I know he called a woman lobbyist a "whore," I love him not.

Republican Virginia Foxx: Health Reform Is a 'Distraction'

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Politics. August 21, 2009.

Foxx, of course, is also on record as saying: "There are no Americans who don't have healthcare."

Joe Scarborough Is Shocked (Yet Awed) by Sheer Force of Single-Payer Logic

Leslie Savan, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. August 20, 2009.

On "Morning Joe" this week, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes.

So-Called Members of the 'Responsible Left' Try to Justify Their $100 Billion Pro-War Vote

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: PEEK. June 18, 2009.

The cowardly Democrats who checked their spines at the door when they voted Tuesday try to defend their flip-flop on war funding.