It’s clear that left will embrace any possible conspiracy theory that floats by them, especially if Andrew Breitbart is within 300 feet of a story. Over at Crooks & Liars, my old Twitter friend @Karoli has sadly gone off the rails again. Here’s how she starts…
Yes, another Anthony Weiner post. Except this one confirms what I suspected: that the conservatives who "caught" him tweeting that picture were trying to set him up.
She quotes the recent NYT piece on “Betty & Veronica” and comes to a conclusion that isn’t in the piece…
I’m not excusing the fact that he did, in fact, send lewd photos and create a stupid distraction for the better part of three weeks. But this story highlights the fact that someone smelled blood and tried to take it to the next level by creating fake underage accounts to lure him into sending photos or flirting. It appears that he did not take the bait, but the fact that there was bait should make everyone sit up and take notice.
As long as identities are nothing more than the next invented email account, everyone is vulnerable. In Anthony Weiner’s case, he should have realized that he made himself a target just by standing up like he did, and been leery of any overly friendly people online. Instead he let himself be flattered by it.
(emphasis added)
Except – the timeline is backwards. The smelling of blood happened BEFORE the Tweet Heard ‘Round The World happened. If Weiner was ‘targeted’, it happened before everyone knew what he was up to…but apparently, somebody knew what he was up to.
Anthony Weiner made himself a target, all right; not for his supposed high ideals but by his habit of taking conversations with woman who liked his political stands as an opportunity to drop sexual innuendo, out of context dirty talk and to expose himself. He wasn’t entrapped in any possible way. He literally couldn’t have been entrapped unless you define ‘talking to women’ as entrapment.
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And, as you have pointed out, Lee, how are Betty & Veronica bait when they, and particularly the mom, Mrs. Betty, adamantly support Weiner in the same tone that he used to defend himself.
They weren’t bait….they were a red herring set up to establish that Weiner had only appropriate conversations with supposed underage followers….and when the supposed followers got too “crushy” he “appropriately” cut them off.
Yes the original plans blew up as the other main story exploded simultaneously…but when it in the end turns into a vigorous defense of Weiner, one can only conclude that B&V existed only to vindicate him, not to trap him. In fact they were intended as traps for #bornfreecrew, @PatriotUSA76, @AndrewBreitbart & @DLoesch.
The fake identities were created back in October.
How does Crooks and Liars assessment of the timeline contradict this?
Here is her quote:
I’m not excusing the fact that he did, in fact, send lewd photos and create a stupid distraction for the better part of three weeks. But this story highlights the fact that someone smelled blood and tried to take it to the next level by creating fake underage accounts to lure him into sending photos or flirting. It appears that he did not take the bait, but the fact that there was bait should make everyone sit up and take notice
It looks now like Starchild111 was created as early as last July-August as a sockpuppet along with MarianelaAlicea and Juan2437
Joe
An ambitious operative would start creating scores of these identities for potential future use.