memeorandum: Weiner Sexting Partner Reveals Her Identity, Says: ‘He Called Me On Congress Phone!’ (Danb/RADAR)

11:15 AM ET, June 7, 2011

Top Items:

Weiner Told Porn Star to Lie, Offered PR Help — Congressman Anthony Weiner instructed one of his Internet women how to lie about their relationship ... and even offered PR help from his team, which could create major legal issues for him ... TMZ has learned.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Pajamas Media, The Daily Dish, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, New York Post, Taegan Goddard's …, National Review, JammieWearingFool and POWIP

Chris Cuomo / ABCNEWS:

Rep. Anthony Weiner: ‘The Picture Was of Me and I Sent It’ — Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York said today he has engaged in “several inappropriate” electronic relationships with six women over three years, and that he publicly lied about a photo of himself sent over Twitter to a college student in Seattle over a week ago.

Meagan Broussard / Big Government:

My Story — My name is Meagan Broussard. I am 26 years old. I served in the U.S. Army, and I am a full-time college student and a single mom. — I admired Rep. Anthony Weiner because I had seen a video of him standing up for the 9/11 responders. It was a rant, but he came across …

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Daily Beast, The Note, The Gateway Pundit, Salon, National Review, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Maggie's Notebook, Runnin' Scared, City Room, Verum Serum, Atlas Shrugs and POWIP

Danb / RADAR:

Weiner Sexting Partner Reveals Her Identity, Says: ‘He Called Me On Congress Phone!’ — The woman who carried on a nine-month sexting relationship with Rep. Anthony Weiner is a 40-year-old Las Vegas blackjack dealer named Lisa Weiss. — Following a bombshell joint investigation …

New York Post:

Erections have consequences — Let us declare with certitude the obvious: Rep. Anthony Weiner has disgraced his office, and himself, and he needs to quit. — Never mind that he went before the TV cameras yesterday, cried on cue and assumed “responsibility” for a litany of offenses to common decency …

Discussion: New York Times, msnbc.com, TechCrunch, The Hill and Runnin' Scared, more at Techmeme »

Elizabeth Scalia / The Anchoress:

Weinergate: Barbara Walters Loses Reporter Cred - UPDATE — I know, I know; I am the only blogger in the world, it seems, who is not writing about Anthony Weiner. Mea Culpa — Mondays are my busiest day, and today I didn't even get to go to Adoration, so you know it was just unmanageably busy.

Discussion: Washington Post, Pajamas Media, Wizbang and Hot Air

The Politico:

Andrew Breitbart's day of vindication — ‘Breitbart is a regular whipping boy. We can accuse him of anything,’ Breitbart said of himself. AP Photo — In Andrew Breitbart's up-and-down career as a conservative agitator, it doesn't get any better than this.

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, YID With LID, Pirate's Cove, New York Times, JammieWearingFool and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, more at Mediagazer »

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
RNC chairman demands Weiner's resignation

Discussion: FrumForum

msnbc.com:
Constituents back Weiner but Dem colleagues icy

Discussion: JammieWearingFool

David S Morgan / CBS News:
Breitbart: Weiner offering limited version of truth

Discussion: CANNONFIRE

The Atlantic Online:
Anthony Weiner Admits to Sending Racy Photos: Should We Really Ignore It?

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, American Thinker, A plain blog about politics and Outside the Beltway

New York Times:
'I Don't Know What I Was Thinking'

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Suburban Guerrilla

Jack Shafer / Slate Magazine:
Anthony Weiner's Semantic Satiation

Discussion: Ross Douthat, Power Line, Pundit & Pundette, Washington Post, Pajamas Media and POWIP

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Chris Matthews Says Weiner's Wife Might Be ‘Partly Responsible,’ Later Backtracks

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Politico, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, AMERICAblog News, Modeled Behavior and Indecision Forever

John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi calls for Anthony Weiner ethics inquiry

Discussion: Washington Times, Washington Post, UrbanGrounds, The Lonely Conservative, Pirate's Cove, Fox News, Mediaite, Big Government, Fox Nation, The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine, The Democratic Daily, Gawker, Towleroad News #gay, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Guardian

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Creepy must-see flashback: Weiner lies shamelessly to ABC about what happened

Discussion: Pajamas Media, National Review, The Other McCain and Wizbang

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Weiner Admits He Sent Lewd Photos; Seeks Not to Resign

Discussion: City Room, The Politico, New York Times, Feministe, The Caucus, Connecting.the.Dots and American Power

The Politico:
Can Anthony Weiner survive?

Discussion: ABCNEWS and Washington Post

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Obama loses bin Laden bounce; Romney on the move among GOP contenders — The public opinion boost President Obama received after the killing of Osama bin Laden has dissipated, and Americans' disapproval of how he is handling the nation's economy and the deficit has reached new highs, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Discussion: Top of the Ticket, LifeNews.com, Don Surber, Hot Air, The Foundry, Weasel Zippers, USA Today, americanthinker.com, Wonkette, CNN, Ricochet Conversation Feed, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Taegan Goddard's …, DownWithTyranny!, Prairie Weather and The Page

Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:

ABC News Poll: Romney Even Against Obama In Match-Up — An announcement bump for Mitt Romney and a bus-tour boost for Sarah Palin put the pair atop the field for the Republican presidential nomination. But while their primary standings are similar, their broader prospects for election look vastly different.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, The Politico, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …, Conservatives4Palin, National Review, JammieWearingFool, The Page and FrumForum

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's money men (and women)

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Top of the Ticket

First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama vs. the economy

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Salon and Gawker

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Pawlenty to criticize Obama as ‘a champion practitioner of class warfare’ — President Obama is a “champion practitioner of class warfare,” according to prepared remarks by GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty. — The former Minnesota governor is scheduled Tuesday to lay out the specifics …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and GOP 12

Tim Pawlenty / Chicago Tribune:
A Tim Pawlenty plan for recovery

Discussion: The Note, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Daily Kos

Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Pawlenty Plan: Deep Tax Cuts and a ‘Google Test’

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Taegan Goddard's …

Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Wire:

‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ Allegedly Kidnapped — As the anti-government uprising in Syria has unfolded, Syrian-American blogger Amina Abdallah has attracted readers and been noticed by The Washington Post, CNN, Time,and The Guardian for her musings on the protest movement and what it's like to be gay in Syria.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and AMERICAblog Gay

Rania / A Gay Girl in Damascus:
Amina — I am Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari's cousin …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mondoweiss, Lez Get Real, Towleroad News #gay and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »

Sam Youngman / The Hill:

Daily economic briefings disappear from Obama's White House schedule — At some point during the first two years of his administration, President Obama stopped receiving the daily economic briefing that he requested when he took office. — Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced …

Discussion: Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and americanthinker.com

Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Top Obama Economic Player to Return to University Post

Discussion: The Note, The Democratic Daily, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Left Coast Rebel, Firedoglake, The Politico, Economist's View and The Lonely Conservative

David Brooks / New York Times:

Where Wisdom Lives — Sometimes life presents you with a basic philosophical choice. Americans are going to have to confront a giant one over the next several years. — It starts in the wonky world of Medicare. As presently constructed, Medicare is based on an open-ended fee-for-service system.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post, The New Republic and The Baseline Scenario

Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:

Louisiana Republican Aims To Overturn Roe v. Wade … The Louisiana state legislature is considering a bill that would make performing an abortion a criminal offense, including in cases of rape and incest, and that would force a woman to pay out of pocket for an abortion that is necessary to save her life.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway and FrumForum

Russ Britt / MarketWatch:

Firms to cut health plans as reform starts: survey — 30% of companies say they'll stop offering coverage — Front Page - News Viewer - Commentary - Markets - Investing - Personal Finance - Community - Games — LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, ThinkProgress, Wizbang, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers, Babalú Blog, Don Surber and The Lonely Conservative

Paul Krugman:

The Fatal Pivot — Christy Romer talks about the economic debate (pdf) in the fall of 2009: … This matches what I was hearing. And it tells you that it wasn't just the Republicans: a substantial faction within the administration was eager to “pivot” away from the jobs issue.

M.Welker / Media Matters for America:

REPORT: Opponents Of EPA Climate Action Dominate TV News Airwaves — Media Matters analyzed television news guests who discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's role in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from December 2009 through April 2011. Driven largely by Fox News Channel …

Discussion: ThinkProgress

The Hill:

For Obama, problem's not just the economy — Grave national-security and foreign-policy issues are crowding President Obama's agenda as he struggles to repair the nation's economy. — With the 2012 election looming, Obama is juggling a decision on how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Politico