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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The Morning Scoop - Andrew Breitbart on How He Nabbed Weiner
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By breaking the Anthony Weiner story, conservative warrior Andrew Breitbart dealt an enemy a grievous, possibly fatal blow, but Breitbart tells The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove he's hurt the media didn't believe him—and says he has a nuclear option: he'll release a final bombshell Weiner photo if pushed. "The mainstream media tried to make this about me, challenging me when I was truthful the entire time," Breitbart says. "I'm a truthful person, and I challenged them to name one instance where I've not told the truth. And they couldn't." Plus, 8 women linked to Weiner.
Syrian blogger Amina Arraf, who wrote the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, is still missing after she was seen Tuesday morning being bundled into a car by three armed men in central Damascus. A dual citizen of Syria and the U.S., Arraf is the latest of nearly 10,000 people detained since violence began in Syria 11 weeks ago. Arraf claimed that she "must be crazy" to write a blog about being gay with her photo and real name in a country where homosexuality is banned. One of Arraf's friends in Montreal said she believed Arraf had been abducted because "she's trying to tell the truth about what's happening in Syria."
Turn on the fans: The eastern U.S. is set for a heat wave on Wednesday and Thursday that could see temperatures 20 degrees above average. It's coming from the Midwest, where Minneapolis experienced 102-degree heat on Tuesday—the city's second-earliest 100-degree temperature reading since 1872. In New York and Philadelphia, the temperature will hit 95 degrees on Wednesday and be even hotter Thursday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be the guest of honor in Washington right now, but President Obama met quietly on Tuesday with another world leader, the crown prince of Bahrain. Things have been calm in the small Middle Eastern country since Saudi Arabia intervened to help put down protests. Obama met Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, considered the most-liberal of Bahrain's rulers, for 15 minutes to shore up his position with Bahrain's leaders without appearing too cozy with them. Obama "emphasized the importance of following through on the government's commitment to ensuring that those responsible for human-rights abuses will be held accountable," the White House said after the meeting.
When Rep. Anthony Weiner lied about his Twitter scandal and said his account had been hacked, it seemed credible at first in part because a group of conservative activists had been warning, for weeks, of a coming scandal. It turns out they were just close readers of his feed. (It was one of these activists, @PatriotUSA76 who saw the explicit photo in Weiner's feed.) They called themselves #bornfreecrew and warned young women to avoid the congressman. On several occasions, Weiner dropped contact with women after #bornfreecrew had flagged it, suggesting he was aware of their campaign against him.
Reports that the author abused charity funds are hitting Bozeman hard and also taking their toll on Mortenson, who a spokeswoman tells Mike Giglio underwent open-heart surgery.
5 Best Piper Palin Antics by David A. Graham Forget Sarah Palin. Her 10-year-old daughter Piper is fast eclipsing her mother as the sassiest presence on the "One Nation" bus tour. From boxing out a reporter to her classic stinkeye, David A. Graham has Piper's greatest hits.
OMG! Women's Sites Need to Grow Up by Tricia Romano Legendary magazine editor Jane Pratt and actress Zooey Deschanel have each launched websites aimed at women. But why, Tricia Romano asks, must there always be so much pink and perkiness?
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