EDITORIAL
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Lewd tweets aside—there’s a line we never thought we’d write— Anthony Weiner ought to drop out of the New York City mayor’s race simply because of what he’s forced his wife to endure. Watching the elegant Huma Abedin stand next to her man Tuesday as he explained his latest sexually charged online exchanges was painful for a normal human being to watch. Mr. Weiner is not a normal human being. long with Eliot Spitzer, another narcissist attempting a New York political comeback after humiliating his wife, Mr. Weiner has certainly enlivened an otherwise dull political year. The two men claim to have been chastened and redeemed by their falls from power, though it’s clear in both cases they only regret having been caught.
THE MOMENT WEINER WAS WAITING FOR
GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA
THE ATLANTIC
What happens now is anyone’s guess. But one thing is clear: Weiner and Abedin were prepared for this moment. They knew there would be another day of scandal, when they would have to face the cameras and a new round of questions about their marriage and his online sexual adventures. And they decided he should make a run for it, anyway. One political adviser speculated in an April New York Times Magazine piece that Weiner was running to get exactly what he had to do today out of the way. “Is this about winning?” the person asked. “Or is this an attempt to get the scandal off the books? Then the next time he runs for something, he can say: ‘You know what? We talked about that last time. Aren’t we beyond that?’” If such a thought was part of the Weiner-Abedin strategy, they can check that box off their list. After today Anthony Weiner, strange as it may sound to say, is one difficult step closer to his eventual comeback.
MR. WEINER AND THE ELUSIVE TRUTH
EDITORIAL
NEW YORK TIMES
At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told. In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City. … It’s up to Mr. Weiner if he wants to keep running, to count on voters to forgive and forget and hand him the keys to City Hall. But he has already disqualified himself. … Mr. Weiner says he is staying in the mayoral race. To those who know his arrogance and have grown tired of the tawdry saga he has dragged the city into, this is not surprising.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
NEW YORK TIMES








