Weinergate a hoax

Published May 30, 2011 4:00am ET



Is Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., the latest congressman to flaunt his bod for a picture and then post it on the Internet? Accordingly to his spokesman Dave Arnold, absolutely not. “Anthony’s accounts were obviously hacked,” he told the Associated Press over the weekend.

Someone sent a close-up picture of a gentleman standing in tight, gray briefs to a journalism student named Gennette Nicole Cordova from the social-media-savvy congressman’s Twitter account on Saturday, stirring up speculation of another possible politician gone wild.

But calm down, folks. All the hype is over a hacked account, according to Arnold, who claims that the 46-year-old Weiner is happily married and does not even know Cordova.

“We will be consulting on what steps to take next,” he said.