This was Weiner's week, although not in the way the perennially frenetic congressman had long coveted. But Weiner's moment will pass, just as he soon will, even as the juvenilia of his tweeted private parts and pecs linger uncomfortably in memory and irrepressibly among the late night comics. This wasn't tragedy, but farce: Not someone great brought down by a Shakespearean flaw, but an avatar of ambition and opportunism undone by cyberspaced perversion. The cable celebrity became the internet incarnation of the dirty middle-aged man in a raincoat desperate to expose...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/09/president_is_on_track_for_a_second_term_256968.html
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