Fathoming the Unfathomable in the Case of Anthony Weiner: View
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June 7 (Bloomberg) -- At the end of it all, we’re left, aswe always are, with the bitter-tasting “why?” Why did AnthonyWeiner send his pictures by text, Twitter and Facebook? Why,when the New York congressman has a great job and theresponsibility of the public trust and a new wife and a brightfuture and the knowledge -- knowledge born of observingcountless other personal disasters -- that digital media leave apermanent record, did he send those shirtless shots, andprobably more? Oh, and why did he lie?
We have no answer to those questions. And, as hisperformance at Monday’s news conference made clear, Weinerprobably doesn’t have much of a clue himself.