WASHINGTON — He’s keeping his lips zipped.
Weasily Rep. Anthony Weiner said this morning he won’t talk about his bulging crotch any longer.
“After almost 11 hours of answering questions, any that anyone wanted to put today — I’m going to have to get back to work, doing the job that I am paid to do,” he said.
Weiner refused to answer any questions and walked back into his office.
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On Wednesday, Weiner exposed his kinky side — finally admitting the crotch shot mysteriously sent from his Twitter account to a pretty young coed might actually be his own.
“You know, I can’t say with certitude,” he insisted when a skeptical-sounding MSNBC reporter asked, “That’s not a picture of you?”
“My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated, pictures can be dropped in and inserted,” Weiner said.
The hot-headed Weiner spent most of the day desperately trying to shake off the scandal, which erupted over the Memorial Day weekend, by hitting seven cable news shows, where he gave defensive answers to reporters.
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But the multinetwork tour turned into the biggest damage-control disaster since Charlie Sheen’s postmeltdown media blitz when the congressman relentlessly stuck to his script, acknowledging that the photo could be him but refusing to elaborate.
After giving his scripted answer on the photo to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last night, she asked if his talk-show tour did more harm than good.
“I’m not trying to be evasive, I just don’t know,” he claimed.
After days of ducking any questions about the controversy, the six-term married Queens-Brooklyn Democrat finally insisted he did not actually press the send button that launched the soft-core porn into cyberspace.
“I can definitively say that I did not send this,” he told Fox News Channel.
He said someone broke into his account and sent the eye- popping snapshot — showing an erect penis under snug gray boxer briefs — to 21-year-old Gennette Nicole Cordova, a junior-college student in Bellingham, Wash.
“When your name is Weiner, it goes with the territory,” he cracked in an interview with CNN.
With AP