Opinion

Mr. Skeevy’s skivvies

So the man who would be mayor “can’t say with certitude” whether or not the world’s most famous Twitter crotch shot is of him?

Could Tony Weiner’s contempt for the people of New York City be any more, well, certain?

Actually, it looks like this wiener is fully cooked.

Which is fine, because it’s now clear that Rep. Anthony Weiner isn’t remotely up to the ethical demands of the office he now holds — let alone those of the New York City mayoralty.

The embattled Brooklyn Democrat wasn’t in a deep enough hole yesterday; he had to keep digging — holding a series of one-on-one interviews with cable-news outlets.

Asked by MSNBC’s Luke Russert whether it was in fact his crotch in the photo so famously tweeted to a Seattle community-college student, Weiner said:

“You know, I can’t say with certitude. My system was hacked . . . pictures can be dropped in and inserted.”

This is true.

But it’s equally true that all computer activity leaves easily discoverable shadows. If the tweeted message had been a death threat to the president, say, the Secret Service could have — and would have — discovered in a nanosecond whether a hacking had occurred. And there is absolutely no technical reason why the Capitol Police couldn’t just as easily get to the bottom of Weiner’s alleged “hacking.”

All that’s missing is the will to do the job — Weiner’s will.

The congressman, said former Mayor Ed Koch yesterday, “could put it all to rest simply by turning over his computer to the Capitol police and letting them figure out who hacked it.”

But he won’t do it.

Instead, Weiner says he’s hired a private security firm — which he won’t identify — to look into it.

But why not the authorities?

He claims he doesn’t “want to put national, federal resources into trying to figure out” what happened — which is ludicrous on its face: Tony Weiner has never seen a taxpayer dime that he didn’t lust to spend.

Yet it does raise the question of what Weiner is afraid of.

* That the truth would out?

* That he’d be subject to a charge of filing a false report if, in fact, he sent the photo himself?

“Why should Congressman Weiner get [a formal investigation] just to find out who sent a randy picture from his Twitter feed?” he asked CNN’s Wolf Blitzer yesterday.

Well, here’s why: As the victim of a crime, Weiner is entitled to an investigation. All crime victims are.

Ultimately, this whole bizarre incident is about character — or, more to the point, Weiner’s lack thereof.

The upside is that New Yorkers are getting a good look at a man who also lacks the sound judgment and the temperament to be their mayor — before they make the mistake of electing him to that office.

How this will play out?

Who knows?

But when it comes to substance — to say nothing of personal honor — New Yorkers are finally starting to understand that there’s a lot less to Anthony Weiner than meets the eye.