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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Weiner's departure was inevitable by Eugene Robinson



WASHINGTON — It’s an irony of the modern age that the most devastating kind of sex scandal, at least for politicians, doesn’t involve actual sex. As Rep. Anthony Weiner has learned.

Weiner, who resigned Thursday, assured his own demise years ago when he began sending raunchy pictures and sex-talk messages to random women over the Internet. He would have been better off if he had arranged to meet those women for secret trysts – not that there’s any indication that the women had the slightest interest in meeting Weiner for such purposes.

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