Porn | Weinergate: The Congressman, The Porn Star, And The Misdirection

Rep. Anthony Weiner has moved to a strategy of misdirection. On the one hand, he is openly and repeatedly lying about his twitter activity Friday night, saying that he was tweeting about hockey at the time the lewd tweet went out. That's a lie: He had been publicly silent for about 3.5 hours before that tweet went out. He tweeted about his DVR failing to record a hockey game after the lewd tweet, when he seemed to be building a cover story about being "hacked." The press is taking his hockey statement at face value without checking it. They need to check it - here and here . If bloggers can reconstruct the timeline, so can the MSM. Get on it.

Weiner is using Wednesday's interviews as an excuse not to answer any more questions. This is the misdirection, since he didn't actually answer some of the fundamental questions. Such as: Is that you in the photo? Can you tell us the nature of your communications with Gennette Nicole? Or the porn star? In answer to that last question, Weiner went limp:

"I " most likely what she's referring to is, as a pro forma thing, thank you for following Congressman Anthony " thank you for following me, please stay tuned to AnthonyWeiner.com for updates of other things going on," Weiner said. "That's probably what she's referring to."

Probably? Weiner can check his own tweet direct messages. So can the police, if he calls them in. He hasn't done that. For her part, the porn star is equally vague.

"Thank you, but I stand by my original statement," Lee said when TheDC asked if she'd like to weigh in on what the scandal-embroiled congressman said about their communications on CNN.

Lee's original statement didn't answer any of the specific questions about the private communication. "I haven't met Rep Weiner.I follow him on twitter because I support him what he stands for," Lee said in an email to TheDC on Wednesday morning. "I have been hounded by his political opponents but that hasn't changed my view of him and what he fights for."

Neither the congressman nor the porn star answered honestly, though both have access to the relevant information. Why?

Because they have something to hide. That's the simplest answer that fits the facts.