Anthony Weiner's Constituents Don't Want Him to Resign; Charla Nash Gets a Face Transplant

By Jen Doll Fri., Jun. 10 2011 at 9:20 AM

• According to an NY1-Marist poll, the majority of voters in Rep. Anthony Weiner's district (parts of Brooklyn and Queens) don't want him to resign, even if they don't necessarily want to re-elect him. One-third of them do want him to step down. Meanwhile, of course, he's still facing a House ethics investigation. [NBC NY]

• Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife, has been spotted looking cheerful and wearing her wedding ring. [NYDN]

• Charla Nash, who had her nose, hands, lips, and eyelids ripped off by Travis, a chimpanzee, has had a full-face transplant. (If you don't know the story of Travis the chimp, you must read it here.) [NYP]

• Police are investigating a shooting that took place on the Brighton Beach boardwalk yesterday. A 16-year-old girl was shot and killed, and four others were wounded, after a fight broke out around 5:20 p.m. near Brighton Sixth Street. [NY1]

• The New York Times has the requisite fill-in-the-blank Mad Libs obit for the creator of Mad Libs. R.I.P., Leonard Stern. [Pat's Papers]

• Prince Philip, who is 90, kind of has an attitude problem. Which is awesome. [NYT]

• The heat wave has broken. [Weather]

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Not money but the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Overwhelming Evil exists today right in front of our faces, 24/7 but you wouldn’t know IT by listening to the broadcast news media. According to the people who control my public broadcast airwaves the most important news they have to offer is about daily life of Sarah Palin and Anthony’s Weiner. GOD forbide we talk about the 50 MILLION Americans struggling below the poverty level or do an investigative report on the Corporate Crime Wave that gripped this nation during Bush/Cheney… Ohhh Noooo, we have to have a steady stream of celebrity worship news and mind numbing commentary by the same silver spoon, pundits day after day. I tell you the truth _____ I’m actually STARVED for REAL NEWS. WE’VE GOT HUGE PROBLEMS TO SOLVE, right?

I guess it hurts so bad because I’m old enough to remember a time when News anchors didn’t salivate over the sex scandal stories or celebrity fluff reports. How this Anthony Weiner thing became news is exactly what’s wrong with this nation full of shameless hypocrites. Why is this news… because Andrew Brietbart says so??? COME ON! Frankly, I don’t care what my leaders do in their free time as long as they do good on the job. I’m not in Anthony Weiner’s district but the man is one of a precious few in Congress that actually fights for my Progressive belief system. We’ve lost so many to the Brietbart already… Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod, ACORN… but I’m not going to lose my Weiner to these Conservative wackos and their low grade thought processes.

We Progressives, Democrats and Liberals need to get together on this one. Not only do many on the Left NOT fight back but all of the sudden we got all these prudes on the Left who’ve been badmouthing Rep. Weiner. Hey, I’d like to know what they did to Ed Shultz while he was suspended. Did Comcast sent him to re-education camp or something? See jinnbad.blogspot.com for the WHOLE story.