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February 06, 2010 05:15 PM

Anthony Weiner’s fuzzy math

by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules


New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner precipitated a raising of the eyebrow yesterday when he appeared on the Jon Stewart comedy show and, in response to Stewart’s question “is [Senator Joe Lieberman] a dick?” said “Yes, Jon.” Yuck, yuck. What a card! It’s nice to see another Democratic politician do his utmost to combat “the erosion [...]


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