“Alec Baldwin is mulling a run for mayor of New York City now that kinky Congressman Anthony Weiner appears to have sexted himself out of the 2013 race. The ’30 Rock’ star, who has long talked about running for political office, believes Weinergate has shaken up the field of candidates enough that he might have a chance to win, a friend of the actor told The Daily.”

[NY Post]

So, we were thinking the other day, this “scandal” doesn’t really work unless there’s a pattern of naughty behavior…

• Big Government: “Déjà Vu: Another Congressman Bares Naked Torso (and More) for Online Pal”
• Radar: “Weinergate Grows: Another Woman Provides Sex Messages From His Account”
• Capital Tonight: “Rep. Anthony Weiner’s office appears to be on lockdown in the wake of new reports of his exchanging of explicit on-line communications with a woman who is not his wife.”

We don’t have the time to read through the barrage of purported exposés, but if they turn up true, that explains Weiner’s noncommittal remarks about the Mysterious Package.

Update: Weiner confesses…

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The Epistemological Wonderland that is Weinergate continues its incredible journey through uncertainty with today’s story from Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily iPad app:

But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night.

If you’re not familiar with the Twitterverse, TweetDeck is one of the most popular third-party Twitter-posting apps — so popular that Twitter itself just bought it. It’s like providing the damning evidence that Weiner drove a Chevy.

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“Today we find that Andrew Breitbart’s source for the smear attack against Rep. Anthony Weiner, Dan Wolfe (aka @patriotusa76) has deleted his entire Twitter account.” Something to do with those leaked emails, perhaps? [Little Green Footballs, Smoking Gun]

Politico headline: “Rep. Anthony Weiner ‘can’t say with certitude’ photo isn’t him”.

Politico story:

“I didn’t send that picture out,” Weiner said in an interview with NBC News.

“That’s not a picture of you?” reporter Luke Russert asked.

Weiner responded: “You know, I can’t say with certitude.”

We don’t have access to the video, but we have a strong suspicion that Weiner was making a gag about the extraordinary package, especially after old friend Jon Stewart confirmed last night that “my memory is this cat had a lot more Anthony and a lot less wiener.”

But that’s not the best gag. We give the gold to “reporter Luke Russert”.

“Evading questions… is a strategy most often utilized by people with something to hide, and will only further pique the media’s interest. Weiner either has something to hide, or he has no idea how the media operates.” [New York, via Political Wire]