
Anthony Weiner Is Egomaniacal, TV Obsessed: Book
POLITICO’s Mike Allen ‘s Playbook morning email today has the juicy details of a new book by Bush administration chronicler Robert Draper.
Included in the morning email are details about a certain Queens congressman locals are well affiliated with:
“[Rep. Anthony Weiner] would enter in his office in the Rayburn Building screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘Why the fuck am I not on MSNBC?!’ When the health care debate kicked in, Anthony Weiner became the one-man standard-bearer for the single-payer system. He was now on MSNBC every week, sometimes every day – to the point where he was carrying his own makeup kit. (Or rather, his press guy was.) But because he believed that a fighter should also go into the enemy camp, he was also the designated liberal brawler on Fox. He rather enjoyed his screaming matches with Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly. It burned bile, he liked to say. Read More
