Rep. Weiner: “You and I have different values”

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June 3, 2011

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"I hate that stupid picture of me in the blue. I'm standing in the mirror making a weird face, why would anyone use that?" twittered a sadder-but-wiser Gennette Cordova this morning in a series of 140-or-fewer-character expressions of disgust with media distortions of her image, both physical and psychological, since last Friday, when Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism broke the Big Story that came to be known as Weinergate. Above, Photoshopped "mirror" images of Cordova based upon her Twitter avatar.

By Sissy Willis of sisu

"If calling out publications for their inaccurate/shoddy journalism is stirring the pot, so be it," twittered justifiably miffed Seattle journalism student Gennette Cordova this morning, attempting to regain her balance in the aftermath of being mugged by the reality of business-as-usual journalistic spin. It was the left-leaning Politico and the right-leaning New York Post who, she said, had spun her own and her mother's words to sensationalize and distort the facts as she knows them in the Weinergate scandal. Salaciousness sells! In the case of Politico, for example, compare the political journal's headline with Cordova's follow-up tweet …

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Comments:
  1. Sissy Willis says:
    June 4, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    Can you say weird?

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  2. Calypso Jones says:
    June 5, 2011 at 10:27 am

    Something seems a bit off to me. If Ms. Cordoba abhors the publicity then why doesn’t she shut up and stop fueling it?

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  3. Sissy Willis says:
    June 5, 2011 at 11:25 am

    Probably doesn’t like the narrative the media’s spinning, as opposed to publicity per se.

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  4. Baraka says:
    June 7, 2011 at 2:17 am

    Boris Yeltsin was a corrupt centre-left moron so i do not know why Barfo compares us to him?

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