Occam’s Comeback: Weinergate’s mystery man, Weiner tweet discoverer Dan Wolfe (@PatriotUSA76), surfaces in a long keyboard-to-keyboard interview with filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger, Jr.. It’s a document for our time. … P.S.: Is Wolfe too strange to be true or just strange enough?** … Sub-question: Does giving an interview by Instant Messaging make everyone sound like a combination of HAL, Tony Perkins, and Hannibal Lecter? Or is it just this guy? … But I think he may have turned the tide in favor of Ace of Spades’ keep-it-simple Weiner-did-it theory (as opposed to the complicated Stranahanian ‘maybe-Wolfe’s-really-an-ex-girlfriend-possibly-a-jealous-one’ theory). ‘Keep it simple’ is now what Patterico thinks, and he’s a prosecutor who presumably deals with real, odd people with real problems. [Update: Patterico’s “back to being agnostic.”] … But note that Weiner himself is apparently peddling a Stranahan-like scenario, even though it doesn’t exactly make him (Weiner) look good. … I await Breitbart and other expert analysis. …
** Shorter Patriot (though you’ll miss the full flavor and context): a) “I hate his politics … him and his Obamacare”; b) “I RT. … That’s all.” c) “ME … I didn’t do anything … why is the suspicion on ME … You’re all being played.” d) “As a father you want to protect your daughter from creeps … I wasn’t there to protect her when this happened … Somehow she and my wife found a mutual hatred” e) “If that seems weird or doesn’t fit into STranahans sun howl at the moon theory, too bad.”
Update: Patterico argues persuasively that even if Wolfe is somehow faking it, that by no means gets Weiner off the hook. “I submit Weiner’s behavior shows he’s guilty, but we’re not entirely certain of what.”
Patriot could have hacked Weiner’s Twitter and Weiner would be behaving the same way — if the information Patriot had was information that Weiner didn’t want the FBI looking into.
Isn’t that obvious? Weiner’s behavior shows that he doesn’t want the FBI looking into all this. That much is obvious. But is it obvious that the only possible reason is because he sent the picture? What if he didn’t send the picture — but the picture is evidence of something else that he is trying to hide, like an affair? [UPDATE: Or, that he sends these kinds of pictures out to young girls all the time?] Wouldn’t he behave the same way?
Update 2: Blogger Princess of Sword says, from experience, that women on Twitter get lewd unrequested DMs (private twitter messages) from men all the time, and that not infrequently the men make the messages or photos public by accident. This seems to reinforce the keep-it-simple theory, which says that that’s exactly what Weiner did. (It also seems to reinforce this theory of mine, but we’re not talking about that now.)