Dan Frisa
Monday, June 4, 2001

He seems like most New York members of Congress, especially those from New York City: a left-wing extremist.

No surprise that he not only replaced Sen. Chuckie "The Cheese” Schumer in the House, but he also learned at the feet of the master camera-hog himself, having served as Schumer’s top aide for years.

His mean-spirited partisan rhetoric laces his every public comment, and he didn’t disappoint last week when he flipped his lid during a press conference demanding an apology from the White House because, Weiner claimed, a government report exonerated the exiting Clinton staffers from having vandalized the people’s house upon leaving in January.

Wrong! No such report exists, and no government agency made any such claim, and Weiner the Whiner knew it.

He simply out and out lied during his tirade last week.

And he repeated the lie today on CNN’s Talkback Live when he asserted yet again that the General Services Administration issued a letter declaring that there were no reports of damage. They did no such thing. They merely stated that they had no reports in their possession, because they did no investigation.

I know from firsthand information that White House offices were left in shambles, vandalized and trashed. And Air Force One was looted, right down to the toothpaste.

Weiner knows this, too. But he doesn’t care, he just lies about it.

Can you imagine if a Republican Congressman had lied like Weiner?

Forget about it!

He’d probably be driven from office for having breached the public trust.

But not little Tony Weiner; you see, he learned from Schumer that the media is as leftwing as he is. In other words, they’re all on the same team!

As Schumer and Weiner raked in millions upon millions in campaign cash over the years, not only was he never taken to task by the media as they did to Republicans who also garnered great financial support, but the New York media actually ran admiring stories about their wonderfully prodigious fundraising ability, at the very same time they ran stories castigating conservatives such as yours truly.

And as the same media lauded Schumer and Weiner for passing the phony Assault Weapons Ban, which bans not a single firearm, they were assailing congressman who had the temerity to actually stand up and tell the truth: that Schumer and Weiner were complete liars and knew full-well that this legislation was a total charade and farce. They knew, because they wrote the bill, that the only way they could pass it was if it did absolutely nothing to affect the sale of those firearms.

The media is lazy. Never once did the New York media ever read and report about Schumer and Weiner’s lie. After all, they’re all on the same team.

And don’t expect the media to report on Weiner’s new big lie. After all, they’re on the same team of whiners and liars.

E-mail Dan: danfrisa@newsmax.com.

Read Dan's previous column: McCainiac Is On The Loose.

Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.

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