Sounds like Sally Quinn might have some control issues. Since Huma isn't going to leave her philandering bum of a husband, Quinn is going to hold her up to public ridicule (or at least try to).

Is she related to Christine Quinn, the current democratic frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race? Since Anthony Weiner has refused to back out of the race, perhaps Sally Quinn fears that Weiner will be an election spoiler, taking votes from Christine Quinn.

Some women just have a very strong herd mentality. I remember in the 80's being told by more than one woman (strangers!) that 'women like you hold us all back' because I was at home with our son. Never understood it...

Sally Quinn says Huma is a "lovely, gracious, intelligent woman." All well and good, I guess, but then she says "I ache for her need to come to the rescue of this man who has betrayed her so often and will likely do it again."

So this "lovely, gracious, intelligent woman" hasn't told this wretch to hit the road yet, and Quinn "ache"s for her. What horseshit. Huma sounds like a needy Nelly to me, and Weiner's giving her something she wants/needs. Let it alone, seriously. Who cares why she's still with the guy? Nunya bidness. To me, strength is doing what YOU think is best for yourself, not what others think is best. It may turn out to be detrimental for you in the long run, but it's YOUR decision and no one else's.

And yeah, Patrick, great point. I wonder if they are related. That would explain the article, at least.

What is wrong with people like Quinn, anyway? The actions of others have nothing to do with you. Feel free to disapprove of the way I lead my life, because I don't care. I'm not a card carrying member of men, SU alumni, New Yorkers, veterans... Some people just can't deal with the complexity of individuals. It's much easier to stereotype them by tribe.

Well, related or not, she could genuinely fear that Weiner will be an election spoiler, taking enough votes from Christine Quinn to throw the race to a Republican.

I'm rather disgusted by Anthony Weiner, as is most everyone else, I'm sure. Here's his campaign ad announcing that he's refusing to drop out.

He disingenuously claims, "It's not about me."

I disagree. It's all about him. He has no interest in what's good for New York. Anthony Weiner has only one compelling interest: Anthony Weiner. He has no marketable skills, no salable items. All he knows is politics. Asking him to give up politics is asking him to retire.

And his zeppelin-sized ego simply won't allow that.

As a side note, I've always been intrigued by zeppelins. How is it that an object with so little practical application has four names?

It's a blimp. It's dirigible. And it's an airship. Who'd have thought something virtually useless would need four different names?

Quinn is going to hold her up to public ridicule (or at least try to)

Quinn doesn't have to hold Huma up to public ridicule. Huma has already done that.

Huma is just hoping to get a Hillary-esque payoff down the road. I'm thinking not so much. And for that, I have nothing but contempt for the woman.

But unlike Weiner's communications director, I won't use disrespectful language...

It needs to be spelled out to savor its insipid jejune banality.

Quinn conjures up a class who will think less of her because she is a woman and Abedin is a woman.

A class of brain damaged retards unable to distinguish between individuals and collectives.

So, she's worried about her standing with Obama voters?

It needs to be spelled out to savor its insipid jejune banality.

Quinn conjures up a class who will think less of her because she is a woman and Abedin is a woman.

A class of brain damaged retards unable to distinguish between individuals and collectives.

So, she's worried about her standing with Obama voters?

Sorry for double post. Pirates forced me to dry the telephone cow.

-It was such a setback for women everywhere.-

That's what I felt when I learned Mikhail Degtyaryov wants to give women in Russia two days off for their periods. They're apparently fragile and unable to work efficiently, etc. It's to protect them.

Time to tidy up those menstrual cages, I guess.

"sadly she makes all women look like weak and helpless victims."

No, that statement is wrong - such behaviour only makes all women seem alike in the minds of those who are small-minded in that they still put people into "their groups."

It's odd that young women seem to like Weiny.

Sally needs to relax. Huma will split as soon as a better option (a man with more money and higher status) comes along. But I guess that doesn't fit the narrative.

all battlespace preparation, my friends...

This is to line up all correct minded women behind Huma, regardless if she's good or bad, by giving all the angles and a soft landing... So that regardless of what Huma does, she can be held as a paragon of virtue.

...So as not to besmirch any other lib woman, like say... Hillary. While giving her an out, because the situations are somehow different.

IF Huma dumps the idiot, then it's a victory for all fish who don't need bikes, because she finally came through in the clutch...
If she doesn't, than all the fish can ache fer her in an emotive way, since she must be a straying soul.

In any case, everyone is lined up and nodding in the same way, because all Correct Thinking™ Women agree, and stand together with their strong, independent, and politically representative sister.

They'll prolly even forgive the idiot, though he doesn't have the horsepower Bill has, and also didn't dare greatly to take women, the way Billy did.
Probably still does, really.

...or am I being cynical?

How is it that an object with so little practical application has four names? It's a blimp. It's dirigible. And it's an airship.

Sorry to be pedantic, but those terms are not interchangeable.

A dirigible or airship is a powered and steerable type of aircraft that achieves lift through the use of lighter-than-air gas - as opposed to fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters which generate lift by moving a wing [helicopter rotor = wing] through the air or balloons which are not powered or steerable.

A zeppelin is a type of rigid airship. Count Zeppelin's design used multiple gas bags inside a rigid exoskeleton. Competing designs used a single gas bag. Due to the rigid exoskeleton, the rigid airships could be much larger than non-rigid airships and they often contained train- or ship-like amenities (dining rooms, lounges, sleeping quarters, etc.). See Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

After the success of Zeppelin's design, the term "zeppelin" came to be applied to all rigid airships.

Zeppelins were used in regular passenger service in pre- World War II Germany and even for transatlantic service (until the Hindenburg disaster cooled the public's enthusiasm for going aloft attached to a giant bag of highly flammable hydrogen gas).

Side note: The Hindenburg was originally designed to use non-flammable helium, but was re-tooled to use hydrogen because helium was very rare outside the US and the US government refused to lift the restrictions on its export.

Fun fact: The spire on top of the Empire State Building was designed to be used as a zeppelin mooring point for airship service directly to and from New York City.

A blimp, on the other hand, is a non-rigid airship. They keep their shape using differences in air pressure inside and outside the gas bag. Due to their lack of structural integrity, non-rigid airships are limited in size.

Because they're easy to build and transport (when deflated), the blimp is the most common form of airship in use today.

/pedantry

It always amuses me when Sally Quinn speaks on ethical or moral issues, but this one really takes the cake. You see, Sally Quinn's husband, Ben is a philanderer himself, and not just the internet kind. Years ago, fresh off a failed gig at CBS News in NYC, Sally landed a job at the Washington Post. Soon after, she began an affair with her then-boss Ben Bradley, who was then-married. Eventually, that marriage ended, and Sally married her boss and thus, slid into the exalted position she occupies now in Washington and the media. Her prominence was attained through marriage. So, Sally got to where she is by breaking up another woman's marriage, and continues to exploit the perqs afforded her by marriage to a prominent figure. Not exactly a sister doin' it for herself, eh? Taking an opportunity to pile on a woman who is having marital challenges in excruciatingly public circumstances strikes me as Mean Girl behavior, not feminist behavior. And criticizing her from some ersatz feminist perspective is the icing on the cake.

...sadly she makes all women look like weak and helpless victims. She was not standing there in a position of strength. It was such a setback for women everywhere.

What bugs me more is that now many Democrats are saying that she should run for mayor instead of him - in a twisted version of what they said about Hillary and running for the US Senate.

How is "standing by your man" a qualification to run the largest city in the US? Or for any public office for that matter.

What is the liberal/Democrat fascination with electing the wives of dead or misbehaving politicians?

Missouri "elected" Jean Carnahan who had no qualification for the US Senate other than the fact that she was Mel Carnahan's wife.

"No, public office is not a consolation prize for women with rotten taste in husbands. It is a public trust." ~ Debra J. Saunders

"multiple gas bags inside a rigid exoskeleton..." What a perfect way to describe Congress when it is in session in the Capitol.

So Weiner is "in for the long haul?" Maybe that's why Huma stays with him.....

Conan: "How is 'standing by your man' a qualification to run the largest city in the US?... What is the liberal/Democrat fascination with electing the wives of dead or misbehaving politicians?"

It's not the "standing by your man" that qualifies them in the eyes of Liberals/Democrats. It's the venerated status of the "noble, enduring, female victim of men" that sends shivers up their legs. In their eyes it validates the feminist delusions of endemic female victimhood.

When you stop assuming that all marriages are about sex, and sexual fidelity, then you will understand Huma better. (And Hillary)

The scary part is that both are true believers, Liberal democrats, and both are a threat to your pockebook, and your civil liberties.

If you say Huma shoulda left, then you have to re-examine why Hillary didn't.

That's why this is a disaster. Not just "Like Hillary", but somebody who's been less than 50 feet from Hillary since, essentially, her majority.

It's a "setback to women" because it damages Hillary. (Among people who haven't been paying attention.)

And that's Bad. Very. Bad.

a sex tape from Moanica/Bill has supposedly surfaced!

In any case, everyone is lined up and nodding in the same way, because all Correct Thinking™ Women agree, and stand together with their strong, independent, and politically representative sister. -- SwissArmyD at July 31, 2013 8:43 AM

I will do the occasional joke about the "stages of marriage", etc. that will classify a group. But at the same time I won't lump Paula Deen, Hillary, Huma or any of the rest with the group of all "women" think this way. Now progressive women might be a group that includes Hillary and Huma. But those are based on their actions.