NY Times Suggests Anthony Weiner Was Victim of New Washington ‘Puritanism’

Was disgraced Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, who carried on several inappropriate online chats with young women, a victim of a newly “puritanical” climate in Washington? That’s the inference from Kate Zernike’s front-page story for the New York Times's Week in Review, “ Naked Hubris…While digital flux makes it easier for politicians to stra y,” a companion piece to Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s “When it comes to scandal, boys will be boys.”

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