The CongressMan has No Clothes!

Throughout the years there have been countless numbers of political scandals. The latest to join the ranks of such is Anthony Wiener. Wiener; a New York member of the United States House of Representatives was accused of using the social network twitter to send out a racy photo of himself to a woman. He then lied, and harshly so I might add, until he was forced to tell the truth and admit to many other incidents. Both parties are seeking to investigate him, and people across the country are coming out against his immoral behavior, and say that this behavior is not acceptable. The question though is should we?
Should we come out against him? Do we even have a leg to stand on? Are we really taken back by pictures of one in their underwear? Let me be clear I think the pictures were immoral, and even worse was the way he handled himself after the accusations were bought against him. I am not addressing the issue of the lies here, but the photos. Can we as a country really criticize these? Let’s look at why I say this.
First as I write this, the temps here in South Carolina are in the mid to upper 90’s, with high humidity. IN other words It’s Hot! As many try to cool off, they will do so outside in their bathing suits. Suits I might add that are in many cases more revealing than underwear. We can call it what we want, but let’s be honest most swimsuits are nothing more than water resistant, or quick drying sexy underwear. As the majority of this country sees nothing wrong with walking outside in what amounts to their underwear, why are we so upset with rep. Wiener? Why are we not disgusted by the thousands at lakes and beaches that are proudly displaying themselves? One because if we as a society are honest with ourselves we must admit that we like to look. Two we like to show, and a third is because we frankly just don’t care. Our pleasure outweighs any concern. Oh you say but most people are not putting up pictures of themselves on sites like facebook.
I would say look again. If you were to look through the many pictures on your many friends profiles, we would see that there are many many pictures of people in what amounts to less than underwear. If the picture of rep wiener in his underwear is wrong (and I believe it is), then so are everyone’s.
My reason for writing this quick article is not to defend rep. wiener, but to do as a boy in the famous story did when he said the emperor has no clothes. I am just trying to stand and say loudly, “Rep. Wiener has no clothes, and by the way NEITHER DO WE!