Last night Anderson Cooper moderated a discussion with liberals Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger and Paul Begala on Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter sex scandal, which Begala said was much ado about nothing:

Cooper: Paul, What do you think of all this?  Should the Congressman continue talking about this?  Or should he, can he now move on that he did all these interviews?

Begala:  (Yawn) Wake me when we have a real sex scandal Anderson.  You know, I mean this is, please, you know.

Cooper: But Paul if this was a conservative Republican would you be saying the same thing?

Begala: Yes, who allegedly had a picture taken of him in his underwear and then someone hacked his account and sent it out?  I do think the apparent hacking of a Congressman’s account is more of a story. And this is the Democrat, but it is a right-wing blogger who was pushing this, and a pretty unreliable one at that, which mama always said, consider the source.

Begala then tried to move the discussion away from Weiner and any possibility that his career could end over this scandal by going after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

The career-ending scandal could be the Governor of New Jersey, who is taking a state helicopter apparently yesterday to go to see his kid’s baseball game. I mean, that’s the kind of thing that voters get furious about.

I don’t see the connection here, but I guess that’s what happens when you’re grasping at straws to try and make a point.

Begala added that “What Anthony Weiner is even accused of doing, even if true, is nothing.”

Nothing if you are a Democrat but something if you are a Republican.

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