What we can only assume is the worst couple of weeks in Rep. Anthony Weiner’s life continues. Andrew Breitbart appeared on The Opie and Anthony Show on Sirius Radio this morning in the latest stop on his “I Told You So” Tour and showed the hosts, Anthony Cumia and Gregg “Opie” Hughes a picture that he said he wouldn’t release; a fully uncensored photo that purports to be of Weiner’s genitals. Breitbart showed the picture on his cell phone which he passed around. Unsurprisingly, the hosts quickly snapped a shot of the screen and tweeted the image out to numerous news outlets. 
 
 So, yeah, the picture’s out there now. 
 
 It will be interesting to see how much this picture affects the story. After all, everyone’s basically already seen Weiner’s penis albeit covered by underwear. And the photo doesn’t add any new indiscretions. However, it’s quite possible that seeing an actual pornographic, fully nude image will be enough to put the final nail in the coffin. 
 
 One interesting detail is that this image will not be allowed on television which means people, in all of their curiosity, will look it up online, making them more actively involved in the story. That’s something that could affect how strongly they feel about Weiner and the scandal either way. 
 
 Whatever the case, this is not a good development for Rep. Weiner. 
 
 Here is Hughes’ tweet with the image in question pixelated. 
 
 
 
 
 
 (Update) Here is the exchange with Andrew Breitbart from the Opie And Anthony show below: ||||| UPDATE - Had to copy this Smoking Gun to the top of the diary, tweeted TWO WEEKS ago by the amazingly prescient @patriotusa76 , who, incredibly, seems to have been the only witness on the scene when the underpants photo was (allegedly) tweeted. 
 
 Follow me below the fold, I have pictures (but none of underwear). It appears to have gone down something like this: 
 
 Background: A college girl has been tweeting about her crush on Rep. Weiner. (I have done this myself - and I am a grown-ass woman - when I had a mad, unrequited crush on US Atty Patrick Fitzgerald. Oddly, nobody actually believed I was his secret GF. Why, world, why?) 
 
 Friday night, an underwear photo is (allegedly) mysteriously tweeted from Rep. Weiner's Twitter account to the college girl, and (supposedly) visible on his public page. 
 
 Also Friday night, a strange character named @patriotusa76 begins tweeting about it. 
 
 Strangely, this character seemed to have foreknowledge that something was about to go down. His May 12 tweets: 
 
 In the wee hours, Anthony Weiner tweets that not only is his Tivo broken, causing him to miss the hockey game, but his FB has been hacked. 
 
 Meanwhile, Dana Loesch of Breitbart's Big Govt curiously starts asking if it's possible to fake a yfrog account: 
 
 We can surmise that she has received the photoshopped screenshot, purporting to show that the underwear photo originated from Rep Weiner's yfrog account, and wants to know if it is legit. 
 
 Eileen B's analysis of the screenshot below: 
 
 It's pretty darn accurate. I was skeptical of it at first, so I ran my own tests. You're all welcome to post it anywhere you like. (And yes, I have an actual college degree in Digital Multimedia and Graphic Design. I've been using PhotoShop professionally nearly every day since 1993.) Notice how the little birdie logo on the right (under the word Upload) shows a square of fuzz around it? That's because it's an image embedded in the screen grab. It's been saved multiple times before rendering itself on that page - then "grabbed" by Breitbart. Same goes for the logos on top, and the picture itself. Now, look at the words on the top right -- Popular and Upload. They're generated by HTML when the page is loaded, just like the text "RepWeiner" is. So, they were created at at exactly the same time -- because they're fonts being rendered. In an unaltered screen grab, they're equals. However, under analysis, "RepWeiner" is rendering much brighter and with fewer color artifacts. It has clearly been saved more times than "Popular" and "Upload." 
 
 Meanwhile, Breitbart is taunting Rep. Weiner on his Twitter: 
 
 And at 12:24 a.m. Saturday, Breitbart posts the story, along with the doctored yfrog screenshot as "evidence" it was actually posted by Rep. Weiner. 
 
 A poster at Gawker watched the whole thing unfold live, and reports the college girl seemed bewildered by it all: 
 
 The Twitter user he is referencing is good old @patriotusa76. Thanks to kklausser who was kind enough to screencap these, one of which I've posted above: 
 
 Care to make a comment, @patriotusa76? We promise no sharia: 
 
 So I think we can see what happened here. 
 
 1) Rep. Weiner's Facebook was hacked, giving the hackers access to post on his Twitter if the accounts were linked. 
 
 2) [edit] A link, supposedly to [end edit] The underwear photo was then tweeted out by the hackers, tagging the college girl but visible to all of Twitterville. 
 
 3) Meanwhile, the hackers have taken a screencap of another yfrog account with the photo posted to it, and then photo-shopped Rep. Weiner's name in at the top of the page. 
 
 4) They send this photo-shopped screencap to Dana Loesch as "proof" that Rep. Weiner indeed posted the photo. 
 
 4) Crazy old @patriotusa76 is meanwhile tweeting madly about the whole thing. 
 
 6) Breitbart wastes no time in publishing the story. 
 
 Two questions remain: 
 
 Who is @patriotusa76 and did he participate in the hoax? 
 
 and 
 
 Was Breitbart in on it, or did he fall for it? 
 
 UPDATE: Colby Hall at Mediaite beat me to it, and has much more on the hapless @patriotusa76. 
 
 Who who is this Twitter user that appeared to luck out and sent the only unique RT of Weiner’s image? The Twitter profile claims that he is an individual named Dan Wolfe, and his bio reads: “Conservative Reagan Republican. No Obamacare, socialism, sharia. Proud of the USA & Proud to be an American with NO apologies. No elitists need apply.” Its not an exaggeration to say that Wolfe is somewhat obsessed with Weiner; a simple search reveals that, since April, he has mentioned Rep. Weiner 287 times via twitter. Also, skeptics might see that Wolfe and his Twitter clique have been building a narrative about Rep. Weiner’s followers for months, perhaps best evidenced by this tweet to an underage high school girl, who requested a follow from Weiner and got it: 
 
 
 
 So the alt version of my scenario above is that Rep. Weiner's Twitter was not even hacked, and the link to the photo did not ever go out from his account, but was also faked. Rep. Weiner seems to think he was hacked, but that's an obvious immediate conclusion. 
 
 UPDATE: I grabbed some screenshots of what @patriotusa76 tweeted as the thing unfolded. He seems to think Dana Loesch witnessed the alleged tweet live as well. I'm not clear from her tweet whether she means she grabbed screenshots, or just that she HAS (alleged) screenshots. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dana Loesch, is it true that you screencapped this alleged underpants tweet, live? 
 
 UPDATE: The college girl gives an interview to the New York Daily News. She says she has been harrassed for weeks on Twitter by (we can only guess who.) h/t BlueFranco: 
 
 [She] said she was harassed for weeks online after she started following Weiner on Twitter and the congressman added her to the list of about 200 people he follows. Her harrasser "started posting about me, saying, 'Oh, the congressman is following school girls,' tweeting it over and over. It was very annoying," [she] told the Daily News. When the crotch shot appeared online, she said the same Twitter user was the first to comment on it. "Since I had dealt with this person and his cohorts before, I assumed that the tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the congressman and harassing his supporters," she said. "Annoyed, I responded with something along the lines of 'are you f***ing kidding me?' and 'I've never seen this. You people are sick,'" she said. 
 
 UPDATE: In an amazing coincidence, @patriotusa76 aka Dan Wolfe, was anticipating JUST such a scandal more than two weeks ago. Isn't it crazy how he just happened to be the sole witness when it actually happened? 
 
 What do you call that? Dumb luck? 
 
 UPDATE: Let's be clear. The underpants photo did not appear on @RepWeiner's Twitter. What was alleged by @patriotusa76 to have been tweeted by Rep. Weiner was the LINK to a photo, supposedly the underpants photo. Yes, the link does go to Rep. Weiner's yfrog photo page, but somehow only @patriotusa76 was able to click through and screencap the photo. But anyone can post a LINK to someone else's yfrog photo page. For instance, here is @patriotusa76's yfrog photo page. Sadly, no photos there: 
 
 http://yfrog.com/... 
 
 But I could certainly paste the link anywhere. I don't have to own the account to do so. 
 
 UPDATE: @patriotusa76 has hidden his Twitter! Wassamatter Dan Wolfe? Not enjoying all the questions? Thinking twice about all your old tweets? 
 
 QUESTION: I have to ask, did anyone on Twitter actually see this tweet go out live from AW's account? AW has 45,000 followers. It was supposedly around 8:30 Pacific/11:30 on Friday night. I know people saw Dan Wolfe's retweet. I hear there is a cached version at TweetCongress. But is Dan Wolfe/@patriotusa76 the only person on Twitter who actually saw the Tweet go out live from @RepWeiner's account? If anyone else did see it I'd like to know. TIA. ||||| I never thought I would spend my Tuesday afternoon squinting at an obscene image of grey Hanes boxers trying to decide if I thought their occupant looked like a part of Anthony Weiner. But there are many things about my present life that I did not visualize. 
 
 This is a family newspaper, so I can only tell you that the trouser weasel resident in the aforementioned boxers seemed to be fairly alert. 
 
 It’s called “Weinergate.” It began Friday night, when Andrew Breitbart’s blog Big Government posted that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) had tweeted a lewd image of his underwear-clad crotch to a 21-year-old college student. 
 
 The tweet was deleted. The college student, who had tweeted, “I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to right now” and received, in response, the offensive picture, deleted her account and told the New York Daily News that she’d been harassed by conservative tweeters before the photo was sent. Weiner stated that his account had been hacked. Since the first person to retweet the picture had been claiming for days that a sex scandal of Chris-Lee-esque proportions was about to fall and smite the Democratic party, this didn’t seem entirely incredible. 
 
 But Breitbart is sticking by the story, and the one person to screencap and post the picture is insisting he had nothing to do with it and is begging us to test his IP address. 
 
 Breitbart sometimes tends to be confused about the meaning of making news. So it’s one word against the other — the recipient refuses to confirm or deny the hacking theory — and his word, so far, has not been stellar. 
 
 But I’m sort of curious as to why Weiner was tweeting about Seattle right before the picture was sent. And of the 200 people @RepWeiner follows on Twitter, a surprising number (well, more than zero, at any rate) do seem to be what might be termed nubile out-of-state houris. 
 
 While we wait for more information, we have dozens of years of pent-up pun energy waiting to explode. “Weiner!” we exclaim. The junior congressman gets enough flak without this! This was really hitting below the belt. 
 
 Now Weiner is retaining a lawyer and is begging us to talk about something more serious. Anything. Hockey! So is the college student to whom the Twitter message was directed, noting to the New York Daily News that “my reputation has been called into question by those who lack the character to report the facts.” 
 
 But reputation is the key word of this mini-drama. 
 
 Say what you will about Weiner (and I’ve said some), he has a definite style. @RepWeiner has always had a little more pizazz than your average member of Congress on Twitter. He is intense, yes, colorful, yes, and young enough to “get it.” He is the sort of figure, like Jon Stewart, who inspires random college students to refer to him as their boyfriend, delivering sarcastic tirades on the house floor and yelling on Fox News. 
 
 So the crotch shot seems entirely too ham-fisted. It’s the sort of thing you’d expect from someone who didn’t send his own tweets. Anyone who uses that many hashtags clearly knows what happens when you post compromising images online. 
 
 Or maybe not. Since he’s lawyering up and the “prank” furor hasn’t died down, it’s hard to say. 
 
 This has been quite the week for hacking. PBS was hacked, with reports that Tupac Shakur was alive and well and living in New Zealand. This weekend, Lockheed Martin also fell under attack. And Sony is still reeling from the attack on its Playstation network. 
 
 The other forms of hacking raise questions of information security and even physical safety. But this one (assuming it was a hack) touches on something more subtle: reputation security. 
 
 In Shakespeare’s “Othello,” Cassio keens, “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.” 
 
 People used to have reputations. Now they just have Generally Inoffensive Twitter Feeds. Replace “Carefully Cultivated Online Presence” with Reputation, and you’ve got Weiner’s trouble in a nutshell. It’s not what you’ve done but what comes up when we Google you that counts — as Rick Santorum has been learning. 
 
 Cassio knew, as Weiner seems to, that reputation has a tangible existence outside the self, and once it’s dented, just try to keep Google from suggesting “trouser weasel” after your name. Do you remember that one evening in college? No? Well, Facebook does. Long after the sun has exploded and we have passed into the arms of the ancient Mayans, those photos we forgot to untag will linger to bear witness to our misdeeds. It’s the immortal part of ourselves, and what remains is — suing. 
 
 And supposing it was an indiscretion and not a hack, it’s an easy mistake to make. Our actual selves are so bound up in our online selves that it’s sometimes hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Defriending on Facebook is a personal insult. Posing shirtless on Craigslist? Sending lascivious direct messages? You’ll have to answer for those. We are held accountable in the real world for the things we do in the virtual one. We’re existing in a new dimension, and it’s no longer truly anonymous and free of consequences. 
 
 Before, people had to have real scandals. Now all they have to do is post trouser photos to the Internet. 
 
 Curiosity used to kill the cat. These days, it launches the reality TV career of whatever the cat was last looking at. There was a time when we only heard about indiscretions. Now, if you’re at all curious, you can see what all that Brett Favre fuss is about (not much), or read Tiger Woods’s text messages or glimpse Chris Lee’s Craigslist photos. 
 
 If this was a prank, whoever planned it had the formula — and the forum — down pat. This is where scandals are made — not face to face, but Facebook to Facebook. 
 
 Who cares whose shorts those were? 
 
 Whose IP address was it?
– It was inevitable: A purported photo of Anthony Weiner's naughty bits (this time sans underwear) is now on the Internet, courtesy of radio hosts Opie and Anthony of Sirius, reports Mediaite. How it came to be: They had Andrew Breitbart on this morning, and he showed them the photo (yep, the one he said he wouldn't release) on his phone. As it made the rounds, a video camera captured an image, according to these tweets. If you must see, you can get an uncensored look here. "It will be interesting to see how much this picture affects the story," writes Mediaite's Jon Bershad. "The photo doesn’t add any new indiscretions. However, it’s quite possible that seeing an actual pornographic, fully nude image will be enough to put the final nail in the coffin."