Can Everyone Stop Talking About Weiner?

At the beginning of the week, I started to hear jokes about Rep. Weiner and the scandal, about the tweeting of naked pictures of himself. At the beginning of the week, they were funny. Now, they are not funny; they are just pathetic. I hate to think the American people have nothing better to do with their time than make fun of a man that some Americans, his constituents, deemed worthy enough to represent them and their voice in a public office, for seven terms (14 years). Obviously, I'm not defending him; I don't know him personally; however, he hasn't done the worse of any of it. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a child with his own housekeeper and no one is insisting that he step down or resign from his office. Celebrities, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, do a lot worse and we still idolize them; we don't boycott their movies and we don't stop watching their shows. We don't think it odd for them to want to keep doing the job that we pay them to do.

So why is Rep. Weiner different? Is it the name? Because I know that there is a worse name out there: Rep. Boehner, (pronounced bo-ner), anyone? Is it so ridiculous that a Congressman actually uses his Twitter instead of making some unpaid intern do it for him? And yes, the pictures were inappropriate, but you have to be aware, if you aren't already, that we elect people to public office, not perfect people, just people, fallible people. People make mistakes. And ridiculing them for those mistakes doesn't make you better. Doesn't make the situation better. Whether or not, you find it funny, he's still going to have to answer for his mistake.

I just think that we should get over it, because using him as a punchline is getting old.