In case you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Anthony Weiner is getting a ton of flack from the media and the general public for sending some lewd photos to a few of his Twitter followers. Many are calling for him to resign, and so many of his former supporters are horrified by his actions. I find this sudden outcry of condemnation curious, to say the least. What did Weiner actually do? He simply sent some less than appropriate pictures to a few of his Twitter followers. Did he ever meet these women in real life? No. Did he ever have sex with these women? No. So why in seven hells are we attacking the poor man and calling for his resignation? Yes, he lied to the public by saying his Twitter account was “hacked,” but plenty of other people have lied to the public before and not gotten any condemnation for it at all. Why does Anthony Weiner get attacked whilst men like George Bush, who caused the death of at least 3,000 Americans and many more Iraqis by lying to all of us walk free? Why is there no public outcry over the fact that Wikileaks just released documents showing the United States supported a corrupt election in Haiti? As a species, we need to stop focusing on the superficial and meaningless things such as this “scandal,” and pay attention to the things that actually mean something in the world. 15,000 people have been killed in Libya as Gaddafi has ordered that mass rape be used as a weapon. A 13 year old boy was tortured to death, his penis cut off and sent to his family, and his body mutilated in Syria, where thousands of others are in jail and under torture every day. Yemen is on the brink of war. Japan is experiencing a full nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. There’s an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano canceling flights all across South America in the same way the Icelandic volcano cancelled European flights. And yet, all we hear about is the “atrocious behavior” of Anthony Weiner, who really did not do much wrong. If the American public want politicians to attack for lying, I suggest they find a different target than Anthony Weiner, for there have been much worse lies committed by the US government that have gone unnoticed or simply haven’t garnered enough attention to warrend anybody caring about them. The more I watch and read the news, the angrier I become at the current state of the media of the West. I don’t care about Anthony Weiner’s wiener, and neither should you.