We know what Anthony Weiner’s been up to lately: trying to mount his comeback campaign. But what have the women with whom he engaged in inappropriate communications with been doing with their time? As you may have guessed, not having a lot of fun.
On Monday morning, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski published a post that claimed to show the gist of a piece accidentally published on the New York Times website two weeks ago. Entitled “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers,” the early publication and then immediate removal of that unfinished article prompted the Times to say that they “don’t discuss stories in advance of publication” and left many wondering if we’d ever see this article that was already bound to be pretty interesting. (Of the mistake, the Times‘ public editor, Margret Sullivan remarked, “Such are the hazards of digital misdirection, as Mr. Weiner found out. It couldn’t have happened to a more appropriate story.”)
So how is this article that we’ve been eagerly waiting for? Really good. Reporter Michael Barbaro talks to all of the women that were fingered for texting or tweeting – inappropriately or not – with Weiner, and paints a rather bleak portrait of how hard their lives have been since the scandal broke, while Weiner has been able to move on, partially through what some have billed as overly-sympathetic profiles.
In Kaczynski’s story, he conjectured that Barbaro was going to report that despite everything they’d been through, two of the women still fully supported Weiner’s run for Mayor of New York:
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