Says Olivia Nuzzi: Several of my friends sent me links to the same online ad for the Weiner campaign, seeking applications for internships. They thought it would be educational and entertaining. How right they were....
Their hope was to make a connection with Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, and thus forge a potential connection to her longtime boss, Hillary Clinton, to get an inside track for a campaign position if she ran for president in 2016.
◼ link◼ Top Weiner Aide Trashes Intern Who Wrote Campaign Tell-All - TPM
Tuesday was an angry day in Weinerland.
The campaign staff awoke to see their former intern, Olivia Nuzzi, on the front cover of the Daily News. Inside the paper was an article bylined by Nuzzi in which she told a rather unflattering tale of her experience working on Anthony Weiner’s mayoral bid.
Now, Team Weiner is firing back. TPM called Weiner’s communications director Barbara Morgan to discuss an unrelated story Tuesday and she went off on a curse-filled rant about Nuzzi, describing her as a fame hungry “bitch” who “sucked” at her job. Morgan also called Nuzzi a “slutbag,” “twat,” and “cunt” while threatening to sue her.
On Monday, Nuzzi, a college student and writer, published a story on the blog NSFWCORP that claimed multiple sources on the campaign told her there had been “six departures” from Weiner’s team, more than had been previously disclosed. She also claimed that staffers had been underpaid and that the former campaign manager, Danny Kedem, left over the weekend because Weiner “lied to him about the timing of his sexting scandal.”
I like that Weiner’s campaign director blasted the intern’s “glamour shots”. There are worse kinds of pictures you can send…
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 31, 2013
Nuzzi’s post on NSFWCORP was followed up by Tuesday’s Daily News cover story in which she claimed Weiner incorrectly called multiple interns “Monica” and said people only joined Weiner’s campaign to curry favor with his wife, Huma Abedin, a close aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Along with these allegations, Nuzzi wrote in the Daily News that “a lot” of Weiner’s staff had “short résumés,” including Morgan, who Nuzzi derisively noted “last worked as the press secretary for the New Jersey state education commissioner....”
Good Lord. RT @missADelgado: Must read report. Weiner's comm director seems like a worse person than even him. http://t.co/TTwPxdlmNn
— RB (@RBPundit) July 31, 2013
Pssh. RT @RBPundit: I’m actually starting to feel a little embarrassed for Democrats who have to accept that Weiner is one of them.
— Kemberlee Kaye (@red_red_head) July 31, 2013
Weiner Spox Apologizes for Trashing 'Slutbag' Ex-Intern: An Anthony Weiner spokeswoman apologized Tuesday nigh... http://t.co/Pa4TVpmSBm
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 31, 2013
◼ WEINER SPOX APOLOGIZES FOR TRASHING 'SLUTBAG' EX-INTERN - Tony Lee/Breitbart
“In a moment of frustration, I used inappropriate language in what I thought was an off the record conversation,” Morgan said in a statement to Business Insider. “It was wrong and I am very sorry, which is what I said tonight when I called and emailed Olivia to apologize.”
