Weiner Scandal

On the matrix below the axis term is a transliteration for TONY WEINER. TONY is a short form for Anthony. In a story this week that was humorous for everyone for everyone except New York’s Congressman Weiner (and his family), he was forced to admit that he had indeed tweeted lewd photos of himself to a number of women. Since he is a politician, he could have pointed to how much former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had his career improve after appearing naked in Terminator 2 in his bad to the bone bar scene. But, no, Arnold is going through a $500,000,000 divorce now for fathering a love child with his maid. Arnold did not cry, but as the matrix shows, CRYING is associated with Weiner although it takes 408 letters to show it in the big Weiner matrix. Better is to just look at the small Weiner matrix with just 143 letters. The key words it includes are NAKED, FOOLISH, and ADULTERER. When New York’s Governor Spitzer was forced from office for using prostitutes while married, he went on to a career as a CNN TV host. Perhaps Weiner will have a career as a comedian one day. It is not yet clear if any of Weiner's tweets actually led to full scale adultery, but see WEINER'S WIFE to learn about the encoding of his Moslem wife's name (Huma Abedin). His resignation is also encoded.

STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MATRIX. As per my usual protocol, no statistical significance is assigned to the axis term, here TONY WEINER at its second lowest skip. Experience indicates that it isn’t worth it to expand a matrix from 143 letters to 408 letters just to pick up a 4-letter word at a non-special case skip (like CRYING at skip -134,292. Although CRYING is parallel to the axis term, it is not at the same absolute skip of -67146 (it’s twice that skip which is why is also appears parallel). So the three key a-priori words (with the blue background) are NAKED, FOOLISH, and ADULTERER. Their combined p value is about 0.00476 which means that they appeared against odds of about 210 to 1. However, other synonyms might also have worked. There were also several other matrices with these key words and ADMITTED that were of interest.

POLITICAL FUTURE? TONY WEINER is crossed in the open text by PRESIDENT. The occurs against odds of about 62 to 1. Note that Newt Gingrich is making a bid for President despite his affair while he was impeaching President Clinton, and of course Clinton himself is an excellent example of how forgiving the American electorate can be when it comes to infidelity. This match, which requires 36 letterrs to show, is not included in the spreadsheet below.

CONGRESSMAN ANTHONY (TONY) WEINER EXPOSES HIMSELF

Foolishness, but like Governor Schwarzenegger, he may be back