Breakfast Sausage: TODAY Shows Weiner Pic Sent From Rep. Weiner’s Twitter

After seeming very reluctant to cover the strange story involving Twitter, a lewd picture and Rep.Anthony Weiner (D-NY) – heretofore known as “Weinergate” — the mainstream media now seems to be embracing the story with open arms, just five days after the story broke Friday night. For the clearest evidence that the mainstreamest of the mainstream media are diving headlong into this story, I present the following clip from TODAY, in which Luke Russert introduces the story as producers show the actual picture that, to our knowledge, had thus far only been shown on late night programming like The Daily Show.

First, let’s recap how just how this story initially broke and the media’s general reaction. Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment broke the story late Friday night. In the following day, only predictable right-of-center websites picked up on the story (in fact, Mediaite didn’t publish our version of the story until early Saturday evening). This was the sort of curious and confusing controversy that is perfect fodder for the political blogosphere. In fact, Memorial Day weekend, for many writers and editors of political blogs and websites, will be forever known as “The Weinergate Weekend.”