NY Post Whips Out ‘Dickileaks’ Puns About Anthony Weiner ‘Stroking Gun’

Fright for Clinton camp is heaven for headline writers

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Anthony Weiner gave the New York Post another gift when his name emerged in the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Within hours, the paper had the perfect pun: “Stroking Gun.”

The paper, which has had lots of fun with Weiner puns over his repeated sexting scandals, also dubbed the new development “Dickileaks.” It featured a photo of a shirtless Weiner, taking a deer-in-the-headlights selfie.

The New York Times, followed by other outlets, reported Friday that a new batch of Clinton’s emails were discovered on a device shared by the disgraced former congressman and his estranged wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The FBI was investigating text messages that Weiner is suspected of sending to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

In a letter to Congress on Friday, FBI director, James B. Comey, said that the new emails seemed to “appear to be pertinent to the investigation” of Clinton’s use of a private server when she was secretary of state. The Clinton campaign, fearful of losing its sizable lead over Donald Trump with less than two weeks before election day, demanded that the FBI release any and all information it has.

But never mind all that, because it’s time for penis puns. Take it away, New York Post:

And, of course, Twitter reacted. Here are just a few of the best:

Rosemary Rossi

Rosemary joined TheWrap in 2016 after more than two decades covering entertainment for American Media and Bauer Publishing as West Coast Editor and as the Hollywood Correspondent for Australia’s Horowitz Graham Publishing. In addition, she reviewed films and television, sized up trends and penned a weekly tongue-in-cheek column called “Hollywood’s Worst Ideas This Week” for…

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