My Mideast Punchlines – NOT: a schmuck by any other name….

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for sexting with a 15-year-old girl in a case that rocked Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the White House in the closing days of the race and may have cost her the presidency.

Weiner, 53, dropped his head into his hands and wept as the sentence was announced by Judge Denise Cote. He must surrender to prison officials by Nov. 6.

 The sentencing completed the sordid downfall of the New York Democrat, whose penchant for exchanging lewd messages and photos with young women online destroyed his career in Congress in 2011, doomed his bid for mayor of New York in 2013, wrecked his marriage to Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and became entangled in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Admitting “I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse,” Weiner pleaded guilty in May to transferring obscene material to a minor, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for illicit contact with a North Carolina teenager.

Okay, I admit it. This has got nothing to do with the Mideast. I just needed a break from the never-ending gloom, so what better than to write a few words about our very own sexting maniac, Anthony Weiner.

Now I’m sure Weiner was a nice Jewish boy in his mother’s womb, but it’s his father I blame. Weiner is pronounced ‘weener’ in the States, and everyone knows that weener is  slang for penis across the Pond. In this case, no one can say the euphemism isn’t an apt one for this particularly schmuck. As my Israeli sister-in-law of blessed memory used to say, when the cannon (weener) stands up, the seychel (sense) flies out of the window.