If he keeps answering questions he’ll have to keep answering questions. If he walks away from the media then people will write he’s hiding something. So he stands to talk to the media without answering questions with the result a surreal back and forth that comes off strained and sounds worse.

As I wrote on Tuesday morning, you either believe the college student’s statement or you don’t.

Dan Amira over at New York magazine has an astounding suggestion:

If Weiner is truly innocent of Internet hanky-panky, such questions would indeed be irritating and tiresome. And on conservative blogs like the Daily Caller, where the angle of Weiner’s penis at rest is being closely scrutinized, the treatment of the controversy is becoming absurd, and frankly, gross. But dodging easily answerable questions is definitely not the way to make it all go away. For example, something like, “No, that was not my penis. I know this because I didn’t take a photo of my penis,” would have been a perfectly fine response. The mainstream press, at least, would be satisfied.

This whole thing is gross, but the Right’s got the sex scent and when they get a whiff they don’t stop.

None of us knows where this will go, but suggesting Rep. Anthony Weiner say on camera that “No, that was not my penis. …because I didn’t take a photo of my penis,” is the dumbest advice I’ve ever read. I can’t believe the magazine actually uploaded such nonsense. If anything it’s Amira who has no idea how media works, not Weiner.

The YouTube hits on that gem would be stratospheric, not to mention parodied, with the late night comics going berzerk.

Rep. Weiner’s political enemies know how effective he is and they see a way to humiliate him. He shouldn’t help them through a penis statement, though it’s pretty clear there’s a long shelf life on the Right for this type of hunting, always has been, so Mr. Weiner better buckle up.

I’m just not sure how all of this eventually ends.