I'm Bob Garfield, and this is episode three of the ingeniously titled series, Bob's Docks.

Episodes one and two covered manipulation and access.

This week's theme is pruriance, and yes, we do all like to watch.

And what we were watching with Slack Jaws in 2011 was the slow-motion car wreck that was the career of New York Congressman Anthony Wiener.

Once a rising star in the Democratic Party and husband of Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman, Huma Abidine,

Weiner saw his career implode thanks to one bad tweet.

It all started Friday night at 11.30 p.m.

A photo of an anonymous man's bulging underwear was tweeted from Congressman Weiner's account.

Tell me definitively, is that a photograph of you?

I'm reluctant to say to you definitively anything about this.

So it's possible to do.

We're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

Weiner denied the charges, then admitted to them and finally resigned.

Another politician brought down by the deadly combination of lust, hubris, and technology.

But two years later, Wiener was back, this time running for mayor of New York City. He was a new man. He had

repented. He wanted to talk about the issues. But the people and the pundits were dubious. As it

turned out, they were right. Within a few months, Wiener once again was humiliated by a sexting

scandal and forever branded as his nom de plume, Carlos Danger.

Under the screen name, Carlos Danger, Danger.

Danger.

Carlos Danger.

I assume it was to avoid using a ridiculous name like Anthony Weiner.

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