Barbara Morgan Had Previous Profane Tirade She Claimed Was "Off The Record"

Barbara Morgan, Anthony Weiner's communications director, claimed her profanity-laced tirade about a former campaign intern was supposed to be "off the record." 

Politicker reports this is not the first time Ms. Morgan has claimed a profanity-laced tirade was "off the record":

Barbara Morgan, the mouthpiece for Mr. Weiner’s embattled mayoral campaign, appears to have disputed a Friday New York Post account that had her berating a reporter by asking, “Do you even fucking know how Facebook works?”

That line was eventually removed from the article, but many excerpts and countless tweets of the quote remain elsewhere. A Post story today may shed some light on what happened, however.

“Last week, an incensed Morgan called Post reporters and editors and unleashed several expletive-laden rants on Weiner’s behalf,” the paper reports. “She later said her curse-filled diatribes were ‘off the record.’”

It seems Ms. Morgan has a potty mouth, can't seem to control it and then, when quoted, takes back what she said.

Using the kind of language Barbara Morgan likes to throw around, she is "full of shit."

She needs to take responsibility for her words.

In a sense, though, she is the perfect communications director for Anthony Weiner - he doesn't take responsibility for his words either.

Anthony Weiner Won't Fire Foul-Mouthed Communications Director, Barbara Morgan

As expected, Anthony Weiner, still running his scandal-plagued campaign for mayor, is standing by his foul-mouthed communications director, Barbara Morgan:


In an interview with TPM that she says she thought was "off the record," Morgan called a former intern for the Weiner campaign who went public about the "thin resumes" of the people working for Weiner a "fucking slutbag," a "cunt," and "a fucking twat" who should "see if you ever get a job in this town again.”

Today, Morgan put up a picture of a "swear jar" on her Twitter account and said she had to make good for the bad language.

With Morgan continuing to work for the Weiner campaign, the universe has apparently rendered punishment.

Could there be much worse than trying to flack for a politician who has been counted lying 68 times in one 8 minute stretch?

Meet Barbara Morgan, Anthony Weiner's Foul-Mouthed Communications Director

As I posted last night, Anthony Weiner's spokesperson, Barbara Morgan (a former DOE employee who worked for Joel Klein) went on an epic rampage yesterday to TPM, ripping a former intern for the Weiner campaign in a profanity-laced rant that would make a marine blush.

The New York Daily News has more on Morgan's tirade today:

Anthony Weiner's communications director trashed a former campaign intern Tuesday in a shocking, profane rant published by a news blog.

Barbara Morgan said Tuesday night that she thought she was “off the record” when she repeatedly called Olivia Nuzzi a “slutbag,” “t--t” and “little c---.”

Morgan was reacting to a column Nuzzi wrote Tuesday exclusively for the Daily News. The college student wrote that some Weiner staffers signed on to the sexting scandal-starred Democrat’s campaign because they thought it might help them land future work with Hillary Clinton.

Nuzzi wrote that there were “a lot of short résumés” among campaign staffers and said Weiner mistakenly called her and several other interns “Monica.”

It was the particular jab on staffers’ job credentials that particularly riled Morgan up.

“You know what? F--- you, you little c--t. I’m not joking, I am going to sue her,” Morgan ripped back to Talking Points Memo Tuesday while calling Nuzzi a “f---ing slutbag" who repeatedly didn't show up during her four weeks as an intern.

"Of those twenty days, she missed probably five because she would just like not show up and not tell me she wasn’t going to be there," she told the blog. "She sucked. She like wasn't good at setting up events. She was clearly there because she wanted to be seen."

Only adding fuel to the fire was seeing Nuzzi's front-page spread with the Daily News — one she sarcastically complimented as a "nice f---ing glamour shot."“I’m dealing with like stupid f---ing interns who make it on to the cover of the Daily News even though they signed [non-disclosure agreements] and/or they proceeded to trash me,” Morgan told TPM. “And by the way, I tried to fire her, but she begged to come back and I gave her a second chance.”

Another day, another crisis for the Weiner campaign.

Morgan, who used to work for Joel Klein at the DOE and obviously knows her way around profanity, misogyny and employee abuse from her tenure with Klein, ought to be fired for this episode.

But Weiner can't fire her because no one else will take her place.

On the flip side of that equation, after Morgan's work for the disaster that is the Weiner campaign and now her 15 minutes of fame calling a former intern a "fucking slutbag," a "twat," and a "cunt," Morgan may not be on anybody else's short list for a job either.