I was a bit late on this to begin with...
Anthony Weiter, a Democrat, is in trouble because someone - either him or someone who hacked his twitter account - sent a photo of him in boxer shorts to someone. The view is only of the shorts, not of the face.
A similar incident happened with a Republican a few months ago, except in his case, the Republican sent a shot of his bare chest and his face. He resigned.
So when I checked google news today, the first article was from Reuters - a British news outlet, admittedly, that said "Republican Weiter" in trouble.
I knew he was a Democrat, but unfortunately did not take a screencap of the article at that time.
Now the headline of the article has been fixed, but the original article is still available - as you can see in the attached screencap, circled.
Where did the confusion lie. Well,, Weiner is a Representative, which is abbreviated Rep.
And Republicans are sometimes abbreviated, Rep.
So it may be that whoever Reuter's headline writer was, simply saw "Rep." in front of Weiter's name and assumed Republican, and gleefully spelled out Republican.
On the other hand, as Republicans will say, whenever a Democrat gets into trouble, his (or her) party is never given by the liberal newspapers.
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