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Dude that was spot on!
Use of power to punish political enemies? That is a scandal. He should do the same thing Obama did and deny any knowledge of it.
Dude that was spot on!
Jon Stewart is an unfunny koolaid drinker trying to make people think that his spoof comedy show is a news program.
How the Media Marketed Chris Christie's Straight Shooter Charade
He's been relentlessly and adoringly depicted as some sort of Straight Shooter. He's an authentic and bipartisan Every Man, a master communicator, and that rare politician who cuts through the stagecraft and delivers hard truths. Christie's coverage has been a long-running, and rather extreme, case of personality trumping substance.
But now the bridge bombs casts all of that flattering coverage into question. How could the supposedly astute Beltway press corps spend four years selling Christie as a Straight Shooter when his close aides did things like orchestrate a massive traffic jam apparently to punish the governor's political foes? When an appointee joked in texts about school buses being trapped in the political traffic backup? How could Christie be a Straight Shooter when he's been caught peddling lies about the unfolding scandal and now claims he was misled about what people close to him were up to?
The truth is Christie was never the Straight Shooter that political reporters and pundits made him out to be. Not even close, as I'll detail below. Instead, the Straight Shooter story represented appealing fiction for the press. They tagged him as "authentic" and loved it when he got into yelling matches with voters.
Media Matters recently rounded up some of media's Christie sweet talk, which is particularly enlightening to review in the wake of the Trenton scandal developments:
In the last month alone, TIME magazine has declared that Christie governed with "kind of bipartisan dealmaking that no one seems to do anymore." MSNBC's Morning Joe called the governor "different," "fresh," and "sort of a change from public people that you see coming out of Washington." In a GQ profile, Christie was deemed "that most unlikely of pols: a happy warrior," while National Journal described him as "the Republican governor with a can-do at ude" who "made it through 2013 largely unscathed. No scandals, no embarrassments or gaffes." ABC's Barbara Walters crowned Christie as one of her 10 Most Fascinating People, casting him as a "passionate and compassionate" politician who cannot lie.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/how-the-media-marketed-ch_b_4567992.html
... much more
I think the bully image would probably help him in the primaries.
yep, Repugs like their candidates intensively nasty, uncivilized, flame throwing, lacking in all decorum and respect for anyone but themselves, willing to say anything. See: Santorum, Gingrich, Cain, ...
you right-wingers Can't Handle The Ridicule your politicians so justly deserve, and you right-wingers are equally deserving of ridicule for electing your assholes over and over and over.
Jon and Coal Bear have ridiculed Dems and they certainly deserve it, but the Repugs are just so much more and so more frequently deserving.
When did he ever do that?
The real Chris Christie traffic scandal you've forgotten
To get a better sense of his willingness to sacrifice his citizens' welfare for political expedience, you have to go back to an earlier scandal. That 2010 affair, coincidentally, also involved traffic, but on a much greater scale. And it involved lying and bullying too.
It's proper now to recall an action Christie took in 2010 that he owned up to quite proudly. This was his unilateral torpedoing of a $9-billion federal-state project to build a commuter train tunnel under the Hudson. The project would have doubled capacity on the route--a crucial improvement given forecasts of sharply rising ridership and the decrepitude of the existing tunnel. It was the largest public transit project at the time, and had already begun. Christie's refusal to approve his state's share killed it.
The cancellation made Christie a darling of the conservative budget-cutting movement, instantly raising his profile as a GOP up-and-comer. Two years later, he was still crowing about his courageous act before conservative audiences.
His depiction of the project was typically blustering and deceitful: "They want to build a tunnel to the basement of Macy’s, and stick the New Jersey taxpayers with a bill," he said. You'd think that was pretty funny, unless you were a New Jersey commuter who knew that the "basement of Macy's" in midtown Manhattan is actually Pennsylvania Station, where the commuter trains go.
By then, Christie's rationale for killing the tunnel had been exposed as a passel of lies. He had claimed that it would cost more than $14 billion, and that New Jersey would be on a "never-ending hook" for 70% of the cost. In fact, as the Government Accountability Office reported, $14 billion was the maximum estimate, and $10 billion the most likely final bill. And New Jersey's share was 14.4%, not 70%.
But the cancellation allowed Christie to divert the state's share of the tunnel budget to a state highway fund, which in turn allowed him to avoid raising the state gasoline tax--already among the lowest in the nation--by a few cents.
So here's the toll: Christie sacrificed the long-term welfare of his own citizens for short-term personal, political gain. He did so with bluster and deceit. Even after his own figures were exposed as bogus, he didn't hold a two-hour press conference to apologize and promise it wouldn't happen again.
But which is the real Chris Christie? The one who claims to be "sad" and "humiliated" at the action of aides who at the very least figured they were acting as he would wish? Or the one who gloated over saving his state a few bucks in the near term by doing something that will cost it billions in the long term?
Here's a good bet: We'll be seeing a lot more of the gloating and bullying Chris Christie than the sad and humiliated model as time goes on.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/17.../?related=true
Keep trying, I guess.
I'm a right winger? I voted for Gary Johnson, not Romney. Thank you. And please don't try to defend Jon Stewart. The guy is a fraud in the sense that he tries to make people think that The Daily Show is a news program like 60 Minutes while it's basically a spoof comedy show about the news. I love how Obama drinkers call anyone that doesn't agree with them on anything "right wingers, racists, bigots, etc...". I will be glad when Bush's 4th term is over. I want some middle aged white Lutheran guy from Ohio or upstate New York as the next president. That way, I don't have to hear people ing about his skin color and stupid like that.
you might be the only one that thinks that.
Again, when did he try to make people think his show is a news show?
Chris Christie was a ticking time bomb. It was only a matter of time before he blew up
If there is a singular skill that separates presidential contenders from presidential “also-rans” it is discipline. The ability to stay on message, to keep emotions in check, to avoid distractions, to understand that the long-game must take precedence over the daily news cycle and to dodge the inevitable political headaches that emerge is essential to political success on a national stage.
Obama has it; W had it; Nixon (at least in public) was practically the king. Here’s who doesn’t have it: Chris Christie, and it’s the reason that his political career is on life support.
it was fairly obvious that Christie was a man whose decisions were guided as much by impulse and emotion as political calculation.
There have been not one or two but repeated losses of his temper, even with his own cons uents. This video of Christie yelling at a skeptic on the Jersey boardwalk while holding aloft an ice cream cone spoke to Christie’s remarkable inability (particularly for a politician) to control his temper. He couldn’t even prevent himself from yelling at a teacher who questioned his education policies only days before Election Day in November.
this behavior fits a regular pattern of reprisals and retaliation against anyone who even mildly crosses Christie.
Christie has decided to use the Captain Renault defense, “‘I’m shocked, shocked that my aides would do this.” He even claimed (we can only assume with a straight face) that, “this behavior is not representative of me or my administration in any way.” It’s the rhetoric equivalent of a drone strike on irony.
That he has a long track record of personally striking back at political opponents who cross him – but sat this one out – stretches credibility. As the New York Times noted:
Even Republican lawmakers who have supported Mr Christie tell stories of being punished when he perceived them as not supporting him enough.
At this point, the New Jersey governor has lost any right to the benefit of the doubt.
Above all what today’s revelations demonstrate is that he simply lacked the discipline to be a national figure, to undergo political scrutiny and to respond to political differences with something other than fury. He was a ticking time bomb as a politician. It was only a matter of time before he blew up.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/0...re-he-blew-up/
Rachel M just showed another possible target for the retribution as not the mayor of Fort Lee, but the Dem Senator representing Fort Lee who is also the leader of the Senate Democrats, whom, the night before, 12 Aug 13, a furious Christie. in a surprise press conference, called "animals". just ing wow.
Every time Maddow talks about Christie she totally eviscerates him, she also never bought the bull other people did when he
hugged Obama
NY Daily News: In the best possible light, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie built a top staff of lying thugs who threatened lives and safety to serve his political ends. If not, Christie is a lying thug himself.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...d?detail=email
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A news show???
If he is trying to make it news he has got most people thinking its satire.
The news stuff has been a huge failure, the satire has not.
A fat guy from the North would have never made it with the Republican national party anyways.
Um. That's exactly what he's doing.
"same thing Obama did and deny any knowledge of it."
of what do you speak, my dear AntiChrist?
When he asks people he doesn't like tough hard hitting questions.
next POTUS, tbh
That isn't news.
I would be inclined to disagree.
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