The Final Solution it ain’t. But when I saw this ad today, I scratched my head and wondered whether the ad folks doing the creatives for Microsoft’s Surface campaign weren’t aware there is some controversy about the ubiquitous practice touching up, slimming, flattening and general re-body-shaping women for photo shoots in magazines. (The ad helpfully notes “program sold separately.)
This is sort of a side note to my post below. But tuning back in to the latest in the Christie saga, I sense a lack of message consistency.
If I’m understanding this we have at least three messages.
1. We found some bad apples; they’re gone.
2. F&#k our accusers! And watch out because we might just survive this and we won’t forget.
3. Christie still trying to get his arms around this awful thing happened. But when he does, he’s going to fix it. And he’s going to learn from it. And when he learns it, he’ll let you know.
Reading Matt Bai’s interview with Chris Christie at Yahoo News! (I couldn’t help it; seemed funny somehow to actually include their exclamation point), I think I get where Christie is going with this, perhaps before others see it.
The phrase of the day is courtesy of ex-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.
Sarah Palin takes a moment on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to tell President Obama to honor the late Civil Rights giant by not playing the “race card.”
Chris Christie says he’s “readier” now to be president than he was in 2011.
Gov. Chris Christie’s administration plans its second event of the day to push back against the allegations from the mayor of Hoboken, N.J. This one is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET and involves the director of the Governor’s Office of Recovery and Rebuilding. Stay tuned.
MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spent a big chunk of their show this morning attacking the local mayor who made allegations this weekend against Gov. Chris Christie’s administration.
Most of our memories of Martin Luther King, Jr., are in black and white, making his life and work seem longer ago and almost quaint, like the horn-rimmed glasses and skinny dark ties of the era.
So this morning I culled some of the color photos of King from our AP archives. There aren’t many of them, but they’re bracing. Take a look:
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Now that New Jersey’s Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R) is in the news, it’s worth revisiting the profile our own Hunter Walker wrote about her last year. Turns out she’s something of a mystery even to New Jersey political insiders. But she’s the person who will inherit the governor’s office if Chris Christie leaves to run for president.
Meanwhile this morning, Guadagno strongly denied allegations that she threatened to withhold Hurricane Sandy aid from Hoboken, N.J. unless the mayor there approved a development project favored by the governor.