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.
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.
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.)
Chris Matthews is not diggin’ President Obama’s suggestion that marijuana is not “more dangerous than alcohol” and possible ‘evolution’ on marijuana legalization.
Ed Kilgore does the analysis on whether the 22nd Amendment has really created a “third-term curse” for political parties.
Sen. Cory Booker (D) has been conspicuously silent as his home state’s politics have been engulfed in the various charges and investigations emerging from the GWB bridge closure back in September. Now he’s saying he won’t attend Christie’s inaugural. So what’s up with Sen. Booker (D)? Why is he so resolutely on the sidelines? Even now?
Florida state House candidate: “I’m past impeachment. It’s time to arrest him and hang him high.”
In other words, this candidate says the president needs to be lynched.
Hannity threatens to leave New York over Cuomo’s remarks about “extreme conservatives.”
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen indicted on federal corruption charges.
If we didn’t have such short memories, we’d pair McDonnell with Christie and marvel at what’s happening to major GOP 2016 contenders. But McDonnell’s star dimmed what seems so very long ago.
Speaking with a Martian a few moments ago, I explained that Martin Luther King Day is an annual American ritual where we sit back aghast at the latest antics white idiots and/or reasonably intelligent racists come up with to show us the true meaning and continuing import of a national holiday dedicated to Dr. King, a man who achieved many things, embodied a movement far greater than himself and managed to do these things without living to the age of 40.