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ANOTHER Sure Sign That the Press No Longer Has Christie's Back(Side)

They don't seem to have MRS. Chrsitie's backside, either:

Daily News (11/6/2017): A statewide crackdown on distracted (driving) ordered by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney general earlier this year netted a surprising offender: First lady Mary Pat Christie.

(An) officer tasked with specifically enforcing the state’s hands-free cell phone law...had no idea that it was the governor’s wife he'd spotted driving with her cell phone in hand...on April 10 (2017)...She initially tells him she was simply holding her phone, not using it to make a call...

In May...(Mrs. Christie) appeared in court and pleaded guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle while using a cell phone...(and) paid a $250 fine.

Not unlike the previous post about Christie, Jon, and the Black Keys drummer, this story didn't get into the press until seven months after the fact. If the media was hesitant because they didn't want to look like they were "picking on" the governor's wife, then why run the story at all -- never mind run it during the week before the election that would end Christie's reign?

[Kathleen]

So glad that this guy is out of office.

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

So glad that this guy is out of office.

As I said, I'm sure the press sat on the Mary Pat story because it was such a minor offense, it would have make them look petty and willing to "stoop to any depth" to embarrass Christie -- which, of course, would have played right into his hands. But with his departure from office pending, there was even less reason to run the story.

Running it the week before the election effectively declared that the press thought so little of Christie, they were willing to muddy his wife regardless of any consequences. A major "sneak diss," as the hiphoppers would say.

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Now that the sun has officially set on Chris Christie's public service and personal credibility, I hereby use the power vested me by the stewardship of the new New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, plus the morally courageous ridicule of Bruce Springsteen, to pronounce this thread officially closed.

I had every confidence that Christie's departure from office would showcase his political/social tone-deafness and vulgarianism, and I'm delighted to report that he didn't let us down.

Business Insider: On the day New Jersey elect(ed) a new governor...Chris Christie fell into an old habit that has come to define his governorship...

(To) a constituent who was upset that the governor hadn't attempted to merge the constituent's township...Christie said..."It's easier to sit here and complain. But you know what? That's the joy of public service. It's serving folks...like you that is really such a unique joy. It really is. You're fabulous."

But that was only the opening act:

Bloomberg: ...(A)t Newark Liberty International Airport...Christie...and the state trooper who accompanied him for his security detail...was blocked from a VIP entrance he had used for eight years, and directed to stand in...screening lines at Terminal B like anyone else, according to a person familiar with the incident...The order came from police for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport...

About ten days after being laid off from a job I'd had for nine years, I had to make one last visit to the personnel department. I did so by doing what I'd done practically every day for each of those nine years: entering the office building, getting on and off the elevator, exchanging pleasantries with employees who were passing through the reception area, and bypassing the reception desk. As I was completing my appointment with the personnel representative, some security guards showed up.

Why? Because it had never entered my mind that since I didn't work there anymore, I should have conducted myself as a mere visitor "like anyone else." I suppose I should have been embarrassed by my carelessness, or offended that I'd been suspected of be a "suspicious" character. But all I could do was laugh and say "Force of habit -- guilty as charged!"

Talking Points Memo: The former governor...attempted to enter the airport through a special access area with his state police escort that he reportedly used when he was governor. A Port Authority (police) officer stopped Christie from using that entrance and escorted him to the regular entrance...

Christie denied the claims in...tweet(s)...saying he was led to one entrance...but was then informed by the (Transportation Safety Administration) that it was the wrong entrance and he was directed to a different gate:

“Neither option was the way I entered the airport as Governor (wrong in the story) and (the) PAPD officer never denied me entry at either place (also wrong in story)...”

If Christie was "led" to the first gate, it was most likely the result of his telling the PAPD officer that he wanted to use the gate that was reserved for the New Jersey governor. But I'm willing to believe that Christie simply made the same innocent mistake that I had, and therefore neither he nor they were to blame. His response is the problem: retaliating by portraying himself as the victim -- then elevating himself to the hero -- by attacking "false" reports that he'd tried to "evade" both gates.

So it's appropriate that this thread is ending on such a sour note. In addition to making it that much easier to say "Good riddance, Governor Soprano," it also makes me that much prouder of the effort that everyone invested in reading all this over the past three years. So I won't say goodbye -- I'll just say "Thank you for the 30 views a day," and "Would you please take off your shoes before passing through the scanner, sir?"

[Kathleen]

He began as a scumbag and he ended as a scumbag - no socially redeeming feature at all. I'm with you - close the damn thread

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

...I'm with you -- close the damn thread.

And Cue The Guy With The Dragnet Hammer