lol this guy is such a scumbag
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Perhaps not the smartest thing ever to invite us to imagine him standing in his bedroom with an iPad in his hands...
― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
wait this thing is still on?!
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Press conference was at 11 est? 4 days of traffic shutdowns and Christie knew nothing?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
http://brucemctague.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Schulz-I-know-nothing.jpg
― German Disco Songsmith (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
HE IS STILL TALKING
it's fuckin awesome really. the right-wing twitter spin is "THIS is how you do an apology press conference. answer EVERYBODY'S questions. no 'no further questions.' just answer until there are none"
the underrated a spin is "wow this dude loves to hear himself talk"
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
Sam Stein ✔ @samsteinhpHalperin and Heilman's next book: "Lane Change"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
lol @ "traffic study"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
aero i hate to quibble but afaic can tell the right-wing twitter spin on this is BENGHAZI
― goole, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
er extra can tell there
FreeRepublic.txt @FreeRepublicTXT 3mThis afternoon, Christie will announce, "I am a Gay American."
- and all will be forgiven.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
just when you think they can't surprise you by finding the most hateful spin imaginable
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
idgi
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
in a way tho i can see conservatives' point about this and benghazi, both christie and al qaeda are really into revenge
― goole, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, January 9, 2014 6:08 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think the 'joke' is "haha he will come out as gay and then it will all be good bcz you can't dislike gay people in obama's america"
― i like HOOS but this took the cake off my table (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
my memory is failing -- that refers to someone in particular
― goole, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
mcgreevey
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdjokkACMAA-_om.jpg
did Christie dip his face in carbolic acid
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
yes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
powerful conservative images
― the late great, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
the fun thing now is watching all the tales of further petty retributions leak out
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah imagine how badly they'd fuck over someone who was in charge of a place where they actually needed votes to win
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Gov McGreevey rather sleazily used coming out of the closet as a way to smother questions about favors for his boytoy (and skip outta Trenton).
but that scandal wasn't as fun bcz he was a thin Democrat
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
well he just resigned so no one cared to follow up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Also no one died
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
his problem is that the right wing of the republican party is against him and he won't get the nomination, right? am i wrong to suspect he would own in a presidential campaign though?
― flopson, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
the right wing of the republican party was against john mccain and mitt romney
― iatee, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
he won't get the nomination because he's an asshole and comes off like one not because of his politics or this scandal
― iatee, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
who's gonna get the nomination though
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
I have no idea, but I expect the nominating process to be hilarious sad and scary (ie just like last time only moreso)
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
feel like it's gotta be a governor, no remaining party satraps in Congress that even want it afaict, and Rand Paul or Cruz will never make it
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
paul ryan has a good shot imho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
Ryan/Palin ticket
*masturbates*
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
god why are you not permabanned
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
that would be blasphemy!
oh, you were talking to waterface, nvrmind
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
― lag∞n
agree w/ this, dude is positioning for sure
― balls, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
the party loves him too, they totally lost their shit over him at the convention
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
plus those sad sad eyes, who can resist
gop loves guns and w/ paul ryan the gunshow is always in town
― balls, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
hey, you ladies get your tickets?
― goole, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
Josh Barro:
How did Christie not know? There were 117 days between when the Bridgegate story broke and when the governor learned that one of his Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Bridget Kelly, had called for the lane closures. One of his close confidants whom he just selected to run the New Jersey Republican Party, Bill Stepien, is also implicated. Despite the fact that increasing national attention was being paid to this story through the fall, Christie — who has a background as an aggressive prosecutor! — had no idea some of his closest allies were involved. Why was he so oblivious? Christie has been reduced to insisting that his staff has been out to control and lying to him about what they're doing. That's not an ideal talking point to have to lean on.
Why would Christie's appointees have thought this was a good idea? Politicians survive scandals of staff misbehavior all the time. But in this instance, the misbehavior was conducted on Christie's behalf, in order to execute a political strategy to benefit the governor. How did Christie create a culture in which his appointees in his administration and at the Port Authority would get together and assume this was something the governor would want them to do?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
It begins:
KJL: What was your impression of Christie’s press conference?
HEWITT: That was one of the most fascinating, indeed riveting two hours in recent American political history. The comparisons to Nixon’s Checkers speech will arrive soon, and of course already have arrived vis-a-vis President Obama’s standard duck-cover-filibuster pressers. Authentic, transparent, unscripted and sincere. Very powerful.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
lol yes the "Authentic, transparent, unscripted and sincere" Checkers speech
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah christie didnt even use a teleprompter. white house or bust.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
wait, the checkers speech was good? i thought it was considered despicable and self pitying, but i wasn't there... xpost
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
hewitt is amazing
― goole, Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
"Nixon's speech was seen or heard by about 60 million Americans, including the largest television audience to that time, and led to an outpouring of public support. A huge majority of the millions of telegrams and phone calls received by the RNC and other political offices supported Nixon. He was retained on the ticket, which then swept to victory weeks later in November 1952. The Checkers speech was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate, but has since sometimes been mocked or denigrated. Checkers speech has come more generally to mean any emotional speech by a politician."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech
― o. nate, Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
the Checkers speech was "good" in the sense that it rescued Nixon's political career
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link