The Big Story
The past several days, I have made it a practice to spot-check MSNBC just to see what they are covering. Are they covering the news this week that both the House of Representatives and Senate passed reports criticizing the State Department for the fiasco in Benghazi that killed four Americans? Are they covering the continuing saga of the disastrous Affordable Care Act? Are they covering the IRS scandal? Are they covering the NSA spying scandal? Are they covering the disastrous pact our government made with Iran and the fact that Iran is crowing about how they humiliated the US? Are they covering the chaos in the Middle East and how horribly our government is handling it? Are they covering the news how we are throwing Israel under the bus?
No.
What they are covering, from Al Sharpton to Chris Matthews to Chris Hayes to Ed Schultz to Rachel Maddow to Lawrence O'Donnell is.......
Bridgegate.
"What did New Jersey Governor Chris Christie know and when did he know it?"
"Christie is a bully."
OK, I get it. Christie is now considered the leading Republican challenger to Her Nibs, Hillary Clinton, for the 2016 presidential race. He is the guy who must be taken down.
As I said before, Christie is,at the least, not blameless. He probably is a bully. He put people around him who abused their power. Nor was I impressed with his State of the State speech in New Jersey this week in which he invoked the famous passive voice phrase, "Mistakes were made." In short, this is not the guy I want to see run for president. I think that a Christie administration would be like a Newt Gingrich administration-every day a day of turmoil and controversy. Republicans can do better than that ( I would hope). As for his involvement, that remains to be proven whether he knew or approved of closing down a couple of lanes of the George Washington Bridge going into New York. Christie has forcefully gone on the record as saying he did not know. He has canned two of his people, whom he totally threw under the bus. If those two people have the goods on Christie, they have every reason to come forward and tell what they know.
But we are not talking about gross negligence that led to an American consulate being overrun with the loss of 4 Americans and lies in the aftermath from our leaders. We are not talking about a feckless foreign policy that has led to total chaos in the Middle East. We are not talking about using the IRS to target political enemies. We are not talking about a corrupt Justice Department allowing automatic weapons to be purchased and taken into Mexico to the hands of drug cartels with the resultant loss of life for hundreds of Mexicans and one-possibly two US agents (Operation Fast and Furious). We are not talking about a hare-brained Affordable Care Act that is costing millions of Americans to lose their insurance and throwing the entire health care industry into chaos.
No, we are talking about a bridge.
That is our news media, Folks. They pick and choose which stories they are going to bring to you according to their own political agenda. And you wonder why you have to go to the blogosphere to find out what is happening in our country and our world?
Ask yourselves. Why are you reading me?
What difference does it really make at this time if Christie was somehow involved in Bridgegate and it comes out later that he told a little white lie about it??
ReplyDeleteHere's the problem. Say that people sit on this until Christie becomes the Republican nominee in 2014 and then gets "outed" by whoever. What's a mother to do??
1) Vote Democratic, most likely for HIllary Clinton. Not hardly.
2) Waste a vote on some completely unprepared third-party wannabe (like Perot, Nader, etc.)who has absolutely, positively no chance of winning?? Naw.
3) Stay home and not vote at all?? Again naw, might be worse than 2).
4) Vote for Christie.
Take your pick and I'll take mine.
If it's Christie vs Clinton, I vote for Christie and avoid bridges.
ReplyDeleteIf it's Christie vs Clinton, I vote for Christie and avoid bridges.
ReplyDeleteI generally don't watch MSNBC. Why do you?
ReplyDelete(If its Christie v. Clinton, I may vote Christie... depends on a lot of factors in how he behaves over the next two years. But in any case, I won't vote for Clinton.)
Siarlys--perhaps you are not a lost cause after all, and there is still some hope, however slight, for you.
ReplyDeleteSure I occasionally watch some (actually a little) MSNBC, all depends on who is on and what they are talking about.
P.S.--need t know what the enemy is up to.
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