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Last edited Sun Feb 2, 2014, 01:17 PM - Edit history (1)
As I wrote below, before Wildstein's accusations, before this afternoon's email, I thought Christie was toast. I think's clear for the reasons I wrote, even if Christie is totally innocent and even if no smoking gun emerges. But I hadn't sat long enough with the Christie letter to fully digest its implications. This email is purportedly if not from Christie himself then issued in his name and from his closest advisors. On that basis it reads like it's coming from a person or a team who is way, way further gone than I had realized.
One person said we should see the release of this email as a message to funders. If so, the message seems to be "I'm desperate and losing my mind."
This email/memo/press release doesn't read like a methodological takedown. It reads more like something dashed off in a climate of frenzied but impotent rage.
Much More Here:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/worse-than-i-realized
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yep-hes-toast
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UPDATED TO ADD:
Long time New Jersey political reporter, whos working with Steve Kornacki and used to work for Wildstein, at TPM:
It is hard for me to believe that the governor of an American state could author such a piece of risible juvenilia, except it is even harder for me to believe a paid communications professional could have been behind this. The argument Christie (or possibly one very very close longtime advisor) is making here is that David Wildstein is a bad guy
MORE:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/well-that-escalated-quickly
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Lookie here
"LOSER" is written all over this pile of flesh
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Maybe those pants could be "looser"
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Maybe Omar Khayyam's father was his tailor.
Why do I say this?
Because Omar Khayyam was known as "Omar, the tent-maker's son."
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)"With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --
"I came like Water and like Wind I go"
.
Omar Khayyam, The Rubayyat
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Check it out at www.greatomar.com
Yes, that's Vanessa Redgrave in the big picture. Made by a Persian guy in Uzbekistan and Houston.
The guy who plays Omar (center top) is very handsome!!!
CAG
(1,820 posts)Hired him anyway???
thesquanderer
(11,998 posts)Segami
(14,923 posts)randr
(12,418 posts)Gothmog
(145,800 posts)If the best that Christie can bring up is stuff from high school, then Christie is toast
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)CC should have just denied it and let the lawyers handled it.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)the arrogant asshole simply cannot help himself.....imagine being his lawyer
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)SunSeeker
(51,787 posts)cleduc
(653 posts)if there was that much obviously wrong with this guy going back to his high school days, why did Christie create a $220k/yr job for him at the Port Authority?
kpete
(72,038 posts)and peace to you,
kp
rocktivity
(44,583 posts)I feel like I'm caught between "Mean Girls" and "Heathers."
rocktivity
Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)All this memo shows is that Chris CrispyCream is juvenile, vindictive, and unfit to lead. As each day goes by it looks increasingly like this loudmouth is exactly the kind of guy who would cripple traffic to spite a political enemy.
2banon
(7,321 posts)I'll wager a dozen roses, Christie will come out of this at the end of the day, with very little harm done. Maybe he won't be the repugs candidate for POTUS, but I seriously doubt anything worse will come of this scandal. Cuz that's the pattern I've seen for far too many decades. Once in a blue moon justice prevails. But that ain't gonna happen in this case.
Loved to be proven wrong.
ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)As a long time political activist/addict, I too have seen far too many prominent political people get taken down completely. Sure there have been some kinda/sorta brand name politicians who paid a small price, but for the most part... BLEH!
Saw an interesting quote on a program I watched about the cartoonist Herbert Block and his long time career through many administrations. One quote he made was this... The Problem With Corruption Is The Ignorance With Corruption! Also said something I've known for so very long. Keeping up with current events is hard work and too many people don't take the time to keep informed. NOW, more than ever, we've become a nation that simply accepts the fact that we can't change it. So much apathy about the really important things, but when the stupid stuff like Justin Beeber and all things of this nature, people become SUPER animated!
A sad reflection on what a once great country has become!
JMHO
2banon
(7,321 posts)but I have never ever seen him perform either as a musician (?) or an actor (?)
LOL!
Nor do I care to. Not ever. Not even in a clip. I refuse to "click" on any of that crap.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...for my next band name!!!
- K&R
''Of course I totally believe the governor had nothing to do with this, and if he did it was probably because of demonic possession. Now ordinarily help people get rid of those boogers, buuuttt when Christie tanks its just me, Jeb and Sarah.......''
elfin
(6,262 posts)With his single remark about when Christie knew with no specificity of the type of "proof."
For CC to go ballistic and go back to his glory years at High School over this one unproven as yet remark is very revealing.
He is a wounded bull and his lawyers have their work cut out for them to keep him penned up and out of more serious trouble.
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)kind of bored so I got online and watched Disrupt with Karen Finney and during one of her segments on this fiasco she had a loop of video from the Super Bowl event in NYC where CC was booed. It was very telling, even without the sound or booing part. I showed him sort of pacing on the stage, alone in the crowd. Cuomo walked right in from of him (back toward CC while waving to the crowd) when leaving the stage, whatshername the Ariz. gov. was waving and greeting many others while walking right up in front of CC and acted like she didn't notice him but suddenly greeted him and quickly moved on. He had this very dejected look about him, like a bully who was waiting for his sentence outside the principal's office. But there was also a tinge of him considering how to get revenge for the public humiliation he was suffering at the moment when nobody would be looking... must be his defense mechanism. He was obviously troubled to be humiliated in front of all those people and cameras and peers.
His house of cards is falling, he's political poison to all the rest of the republitards and they were letting him know it yesterday.
malaise
(269,257 posts)Next!!!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)where he was the keynote speaker. That angry, yelling, hate-driven, bullying speech was just an incredible turn-off. I want a leader, who creates and promotes peace.
Spazito
(50,565 posts)'I knew nothing about the email, not in it's planning or execution. I am embarrassed and humiliated. I have fired (fill in the name of the rogue employee) immediately after finding out about this from the media.'
shenmue
(38,506 posts)That will be a joyous day.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Wildstein chewed gum in school too. And when he was done with it, he stuck it under his desk.