Again, Christie Does What Obama Won’t

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Christie TV

The million dollar question: is it helping? Or hurting?

Governor Christie has now apologized more for Bridgegate than Richard Nixon did for Watergate, Bill Clinton apologized for perjury, Jon Corzine did for losing thousands of New Jerseyans’ (and farmers’) investments, Jim McGreevey for being a scumbag, and Barack Obama for… well, everything that’s happened since January 2009. Take your pick!

And yet there’s absolutely no let up in sight.

Christie voluntarily subjected himself to another televised mea culpa on Thursday night during a taped sit-down with confirmed liberal Diane Sawyer:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXV9XOVes2s

I said it on January 9th following the epic 2+ hour Christie presser and I’ll say it again today, Save Jerseyans: when did Barack Obama ever do any of this? Even his infamous admission that we couldn’t, in fact, “keep our doctors” if we wanted them passed unaccompanied by an apology.

If anything, I’m wondering if Governor Christie is making a mistake by helping the media keep the Bridgegate ball in the air. He’s the one who reportedly chastised his staff in December 2013 for forgetting how “[t]he spotlight can turn to a searchlight  real quick.”

He may be encouraging the spotlights’ gaze by behaving as if he personal appeals will drawn down the heat. It’s having the opposite effect thus far if recent public polling is any indication. Diane Sawyer and her colleagues aren’t exactly bummed over it.

 

 

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1 Comment

  1. so what? seriously, why should he be applauded for this? especially when he not only refused to look into himself when it happened, but he arrogantly dismissed reporters who asked and even mocked the situation. he didn’t just passively ignore it, he actively ignored it, he went out of his way to do so. that isn’t leadership. apologizing is meaningless if its not sincere and he appears to only be sorry he got caught up in this. heres a big clue: if you say sorry but didn’t learn anything then its pointless. he hasn’t said “I should have been more in carol. I should have take action sooner to find out the truth” that would tell me he realizes his own stewardship was failing” but he hasn’t done there. so to me its meaningless

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