Chris Christie blasts MSNBC as "partisan" and "openly hostile"

[ProSense]

Chris Christie blasts MSNBC as "partisan" and "openly hostile"

by Greg Dworkin.

Late today, and following this AM's MSNBC Up with Steve Kornacki show that alleged political gamesmanship in Hoboken with Sandy funds, Chris Christie's office released a statement attacking the network and the Hoboken mayor:

“MSNBC is a partisan network that has been openly hostile to Governor Christie and almost gleeful in their efforts attacking him, even taking the unprecedented step of producing and airing a nearly three-minute attack ad against him this week. Governor Christie and his entire administration have been helping Hoboken get the help they need after Sandy, with the city already having been approved for nearly $70 million dollars in federal aid and is targeted to get even more when the Obama Administration approves the next rounds of funding. The Governor and Mayor Zimmer have had a productive relationship, with Mayor Zimmer even recently saying she’s ‘very glad’ he’s been our Governor. It’s very clear partisan politics are at play here as Democratic mayors with a political axe to grind come out of the woodwork and try to get their faces on television.”

Colin Reed, Christie's spokesperson who issued the statement, is under subpoena from the NJ Assembly about the tie-up in Fort Lee at the George Washington bridge.

Meanwhile, this is twitter reaction to the morning's revelations:

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Further, this is Tom Moran in the (non-MSNBC) NJ Star-Ledger:

This one is beyond ugly. Because in the end, Zimmer did get shorted. Hoboken got $342,000, a pittance for a town that was 80 percent under water after the October 2012 storm. She had requested $127 million.

This is a credible charge. Zimmer is describing the same kind of thuggish behavior from the Christie administration that we saw during Bridgegate.

But this one cuts deeper. Leaving people stranded in horrid traffic for four days is bad enough. But denying aid to victims of Sandy as a means of leverage against an elected official is simply revolting. And surely illegal.

Time for U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman to jump on this. And the Legislature should ramp up an investigation as well.

More to come, and note those subpoenas and responses will be slow developers.

But things are heating up. And it's not at all certain or clear that the Governor's staff, under subpoena and under pressure, is up to the task.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/18/1270743/-Chris-Christie-blasts-MSNBC-as-partisan-and-openly-hostile

Trenton, We Have a Problem
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024352609

[warrior1]

1. This has got them scared

[BeyondGeography]

2. That is the whelp of a beaten cur

As Ban Johnson once said.

[dlwickham]

3. couldn't happen to a nicer bully

[Whisp]

4. O'Donnel will skewer him, even more...

I like the way Lawrence bites.

[lindysalsagal]

5. amazing, considering the avelanch of evidence that is about to fall on his head

It's amost as if MSNBC created these witnesses out of thin air, and put the words and evidence in their mouths.
Mean old MSNBC picking on wittew Chrissy. Amazing.

[DUgosh]

6. Oh boo hoo

N/t

[Cleita]

7. Let me play my tiny violin for him.

Hope M$NBC has upped security for Rachel, Chris and Steve, especially.

[treestar]

30. Part of the orchestra

[Spazito]

8. When you can't attack the message you attack the messenger...

as Christie's spokesperson has done regarding both the Mayor of Hoboken and MSNBC. This is their second statement, this one being quite hysterical in it's tone. I sense some panic in the Governor's office, lol.

[flamingdem]

15. They'd be better off staying silent!

Major clownery going on with these comments.

[Spazito]

19. It is fascinating to see how they are disintegrating further and further...

with each new revelation. Their responses are clearly those of an organization in full blown panic, making the case FOR the revelations by their ludicrous denials.

[flamingdem]

20. Have they learned nothing from Republican history?

Nixon? Others who ended up in jail or investigated? Guess they were too sure of themselves to realize that their lucrative house of cards would fall ... all that talk about Christie for President made them feel entitled.

Someone mentioned it was good Obama shelled out so much to NJ, three billion or something, just so we could see what he'd do with it!

[Spazito]

25. There certainly is a tremendous sense of entitlement emanating from Christie and...

his inner circle which has resulted in both carelessness and hubris, one example being e-mails by Kelly and Wildstein as well as the responses so far.

I don't think there was an underlying agenda in President Obama's beyond trying to help the citizens of New Jersey recover from Sandy, imo. Christie is the one with the underlying agenda in how and to whom he disperses those funds.

[treestar]

29. Cleverly said on another thread

Christie is headed down Nixon Avenue.

[aquart]

39. First, NJ needed that money.

What is criminal is how many families and businesses in need didn't get it.

I'd like to know how aid distribution is going in NY, too.

[flamingdem]

41. I hope this breaks wide open into a detailed investigation about the money

and that money and the families and businesses suffering is the Big Story here!

[countingbluecars]

9. He doesn't seem to have

a problem with MSNBC when Joe and Mika are fawning all over him.

[Lifelong Protester]

10. Oh, sure, I bet NOW they are helping

any and everyone in excahnge for a positive photo op or a kind word.


Tough, pal.

[Gothmog]

11. Christie is too thin skin to be POTUS

Christie's reaction to this story demonstrates why he never be POTUS

[mucifer]

13. His whining will only help their ratings!

[Jamaal510]

14. And CC is openly an incompetent dick.

"When all else fails, blame the refs, especially MSNBC."

[Rex]

16. Awww...CC gots a sadz!

[dorkzilla]

17. Joe and Mika should resign in protest!!! How dare they!!!

I think that would be the honorable thing for Joe and Mika to do, don't you?

[UTUSN]

26. Exactly. They simulate a menage a trois hosting him and Mika calls him her "friend". n/t

[dorkzilla]

31. AAAAAH UNSEE UNSEEEEEEEEEE

Christie+menage a trois=

[UTUSN]

33. & Joe Scabs is better?!1 (We'll suspend on Mika) n/t

[dorkzilla]

34. oh heeeeellll no, but compared with Christie, Joe is a Greek God

ew ew ew ew ew ew ew.

They would not be on my list of participants in a fantasy threesome…

These two, however, would be:



Brian Cox, Astrophysicist and



Michael Woods, Historian

A nerdy girl can dream, can't she??

[monmouth3]

18. I wonder if Joe and Mika will say anything about this since they have been carrying his water

since this all happened. They should be furious but I bet they'll stick up for him. We'll see....

[flamingdem]

21. I might get up very early Monday

just to see that!

[CTyankee]

36. Mika now has "problems" with CC. Joe is in denial.

The show will be interesting on Monday morning. Joe will want to spout repug talking points, Mika will frown and attempt to speak. It will go on as it always does...

[hrmjustin]

22. I love how in his statement Christie says the two of them have a great relationship and she has an

axe to grind.

[SummerSnow]

23. Well you know whats going to happen...

MSNBC will be off the air soon in New Jersey. Thats how Christie does.

[Cha]

24. Sounds like it's high time to call the Wahwambulance! Wah Wah Wah.. :sucks on

pacifier:. but could it have gotten through on the GWB when Christie's flunkies closed down the Lanes?!!





I'll say Trenton does have a problem when it's time for Christie to lash at Rachel and the gang!

Thanks Pro

[mucifer]

27. So he's saying the mayor lied about not getting the funding? I'm confused.

[Spazito]

32. Notice the wording in the statement...

it says "approved" and not 'in receipt of' which means Hoboken hasn't received the millions. Another thing to watch for is how much of those millions are not going to come from the funds Christie has control of but, instead, from another federal source.

The statement is intentionally misleading which is no surprise.

[sheshe2]

28. This thing has a great pair of legs...

and she do run run!

Thanks ProSense, I am loving this!

[ProSense]

35. LOL! n/t

[aquart]

40. It's a Rockette.

Hell, by the time it's done it'll be the whole Radio City Music Hall chorus line!

[spanone]

37. his 'team' i.e. republiclowns would never do such a thing....n.e.v.e.r.

[Prophet 451]

38. i.e. the one news channel....

...that ISN'T in the pocket of Republicans. C'mon, we know the GOP SOP, anyone not actively supporting them is a hostile liberal media.

[JaneyVee]

42. It's happening.

[malaise]

43. Yes Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe Scum is a partisan

a ReTHUG partisan - the only politician on M$NBComcast with his own show.
And he and Mika have been defending Christie big time.

Let them attack - the investigations have just begun.