Christie won't blame the media, except when he will
Two weeks ago, asked about the controversy over Mitt Romney's 47 percent remark, Gov. Christie offered a defense in a radio interview that went after the press: "Some people in the media should just turn in their media credential and get an Obama For President credential the way they focus on things that people said back last May." But yesterday, on ABC's This Week, Christie said media bias shouldn't be an issue: "I'm not going to sit here and complain about coverage in a campaign because as a candidate if you do that, you're losing."
Christie won't blame the media, except when he will
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
Two weeks ago, asked about the controversy over Mitt Romney's 47 percent remark, Gov. Christie offered a defense in a radio interview that went after the press:
But yesterday, on ABC's This Week, Christie said media bias shouldn't be an issue:
Despite that warning, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan complained about media bias yesterday.
And, it turns out, so did Christie. At almost at the same-exact time (thanks to the wonders of taped interviews) that he was shown saying he wouldn't complain about the media, Christie was on Meet The Press complaining about the media. When pressed on specifics about the Romney economic plan, he told host David Gregory:
“I wish you guys were just as tough on the president.”
(Also last week, by the way, Christie said New Jersey Democrats are being supported by "their handmaidens in the press.")
It's not the media's fault this group of buffoons masquerading as a political party is so easy to make fun of. Stop being so friggin hypocritical and, quite honestly, stupid with these decisions and "policy" planks you morons are concocting. When you pander to idiots and hang around with that "base" you've assembled, you open yourself up to ridicule.— CiceroSpuriousDeodatusTheSecond- Republican and Hypocrite are synonyms. These days facts have a "liberal bias". The Republicans are just making themselves look like idiots clinging to blatant lies about Obama, bizarre conspiracy theories against global warming, failed "trickle down" economic policies, and blatantly racist "dog whistle" platforms.— Pelti
Comment removed.- gotta love the false equivalency !
a fine deflection tactic !— djgq42 - Its so easy to find media bias these days because the liberal media takes a "who cares" approach. They have the left in such huge blinders that they can't see anything except what Media Matter puts before them. One needs only to look over the various comments on Philly.com to see how the Media Matters machine is twisting the way the liberal world view. Its more laughable than pathetic.— psyrus
- There is no liberal bias. Wake up. There's the truth, and then there's what the RepubliCons want you to believe and spew from their FOXed up network.
- "It's not the media's fault this group of buffoons masquerading as a political party is so easy to make fun of"
Are you in total denial, you need a brain check...JOE BIDEN that's JOE BIDEN...the biggest fool and easiest to make fun of...except the Lib media, as always, ignores it!!! Love how they went after Palin..ignore 'Ol Joe...some actor is being denied the chance of a lifetime because they never cover the idiot, racist, bafone VP...and he's a heartbeat away!!!! LYING LIBS...AS ALWAYS...— sarah89 - You're absolutely insane, you know that? Biden is parodied on SNL, the late night talk shows, etc. He was dragged through the wringer during the 2008 Democratic debates. Do you ever even bother to try to fire up those few little brain cells in your skull before you post your nonsense?
If you think nobody makes fun of Joe Biden you should go to www.theonion.com and just put his name in the search box. Then you actually will have a reason to LOL, you hyena.— 1980 - "Two weeks ago, asked about the controversy over Mitt Romney's 47 percent remark"
Q: WHY WAS THERE NEVER A "CONTROVERSY" ABOUT THE "BITTER, CLINGING TO GUNS AND GOD" REMARK BY BARRY???..EXACT SAME TYPE OF VENUE AND SITUATION AND JUST THE SAME TYPE OF REMARK???
A: LIB MEDIA
Q:DO THESE LIBS HAVE BRAINS??
NO F***IN' WAY!!! LOL!!!— sarah89 - actually it was a huge controversy at the time. might i suggest that you do not let your partisanship make you sound like a moron ? and btw, biden is the VP, not the potus. not any better or worse than dan quayle. who gives a sh*t what he has to say ? — djgq42
- You dolt, it was a HUGE controversy and it was at the front of every network's and newspaper's election coverage for days after the remark was made (weeks if you count Fox). Honestly, I'm amazed that you can marshall enough brainpower to breathe on your own. — 1980
- Call me what you will, but it was still an a curate comment. In western Pennsylvania, during tough times, people do gravitate towards god and guns. If you've ever been there, you'd know it. Nobody out there was really offended. He didn't call them lazy, he just said they like their guns. You can keep trying to paint President Obama with the same Romney brush, but the truth is that Mitt the Twit is extremely out of touch.
- Christie Chronicles, ok I get it, coming from a one sided view point in a one party town. So mayor Nutter who's only accomplishment is to show up a homocide locations with teddy bears gets a pass. Mogadishu on the river is a common phrase to describe Philadelphia and no one gets it.— Tommy33
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