. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : DISASTERS: HURRICANES : UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW JERSEY : POLITICAL: PARTISANSHIP: New Jersey Strong . . New Jersey StrongCan Chris Christie endure his scandals by turning against media that cover them?
By David Weigel Slate January 21 2014 7:46 PM http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/01/chris_ christie_s_popularity_and_the_media_the_new_jersey_governor_s_ties.html . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/mxotw5s . .Just who were these mysterious pundits cramming Christie into a red box? The ones who marveled at his approval numbers among Democrats? The ones who told Republicans to copy Christie if they wanted to save their party? MSNBCs Mika Brzezinski, who got a 15-minute phone call from Christie after his two-hour Bridgeghazi press conference?
.Well, not her, but were on to something with that MSNBC bit. In the last 72-odd hours, the biggest development in the unending Christie drama has been the governors turn against the cable network. (Disclosure: I often appear on MSNBC and in fact appeared on it on Tuesday to discuss Christie.) Over the weekend, MSNBCs Steve Kornacki, a network host and reporter with fracker-deep roots in New Jersey, interviewed Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and backed up her story that the governor had withheld some Hurricane Sandy relief money until a development he wanted was approved.
.The governors office responded with a lengthy, footnoted statement, the kind thats usually issued during a presidential campaign. MSNBC is a partisan network that has been openly hostile to Governor Christie, said spokesman Colin Reed, 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. The spoof ad appeared on Lawrence ODonnells show, not Kornackis, but that was almost beside the pointthe statement also shamed MSNBC for coverage by Rachel Maddow (offered a purely speculative theory) and Chris Matthews (comparing Governor Christie to Nixon).
.The New York Times called this a scene from a messy divorce. But what choice did Christies office have? If hes going to run for president, the next voters hell have to impress are Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Right now, maybe, theyre hearing only the worst about Christie. The bridge story is all they know about his tenure, said former South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson. But what will they think in a year, when he (probably) declares, or in two years, when they vote? Thats plenty of time for Christie to look like the victim of a scandal-crazed media that wants to create and cover a Clinton Restoration.
. snip .I dont think it will be possible for the man that almost singularly ensured Obummers re-election to generate conservative sympathy via shared media disdain, said Iowa conservative radio host Steve Deace. Most of the conservatives I talk to in Red State America view the GOP establishment and the liberal media as one in the sameunited against us. Now, I certainly think theres a lot of conservative enthusiasm for putting Christie and the liberal media together on the same raft for a simultaneous Viking funeral.
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