Gov. Christie Lashes Out At Media

CBS Philly ^ | 11/10/12 | staff writer

[NotchJohnson]

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (CBS) – New Jersey governor Chris Christie lashed out at the media during a news conference Friday afternoon over “careless reporting” in the aftermath of Sandy.

After being asked a question about a price gouging lawsuit concerning Bergen County, the governor began his answer by saying, “I want to be clear on this because you guys are starting to really misreport things. We were not part of the lawsuit.”

Christie then referenced an article that was posted by a business news institution earlier in the week claiming the governor called the President to congratulate him and only emailed Romney.

“Bloomberg had some incredibly careless reporting yesterday, saying that I called the president yesterday to congratulate him on his victory — absolutely careless, awful reporting,” said Christie. “Listen guys, people take the stuff you write seriously and I try to speak with real precision behind this microphone. So don’t report that I called the president when I didn’t; the president called me.”

Christie set the record straight saying President Obama calls him every day and at the start of the call in question he did congratulated him and moved on to discuss the situation at hand.

[denydenydeny]

I hate the Democrat Party with a passion but I will cheer the election of Governor Booker next year.

[Wuli]

“Do all governors speak with Obama everyday? He sounds like he is chummy with Obama.”

Some Conservatives make idiotic questions/statements sometime, expecting someone, like a governor, to use every offical act as governor as an opportunity for political partisanship, instead of just doing their job.

So, in response to your idiotic question: Do all governors have an ongoing disaster resonse effort going on which they are attempting to operate with very good local, state and federal cooperation?

full disclosure - I live in New Jersey and I’m no Christie fan. Yet, just because he is not Conservative enough for me, I don’t need to make political mountains out of molehills, nor do I think he would be more Conservative or more effective as Governor if he channeled Conservative partisanship between himself and others in government at every opportunity for no other reason than to be partisan. That’s not good government, nor is it what a statesman like Ronald Reagan would have done, as he did not do, when he was a Governor.

I will attack every Christie policy, legislative goal or official act that I don’t think is a good Conservative approach. I have no need to pretend non-partisan behavior in his performance of intergovernmental relations is a failure because it does not “oppose” Obama, in actions where he and Obama are doing no more than what I would expect any governor and President to be doing under the circumstances.

attack Christie on substance, when there is substance, and get off of this silly stuff driven by idiot pundits trying to make a media name for themselves

[hawaiianninja]

...don’t report that I called the president when I didn’t; the president called me.

Too late for that now! You've been used big (literally) time!