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Megyn Kelly For Chris Christie’s Defense – Again!

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on February 01, 2014 · Flag

There was big news about Gov. Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal yesterday. The guy who was in charge of the George Washington Bridge the day the lanes closed says he has evidence Christie knew about it. You may recall that Christie adamantly denied knowing about the closures and blamed them on rogue employees.

The New York Times reports:

A lawyer for the former official, David Wildstein, wrote a letter describing the move to shut the lanes as “the Christie administration’s order” and said “evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference” three weeks ago.

During his news conference, Mr. Christie specifically said he had no knowledge that traffic lanes leading to the bridge had been closed until after they were reopened. “I had no knowledge of this — of the planning, the execution or anything about it — and that I first found out about it after it was over,” he said. “And even then, what I was told was that it was a traffic study.”

OK, we don’t know exactly what evidence Wildstein has or what it shows Christie exactly knowing. But we do know that Christie has emphatically denied knowing about the Bridgegate lane closures until they had been reopened. And we also know that recent reporting by the Times cast doubt on Christie’s “rogue employee” claim.

On last night's Kelly File, Megyn Kelly started the Christie defending right in her introduction. She read the “evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie…” letter excerpt and said,“Now right now, that’s, like, just waving over you, right? It’s like what? Huh? ...What does that mean?”

Kelly squinted her eyes in cynical disapproval: If it meant Christie “knew,” she continued,  “Then why don’t you just say he knew? That’s not what the letter says.” Actually, it is what the letter says. What it doesn’t say is whether it means Christie knew that the lanes had been closed out of political retribution.

Kelly sneered, “The breathlessness… of this and the way that they ran to say, 'He’s caught, he lied! He lied about what he knew!'”

It’s hilariously ironic for Kelly to complain about anyone else’s breathlessness or premature judgment. This is the woman who seemed close to hysteria when a Democratic guest put up a spirited defense of ObamaCare.  She’s also the news host who disregarded reasons to suspect an anti-Wendy Davis video and was more intent on attacking Davis in a subsequent interview than Davis’ opponent was.

To her credit, Kelly did challenge her Republican guest, Steve Lonegan, when he argued that everybody knew the lanes had been closed. She noted that the letter contradicted Christie’s timeline of knowledge.

However, Democrat Steve Leser pointed out that Christie said he had not known about the lane closures until an email by Port Authority Executive Director (and Andrew Cuomo appointee) Patrick Foye. Although Leser said Christie said so in his January 9th news conference, I found it in his December 13th news conference:

“The first I ever heard about the issue was when it was reported in the press, which I think was in the aftermath of the leaking of Mr. Foye’s email. I think that was the first I heard of it, but it was certainly well after the whole thing was over before I heard about it.”

Of course, this could turn out to be nothing. But as I wrote in my post on the subject in Addicting Info, this is just the latest revelation in a series of damaging reports that have drip, drip, dripped into the media about Christie since the Bridgegate scandal broke. The trickle includes reports by the mayor of Hoboken, NJ and by athlete Carl Lewis of other threatening behavior by Christie.

But, of course, Kelly didn't go into any of that. When Leser started to explain (he even used the same "drip, drip, drip" language) that other things have come out to discredit and disprove what Christie said in his press conference, Kelly swatted it aside. She interrupted to say, "But I am looking for that in this particular allegations tonight... and I don't see it." She disregarded the fact that Leser had just told her where to look. And then she turned to Republican Lonegan.

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Bob Peel commented 2014-02-03 18:21:43 -0500 · Flag
You idiots are too stupid to realize that this wasn’t a defense of christie. It was an indictment on the liberal news. You guys can’t handle just one news network offering an alternative opinion can you? Every other news organization is biased toward liberals according to a Harvard study. You do not like opposing views do you liberals? I need to stop calling you liberal because that is a good thing. You are communist. You are a fox in sheep’s clothing.
truman commented 2014-02-02 11:57:07 -0500 · Flag
If Skanky Megyn was my criminal defense attorney, I would plead guilty and hope the court showed mercy.
Barbara S commented 2014-02-01 15:33:58 -0500 · Flag
Lonegan is a Koch Bros. toadie. He used to head the NJ chapter of Koch’s “Americans for Prosperity”- I guess he had to give it up when he ran for Senate.
mlp ! commented 2014-02-01 15:24:13 -0500 · Flag
It won’t be long before Fox, too, throws Christie to the dogs. He may end up being sainted as a martyr, but there’s too much dirt for him to ever get the nomination. Fox needs a president….not a martyr.
Joe Marsh commented 2014-02-01 14:09:50 -0500 · Flag
Lonegan is one of those far-out, fringe wingnut wackos — why anyone would want him around I don’t understand.

I’m surprised she didn’t invite one of Fatso’s better known defenders, former Mayor Rudy “two nouns, a verb and ‘Benghazi’” Giuliani. But even Rudy has been expressing some doubt (though he walked that back the next day; see http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/01/8539594/giuliani-fifty-fifty-whether-christie-knew-bridge-orders-updated)

Not that it matters much what I think, but I predicted weeks ago that Christie is finished. He will not finish his term as governor, let alone be considered for president, or even dog catcher — can you imagine a poor pooch being chased by all that jiggling blubber?
Barbara S commented 2014-02-01 11:55:38 -0500 · Flag
Christie is lying. Baroni and Wildstein, 2 top Port Authority appointees in high paying jobs, abruptly "resigned’ in early December 2013. Wouldn’t the Governor have asked questions when that happened? My guess is that Christie knew all about what happened in Fort Lee. When it became news, he fired these 2, hoping that would be the end of it.
NewsHounds posted about Megyn Kelly For Chris Christie’s Defense – Again! on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2014-02-01 10:00:07 -0500
Kelly did her best to make you think the latest revelation is no big deal.
truman commented 2014-02-01 09:14:23 -0500 · Flag
To borrow a phrase from Watergate, what did Governor Crispy Cream know and when did he know it? When the answer is known, Crispy will resign or be impeached. Despite the vigorous defense of Skanky Megyn and the Fux Noise legal team.








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