Governator 2

At first I gave very little thought to yet one more bully tactic by a man who thrives on being the bad ass Gov of New Jersey and honestly has succeeded as being the Governor who takes no shit. California had the Governator, an Austrian movie hero turned American.(His accent was so cute).  He was not going to listen to the harangues of just anyone he deemed a fool and he flew to popular heights in a matter of warp speed. PR, acting and performance were a key to his upward mobility. Schwarzenegger  was a tough talking Governator who danced with wolves, chided citizens and bullied his way to the top. He was supposedly unstoppable until  his ego located between his pants was found to be a player. So when ‘I take no prisoners’ Christie was accused of political retribution by closing lanes to the most populated bridge in America, I just sat back and thought go prove it wasn’t him. His ego, just like the Governator of California was big, but I thought Christie was smarter and more of a cover up artist. Christie although never in a movie acts just like another former Governator of California and he knows just how to look you in the eye and have you believe he is for real.

Then here was Christie in a 2 hour made of TV movie, scripted by some crafty Republican talking heads agency throwing a few vague sounding mea culpa’s, feigning ignorance of any of his top aides behaviors, and facing the camera telling us just how sorry he was for someone else's mistakes and how embarrassed he was for their actions. He told us in oh so many  iterations that he was not a criminal, not guilty and of course as saddened by the disastrous events as you and I. If you had never seen this man mug for the camera before, heard his I am the Governor for all New Jersyians (except if you are LGBT then you should not get married), looked as his empty (fuck I hate this moment in my life eyes) you might actually believe his innocence. After all this is America and until all the facts are presented (even though 50% of the facts have been redacted), the correct thing is to agree he is innocent. Remember when Nixon told us he is not a crook.

But almost to the minute after the New Jersey Governator proclaimed he was innocent, that this was just a bunch of his political foes inciting trouble, FOX News got on the air for follow up. It seemed FOX could not wait to call upon their newly hired reality stars, their past hires of reality stars, their brain washed entertainers and their millionaire (but I am a common man like you) jokesters to set the record straight. One by one, these insects of bigotry, hate, loathing and lies commented on Christie’s performance at his news conference. They spoke of him as if the Governator was to be considered for an Oscar in best acting. (In fact it did seem like an act listening to the Governator.) And then it dawned on me, once you have the entire propaganda team at FOX tell its viewers that Christie is innocent, a victim himself I knew that he WAS guilty. If you have ever found the time and patience to watch FOX News you will know immediately that anything they insist and insist and bemoan and bemoan is fact is fiction. (It’s like deciding which side of argument to take until Sarah Palin takes a side and then you know which side not to take). If you have all the FOX fools and friends subscribing not to what the Governator said but how he said it then you know if it smells like bad fish it is more then fishy it is rotten.

At first I thought this is a New Jersey affair, the citizens elected this man found his folly fine his bullying full of bravado, his hypocrisy helpful. But then I realized that this New Jersey Governator has aspirations to become the President, not just of New Jersey but of California where I live. No thank you I said. Guilty or not of Bridge-gate (love how we simplify graft and illegalities), this man has demonstrated a lack of character and I certainly don’t want that disease spreading across this nation once again. As another performer ex-president once said fool me once and okay, fool me twice… but then it was George Bush and he was sure able too fool this nation a whole lot more.