Chris Christie: Media Should Apologize to Me for Bridge-Gate

Chris Christie: Media Should Apologize To Me For Bridgegate (RealClearPolitics)

A "Morning Joe" panelist asked N.J. Gov. Chris Christie a question this morning about the cultural attitudes which existed in the state government when "Bridgegate" happened. Was Christie's office the sort of place where "the subliminal message is we will do whatever it takes... even if that means shutting down bridges"?

Gov. Christie responds that that sort of thinking is "the refuge" for people who are disappointed to discover he didn't do anything wrong. In fact, Christie suggests that the media should feel "sorry for having prejudged this."

If it were a cultural thing, native to the Garden State, or even to Christie himself, says the governor, "there would have been a lot of these incidents." The past twenty years of New Jersey state government history could support either side of that argument.