CNN Builds Bridge And Then Carries Christie's Water Across For Public Consumption

[Fred Sanders]

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CNN's Candy Crowley defends Christie's Sandy shakedown to Hoboken Mayor: Winner gets 'the spoils'

Chief CNN Sunday news propagandist Crowley admitted that she had gotten talking points from Christie's office, but pressed on without apology, correction or even awareness for stuff like this-

"They said, when you look across the state of New Jersey, all of these places were hurting and needed more money at that point," she explained. "That $70 million out of a $300 million pot at that point is pretty good, it's almost a third of the funds.", Crowley parroted.

Mayor Zimmer chuckled as she pointed out that Christie was "taking credit" for $70 million in flood insurance that local residents had paid for with monthly premiums for years. Touche, Madame Mayor, that one left Crowley fluttering her false lashes in earnest.

P.s.: Not to mention that Jeff Zucker must be doubling the salaries of the lawyers tasked with finding a loophole in Candy's contract so they can terminate her as cheaply as possible.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/crowley-defends-christies-sandy-shakedown

[Populist_Prole]

1. They're just as bad as Fox but with a thin veneer of mainstream credibility

Several people I know, 2 of them my best friends, have moved sharply to the right the last 5-6 years and they are absolute CNN junkies. You see it eveywhere in public, and of course in their homes and it's easy to see how unread mentally lazy types can lap this up readily. Its slick, rapid-fire editing style, use of underlined bombast in their "he said/she said" horse-race style of framing current events, and the overal impression of the reporting being anything other than in-depth. This results in misinformed, or rather under informed people that nevertheless have very strong opinions about an issue du-jour.

The curious thing is that Fox news isn't even on their radar. They know of its existance but remain very loyal to CNN.

[Fred Sanders]

7. I remained hopefull loyal to CNN until Zuker went all in with propaganda and infotainment policy.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Where is the surprise?

Of course they're going to try to justify their overreaches. The question is, why is everyone buying it?

They're crooks. To be able to lead without abusing your power requires integrity and altruism. Neither exists in a capitalist system.

[Fred Sanders]

11. They ARE trying to justify corruption, that is the awesome evil of the Christie and CNN defence of

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using political power for political and personal financial gain, paid for by others.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. So we should just stop fooling ourselves that we're a country of laws.

That's a convenient conscience tweaking tool when they're trying to stop ordinary people from breaking rules they break all the time.

[deafskeptic]

3. CNN used to be a good site. I rarely used their web site after its sharp turn to the right n/t

[Cha]

4. candy fuking crowley gets it wrong.. it was $350,000. Which crowley would know if she

bothered to be a newsperson instead of a mediawhorehack.

"Zimmer told Kornacki that she requested about $127 million in Sandy relief aid. She has only received less than $350,000 in aid — less than 1% of what she requested. Hoboken was one of the hardest-hit areas by Sandy, with more than 80% of the city underwater at one point."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dawn-zimmer-christie-sandy-funds-hoboken-bridgegate-gwb-bridge-2014-1#ixzz2qsmUrt5y

"winner gets the spoils".. so the winner is who can kiss crispy's fat ass the best? And, yes I said "fat".

[Fred Sanders]

8. She purposely or ignorantly, same thing, conflated the private flood insurance money with the

government Sandy relief emergency funding, repeating the identical Christie conflagration.....the blank stare she gave when shown the error of her thinking was a silent tell.

[Cha]

9. Not something a news reporter like Rachel or Kornacki

would do.

Thanks for going into enemy territory so we don't have to, Fred.

[LuvLoogie]

5. Both CCs are full of shit.

23% is "almost" 33%?!?!?!? Whatever. MSM sux...

[stg81]

6. You mean the "winner " who won by shakedowns? Not much of a worthy winner in my book.

[DallasNE]

10. Candy Crowley, Go Tell Boehner That "Winner Gets 'The Spoils'"

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Or is it your view that this only applies to Republicans.

Another way of saying the same thing is "might makes right", "my way or the highway", etc. In fact, that attitude is at the heart of many of the problems we face today -- witness the growing gap between the filthy rich and everybody else. The statement is highly repugnant.

Another Christie apologist said that what Mayor Zimmer has said just shows "juice" at work in getting things done. In other words, let nothing stand in the way of the super wealthy ripping off ordinary Americans. Nothing to see here!

[El_Johns]

12. Candy Crowley is such a tool.

[Crowman1979]

13. It's all about access, not journalism.

God forbid if CNN was unable to get a one-on-one interview with Governor Paul Blart...I mean Chris Christie.

[sulphurdunn]

15. I can almost admire

sophisticated spin and a good political hatchet job, but this was crude and pathetic, coming from a media whore making a 6 digit salary, one would expect better.

[Bradical79]

16. lol, seriously

So much for "you get what you pay for."

[The Wizard]

17. She's been a Repube hack for years

And CNN is really just background noise and Pox propaganda in a cheap disguise. Remember when she tried to save Romney any further embarrassment in the debate. Normal people don't pay attention to Republican propaganda. CNN, Pox, Pravda, TAAS, Izvestia, all the same.

[tabasco]

18. Crowley is a vile propagandist with no ethics

Turn off the corporate telescreens!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. It ends with "More on ALL of this with our panel after a moment"

Let me guess, a bunch of conservatives mocking the mayor and calling her a liar.

I wonder if any of them are claiming Obama called her and told her to do this.