Well, to borrow a phrase from that much revered Republican, Ronald Reagan: Chris, "there you go again."
As part of his drive to achieve gravitas, in the space of less than two months Christie has delivered widely reported addresses to such august bodies as the American Enterprise Institute, Harvard School of Education, and on May 21 a speech at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School (when the students had departed for the summer).
But after the hurried press coverage has already been printed in the daily papers, and when the full transcript has become public, closer analysis seems to indicate that many of Christie's quotable "facts" are actually devoid of substance.
Consider this from MyCentralJersey.com regarding some of Christie's liberties with the truth during his speech at Princeton:
Then Christie added in a section about the state’s job picture, he got tripped up at multiple turns on the details — misstating the number of months in a row the state has added private sector jobs, overstating that growth, ignoring that government jobs have nudged up in recent months and dramatically understating the overall size of the public sector payroll.
Most noticeably, Christie said New Jersey has the most public workers per capita in the country, when two-thirds of states actually have more.Exactly who does Christie think he is? Does he think that if he tells Big Lies enough times, people will ignore the facts and accept his outright manipulations of information? [I won't call them lies...but some would]
For a good chronology and analysis of Christie's gubernatorial career-- and presidential protestations-- take a look at the New York Times.
