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Trump May Still Fire Mueller if Fox News Has Anything to Say About It
Today, special counsel Robert Mueller released his first indictments in the ongoing Russia scandal, beginning with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner, Rick Gates, as well as the confirmation that former Trump foreign policy adviser George ...read more
Chris Christie is Literally South Park's Eric Cartman at This Point
In the South Park episode "Cartmanland," Eric Cartman buys a theme park so he can keep everybody else out. His scheme succeeds for a while, but fails when he realizes that, to pay for park maintenance, he has to let in more people, setting off a chain reaction by which everyone ...read more
Chris Christie Naturally Tells Biggest Fattest Lie About Hillary Clinton's 2008 Campaign
The Trumpists have been trying to backstop their lie that Hillary started the birthers by saying that Patti Solis Doyle "even ADMITTED" as much when she said the campaign fired ONE VOLUNTEER who forwarded an email that WAS NOT ABOUT Obama's birthplace. Or, as fat fucking liar ...read more
Trump Appoints Ben Carson and Chris Christie to Serious Posts in Trump's Unserious Campaign
On Monday, presumptive Republican Party nominee for president Donald Trump announced that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would head the candidate's White House transition team, should Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in November. “Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable ...read more
Chris Christie and Marco Rubio Unwittingly Exposed Default Republican Position on Literally Everything
On Saturday night, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio unwittingly revealed the default Republican position on every policy ranging from healthcare to taxes and the environment. What is that response? In one word: Obama In a surprisingly brutal takedown, Chris Christie called Rubio ...read more
Here’s How Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Christie Won the Fox News Debate
It's the morning after Fox News held what has to be an unprecedented Republican primary debate that was missing the party's frontrunner, and you're going to hear a lot of analysis today making the cute claim that Donald Trump won the debate simply by virtue of the shadow his ...read more
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With 5 Dead in New Jersey, Chris Christie Makes Horrendous Gaffe About His Own State
If New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie hasn't worn out his welcome in his home state already, today may have finally done the trick. Already feeling the heat over his decision to return to New Hampshire even as his home state recovers from one ...read more
Chris Christie's Presidential Campaign is Over. Here's Why He Failed.
If current polls are any indication, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's presidential campaign appears to be on political life-support. So the question that should be asked is how did the perceived frontrunner for the republican nomination in 2013 become such a marginalized ...read more
CNN Reporter Destroys Chris Christie Over Disastrous Approval Ratings
New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential kitten-hanging-from-a-branch motivational poster Chris Christie took a beating on Sunday morning at the hands of CNN's Jake Tapper. On the morning after Christie was shamed into returning to New Jersey during one of the worst ...read more
Trump and Christie Agree: Obama Right on Gun Policy, But Is Lazy Uppity Negro
Over the weekend, President Obama announced plans to take executive action on gun policy, and met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to explore the authorities he might have at his disposal. One such action involves extending background checks to so-called "private sales," ...read more
Watch and Share Clips From the CNN Republican Debate
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
Watch All the Video Highlights From The CNBC Republican Presidential Debate
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
White People Problems: Republican Candidates Whine About Debate Greenrooms
Here's a little appetizer to get you ready for Wednesday night's third Republican presidential debate. With all the serious issues facing our nation, the Republican candidates gathered at the University of Colorado Boulder, the site of tonight's debate, to whine about their ...read more
Watch Top 31 Video 'Highlights' From the CNN Republican Debate #GOPDebate With Transcript
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
Tweet of the Day: Chris Christie's Comeback in One Chart
Congrats to Salon's Simon Maloy for this gem: This is somewhat surprising given Christie's red blooded conservative policy proposals that include locking up weed smokers and tracking immigrants like Fed Ex packages, but then he's basically running against a roided out ...read more
Chris Christie Goes Full 'Idiocracy': Track Immigrants Like We Track FedEx Packages
The blurt culture in American culture continues to metastasize as Donald Trump ascends closer and closer to the GOP presidential nomination. By the way, that lede sentence? In a better world, it should've been relegated to a satirical dystopian movie about 2015. It shouldn't be ...read more
Here Are The Craziest 19 Moments From the Republican Debate
After cramming 7 minutes of entertainment into 80 minutes of kiddie-table debate Thursday afternoon, the main event is finally here: the first official 2016 Republican presidential candidates' debate. Frontrunner Donald Trump faces off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, ...read more
GOP Death Match to Be Televised Live on Fox News
Fox News has announced the line-up for the Republican presidential debate this Thursday, and it promises to be an epic display of political savagery. Fox picked the top 10 candidates by taking the average of the five most recent national polls, then relegated the losers to a a ...read more
Chris Christie Just Lied Right to Jake Tapper's Face
Thanks to Donald Trump and Trump-fueled ridiculousness like Ted Cruz's not-machine-gun "machine gun bacon," not much attention is being paid to the second-biggest mouth in the Republican primary field. If Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has any luck at all, no one at this ...read more
Photo of the Day: Man Struggles to Compose Himself as Chris Christie Discusses Sex Life
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens when you are eating breakfast and Chris Christie decides to talk about his sex life. "I’m a Catholic, but I’ve used birth control," said Christie at a diner in New Hampshire to a group of shell shocked voters. "And not just the rhythm ...read more
Chris Christie is Addicted to Fat and Sugar but Wants to Make a Harmless Plant Illegal
It is amazing that in 2015 we are still arguing about the legality of a plant that has not killed anyone in human history and has been scientifically proven to contain borderline miraculous healing properties. However the obese, sugar and fat addicted bully-boy cum Presidential ...read more
Chris Christie Wants To Know Why Nobody Is Covering Hillary Clinton's Emails
Future former Republican presidential candidate and current New Jersey Governor Chris Christie must still think he's going to run for president (which is adorable) because he keeps making mouth-noises about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During an interview on CNBC's ...read more
The GOP Primary Clown Car Is Too Full To Drive Anywhere
Stuffing as many people into a compressed space as possible is a long, storied and stupid American tradition, from the 1950s phone booth cramming craze to the ever-declining size of airline seats. Today's Republicans are already applying the same principle to their ongoing ...read more
Chris Christie's Marijuana Crackdown Pledge Shows Just How Out of Touch He Really is
Other than an unfortunate incident that involved me accidentally ingesting half a bag of weed infused Chex Mix and going into an alternate dimension for 48 hours (a long story for another time), I've never really used Marijuana as it just doesn't do all that much for me. ...read more
White House Reacts To Chris Christie's 'Shut Up' Comments at CPAC
One of the many ways in which New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidick Chris Christie set tongues wagging at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was to try and obscure his RINO stripes with the tough-guy act that's wearing thinner than a ...read more
Imaginary Future President Chris Christie Implicated in Yet Another Corruption Case
Bridgegate, the notorious 2013 incident in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and senior administration staffers allegedly caused a three-day traffic nightmare on the George Washington Bridge as revenge against a political opponent, is still unfolding. But Christie's goose ...read more
Chris Christie Tries to Undermine President Obama on Vaccinating Children
With the anti-vaccine movement rearing its ugly head at the most magical place on Earth last week, President Obama took Sunday's pre-Super Bowl interview to make a stand on the question of whether parents should keep this whole disease eradication thing going, and in the ...read more
Donald Trump's Buffoonish and Delusional Narcissism Was In Top Form This Weekend
The GOP rush to slaughter in 2016 began in earnest this weekend at the Iowa Freedom Summit. From alleged Bridgegate conspirator Chris Christie to monosyllabic weekend cowboy Rick Perry, a bevy of unelectable candidates came to audition for the campaign season before an audience ...read more
Chris Christie: The Most Corrupt Governor in America
Now that former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has been yanked out of political circulation with his two-year prison sentence, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) can officially ascend to the post of the Most Corrupt Governor In America. Seriously, mark your calendars because Sunday's ...read more
Chris Christie Runs Into The Loving Arms Of The Pork Industry
One of the more frustrating topics we cover here is the National Rifle Association's remarkable ability to convince Republican lawmakers to routinely vote against the will of their own supporters. Most recently, the NRA has financially coerced Republicans to vote against ...read more
Republican Governor Escalates War On Quarantined Woman Who's Not a Health Risk
The saga of Nurse Kaci Hickox, the Doctors Without Borders nurse who returned from fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone a week ago only to be locked in a New Jersey quarantine tent and deported back to Maine, took some weirdly dramatic turns yesterday. Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) ...read more
Chris Christie's 10 Prickiest Moments
Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) took time out from imprisoning heroic nurses against their will to celebrate the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy by screaming at and eye-murdering a constituent in Belmar yesterday. Liberal SuperPAC American Bridge 21st Century captured the ...read more
Chris Christie Says, "My Job Is Not To Represent Her," After Sending Woman To Ebola Jail
An Ebola drama that began to play out on Friday when nurse Kaci Hickox was quarantined/imprisoned in New Jersey ended Monday with Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) letting her go under pressure from the White House, and Hickox's lawyer. Over the weekend, Hickox became a national ...read more
Here's Video Of Chris Christie Saying He's 'Tired Of Hearing About the Minimum Wage'
While he's no Mitt Romney, Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) may still have some designs on running for president in 2016, and if that happens, he's just cut the Democratic nominee's first campaign ad. While Republicans have long opposed increases to the minimum wage, they're not ...read more
The Stand Against Rand: Why the GOP Is Attacking One Of Its Own
If you want to know who has the edge right now in the unofficial race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, just take a look at who's being attacked by other presumptive candidates and party establishment types. Right now, that whipping boy is Rand Paul, who's not ...read more
Chris Christie Joins the Gun Nuts and Gives a Bizarre Explanation For Vetoing Ammo Limits
Last Wednesday, Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) vetoed a bill that would have limited ammunition magazines to a ten-round capacity, a bill that passed the duly elected New Jersey legislature in May, but which he waited until the eve of the July 4 weekend getaway day to act on. ...read more
This Drunk Entitled Brat Will Make You Want To Punch Your Screen
One of the worst types of human beings is someone who has such a grandiose sense of self-importance, they can't help but let you know about it, which is why this video is so infuriating. Here we have an entitled, douchey, drunk day-drinker, identified as 20-year-old NYU student ...read more
The Roots Play 'The Bridge Is Over' for Chris Christie On the 'Tonight Show'
Since we've entered the cigarette-break phase of the Bridgegate scandal, there hasn't been much attention paid to Gov. Chris Christie's (R-N.J.) political woes lately, but the guv's Tonight Show appearance Thursday night began with the promise of some hard-edged comedic ribbing ...read more
THE MORNING BANTER: Chris Christie Scandals, Gmail Viruses, Converse Collaborations, and American Hustle Deleted Scenes
Happy Wednesday! I got nothing...it's Wednesday. Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. The Chris Christie Scandal Just Got Worse Remember Chris Christie? Yeah, he's still in a lot of trouble. 2. There's A New Scam To Steal Your Gmail Info Warning: If you receive ...read more
THE MORNING BANTER: A Net Neutrality Threat, A Bridge Too Far, Area Code Madness, and an R-Rated Anchorman 2
Welcome back to Monday, and your return to the grind of the work-week. Here are a couple of headlines and internet goodies to get your through the day. 1. Streamlined Netflix has just struck a big deal with Comcast. It'll mean faster service for Comcast subscribers, but it may ...read more
The Lie of the Moderate Republican: The Tumbling Down of Chris Christie
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, won’t win the election for President in 2016. No matter how enthusiastic the cheerleading gets from the Morning Joe team, Chris Christie’s chances at securing the Republican nomination are severely diminished. Turns out, there’s a limit to ...read more
Jon Stewart on Chris Christie Withholding Emergency Funds: "Old School New Jersey Corruption"
Jon Stewart reacted to new accusations that Chris Christie's office used Sandy aid as political leverage last night, slamming Christie for what he called "Some old-school New Jersey corruption". In the hilarious segment, Stewart also made fun of Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer who ...read more
THE MORNING BANTER: Sandy vs. Christie, Super Bowl Bound, "Looking" Under Fire, and the Nihilist Philosophy of Snowden
Photo: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images Happy MLK day. Hopefully you're reading this from the comfort of your home, because by all accounts you should have the day off today. Regardless, here are some headlines and assorted internet nonsense to kill some time. 1. Bad to Worse The ...read more
Photo Surfaces Showing Chris Christie with David Wildstein While Lane Closures Were Underway in Fort Lee
Whoops! You might recall how, during last week's epic press conference, Chris Christie said the following about David Wildstein, one of the masterminds behind the George Washington Bridge plot: “I have had no contact with David Wildstein in a long time, a long time, well before ...read more
As New Christie Allegations Emerge, Don't Forget The Deliberate 'Civilian Casualties'
Over the weekend, a former New Jersey-based journalist named Brian Murphy appeared on Up with Steve Kornacki and postulated a reason why the Chris Christie administration orchestrated a conspiracy to close toll lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge, causing a massive ...read more
THE MORNING BANTER: The Golden Globes, A New Christie Theory, Roger Ailes Still Sucks, and the New "Game of Thrones" Season
It's Monday and so it's back to the grind with you, gerbils. Here's a couple of headlines and some assorted stuff from around the internet to get you through the day. 1. Gold Rush 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle cleaned up at last night's Golden Globes, while on the TV ...read more
Emails Indicate a Massive Cover-Up in the Christie Bridge Conspiracy
With the release of hundreds of documents by the state of New Jersey in the Chris Christie bridge scandal, the extent of the massive cover-up of the lane closures is beginning to take shape. Here's the latest, via The Washington Post: --The emails confirm that the so-called ...read more
The Bridge to Nowhere: Why Chris Christie Never had a Shot at the White House
The work environment in the airline industry is one of barely controlled chaos. On the best day, things are merely hectic. On the worst, it’s utter hell and it keeps piling up. You just have to hang on and tell yourself your shift will end at some point. They can’t keep you ...read more
A Big Piece of the Christie Bridge Conspiracy Revealed
Since the beginning of the Chris Christie bridge scandal, and especially since the release of Christie staffer emails on Wednesday, there's been a major unanswered question: How would closing the toll lanes at the George Washington Bridge possibly harm Fort Lee Mayor Mark ...read more
"The Record" Reminds Us What Real Journalism Is
A couple of nights ago in the immediate aftermath of the Christie bridge scandal breaking wide open, Rachel Maddow did a really good interview with Shawn Boburg. If you don't know Boburg's name off the top of your head, that's okay; I doubt he'd fret about it. But you should be ...read more