Internet swoons over Christie lie: updated BREAKING NEWS
by Primo Encarnación
Oh, everyone is agog over the viral video showing Chris Christie taking a courageous stand on drug treatment. Before you start thinking Chris Christie has shown his softer side, and his sob story about his mother is just about the sweetest thing you’ve ever seen, and really shows him to best advantage, just remember the story of the scorpion and the frog.
(about 8 minutes in) “I watched her as a kid growing up she tried everything she could to quit: she tried the gum, she tried the patches yadda yadda yadda…”
Oh, boo-frickin-hoo, you liar:
Chris Christie born to smoking mom: 1963
Chris Christie turns 18: 1981
Gum not available until the 80s
Patch not available until the 90s
With Christie, as with all these evil klowns, the lie isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Whaddya know! A Con cons Cons again! He can’t help it, he’s a scorpion: his entire nature is to sting; he doesn’t care whom.
Update: Christie’s “pro-life for life” schtick apparently doesn’t extend to actual, you know, people. What does he think really about addicts? Let ’em starve.
UPDATED AGAIN BREAKING NEWS: I honestly have not seen this reported anywhere else but here! The name of Christie’s dead friend appears to be Guy Thomas Lytle, late of West Orange, New Jersey. Evidence to follow.
Evidence: I found this article from May, 2014, where Christie appears to describe the friend the first time. Christie says he had attended his funeral three weeks earlier. So looking back a few weeks in April, 2014, I located an obituary from Saturday, April 5, 2014 including the mention of 3 daughters. Christie: “Year and a half ago on a Sunday morning…” His attorney profile discloses details which match Christie’s description: Seton Hall, cum laude, ’87; Partner. I don’t know that it was ever meant to be so all-fired a secret, but I found it curious that we had never seen the man’s name before.
Note: between the first time he told the story and now, the amount of time poor Mr. Lytle’s “odyssey” lasted went from 8 years to 10 years. (listen to the story on the njspotlight site, it has richer details). I don’t doubt hat the whole thing happened. I just doubt Christie’s sincerity. He was your best bud, your families vacationed together. The wife was your family doctor. And you can’t recall whether it was 8 years or 10? Or does 10 make a better story?
Anyway, that was a WMDBS breaking news, exclusive.
Primo, as usual the sycophants in the media miss the real story. Empathy as shown by a Republicon is singular to themselves. The Outlaw Jersey Whale is as ‘compassionate’ as Gnarly Failurina on the topic of drug addiction. Did a Scooby Doo at Carly, when she used the collective “we” need to do more about drug addiction. As in “ahem, lady” with all that parachute money YOU couldn’t help? Educate me if I missed it, but I haven’t read of any addiction centers with her name on them.
Since that last ‘compassionate conservative’ Dubya, my ears are a little inured to Repuclicons embracing social issues.
Next up: The Mental Ben Home for Unwed Homosexuals.
1Yea, he’s definitely a hypocrite. Went from being a “crusading AG” to being one of the most corrupt governors in the history of NJ, which, given the history of NJ corruption, is somewhat of an accomplishment in itself. Definitely don’t let this liar anywhere near REAL power.
And as for being concerned for the wellbeing of others, lets see his concern for the homeless, drug-addicted, and mentally ill this winter.
2That Christie would sink this low – – what else is new?
3Thank y’all for reading and digesting all the Christie bull-plop for me. I shut my eyes and ears to him a long time ago, and prefer to have my mind remain virgin and unsullied. Does that make me a republican?
4PKM, I’ve always liked how “compassionate conservative” is an obvious, and possibly quite small, subset of all conservatives.
WA Skeptic, we don’t have to wait for this winter. How about the NJ Gov’s concern for the homeless, drug-addicted, and mentally ill in several past winters?
5He’s a Yuuuuuuggggeee liaar. Almost as bad as that dope Carson.
6You know how you can tell that Christie is lying? His mouth is open and words are coming out. As a retired teacher, I think Christie (and Walker) are the scum of the earth.
7The narrative to be delivered by Fake Noize is Dems hate motherhood and want every one aborted. Who cares if little kids smoke and chew? It is their constitutional right but the Muslim Obama hates god fearing kristians and little kids.
Then wingnuts add 30 percentage points to their next election victories.
8Let’s give Chris Christie the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps as a teenager he developed a time travel machine. He set the dial to 1980 to buy a pack of nicotine gum & illegally vote for Reagan, then forward to 1994 for a nicotine patch, and brought it all back for his Mom.
If only he would now set his time machine for 2050… and stay there.
9I wondered about those stop smoking aids as he spoke. I stopped smoking around 84 and none of those things was available then. DH stopped a couple of years prior when he went to a hypnotist clinic in Austin. There was nothing like gum or patches.
10Sarah Palin couldn’t keep the story of her “choose life” DS baby’s birth straight, either (I’m not suggesting any part of the story is true, just pointing out one HUGE mistake she made).
She said over and over again the kid was born in the small poorly-equipped hospital in the Matsu Valley near Wasilla at a 7-1/2 month gestational age, despite her “pregnancy” being a 5-way at-risk delivery (age, multiparity, DS dx, prematurity, previous miscarriages).
Then when she began giving speeches to pro-life audiences, she changed the story to the delivery being at 8 months gestation, at the Anchorage Providence Medical Center, which had an NICU that the Matsu hospital didn’t.
How could someone get their delivery story so wrong?
11Speaking of “compassionate conservatives,” GHWB’s biography is either out or being reviewed. Either way, he doesn’t like Darth Cheney or Damned Rumsfeld. And he thinks sonny boy 43 fuh, er, screwed up. Jeb? must be thrilled with this later episode in the Bush family saga.
12@Rick
If the OJW has in deed access to time travel, I for one want to borrow it. (I’ll return it a few seconds before I left. How’s that for a temporal dichotomy??) I got a long list of loose ends from the 80s, the 70s, and the 50s to fix. And I might want to loop through the late summer of ’69 a time or ten more.
13I worked with drug dependent people a long time. They would “get off” drugs while smoking and just drinking beer. Denial, etc.
Mr. Christie must have serious dependency genes if he will only glance in the mirror while he talks about addiction. He is visibly as much an addict as his mother must have been. Seriously.
Also, much was made of his friend having a wonderful life,education, job, great family, beautiful wife. If one is addicted and has none of these things….LOSER. I mean, should we have compassion for those people who got free transportation to AFganistan, and Iraq and for some reason came back and coped with drugs? Takers all. There are two subjects that just rile me up, punching down on anyone (addicts) and dissing education and educators. I worked in both areas, and know how hard good people work to help both the addicted and children.
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