New Jersey traffic jam

The reporters weren't shocked, but they never reported these things, even when the Governor put his unqualified boyfriend in charge of emergency management and/or homeland security.

 

LOL. I'm allowed to make those kind of mistakes.

 

False. This is from 2002, two months after McGreevey took office and two years before he resigned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/nyregion/new-jersey-republicans-see-shortsighted-cronyism-in-mcgreevey-s-appointments.html

 

That's all well and good, but they never "connected the dots" and reported that he got the job because he was the married governor's boyfriend.

Were they not curious to know why he got the job, or did they not want to report it?

 

They knew he met Cipel on a trip to Israel in 2000. Why would they dig any further?

The whole story blew up when Cipel threatened to sue for sexual harassment in 2004. No reporter anywhere had any real reason to look beyond gubernatorial business and more closely at their "friendship" before then.

 

And it was all going according to plan until Agent P showed up.

 

Bullshit.

You don't just give a top job to a "friend" you met on an overseas trip -- especially when he's not qualified. And, his lack of qualifications should have been reason enough to dig deeper.

And, if all the reporters "knew" he was a closeted homosexual, that would have given them a clue as to what direction to look.

 

"Thank God for Chris, yo!" /Rodman

 

Cipel resigned a few months after he was appointed. After that, it ceased being anyone's business.

Last I checked, being gay isn't a crime. Once it stopped affecting the administration, it's not newsworthy.

 

I missed the presser; did Christie wish Tricky Dick Nixon a happy 101st birthday? Seems they have so much in common.

 

So, longer than Winterland but not quite the New Year's Eve show at Nassau Colosseum?