Greetings from the Countdown Newsroom high atop Studio 33 in New York…here are the Worst Persons Of The Day:
Our bronze to Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, who this week went from the supposed Great White Hope of the Republican Presidential field to just another self-serving, cheesy politician.
He has made his name as a cost-cutter – going after the unions, the firemen, the cops, local residents’ rights to vote for higher taxes if they want them, etc.
But none of the cutting applies…to him.
Governor Christie took a trip on a state police helicopter. No problem there, he **is** the Governor.
Except it was a trip on a state police helicopter, so he could see his son’s high school baseball game.
Incredibly bad form, but still, there was still something to be said for his paternal responsibility here.
Until he left the game in the fifth inning to go meet with a bunch of Iowa Republicans who want him to run for the nomination.
After a week of criticism, a Christie spokeswoman - a new Christie minstrel - finally announced he's going to pay $2151 to the state as reimbursement for two trips to see the kiddo. The Governor couldn't be bothered to make the announcement himself, and expressed no remorse.
So, basically he’s just a big fraud.
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Congressman Long has previously suggested a quote “crying towel” for those without health insurance, and he mocked early-warning systems for tornado threats. He tweeted “*take cover in the following counties, get in a ditch, yada yada, war of the worlds part deux*.”
“Deux” – he misspelled.
The problem, of course, is that the 7th district of Missouri includes Joplin, and its Congressman made fun of the tornado alert system.
Oh, and he also proposed legislation in the House to sell off HAM Radio frequencies. Even though HAM Radios were about the only thing left with which to get help after the tornados Mr. Long thought were not worth warning anybody about, destroyed Joplin.
He won’t, but Mr. Long should resign, in shame.
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The winner: Good Old Sarah Palin. The Half-Governor swept through New York on what is either a presidential run or an illegal use of campaign funds, eating pizza with a knife and a fork and having a meeting with Donald Trump.
How would you have liked to have been a fly on the wall for **that**? For one thing: you would’ve been the smartest thing in the room.
But Ms. Palin’s *piece de resistance* was a fabulous tweet in which she promised to quote “*highlight the beauty of legal immigrants’ work ethic and love of freedom*” – as if everybody else who came here, slave or free, was lazy and believed in kings – and that she was going to do this, again quoting, “*while visiting Ellis Island & **Statute** of Liberty today.”*
There is only one response.
(That woman is an idiot)
Thank you.
Sarah “Making Up Your Own Language Thing Is Far Easier Than Learnin’ A
Realer One” Palin – the worst person of the day.
