Hang on,
we have to savor this for a while:
Chris Christie says the media owes him an apology over the Bridgegate scandal.
Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
“I do believe there's an absolute bias and a rush to judgment. You all know this, you saw the coverage of me 15 months ago. I was guilty, I had done it,” Christie said on CNBC Thursday morning. “Now we're 15 months later, where are the apologies pouring in? Not one thing I said the day after the bridge situation has been proven wrong.”
"... beyond a reasonable doubt, I mean," he did not hasten to add.
And so we are left in the curious position where Chris Christie has had his own staff and associates indicted for doing an illegal thing that endangered the public safety for no other reason than to further the career of Chris Christie, but the man in charge sees his own non-indictment as vindication. As presidential material, no less. He's New Jersey's own Scott Walker, he is.
On Thursday, Christie said the uproar over the lane closures was overblown and covered more than other stories like the IRS scandals or Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
“I think if you objectively looked at it you would say it was. At the time Bridgegate was outgunning, six or seven to one the IRS scandal,” Christie said.
If you're not going to pity him, Chris Christie will pity himself, thank you very much.
Expect Christie to be running on a platform of not indicted. It's a crowded platform, but it at least differentiates him from Rick Perry.