Chris Christie's Biggest Mistake

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Gov. Chris Christie's time in the national spotlight has been full of bloopers. But no goof appears as consequential as his call to cancel the ARC project, halting construction of an additional train tunnel between New Jersey and New York City. WNYC's Matt Katz explains why Christie killed ARC. In the Spiel, Chris Christie and the fat-man theory of optics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.4	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:31.8	It's Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska.
0:36.6	CNN has unmasked as in wrestling.
0:39.6	The Reddit user who put together a meme that President Trump tweeted out, this is the
0:44.6	one that took old footage of Donald Trump body slamming Vince McMahon at a wrestling event
0:49.5	and superimposed the CNN logo on Vince McMahon's head.
0:53.5	So this Reddit guy who breathed the meme into life, username Han Ashole Solo, which is a bit
1:01.0	like the original Han Solo, but much more of an asshole.
1:04.7	I mean, if the real Han Solo shot first, Han Ashole Solo not only shot first, but then
1:09.5	blame the Jews second.
1:10.5	Oh yeah, did I mention that other posts of his were pretty much blatant anti-Semitism.
1:16.4	Anyway, CNN found this guy, this lucidor of lottery and said to him, you're a bad, bad
1:22.6	man.
1:23.6	And he said, as one does to a member of the clergy slash the employer of Jeffrey Lord,
1:29.4	as one does, and asshole Solo said, I'm sorry, I will never do it again.
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