Why does Alan Steinberg think he’s more relevant than Chris Christie?
/Chris Christie is a twice-elected Governor of New Jersey. The first time, he whipped a multi-millionaire incumbent. Christie was re-elected in a landslide – a huge landslide – in a blue state. Chris Christie was a wildly successful federal prosecutor who shortened the careers and ended the thievery of a plethora of political scumbags. He’s run for office on a local level, served as a county freeholder, and as a candidate for President of the United States. Christie’s perspective is broad. His understanding is precise, because he knows, he was there, he lived it.
So who is Alan Steinberg?
Well, he tells you. At the bottom of his InsiderNJ columns, he writes: “Alan Steinberg served as Regional Administrator of Region 2 EPA during the administration of former President George W. Bush and as Executive Director of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.”
According to him then, his skill was at getting those in power to reward him with a job. That generally requires a certain degree of arse-suckery.
Alan Steinberg is a Christine Todd Whitman ex-Republican. Steinberg writes for a blog owned and operated by an associate of Hillary Clinton who runs a corporation that gets insurance contracts from government entities. This associate is a national Democrat fundraiser.
In a recent column, Alan Steinberg questions Chris Christie’s “relevancy” and then begins to examine Christie’s “character flaws” – while lauding the character of the Democrat incumbent, Phil Murphy. Steinberg claims that “bullying” is one of Christie’s character flaws, ignoring the fact that “bullying” appears synonymous with “Governor” in the state of New Jersey.
Name for us, Alan, a Governor of New Jersey who wasn’t a “bully”? Why even Steinberg’s beloved Christine Todd Whitman was a bully – memorably so when she successfully silenced a young female staffer who had made a claim of sexual harassment against one of her top female appointments. And we don’t recall you making a peep about it, Alan.
As for this current Governor – who hasn’t he bullied? Before siding with those who wish to defund them, Murphy set police on places of worship, using men with guns to stifle freedom of conscience. While his administration forces local school boards to accept a curriculum that teaches anal sex to eighth graders – in direct contradiction to CDC warnings about the dangers of this sexual practice.
Now we all know that Establishment types won’t label Murphy a bully for this, because Establishment types don’t particularly care for religion, or conscience, for that matter. In fact, freedom of conscience gets directly in the way of their profits from Big Pharma. You know, those guys who preached opioids and who stand to make a profit from all those eighth graders who practice what they’re taught and end up requiring a lifetime of care.
Steinberg goes on to accuse Christie of “irrepressible ambition”. Well, so what? Alan, you are guilty of the same ambition – you just lack the talent of a Chris Christie. Unless you are a lazy slacker (our compatriot, Rubashov, comes to mind) every sociopath operating in politics is a quivering mass of ambition, not knowing where to store it all, bursting. Where you, Alan, differ from Christie is that you couldn’t convince anyone to believe in you. Chris Christie is plausible. You make people want to run to the shitter.
According to Alan Steinberg, these “flaws” he ascribes to Chris Christie are dwarfed by Christie’s greatest flaw (in Steinberg’s view): His support for Donald Trump. In Steinberg’s view, Trump is an uniquely “evil” man.
Just what makes Trump “evil” (according to Steinberg)? Well, first, Donald Trump is a “philandering husband.” So says Alan Steinberg, who – if we recall correctly – worked for a certain legislative leader who was pretty darn adept at that philandering stuff. Yep, it was a train wreck.
Oh, and Steinberg says Trump is a “contemptible misogynist.” But rapist coddler Phil Murphy is a good guy? Heck, didn’t Governor McGreevey hire someone to bang his old lady? Wasn’t that kind of like misogyny? And they made him a priest!
Steinberg says Trump is “a vile white Supremacist, hateful of people of color.” Hey Alan, weren’t you working for Governor Whitman when she did that stop and frisk grab-ass photo-op? Was that cool? Or was it vile and racist? You tell us.
Steinberg writes: “While Christie had never been a racist, by virtue of his praise of Stephen Miller, Chris Christie becomes an enabler of Stephen Miller racism.”
Really? So does that make you an enabler of all the people you knew or worked for who sexually harassed women – their female employees, interns even? We’d think more of your words today, if you had written them then.
And for his crescendo, Steinberg goes full blow-it-out-the-ass, writing: “Christie’s position on the Coronavirus was absolutely shocking in terms of its indifference to human suffering.” Steinberg accuses Christie of membership in a “Trump Flat Earth Anti-Science Society.”
Wow. You can’t beat this for hypocrisy. Here is a member of the George W. Bush administration – the “Weapons of Mass Destruction Anti-Science Society” – trying to play holier than thou after cheerleading for the slaughter of over a million people, mainly civilians. Indifference to human suffering? How many children died for the lie your administration peddled? How may dead Americans – and all those missing arms and legs and wounded minds and damaged souls? What balls you have, Alan, to play like you are.
Get a little humility and understand that buying a mask from Amazon isn’t the same as being trained in the protocols of infection control. Sure it should help, just like any prescription can help, until you misuse it. Then it becomes a self-delusion, a religious garment meant to signal some goodness to the world, but nothing to do with containing a disease.
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