bridge in the world. and that bridge touches on one end the capital city of the american news media. indeed, a significant chunk of the national news media uses that bridge to get to work every day. so you are tampering with their bridge when you tamper with the george washington bridge. and chris christie is not butch otter. who s butch otter? butch otter is the governor of idaho who i m sure you ve all heard of but i had never heard of until today when i went searching for the name of a governor i had never heard of just to help make this point. and the point is that chris christie is politically and only politically the most important in america. which i guess from the american perspective, of course, makes him the most politically important governor in the world. i actually think jerry brown and andrew cuomo are way more important governors because they govern bigger, more important states than new jersey with, of
i do wonder if this had happened in nevada would it have gotten much attention. that was tom brokaw making the point that if some obscure governor has caused a traffic jam or his staff had kwauzed a traffic jam, the national media wouldn t be spending quite as much time on that scandal as we have devoted to what chris christie s team was up to at the george washington bridge. in fact, we probably wouldn t be spending any time on that version of the scandal. but the christie version involves not just any bridge. it involves arguably the most important bridge in the world. and definitely the busiest bridge in the world. and that bridge touches on one end the capital city of the american news media. indeed, a significant chunk of the national news media uses that bridge to get to work every day. so you are tampering with their