{"id":23942,"date":"2014-09-28T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23942"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:06:07","slug":"somehow-this-didnt-get-a-lot-of-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23942","title":{"rendered":"Somehow This Didn’t Get A Lot Of Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you noticed that every time a Republican seems to be a frontrunner for the 2016 Presidential race a scandal, lawsuit, or criminal charge<\/a> arises? This is not because Republicans are corrupt or because Republicans do unethical things–it is because Democrats<\/a> understand how to use the courts and the media. A recent example of this is the scandal involving Chris Christie and the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge<\/a>. Remember how much you heard about this when it first became news? Well, now that there is no evidence that Governor Christie<\/a> had anything to do with the lane closings, how much have you heard?<\/p>\n

Fox News<\/a> recently reported the following:<\/p>\n

The U.S. Justice Department<\/a> probe into the Bridgegate<\/a> scandal hanging over Chris Christie\u2019s political career has found no evidence so far that he knew of the traffic lane<\/a> closures in advance, reports said Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federal officials opened an investigation nine months ago to determine what the Republican governor might have known about the September 2013 lane shutdowns on the George Washington Bridge, and when.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The probe to date has turned up no evidence Christie had any prior information or directed that lanes be closed for four days, federal sources told WNBC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow the story just isn’t as important when Governor Christie cannot be blamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you noticed that every time a Republican seems to be a frontrunner for the 2016 Presidential race a scandal, lawsuit, or criminal charge arises? This is not because Republicans are corrupt or because Republicans do unethical things–it is because … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8167,8166,469,6940,439,8169,467,8168],"class_list":["post-23942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bridgegate","tag-bridgegate-chester","tag-chris-christie","tag-christie","tag-democratic-party","tag-george-washington-bridge","tag-new-jersey","tag-wnbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23943,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23942\/revisions\/23943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}