In Which Chris Christie Shows Us How to Make a Halfway Decent Apology

The line we’ll remember most from today’s Chris Christie press marathon is “I am not a bully”, due both to its similarity to Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” and the fact that one of the keys to Christie’s appeal up to this point has been that he’s not afraid to be a bully (in order to more effectively govern his state and serve his constituents).

The key lines of his typically self-involved, passive verb-filled official statement were:

“I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue in its planning or its execution, and I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here…I didn’t know about it, but it’s my responsibility because I’m the governor.”

Sounds