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| With the help of a compliant and adoring media, a truly ugly Governor Christie is trying to sell himself as a champion of the middle class he has been screwing all along. |
Charles Stile, The Record's chief political columnist, must really have contempt for readers today as he regurgitates the latest royal B.S. from Governor Christie.
Long after most people labeled "The Jersey Comeback" a big lie, Christie has adopted a new slogan to deceive voters: "Christie Middle-Class Reform Agenda" (A-1).
Of course, it's the Democrats who are fighting for the middle class, as the party's national convention demonstrated time and again last week.
And it's Christie, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan who are out to destroy the middle-class way of life by trying to loot Social Security and Medicare, assaulting the unions at every turn, and defending huge tax cuts for their wealthy supporters.
Paper does P.R.
Stile has had his head up his ass for so long he won't even acknowledge any of that in today's Page 1 column nor does he mention all the anti-middle class moves from Christie since he took office in January 2010:
Christie's attacks on state employee and state teachers unions are well-known. The GOP bully also killed the biggest expansion of mass transit in decades.
And our rotund governor stood by as the Port Authority and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority held up commuters with drastically higher tolls.
Christie also cut funding for women's health programs and school nutrition programs for students from low-income families.
The governor should start worrying about his spreading middle, not the middle class.
Meanwhile, the media -- and Editor Marty Gottlieb of The Record -- would shock all of us if they started reporting on Christie's health problems and his failure to address the state's child obesity epidemic.
Now that Stile has jumped back into bed with Christie and his spin doctors let's hope the obese governor rolls over on the clueless reporter.
More corrections?
The Record's editors have repositioned "Corrections" on A-2 to make them more visible to readers.
Let's hope they'll start acknowledging all the errors that appear in the paper, instead of ignoring them.
Little local news
Assignment Editors Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza present another disappointing Local section today, with two Hackensack stories that are merely follow-ups on former Police Chief Ken Zisa and the city's school board (L-1 and L-2).
Road Warrior John Cichowski again relies on reader e-mails to turn out his 678th column on the MVC (L-1).
Even with coverage of 9/11 ceremonies in North Jersey, Sykes needed to fill space with a photo of a minor, three-vehicle accident (L-2).
Whole paper?
I'm still digesting Monday's editorial, which urges readers to "keep eating organic" to avoid pesticides, animal antibiotics and growth hormones, and to help the environment.
So, what's the explanation for how little attention the paper's food editor and restaurant reviewer pay to naturally raised food?
Today's weekly recipe from Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill calls for ground turkey and beef, but she doesn't even recommend that readers try to find antibiotic-free meat for themselves or their children (BL-1-2).
And Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung rarely tells readers anything about the origin of food she samples and recommends or say whether restaurants serve organic salad greens and other dishes.
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