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no_hypocrisy

(46,150 posts) Tue Apr 3, 2012, 09:49 PM Apr 2012

From The NY Post (I don't believe this is a headline from The Post)

The whale at the wall

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made a huge impression at Israel’s Western Wall yesterday during his first official overseas trip as head of the Garden State.

Christie, wearing a yarmulke with his name and title embroidered on it, brought his political heft to the holiest Jewish site in Jerusalem, where he laid his hands on the rough-hewn stone, his eyes shut in prayer.

Surrounded by a throng of rabbis and onlookers, Christie downplayed suggestions that the trip to Israel is intended to raise his political prospects back home.

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“I am here because this is a place of enormous significance in the world.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/the_whale_at_the_wall_oken1GUqPamnfVeZB6xgHL#ixzz1r23jC0pK

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From The NY Post (I don't believe this is a headline from The Post) (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Apr 2012 OP

You can always count on The New York Post to keep it classy. n/t Ian David Apr 2012 #1

Wow now that funny coming from a RW rag.......... Historic NY Apr 2012 #2

Surprising at first glance, but not when you think about it ... markpkessinger Apr 2012 #3

Ian David

(69,059 posts)

1. You can always count on The New York Post to keep it classy. n/t

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 09:56 PM

Apr 2012

Historic NY

(37,452 posts)

2. Wow now that funny coming from a RW rag..........

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 10:28 PM

Apr 2012

"whale at the wall". or Chris Christie is beached.

markpkessinger

(8,401 posts)

3. Surprising at first glance, but not when you think about it ...

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 10:35 PM

Apr 2012

The NY Post has become the National Enquirer of daily tabloids -- nothing more than a sensationalist scandal sheet. (Although I have to admit, this one IS funny!)

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