Chris Christie apologizes for ‘occupied territories’ remark
Source: Politico
LAS VEGAS New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in a Saturday afternoon meeting with Sheldon Adelson apologized for stepping on a fault line in fraught Middle East politics during a speech he gave earlier in the day, according to a source familiar with the conversation.
Invoking a 2012 trip he and his family took to Israel, Christie recalled I took a helicopter ride from the occupied territories across and just felt personally how extraordinary that was to understand, the military risk that Israel faces every day.
While the story was intended to forge common cause with Adelson and the several hundred donors to the Republican Jewish Coalition to which Christie was speaking, his use of the term occupied territories set off murmurs in the crowd.
The term refers to lands in which Palestinians live where Israel maintains a military presence, including the West Bank.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/chris-christie-occupied-territories-apology-105169.html
I guess free speech is for Duck Dynasty cast members instead of liberal RINOs like Christie.
The Star-Ledger has a broader article about Christie's speech.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)One of the several fractures in the mind of dingbats like Adelson?
They're territories. They're under occupation. That makes them occupied territories. Dah-HURP
Redfairen
(1,276 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Instead of showing he had chops on the Middle-East he showed just how much he still has to learn, and not just on the Middle-East either. (Talk about knowing your audience). Perhaps he still had Bridget Kelly on his mind and the "kind" words she had for him.
Beacool
(30,249 posts)Don't these folks have any dignity at all? Even Jeb, with all his family money and connections, felt duty bound to kiss Adelson's ring.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)What a completely f'd up society we have when casino moguls end up the richest men in the country.
But Adelson doesn't have long to live. He looks unhealthy, and he's very old.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)They deserve everything disgusting thing they have to do.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)for being Chris Christie.
A waste of skin.......and boy, that is a lot of skin.
And then where would we be, huh?
''I tawwy. I made boo-boo.
Pluz still gib me munies.''
louis-t
(23,295 posts)and do rim shots every time he says something stupid.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)How Republicon is that?
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)......potential Republican Presidential candidates traveling the the new American Mecca to bear their souls. How pathetic. But, they're about the "little guy" or so their minions tell us.
TomClash
(11,344 posts)"Murmurs in the crowd."
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Laxman
(2,419 posts)sit, roll over, fetch Mr. Adelson's slippers. Perform tricks for your million dollar treats. It's all quite unseemly. Did you say "occupied territories"? Bad governor. Give me a break. Governor Christie, we've established what kind of person you are, now we're just negotiating price!
Lars28
(84 posts)Gonna get the Jewish vote---NOT.
bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)Paladin
(28,262 posts)At this point, she's a damn sight more entitled to your sincere expressions of regret than Sheldon Adelson. I know it won't happen, but it ought to.....
Cha
(297,258 posts)was part of that culture? When is he going to apologize to the People of Hoboken and Dawn Zimmer? Christie aides are dropping like flies ... when it the big elephant in the room going down with them?
When is he going to apologize for spending Sandy Relief funds on himself and extorting it to the Mayors of NJ?