Now Having Said that, on Christie...

The media is angry at Christie today because a county prosecutor (Barlyn), fired, alleges that Christie or Christie's administration fired him on political grounds.  I am well read on the specifics of this case, and I can tell you this is up and away one of the most frivolous accusations imaginable.

I would guess that the prosecutor was fired because he filed a frivolous 43-count indictment against a local sheriff (Trout) and two deputies.  Trout was accused of hiring a staff member and issuing credentials without performing a background check.  As if.

In fact, it is a governor's and an attorney general's responsibility to safeguard citizens from frivolous criminal charges.  Christie's actions here were correct, admirable, possibly even heroic. 

The fact that Trout is supposedly a Christie supporter is not relevant.

A 43-count indictment should be filed against international drug traffickers, lifelong criminals, or persons who have committed horrific crimes.  Allegedly hiring someone without a background check is not a serious offense.  It may well be illegal.  But Barlyn's judgment was horrendous and it would have been a mistake for Christie's administration to leave such a person in office.  Barlyn's goal was probably to use the 43 counts to secure a plea offer and assume to himself credit for putting an elected official in prison for a very long time. 

Barlyn lost his job.  He had his day in the news.  This is not someone whom you should feel sorry for.

MSNBC's Unbelievable Bias on ISIS

All liberals do, day and night, is complain that Fox News is slanted towards the right. 

Yesterday, ISIS released a video showing its hostage, a Jordanian pilot, was burned alive.  Jordan responded by executing two militants in its custody.

MSNBC is not even running this story on its top 10 of news stories online.

By contrast, it is the leading story on the BBC.  CBS has four stories on ISIS tragedies on the front page of its website.  It is on the front page of The New York Times, which also has an op-ed on the subject.  It is story #2 on CNN, second only to a plane crash in Taiwan.  It is on the front page of ABC News.

Nowhere on MSNBC.  Let's put it this way.  A search of Google News for "ISIS" shows up zero results from today for MSNBC, whereas it has 20 results for NBC News, a separate news organization.

What stories are MSNBC running?  How a democratic nomination supposedly sailed through the Senate.  How Hillary supposedly would have been a great supreme court justice (in spite of having never worked as a solicitor, a judge, or even a judicial law clerk).