christie
claimed the moderator was rude, just after christie rudely interrupted jeb bush' fantasy football answer...
christie was on a roll with his big bluster moment...
WHO CARES!?
now look at the hacks latch onto the meme AS IF the moderator was rude to him. ^
meanwhile,
what was so rude about what the moderator asked chris christie? nothing.
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QUINTANILLA: Governor Bush, daily fantasy sports has become a phenomenon in this country, will award billions of dollars in prize money this year. But to play you have to assess your odds, put money at risk, wait for an outcome that's out of your control. Isn't that the definition of gambling, and should the Federal Government treat it as such?
BUSH: Well, first of all, I'm 7 and 0 in my fantasy league.
QUINTANILLA: I had a feeling you were going to brag about that.
BUSH: Gronkowski is still going strong. I have Ryan Tannehill, Marco, as my quarterback, he was 18 for 19 last week. So I'm doing great. But we're not gambling.
And I think this has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively it is day trading without any regulation at all. And when you have insider information, which apparently has been the case, where people use that information and use big data to try to take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation.
If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at just, you know, moving away from them a little bit. And there should be some regulation. I have no clue whether the federal government is the proper place, my instinct is to say, hell no, just about everything about the federal government.
(CROSSTALK)
CHRISTIE: Carl, are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football?
(LAUGHTER)
We have -- wait a second, we have $19 trillion in debt. We have people out of work. We have ISIS and al Qaeda attacking us. And we're talking about fantasy football? Can we stop?
(APPLAUSE)
CHRISTIE: How about this? How about we get the government to do what they're supposed to be doing, secure our borders, protect our people, and support American values and American families. Enough on fantasy football. Let people play, who cares?
(CROSSTALK)
QUICK: I want to go back, if I can, to the issue of...
(CROSSTALK)
QUICK: I want to go back, if I may, to the...
HARWOOD:
Governor Christie, you've said something that many in your party do not believe, which is that climate change is undeniable, that human activity contributes to it, and you said, quote: "The question is, what do we do to deal with it?".
So what do we do?
CHRISTIE: Well, first off, what we don't do is do what Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and Barack Obama want us to do, which is their solution for everything, put more taxes on it, give more money to Washington, D.C., and then they will fix it.
Well, there is no evidence that they can fix anything in Washington, D.C.
HARWOOD:
What should we do?
CHRISTIE: What we should do is to be investing in all types of energy, John, all types of energy. I've laid out...
HARWOOD:
You mean government?
CHRISTIE: No, John. John, do you want me to answer or do you want to answer?
(LAUGHTER)
How are we going to do this?
(APPLAUSE)
Because, I've got to tell you the truth, even in New Jersey
what you're doing is called rude. So...
(LAUGHTER)
We've laid out a national energy plan that says that we should invest in all types of energy. I will tell you, you could win a bet at a bar tonight, since we're talking about fantasy football, if you ask who the top three states in America are that produce solar energy: California and Arizona are easy, but number three is New Jersey.
Why? Because we work with the private sector to make solar energy affordable and available to businesses and individuals in our state.
We need to make sure that we do everything across all kinds of energy: natural gas, oil, absolutely. But also where it's affordable, solar, wind in Iowa has become very affordable and it makes sense.
That is the way we deal with global warming, climate change, or any of those problems, not through government intervention, not through government taxes, and for God's sake, don't send Washington another dime until they stop wasting the money they're already sending there.
HARWOOD: Thank you, Governor.
The third Republican debate transcript, annotated
