Chris Christie Says Scooby Doo Was His Favorite Show At Age 4 But It Actually Wasn't

[Initech]

For nearly two years, mighty PolitiFact New Jersey has dogged Gov. Chris Christie on topics ranging from job growth to taxes to education reform.

But we’re putting those concerns aside for now to examine a topic of major significance: his favorite childhood cartoon.

The governor wore a broad grin at a recent town hall meeting in Branchburg as he and a 4-year-old audience member talked about their favorite cartoons. The boy told Christie he was a big Scooby Doo fan.

"When I was 4, my favorite show was Scooby Doo, too," Christie told the boy, who had told the governor that Scooby-Doo is his favorite.

Ah, once again there is scandal in Trenton.

Timing, it seems, isn’t everything.

The Internet Movie Database, which tracks movies, TV shows, celebrity news and more, states the TV show premiered on Sept. 13, 1969. The series aired until 1972 and followed the adventures of four teenagers and a dog named Scooby-Doo who traveled around in a van dubbed The Mystery Machine, solving various mysteries. <----

http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/article/2013/apr/21/chris-christie-claims-scooby-doo-was-his-favorite-/

And he would have got away with it too if it wasn't for that meddling internet!

[mainstreetonce]

1. Lies

Like Al Gore and the lullaby....why do politicians lie?

[Nye Bevan]

2. This has legs. Christie is toast.

Time to draw up the articles of impeachment.

[jorno67]

3. He might not be lying...

he might have had a time machine.
Something to consider...

[graham4anything]

4. As Casey Kasem said(voice on Scooby)Keep your feet on ground & keep reaching for the stars.

[cali]

6. which is simply theft of Oscar Wilde's line

"We are all in the gutter, but some of are looking at the stars"

[JaneyVee]

5. What about reruns? I used to watch Scooby Doo when I was 4 and that was 1985.

[rocktivity]

8. The first reruns would have been no earlier than 1973

So your statement would make sense.


rocktivity

[JHB]

15. Only if they were retroactive reruns...

...able to rerun years before they were run in the first place.

[Nye Bevan]

17. "Preruns"? (nt)

[rocktivity]

7. "Christie would have been 7 years old –- not 4 -- if he watched the show’s first episode."

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He should have said, "When I was a little boy/around your age..."

It's more of a gaffe than a lie.


rocktivity

[closeupready]

9. Mine was Felix the Cat - and Scooby-Doo, too.

And Bugs Bunny, which - interestingly - I still watch and laugh at even today.

[Enrique]

10. Chris Christie is dead to me now!

[EC]

11. I don't consider this a lie.

I'm guessing he wasn't thinking that he was so small at 7 and figured he was around 4. I don't remember my age of watching things when I was little. When I see the years on some of the old programs I am amazed that I was older than I thought.

[KansDem]

12. Ruh-roh!!!

[NickB79]

13. Scooby-Gate! nt

[Capt. Obvious]

14. He can kiss his White House hopes good bye

I'm surprised this wasn't released by the Jeb Bush camp a few weeks before Iowa.

[Initech]

21. I can see the campaign ad now.

[JHB]

16. He doesn't want to admit it was Gigantor

Not all-American enough, especially if you know about the original Japanese version (the robot was a WW2 super-weapon that was never finished before the war ended).

And then there'd be the inevitable round of jokes about his weight...

[2ndAmForComputers]

19. You win this thread.

(And now I have the theme song stuck in my head. Curse you!)

[JHB]

24. Bigger than Big!

Stronger than Strong!

Gi-GAAAaaaaAAAnTOOOOORRRRR!

[monmouth3]

18. Wow, if you're going to lie about Scooby-Doo well, what's left?

[Initech]

20. Yeah makes you wonder doesn't it?

[brooklynite]

22. He would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!

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[duffyduff]

23. Big deal. So he has a faulty memory.

It's pretty pathetic to ding somebody on something inconsequential but not ding him on things that really ARE consequential, such as his teacher-hating policies.