Jan 10, 2014 10:57am
Ma'ayan Rosenzweig / ABC News
In case you missed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christies nearly two-hour long press conference Thursday, or didnt quite make it through the marathon talk-session, it can be boiled down to two words know and people.
A word map analysis conducted by ABC News, based on a transcript of the event that contained over 19,000 words, shows that the word know was the word most often used during Christies public apology for revelations that implicated his top aides in a political revenge plot. The runner-up was the word people, which was used in just over 100 instances.
Know, and its variations, came in handy for Christie, who described his lack of knowledge of the plot, which emails show involved some of his senior staff members planning a four-day traffic jam in September at the George Washington Bridge as political retribution against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich.
I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or it execution, and I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here, Christie said.
He added, I have 65,000 people working for me every day. And I cannot know what each one of them is doing at every minute. But that doesnt matter; Im ultimately responsible for what they do.
Christies use of the word people referred mostly to two different groups the people of New Jersey and Fort Lee, and the people involved in the bridge scandal.
I come out here to this office, where Ive been many times before, and Ive come out here today to apologize to the people of New Jersey. I apologize to the people of Fort Lee and I apologize to the members of the state legislature, Christie said in his opening line on Thursday.
The political overtones that were exhibited in those documents released yesterday and the conduct by those people is not acceptable, Christie said later in the press conference, referring to members of his staff involved in the scandal.
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Christie's 2-Hour News Conference In Just 2 Words