Politico
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on Monday that he didn’t mention President Barack Obama’s name in his rebuttal to Obama’s weekly presidential address about the Oklahoma tornadoes so that the White House couldn’t “pull a Chris Christie” on him.
“I was not going to let the White House pull a Chris Christie on me,” Inhofe told Newsmax.
Some conservatives criticized the GOP New Jersey governor for being overly effusive toward Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which ravaged parts of New Jersey just ahead of last November’s presidential election.
Inhofe also said that the liberal media is “trying to exploit” the recent Oklahoma tornadoes by blaming the tragedy on climate change.
“The liberal media is trying to exploit a tragedy to advance and expand its own agenda. And, believe me, the victims all know this,” Inhofe told Newsmax.
He continued: “We were being hit by tornadoes long before anyone talked about climate change, and even before it was called ‘global cooling,’ before it became ‘global warming,’ and then ‘climate change.’ The same thing that happened last week happened 14 years ago, 25 years ago, and 30 years ago.”
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