In a column for The Washington Post, Dana Milbank has named a new king of narcissism - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

While the media is busy cramming the "Bridgegate scandal" down America's throat in a clear attempt at dashing Christie's hopes to run for president in 2016, Milbank has done something ingenious -- he has tallied Gov. Christie's references to himself during his news conference "apologia" -- counting words such as "I," "I'm," "Me," "My," etc.

Turns out, it was quite a lot. But to be fair, what does Milbank expect from an almost two-hour press grilling about Christie's personal role in the matter? One in which he says, "I'm responsible." But no matter to Milbank who said this kind of narcissism has reached a "whole new level" with Christie.

Narcissism is the dominant theme in American politics today, and the man Christie would succeed in the Oval Office appears to suffer from an acute sense of his own righteousness. But Christie takes worship of self to a whole new level.

He means President Obama. But in his hell-bent attempt to bury Christie's political career, Milbank protects the president's "acute sense" of self-righteousness by conveniently leaving out Obama's overindulgence in self. Like that time he used "I" and "me" 117 times in a 25 minute speech. Or that time at a funeral when he talked about himself 63 times. Perhaps the time he said "I" 96 times in 72 minutes during a State of the Union address. Or maybe even that time he took a bunch of credit for killing Osama bin Laden.