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Presidential Gravitas

by $8 blue check mistermix|  June 17, 20112:45 pm| 121 Comments

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Here’s Chris Christie telling a constituent to STFU and GTFO for asking a question worth asking of someone who underfunded schools by as much as $1.7 billion: Why is it fair for him to cut public school funding when he sends his kids to private schools?

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  1. 1.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    June 17, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    What a fucking asshole.

  2. 2.

    she's crafty

    June 17, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    His son goes to a Catholic high school. You’d think he’d be able to say he wants his kids to have a religious education and leave it at that.

    Mind you, he lives in a town I grew up in, which has excellent schools. So the defensiveness is a little weird.

  3. 3.

    Dexter

    June 17, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    IOKIAR.

    Now, if it was a democrat…..

  4. 4.

    fasteddie9318

    June 17, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    Yeah, Christie is a douchebag, but they elected him. If the people of New Jersey didn’t want to be governed by a douchebag, there was a pretty simple way to prevent it.

  5. 5.

    Spaghetti Lee

    June 17, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    Sheesh, whaddaya expect of the guy? It’s almost like you think he’s a public servant or something.

  6. 6.

    Paul in KY

    June 17, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    That seems to be his modus opporendi (don’t think I spelled that right, but I expect y’all know what I’m talking about).

    Whenever he runs for re-election, I bet a good campaign commercial could be made using some of these blow ups.

  7. 7.

    lankyloo

    June 17, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    What an asshat. I hope kittens know to run away and guard their skulls when he comes around.

  8. 8.

    Chris

    June 17, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Fat fucking fuck. Fuck him.

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    June 17, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    He’s one of those guys I’d just like to slug, even not knowing what an asshat he is.

    Double-slug!

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    June 17, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Just realized this makes him a de facto Republican hero: “Because he drives liebrules crazy.”

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    June 17, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    fasteddie9318 @4: While I’m somewhat sympathetic to this view, I fear that the eastern half of Washington might beat the sane people in the next gubernatorial election.

  12. 12.

    steviez314

    June 17, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    For the GOP, this is not a bug, it’s a feature.

  13. 13.

    Tulip

    June 17, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    got love the “with all due respect” at the end.

    I’ll never understand how these assholes get elected.

  14. 14.

    Tim, Interrupted

    June 17, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    What an arrogant prick.

    Let’s see…as he says, he is ultimately in charge of the education of each public school child in the state, yet he chooses NOT to send his own kids to public schools. How the hell is that fact NOT relevant? He may have VERY good reasons for sending the grotesquely conceived spawn of his loins to wildly expensive, christianist academies, but he absolutely ought to be willing to state what they are.

    Since he has no kids in the public school system, he has no personal stake in the school system and should fuck the hell off.

    His so called response also sounds very rehearsed/canned for just such an occasion as this woman having the GALL to ask her rich, obese, arrogant asshole of a governor why he does what he does.

    All that said, his snotty fuck you response will play well with tea party and republitard types.

  15. 15.

    feebog

    June 17, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    Christie thinks going on the offensive is the way to shut down dissent. That only works the first few times. Then it simply becomes offensive and tiresome. The guy is a genuine asshole, and I sincerely doubt he is going to have a second term in New Jersey, let alone any shot at President in 2016.

  16. 16.

    Triassic Sands

    June 17, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    Sweet. The obvious choice for Secretary of State in the forthcoming Trump administration. The only thing that was missing was an explicit “Fuck you, bitch.” That would have shown the proper Republican respect for women and assured him of his place among the great diplomats of all time.

  17. 17.

    Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    June 17, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Fat fucking fuck. Fuck him.

    Chris: He reminds me of Baron Harkonnen from Dune; someone who’s not fat because they’ve got a metabolic issue or a desk job or just likes the cake, no, he’s someone who is fat because he’s a sick degenerate power-starved fuck who would kill people for fun and probably has.

    Chris Christie scares me. He’s very ambitious and is in politics for reasons which I suspect we’d all find more than a little disturbing.

  18. 18.

    gene108

    June 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    If the people of New Jersey didn’t want to be governed by a douchebag, there was a pretty simple way to prevent it.

    You do realize his opponent was incumbent governor John Corzine?

  19. 19.

    Joel

    June 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    @ fasteddie9318:

    In the meantime, we might as well destroy him while he’s in office, so that trend doesn’t continue.

  20. 20.

    Bullsmith

    June 17, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Except for the bit where he went soft and said “with all due respect” he was the prototypical Republican candidate.

    I especially liked when was careful not say he wanted to provide “better education” for everyone in his state, but rather “better education opportunities.” In his world, everyone has the opportunity to get a better education than the public system provides, just like he did.

  21. 21.

    harlana

    June 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Just the notion that this enormous fuckwad has procreated is depressing. But then, what are state helicopters for?

  22. 22.

    Triassic Sands

    June 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    I don’t have permission to edit my own comment, so I’ll add a second comment.

    Listening to Christie, I couldn’t help but think what the response would be (from Republicans) if Barack Obama had responded to a questioner this way. I imagine there would have been a constitutional crisis, because nowhere in the Constitution is the president given the power to be a rude, boorish creep. However, the 10th Amendment explicitly reserves that right to state officials. So, for Obama it would be an impeachable offense; for Christie it’s just part of his constitutional duties.

  23. 23.

    Disco

    June 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    “The decisions that I make are to try to improve the educational opportunities of every child in this state.”

    Which I why I cut the budget for schools. To improve their opportunities. What don’t you understand, Gail?

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    June 17, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @ 17. Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    P’raps Mssr. Creosote would like a mint? It’s waaaaffer thin.

  25. 25.

    gene108

    June 17, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    I sincerely doubt he is going to have a second term in New Jersey

    The people, who like him really do like him. Corzine was hurt by rubbing a lot of his supporters the wrong way, as well as a cratering economy in 2009.

    I know people, who normally vote for Democrats, who voted for Christie, because they economy sucked and Corzine wasn’t turning it around; they figured let someone else take crack at it.

    If the economy remains stable or improves, I think a lot of these folks would be back aboard with re-electing Christie; they’d attribute the economy to him and he’d get a bounce because of it.

  26. 26.

    Bill Murray

    June 17, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    To quote the brother of a former South Dakota Governor and Congressman, when responding to a complaint at the tourist area the brother ran, Christie’s response amounts to

    “Dear Crybaby,

    Fuck you”

  27. 27.

    Chris

    June 17, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @ Whiskey –

    Chris: He reminds me of Baron Harkonnen from Dune; someone who’s not fat because they’ve got a metabolic issue or a desk job or just likes the cake, no, he’s someone who is fat because he’s a sick degenerate power-starved fuck who would kill people for fun and probably has.

    LOL. I have a very similar reaction, except he reminds me of Jabba. Every time his name comes up in conversation, the temptation to go “HOO, HOO, HOO!!!” and start speaking in alien dialect becomes overwhelming. If I’m in the right company, it’s indulged.

    Baron Harkonnen might be an even better reference, though. At least Jabba stayed out of politics.

  28. 28.

    Lavocat

    June 17, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    Fat and angry is not a good combination.

    This guy makes Mr. 9/11 look like a Girl Scout.

  29. 29.

    gex

    June 17, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    To pay for his helicopter rides. Duh.

  30. 30.

    Tony J

    June 17, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    And this is the guy a lot of wingnuts are pressuring to enter the 2012 Presidential Primaries, on the grounds that he’s got the right mix of idological purity and ‘good-guy’ populism to wipe the floor with that Kenyan usurper come next November.

    One can only wish.

  31. 31.

    Violet

    June 17, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    I heard this clip on Limbaugh’s show today. He was laughing while it was playing and at the end of it said, “That’s why people like him.” Yes, seriously.

  32. 32.

    dr. bloor

    June 17, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    Tulip – June 17, 2011 | 3:00 pm · Link
    got love the “with all due respect” at the end.
    I’ll never understand how these assholes get elected.

    Are you kidding? Most of his base got stiffies when he said that. From there, it’s just bottom-feeding the low information know-nothings esteemed Independent voters to get over the finish line.

  33. 33.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    June 17, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    Fat, drunk, and stoopid, is no way to go through life, son.

  34. 34.

    Amir_Khalid

    June 17, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    How does a person like this — thuggish and hostile toward constituents, to the point of refusing to answer pertinent questions — get himself elected in the first place? Aren’t politicians supposed to at least pretend to be nice, so that they don’t piss voters off? Just whom did he defeat for the governorship of New Jersey, Borat?

  35. 35.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    June 17, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    Remember when Dean was running for president, and he would occasionally raise his voice, not even scream, just raise his voice, and the liburel media would denounce him as “tooo angry”, yet the very same liburel media loves fatboy.

  36. 36.

    jinxtigr

    June 17, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    “With all due respect” from a politician is like a chef starting a sentence with “Listen, MY FRIEND…”

    Not exactly the height of earnestness and sincerity ;) more a tipoff to quite the other thing!

  37. 37.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    June 17, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    that plays well with the base he will be appealing to, to even get launched as a national candidate.

    there needs to be a huge effort to at least come close, if not defeat him, on his re-election, pushed to the brink, he will lose his appeal by doing things that are unpardonable to gop national voters…

    all this assumes an obama win in 2012, of course, and i would like to at least see that horse get in view of the barn before i take it for granted.

  38. 38.

    gogol's wife

    June 17, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    To Amir Khalid #34, my husband just watched this clip with me and immediately said, “He’s got those big contributors, he doesn’t have to be nice to his constituents.” That’s it in a nutshell, and I’m afraid it’s true across the board in today’s political landscape.

  39. 39.

    Shrillhouse

    June 17, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    Remember when Dean was running for president, and he would occasionally raise his voice, not even scream, just raise his voice, and the liburel media would denounce him as “tooo angry”, yet the very same liburel media loves fatboy.

    When Christie gets angry, that’s righteous anger.

    When Dean got angry, that was dangerous, unstable, liberal rage. It proved that Dean was fundamentally unserious, and unift to even run for the Democratic nomination, much less serve as president. Got it?

  40. 40.

    Chris

    June 17, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    that plays well with the base he will be appealing to, to even get launched as a national candidate.

    This.

    The whole GOP strategy revolves around keeping their base in a wartime mentality, with the other party being the enemy (and of course, a guy who sounds like he’s criticizing private schools = SOSHULIST = enemy). In that context, being thuggish and hostile towards constituents is a plus: his supporters watch this video and cheer.

  41. 41.

    lacp

    June 17, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    jinxtigr:

    Or like Javier Bardem calling somebody “Friendo….”

  42. 42.

    Martin

    June 17, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    Why is it fair for him to cut public school funding when he sends his kids to private schools?

    The honest, unspoken answer:

    Because he’s better than you. That’s why it’s fair.

    That’s what Rush was thinking as well.

  43. 43.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 17, 2011 at 3:29 pm

    That’s just was the nation needs; a fat angry guy to lead it.

  44. 44.

    harlana

    June 17, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Mike Kay @35, yes, you see, when a republican does it, it’s COURAGEOUS!

  45. 45.

    JGabriel

    June 17, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Matt Bai thinks Jon Huntsman is a serious candidate:

    This is huge. Consider that had it not been for all the independents who voted for John McCain in 2000, Bill Bradley might well have won the Democratic primary in New Hampshire — and who knows what would have happened after that. (I’ll leave that to Newt Gingrich to explore in one of his alternative histories.)
    __
    All of this suggests, I think, that a less doctrinaire candidate might have a real shot in New Hampshire, once the campaign really gets underway and voters get a chance to assess the field…
    __
    … should Mr. Huntsman’s candidacy be treated as if it were viable and serious? To me, the answer is yes.

    Once Matt Bai is on your side, it’s time to throw in the towel.

    Bai is the pundit/advocate epitome of the Uncanny Center — where politicians are just populist enough to look pandering, unreal, strange, and repulsive to people of any and all political persuasions.

    See also: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Evan Bayh, et. al.

    .

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    June 17, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    How does a person like this — thuggish and hostile toward constituents, to the point of refusing to answer pertinent questions — get himself elected in the first place? Aren’t politicians supposed to at least pretend to be nice, so that they don’t piss voters off? Just whom did he defeat for the governorship of New Jersey, Borat?

    You don’t understand New Jersey voters, do you?

    Sometimes, this is taken as common sense tough talk.

    And that Limbaugh treats this as a joke is interesting because, given the tone of the times, I don’t know whether people who “like” this stuff will really see how much it hurts them.

  47. 47.

    bkny

    June 17, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    The morning joe fratpac got a lot of laughs out of that tape.

  48. 48.

    Culture of Truth

    June 17, 2011 at 3:37 pm

    Indeed, there is a large percentage of people who will this and go “fuck yeah!” USA USA USA!

  49. 49.

    bemused

    June 17, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    I bet he was an obnoxious, pudgy bully in grade school.

  50. 50.

    harlana

    June 17, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    JGabriel @45: Ha! Honestly, these boobs keep ignoring the obvious. Being Mormon, both Huntsman (if he runs) and Romney will lose big in the Southern Baptist-controlled South.

  51. 51.

    Mouse Tolliver

    June 17, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    re:

    LOL. I have a very similar reaction, except he reminds me of Jabba. Every time his name comes up in conversation, the temptation to go “HOO, HOO, HOO” and start speaking in alien dialect becomes overwhelming

    When I heard he needed a car to drive him 100 yards from the helicopter to the baseball field my first thought was, “It can’t be easy walking 100 yards with Carrie Fisher chained to your leg.”

  52. 52.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    June 17, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    @bkny: well, Joe killed an intern who he was having an affair with, so to them, despicable behavior is funny.

  53. 53.

    j low

    June 17, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    I don’t think Roald Dahl could have written better villains than Christie or Mr. 9/11.

  54. 54.

    harlana

    June 17, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    bemused @49: Nah, he probably got his ass beat on a regular basis like most of his right wing colleagues nursing inferiority complexes for which they must overcompensate by being fucking rapacious, hate-filled assholes.

  55. 55.

    bemused

    June 17, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Anyone see how the Morning Joe crew reacted to that clip?

  56. 56.

    bemused

    June 17, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    harlana@54: He probably did but evidently not enough.

  57. 57.

    harlana

    June 17, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    bemused @55: I’m sure Joe jizzed his pants

  58. 58.

    eemom

    June 17, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    Any minute now somebody’s gonna come along and yell at us about the “fat” comments.

    But I can’t help it. He’s a fat reeking piece of shit of a human being, and I hope he chokes on his own bile.

  59. 59.

    stuckinred

    June 17, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    Joe slapped the shit out of Newt this am.

  60. 60.

    JGabriel

    June 17, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    Shorter Chris Christie:

    I’m going to improve education by cutting funding to it. And it’s none of your business that I care so much about public education that I send my kid elsewhere!

    .

  61. 61.

    Chris

    June 17, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Any minute now somebody’s gonna come along and yell at us about the “fat” comments.
    …
    But I can’t help it. He’s a fat reeking piece of shit of a human being, and I hope he chokes on his own bile.

    Insensitive as I know it is to say this, I’m a lot less concerned with making value judgments of that kind when the person I’m talking about is an asshole.

    No, I don’t treat most overweight people like this, but then most overweight people aren’t massive fucking pricks.

  62. 62.

    Martin

    June 17, 2011 at 4:00 pm

    Time for praise for something a Republican said:

    Dolan equated the move to allow same-sex marriage to life in China or North Korea, where “government presumes daily to ‘redefine’ rights, relationships, values and natural law.”
    __
    “Please, not here!,” Dolan wrote. “We cherish true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought.”
    __
    The opposition from Dolan, other religious groups and conservative political outfits threatening retribution at the ballot box has turned the Senate into a pressure cooker for Republicans.
    __
    And McDonald snapped.
    __
    “You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing,” McDonald, 64, told reporters.
    __
    “You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing.
    __
    “I’m tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I’m trying to do the right thing, and that’s where I’m going with this.”

    The right wing fringe is really pushing Republicans hard.

  63. 63.

    Amir_Khalid

    June 17, 2011 at 4:00 pm

    @Brachiator:
    Sure he talks tough, but can he govern to make up for his utter lack of manners? Isn’t he the governor who fucked up Jersey’s bid for federal funds for schools? Who didn’t cancel his holiday in Florida during this past winter’s terrible storms?

    From what I’ve heard about the man, his term in office has been a train wreck, and his popularity is in the toilet. Big contributors or no, he must be too radioactive by now to be reelected, let alone to seek higher office.

    ETA: Or maybe you’re right, this shocking behavior is actually making him more popular in New Jersey, and I do indeed not understand voters there.

  64. 64.

    Martin

    June 17, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    Joe slapped the shit out of Newt this am.

    Nothing is more courageous than going after a guy after he’s collapsed in the polls.

  65. 65.

    Chris

    June 17, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    “Please, not here!,” Dolan wrote. “We cherish true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought.”

    Every single time they start yammering about what freedom really means, it comes off sounding like this quote from the Antichrist character in the Chronicles of Narnia: “What do you know about freedom? You think freedom means doing what you like. Well, you’re wrong. That isn’t true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you.”

    There’s several gallons of irony right there.

  66. 66.

    stuckinred

    June 17, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    Martin

    I don’t know, they showed the clip of him at the puke show in New Orleans calling Obama all kinds of socialist shit and Joe was literally screaming, “Just say you disagree with him”! It was pretty good.

  67. 67.

    stuckinred

    June 17, 2011 at 4:06 pm

    fuck some moderation

  68. 68.

    stuckinred

    June 17, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    I don’t know, they showed the clip of him at the puke show in New Orleans calling Obama all kinds of shit and Joe was literally screaming, “Just say you disagree with him”! It was pretty good.

  69. 69.

    Culture of Truth

    June 17, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    He’s got large Center of Gravitas

  70. 70.

    chopper

    June 17, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    @Violet:

    yeah, hence his super-high approval rating in NJ. people just love the dude.

  71. 71.

    Chris

    June 17, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Can I add

    Dolan equated the move to allow same-sex marriage to life in China or North Korea, where “government presumes daily to ‘redefine’ rights, relationships, values and natural law.”

    that I’m sick to fucking death of hearing these assholes equate their privileged lives in a rich liberal democracy, and the prospect of losing a few of their privileges, to life under totalitarian rule.

    You are not oppressed in America, dipshit. If you think you are oppressed in America, you need to take a trip to China or Saudi Arabia or a country of that kind, and insist that the local thug garrison give you a taste of what oppression actually feels like. I guarantee you’ll never toss the word around that glibly or stupidly.

  72. 72.

    Brachiator

    June 17, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    @Amir_Khalid:

    Sure he talks tough, but can he govern to make up for his utter lack of manners? Isn’t he the governor who fucked up Jersey’s bid for federal funds for schools? Who didn’t cancel his holiday in Florida during this past winter’s terrible storms?

    New Jersey has never been known for its gentility. You are right about the governor’s litany of screw-ups. But for some strange reason, I still hear people out here in California (even former New Jersey residents) praise his “toughness.”

    It makes no sense, but there it is.

  73. 73.

    Culture of Truth

    June 17, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    “true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought.”

    awesome

  74. 74.

    Douglas

    June 17, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    “true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought.”

    Like throwing people who molested young boys, as well as those that helped cover up those crimes, into jail?

  75. 75.

    vtr

    June 17, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    That the Christies have chosen to live in a home that costs them $38,000 a year in property taxes is a decision they made according to their enlightened self-interest, whatever the f**k that is, and they should neither brag nor complain about it. He said he sends his kids to a religious school. Perhaps they’ll learn about that guy who said, “when you screw other people you’re screwing me.” Christie is the embodiment what is wrong with the Republican Party.

  76. 76.

    jl

    June 17, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    @30 Tony J – June 17, 2011 | 3:16 pm · Link

    ” And this is the guy a lot of wingnuts are pressuring to enter the 2012 Presidential Primaries, on the grounds that he’s got the right mix of idological purity and ‘good-guy’ populism to wipe the floor with that Kenyan usurper come next November.

    One can only wish. ”

    Can Balloon Juice get a campaign to draft Christie? I would support that. I would contribute.

  77. 77.

    stuckinred

    June 17, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Hey, can we get all pissy about Obama playing golf with Boner?

  78. 78.

    Monala

    June 17, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    In that context, being thuggish and hostile towards constituents is a plus: his supporters watch this video and cheer.

    That’s exactly what’s happening on other places on the web where this is being reported: supporters writing, “Good for him! It’s nobody’s business where he sends his kids to school!”

    Meanwhile, they miss the fact that the constituent never asked him why his kids go to private school. She asked why he thinks it’s fair to cut funds to public education. His kids are only relevant insofar as they won’t be affected by those cuts, but many other people’s kids will.

  79. 79.

    Monala

    June 17, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    I’m going to be the one to yell about all the fat comments. Christie’s assholery has nothing to do with his weight, and comments about it are offensive. Racist comments about Allen West don’t become acceptable just because he’s an asshole.

  80. 80.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    June 17, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    @Chris: pretty funny seeing a Catholic Archbishop rail about the gay.

  81. 81.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    June 17, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    @Monala: Being fat is not an immutable characteristic. It’s reflects self indulgence, a lack of impulse control, and a lack of self discipline.

  82. 82.

    Violet

    June 17, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    @ vtr:

    Christie is the embodiment what is wrong with the Republican Party.

    Nah. In the eyes of Republicans, Christie is what is exactly right with the Republican party. He’s the very embodiment of IGMFY.

  83. 83.

    Surly Duff

    June 17, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    @eemom – Come on now. It is not that fact that he is fat that makes him an asshole.

  84. 84.

    RP

    June 17, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    What’s ironic is that he’s actually got a perfectly valid point — there’s no inherent conflict with having your kids in private schools and being governor (or President), esp. if you want your kids to get a religious education. SO WHY NOT JUST MAKE THAT POINT CALMLY AND POLITELY WITHOUT BEING A DICKHEAD ABOUT IT???

  85. 85.

    Monala

    June 17, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    @ Mike Kay,

    No, but it’s a pretty damned hard trait to change, and still irrelevant to his assholeishness.

    Btw, I write this as someone whose weight is average.

  86. 86.

    Ash Can

    June 17, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    @ Mike Kay: Not true. There are people whose metabolisms are such that they can virtually starve themselves and still not lose weight. They have to undergo some fairly extensive medical treatment to lose weight — and, of course, with our lovely and talented health care system, that requires good insurance and/or a fair amount of cash.

    Having said that, however, I’m willing to bet Christie isn’t one of them.

  87. 87.

    jimbob

    June 17, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Wow. Just Wow.

  88. 88.

    Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    June 17, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    Martin: McDonald really does deserve a medal. He’s one Republican who has had enough of the bullshit and demagoguery, and it showed very forcefully in that press release he sent out yesterday. The whole thing is worth reading.

  89. 89.

    Cliff in NH

    June 17, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    @Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    Baron Harkonnen from Dune; someone who’s not fat because they’ve got a metabolic issue or a desk job or just likes the cake, no, he’s someone who is fat because he’s a sick degenerate power-starved fuck who would kill people for fun and probably has.

    Technically the fat was from a weapons virus from the sisterhood. he was always a sick degenerate fuck who would kill people for fun.

  90. 90.

    AAA Bonds

    June 17, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Well, every bloated pig person in America will relate to this obese slob telling other people to shut up whenever he doesn’t know what to say.

    I have a hard time understanding why he’s not running for President, true story.

  91. 91.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    June 17, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    It’s depressing that this asshole is my Governor, and he’s probably gonna STILL be my governor for years down the line, because somehow fatboy can eviscerate all sorts of necessary state-level things like public schools and shit and he gets lauded as the next fucking coming.

  92. 92.

    Dee Loralei

    June 17, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    HAH! Breitbart got thrown out of NN. They refused him press credentials, because he isn’t the press. Told him he had to pay the $355 fee to attend.

  93. 93.

    Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    June 17, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    efgoldman: I’m 70 pounds overweight. Right there with you. Like I said above, he’s not fat because of any metabolic issues or anything like that, he’s fat because he’s a depraved sack of evil who feeds on the despair of those whose lives he ruins.

    PS: you can make your own reply button, it’s a pain in the ass. Type the name of the comment you’re replying to in the reply field, go back up, click the “link” button beside it, cut the address out of your browser, go back down to the “leave a reply” widget, highlight the name you originally typed, hit the “link” button and paste in the address you cut out of the browser. Total pain, but it works.

  94. 94.

    AAA Bonds

    June 17, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Liberals need to not generalize their attacks and dwell on that, this is where y’all screw up.

    Attack Chris Christie’s girth. and everyone arrive at a common and silent understanding that this is a team effort and no one is judging any of the fellow liberals around them – you are attacking Chris Christie, who is like two Greg Stillsons sewn into a mattress

  95. 95.

    eemom

    June 17, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    he’s someone who is fat because he’s a sick degenerate power-starved fuck who would kill people for fun and probably has.

    that. In his case the grotesque obesity is part and parcel of his “I got mine, fuck you” hideousness as a human being. It is a physical manifestation of his gluttinous character.

    So, to me at least, calling a creature like that a fat fuck has nothing to do with obese people in general.

  96. 96.

    eemom

    June 17, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    like two Greg Stillsons sewn into a mattress

    I lol’ed, even though I have no idea who Greg Stillson is.

  97. 97.

    Maude

    June 17, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    New Jersey has some very affluent counties. People who live in these counties just might not appreciate Christie’s response.
    The bully act has worn thin and his poll numbers aren’t good.
    He lost the $ 400 million for NJ and someone ought to remind him of that when he gets himself all upset.
    He’s a failure.

  98. 98.

    Larkspur

    June 17, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    So where is Gloria Allred and why isn’t she standing in front of a camera with this Gail person and talking about the consequences of bad behavior?

  99. 99.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    June 17, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    All I care about is whether New Jersey will be stupid enough to re-elect this Neanderthal? What does it look like, Jerseyites? Did anyone learn from this mistake?

  100. 100.

    kdaug

    June 17, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    eemom: Greg Stillson

  101. 101.

    gene108

    June 17, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    fatboy can eviscerate all sorts of necessary state-level things like public schools and shit and he gets lauded as the next fucking coming

    Schools in good school districts – where the NJ voters, who swallow paying 10k-30k in property taxes per year, live – are not as badly hit as poorer districts.

    I think this is mitigating some of the impact Christie would otherwise have incurred from gutting money to schools, which was largely hurt by repealing the millionaires tax.

    The repeal of the millionaires tax and its impact on the lack of funds for education has really been under reported in NJ.

  102. 102.

    gogol's wife

    June 17, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    At least this clip gave rise to a pretty funny thread. I don’t usually like fat jokes either, but in this case I think they’re richly deserved. It’s just too much of a caricature, it’s why the term “fat cat” was invented (not for Tunch, who is noble and beautiful).

  103. 103.

    ruemara

    June 17, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    @eemom

    I lost 100lbs this past year. You have full license to call this living turdpile exactly what he is: a fat, fetid pimple of goo ruling over NJ.

  104. 104.

    pluege

    June 17, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    gene108 – June 17, 2011 | 3:07 pm · Link

    If the people of New Jersey didn’t want to be governed by a douchebag, there was a pretty simple way to prevent it.

    You do realize his opponent was incumbent governor John Corzine?

    There is no conscience vote and there is no protest vote in the American political system. Every voter gets 2, and only 2 choices:

    1) vote for the A-hole, or
    2) vote for the bigger A-Hole

    And people should make no mistake, not voting IS A VOTE; its a vote for no. 2, the bigger A-Hole.

    So if someone voted for christie the Hut instead of Corzine because they hated Corzine or didn’t vote, they chose the bigger A-hole. Pretty damn stupid if you ask me.

  105. 105.

    Anne Laurie

    June 17, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    How does a person like this — thuggish and hostile toward constituents, to the point of refusing to answer pertinent questions — get himself elected in the first place? Aren’t politicians supposed to at least pretend to be nice, so that they don’t piss voters off?

    The “spite voter” bloc is very large in New Jersey — and elsewhere. Plenty of people who, when they feel they aren’t getting what they deserve, would rather look around and find somebody else to kick around than do anything positive. Because when you try, you might fail, but it’s always possible to find someone even less powerful to bully…

    Upside is that most of these Spite Voters are just situational, not pathological. That’s why Clinton won a second term on his “It’s the Economy” platform; people who normally would have voted for his opponent out of boredom or spite were content to stay home & let his actual supporters “win”. One reason a lot of Democrats aren’t feeling so secure, right now, is that we don’t see the Obama Administration making a good argument to the Spite Voters, who aren’t amenable to reasoned arguments, sigh.

  106. 106.

    jl

    June 17, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    “Plenty of people who, when they feel they aren’t getting what they deserve, would rather look around and find somebody else to kick around than do anything positive”

    Hey, watch it. Thought you were talking about us BJ commenters for a moment.

    Edit: for what it’s worth, I am one of those worried Democrats. I try to think it is not so, but hard to avoid that there is a spite vote out there that has to be dealt with.

  107. 107.

    TuiMel

    June 17, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    @ pluege #105: I like your synopsis. I would also add that voting for “A lesser a-hole w/a snowball’s chance of winning” is a vote for #2, as well.

  108. 108.

    Lysana

    June 17, 2011 at 6:27 pm

    So it’s OK to call Chris Christie a fat fuck because you’re not talking about me? I’m a nice fat person, so you don’t mean me.

    Sorry, you don’t get to sort like that. Either it’s wrong to use anti-fat slurs or it isn’t. And yes, as a fat person, I AM affected by those slurs whether you aim them at me or not.

    Fuck you, eemom and everyone else who agrees with her on this one. You’re wrong, you’re bigoted, and you are insulting a LOT of people when you think “fat” is an insult.

  109. 109.

    jomo

    June 17, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Delbarton is hardly a parochial school. It’s an episcopal prep school. And Menham is one of the richest towns in the state. Public schools are excellent. And Christie is hardly popular in the state. His positives are rapidly approaching 40 percent.

  110. 110.

    eemom

    June 17, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    @Lysana

    just FTR, I wasn’t the one who introduced the word “fat” to the thread. I’m the one who acknowledged that it’s an issue for some people, so that we at least discussed the issue.

    You don’t get to be a spokesperson for all overweight people, as is evidenced by the fact that some of them don’t agree with you.

  111. 111.

    bjacques

    June 17, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    @kdaug101:

    I saw “The Dead Zone” when it aired, and it always tickled me that Martin Sheen played the psychotic Greg Stillson in it and the good President Jed Bartlett in “The West Wing.”

  112. 112.

    Luthe

    June 17, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    Three things:

    1) There’s a huge split in NJ between the urban and suburban areas. Both our Senators are Dems, and yet one of the Republican House Reps from south Jersey keeps trying to get nasty anti-abortion legislation passed. The suburban Galtian heroes really hate them some urban brown people.

    2) Christie’s education cuts got shot down by the State Supreme Court, since they violate a ruling from the 70s that provides extra funding for disadvantaged school districts. (Us Rutgers students are having less luck fighting the cuts to higher ed.)

    3) The best bumper sticker I’ve seen in Jersey was very simple: “Starve Christie.”

  113. 113.

    James E. Powell

    June 17, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    @stuckinred

    Hey, can we get all pissy about Obama playing golf with Boner?

    Who won?

  114. 114.

    Bender

    June 18, 2011 at 12:01 am

    Love. The. Fat. Man. Don’t accept stupid premises from stupid lefties!

    As long as Christie pays his school taxes, he is perfectly within his rights to send his kids to schools that are a) not overrun with union tools and b) can teach religion.

    STFU would’ve been too good for that whiny scrunt.

  115. 115.

    Nellcote

    June 18, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Christie is fat. That’s a fact not an insult.

  116. 116.

    psycholinguist

    June 18, 2011 at 1:05 am

    The C-36 add made it to NPR this evening. In that spirit, someone needs to make a similar video, with a couple of working class kids on the screen, who are addressing somebody wearing a Christy mask and the Fat Bastard suit from Austin Powers.

    “this guy gave a billion dollars to millionaires in NJ, and then took a billion dollars from out schools. Hey Christy, ya fuckin fuck, why don’t you shut the fuck up and get the fuck out of the governors mansion, ya fat fuck. (it is New Jersey).

  117. 117.

    The Sheriff's A Ni-

    June 18, 2011 at 1:19 am

    Love. The. Fat. Man.

    Sociopathic asshole loves sociopathic asshole. Film at 11.

  118. 118.

    Jeff

    June 18, 2011 at 5:44 am

    Chris Christie was standing his ground. This holier than thou mentality we project onto public figures is unrealistic at best. Politicians have lives when it comes to them being a parent and have the rights to send their children to these schools. Education funding is outrageous its inefficient and isn’t giving the results based on the amount we pour into it. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE ABOLISHED..
    I am sure most of you libs can agree that no child left behind was a flop.

  119. 119.

    Larkspur

    June 18, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    Oh for pete’s sake. The objection is not that he sends his children to private school. The objection is that not everyone can afford to do that, and those people must rely on the public school system, and Christie wants to defund the public school system. It’s like the bacon and egg argument: when it comes to breakfast, the chicken is interested, but the pig is committed. In the public schools, you’re bacon. In the private schools, you’re eggs. If you are interested, but not committed, it’s entirely fair to be expected to explain your choices.

  120. 120.

    AxelFoley

    June 18, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    LOL @ that fat-fuck Flinstone-looking muhfucka.

  121. 121.

    AxelFoley

    June 18, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    @ Monala:

    I’m going to be the one to yell about all the fat comments. Christie’s assholery has nothing to do with his weight, and comments about it are offensive. Racist comments about Allen West don’t become acceptable just because he’s an asshole.

    You can do something about your weight. You can’t about your race or ethnicity.

    Far as I’m concerned, when it comes to assholes like Christie, all’s fair in love and war. These fucks damn sure have no problems calling Obama everything but the child of God while trying to screw the rest of us, so fuck them and their feelings.

    Fuck that fat bastard with a rusty spoon, sideways.

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