It’s Chris Bag O’ Donuts, that’s freakin’ who it is here. Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in his eye.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, known for his candor, snapped at a reporter Saturday while taking issue with his question at a press conference.
Reporters were told the governor would only answer questions about a major problem at a water treatment plant, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.
Yet one reporter proceeded to ask an unrelated question involving the state legislature, as seen in video of the press conference from Monmouth County.
Christie, cutting him off, said: “Did I say on topic? Are you stupid? On topic, on topic. Next question.”
As the reported tried to follow up, the Republican governor again interjected and ended the press conference.
“Thank you all very much, and I’m sorry for the idiot over there. Take care,” he said before walking away.
Can you imagine if a Dem tried this, especially “arrogant, uppity Obama”? Christie on the other hand, he’ll get away with it. Hell, he’ll be a hero. Republicans don’t have to answer your gorram questions, you know. Open hostility to the press and the press takes it and we all have a good laugh, and then the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign guys announce that the press no longer matters because of Drudge and St. Andy Of The Pageview’s Ghost, so stay tuned while we make our own reality. Fun for everyone.
Rest of you mooks, get outta here.
bob h
Governor Goomba feels he has to ramp it up with the Republican convention approaching.
c u n d gulag
If the Conservatives could, they’d carry “Krispy Kreme” Christie on their shoulders.
But they’re not sure if shattering your spine while carrying around an enormously fat blowhard and cheering is covered by health care companies, even under the Cadillac plans they have.
Conservatives love Conservative bullies.
amk
Why do I feel a sweet schadenfreude when the rethug ass kissing media hacks get kicked in their teeth by their arrogant masters?
The Ancient Randonneur
But you made fun of him being fat.
See both sides do it!
Nylund
And who was it who recently said, “It’s impossible not to like,” Chris Christie?
Cassidy
I realize it’s easy and even I enjoy feeling superior when making fun of the giant asshole that is the Governor of NJ, but we did have a spirited discussion a few threads back regarding making fun of fat people. Maybe that should include those we don’t like as well. I know, it sounds concern trollish and I’ll be the first to admit I can be/am a giant asshole on a lot of topics. I just imagine that if in our scorn for those on the other side we make fun of their size, those who are on our team, and our friends here, are wondering when it’s their turn.
YMMV.
dp
Hey, at least he talks to the press. There’s not a political article written in Louisiana newspapers that doesn’t include the line, “Governor Jindal refused requests for an interview.”
Peregrinus
@Cassidy:
Thank you. Much as I think Christie is an all-around asshole, the number of digs made at his weight far outnumber everything else.
Fuck him sideways for pulling this, though.
Keith
Remember, all of this government disfunction is because Obama had the audacity to talk *to* Republicans and not *with* them. Lesson: you get stuff done if you stay in caricature.
MattMinus
Two things really bug me about this guy.
1)He’s embarrassing the rest of us by constantly doing his “Joisey Guy” act for the national audience.
2) There’s nothing cool or tough about running your mouth like that when you know there will be no consequences. If he wasn’t the governor he’d get his fat face mashed talking to people like that.
Z
I just love how “very rich and very fat lawyer and lobbyist who shows schoolteachers what’s coming to them by telling it like it is but then sobs when he doesn’t get his way” is an archetype that many, many Republicans imagine to be persuasive to the electorate at large. They could have Rubio or McDonnell (maybe not post-probe law) run nationally with instant success, but they imagine that regular Americans are so on-board with this anti-union, anti-poor nonsense that they imagine Christie and Ryan to be viable national candidates.
HelpThe99ers
“Governor Christie, what would you say to those, including myself, who would ask if you kiss your mother with that mouth?”
Quincy
@Cassidy: I agree. Christie’s so completely full of shit that it makes no sense to spend all of our time talking about the size of the container.
Scott S.
He’s such a macho tough-guy, isn’t he? He whines when people don’t stick to his preferred questions, then gets pouty and cancels the rest of the press conference. He whines because he can’t hang out with Bruce Springsteen. He needs a helicopter *and* a limousine to take him to Little League games.
I know six-year-olds who are tougher than this twit.
Raven
@Cassidy: No, we have discussions with great regularity and no one says anything different.
Joey Maloney
Are you stupid?
“Nossir, Mr. Governor, are you?”
Kids just don’t know their history any more.
Cassidy
@Raven: I’m not trying to be a scold about it; I’m just as guilty of referring to Christie or Limbaugh as “fat fucks” in the past and I’ve probably done it here in past threads. For me personally, I’m making a point to alter my thinking and behavior and not refer to people I don’t like in those terms because I don’t want my heavier friends to feel that I think of them in the same negative way. I feel the same ethical obligation here, especially knowing how many people on here kill themselves to lose weight, are overweight, and have other health issues, like depression, that contribute to weight gain and lower self-esteem.
So, again, that’s just me. YMMV. I’m not gonna be a scold about it, but I do want people to be more aware.
slippy
Well, to be fair, Michael Moore is fat, and that makes everything he does wrong. So both sides do it, amirite?
/snark off
Ruckus
@Cassidy:
I think most people here are aware of the fat jokes. But this
fatobese fucker is no joke, and that is part of the problem. He is everything that is wrong with the rethug brand. He not only got his, he got a whole lot of everyone else’s as well. The size of the container is important because he is full of shit. I will give him this, he is one of the best negative role model politicians or even humans I have ever seen.RaflW
Y’know, we only have to get 50.1% of the voters to recognize that arseholes like Christie, and every damn one of these Republicans hate everyone below the top 1%.
Mitch McConnel yesterday (per Greg Sargent) that he didn’t basically give a rip about the 30 million uninsured in the US that would get screwed by wholesale repeal of Obamacare.
These people are sociopaths, and Christie’s arrogance is emblematic of utter disdain from anyone not in their club.
We just have to get a few more percent to see Chrisite (and his ilk) as arrogant, and brittle, too, rather than “tough.”
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
If we had a real press, every article about Christie would begin, “The Governor, who refuses to be accountable to the people by answering questions the press asks,” and the only question he would get asked would be “Governor, why do you refuse to answer questions that affect the people of this state, unless they are preplanned by you?”
shortstop
I’m just amazed that the Republicans who want their politicians to be as in-your-face assholish as possible think the rest of the country thinks this way. (“Nobody doesn’t like Chris Christie”? Un-self-aware much?) This man simply will not play outside of New Jersey and a few other places–my own city of Chicago might be included if he were a D instead of an R–that are used to this level of bombastic bullying.
Cassidy
@Ruckus: There are so many things wrong with him that singling out his girth is unnecessary.
Seriously folks, wasn’t trying to derail the thread; just raising awareness.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Cassidy:
Christie has a personality that eclipses all others on the right. What, I got it wrong? Oh, ok…
Christie has a body that eclipses the sun.
reflectionephemeral
Real quick, so no link, but on Christie awhile back, David Frum wrote something like, “A left-leaning friend of mine calls Republicans ‘the party of affect’… So Chris Christie can favor handgun control and still be the Coulter choice for president. Just as long as he’s rude about it.”
suzanne
@Peregrinus: Concur with you an Cassidy. We can make far more effective attacks on his (repulsive) character than we can on his body, anyway.
He’s fat?! OOOOHHHHH!!!
Seriously. Stop.
shortstop
@reflectionephemeral: The towering rudeness is also a fairly effective distractor from the fact that he ain’t at all bright.
Cacti
Chris Christie’s weight will keep him from ever being a serious contender for POTUS.
Think I’m wrong? Then answer, how many obese Presidents/Presidential contenders have there been in the age of television?
Amir Khalid
Governor Harkonnen* goes out of his way to pick fights with people in New Jersey and offend them, and then he wonders why Bruce Springsteen won’t give him so much as a “Fuck you”.
That “I’ll only take questions about topic X” line of his is no way to handle journalists, or anyone else, with a legitimate question. Anyway, Chris Creosote** is not the boss of these journos, their editors are. Their news org is working on some other story too, as you’d expect. That press conference might be the only chance that day to meet the governor face-to-face and ask a question. That’s why people rarely demand this at their press conferences.
As an act of casual arrogance, it’s of a piece with stonewalling on perfectly straightforward factual or policy questions. That’s just Republican manners in 2012. Chris Christie likes to sprinkle some temper tantrum on top, but that aside he isn’t so much of an outlier here.
(* Is not fat joke)
(** Okay, is fat joke)
gbear
If you could actually find a place to fuck him through all the flab.
slippy
@Cacti:
It is true. Anyone thinks the rude, fat guy has a chance in a Presidential election has no idea how little of the policy, positions, and intelligence of a candidate has to do with success. Low information voters are looking for a guy who believes in himself and looks good doing it, which is why Kerry lost in 2004. I remember his horrible performance in the debate when he looked right into the camera to promise us all something — he almost grabbed it by the sides and it was a little freaky. Even Bush’s obvious phony performance didn’t compare that bit of just plain o’l weirdo behavior.
I mean, honestly if rude and fat could overcome Americans’ obvious preference for photogenics, Rush Limbaugh would have made his own run for office. Well, if he weren’t such a coward, too.
MaryJane
@Cassidy: I hear you, but wonder if you’ll be around when Rick Scott is referred to as Skeletor.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cassidy: Thanks. He’s a gigantic asshole, and a bully, and lots of other nasty things I’ve probably neglected to include. None of which has anything to do with his weight.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
I agree with Cassidy, acknowledging that I, too, have called Christie and Limbaugh weight-based names (and Ann Coulter “horse-faced”, etc.). I guess a bit of the junior high mindset is alive and well in most of us. If we don’t like someone, we’ll often refer to some physical feature beyond their control: their fatness/thinness, their lack of hair (or ugly-ass hairdo — think Trump or Blago and his amazing beaver-pelt hair helmet). You hear lazy-eye jokes, big-nose jokes, etc. Unfortunate, but there you go.
I can’t recall who said it, but an expression comes to mind: “When you are thinking about saying something about someone, ask yourself, ‘Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?'”
Well, I think we all routinely ignore that bit regarding “kindness” (since many of those we berate are anything but kind themselves).
Okay, my concern troll hat is now off; I’ll go back to being snarky and rude.
LAC
Christie is a fat fuck, Limbaugh is a fat fuck, Ann Coulter is horse faced tranny, and Rick Scott looks like Voldemort’s mentally challenged brother. And if the Lord takes a likin’ to them and blows them up real good, the world would start getting lighter and brighter. Okay? And can I go to the bathroom or do I need a hall monitor for that too?
Cassidy
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): pretty sure skinny people don’t have the same social stigma as overweight people do. I’m not gonna play the false equivalence game with you.
patrick II
Christie can talk like that because he has bodyguards. If he tried the b.s. of calling a navy seal and “idiot” like he did last month without bodyguards, he would learn the difference between tough guy and blustery, protected, loudmouth.
Cassidy
@Cassidy: clicked on the wrong box. Meant MJ above.
suzanne
Christie would be just as much of a douche if he weighed 160. Insulting him by calling him fat doesn’t do anything to enlighten any of us. It just makes us appear petty and forwards a culture in which fat people aren’t welcome. I want a good liberal politician in the future who may look like Christie to have the same opportunities as his or her skinny counterparts, and name-calling only makes that less likely.
So. If you’re a fat-hating bigot, STFU.
suzanne
Christie would be just as much of a douche if he weighed 160. Insulting him by calling him fat doesn’t do anything to enlighten any of us. It just makes us appear petty and forwards a culture in which fat people aren’t welcome. I want a good liberal politician in the future who may look like Christie to have the same opportunities as his or her skinny counterparts, and name-calling only makes that less likely.
So. If you’re a fat-hating bigot, STFU.
Lex
@Joey Maloney: +1.
Lex
Also, even when a reporter tried to ask a question of Obama recently while Obama was making a statement, Obama called him out pretty sharply but didn’t personally abuse him.
Maybe he should have.
joeytomato
Hey, NJ elected that grossly overweight obnoxious douchebag. So they own that decision! Basically doesn’t change my opinion of NJ and just reinforces the stereotype of a state full of people just like him.
Zak44
Separated at birth:
Chris Christie and Eric Cartman (“You will respect mah authoriteh!”)
Female on the Beach
behaving like a street punk, while republican, is Bold and Refreshing!
CW in LA
Remember that idiot working for Tucker Carlson who was a hero for repeatedly interrupting the president?
Something tells me this reporter won’t be treated the same way.
kuvasz
Any reporter worth his salt woulda’ said, “Answer the fucking question, moron!”
Christie would have shit himself in a cinniption fit.