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Christie Appears On Morning Joe, Responds To 'Throwing His Weight Around' Attack
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Chris Christie appeared today on Morning Joe, where he got a great reception as he and the hosts slammed Democratic Jon Corzine's ads saying that Christie "threw his weight around" to get out of trouble in traffic violations.
"Listen, it's silly," said Christie. "But if you had Jon Corzine's record -- highest unemployment in 33 years, highest tax burden state in America, highest property taxes in America, I mean, you'd want to talk about anything but that. And so -- you know, but the great thing about it is they deny they're talking about my weight."
Jim Cramer, chimed in, slamming Corzine for attacking Christie as "a fat, sleazy guy with a corrupt family who's against mammograms."
Interestingly, this comes a week after Joe Scarborough attacked Christie for being afraid to come on the show. What did he have to worry about?
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Ann Arbor
October 14, 2009 10:37 AM
Would you be happier if Corzine recut the ads to say you abused your authority?
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acf_ma
October 14, 2009 11:12 AM
Highest unemployment in 33 years. Isn't that the outcome of the Bush/Republican years of economic policy?
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billp
October 14, 2009 11:45 AM
It's so terrible when a fat cat politician, who loads up bills with pork so that he can gorge himself at the public trough, is lampooned for being physically obese.
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commie atheist
October 14, 2009 1:50 PM in reply to billp
This whole thing has been blown up way out of proportion. Aren't there weightier issues that could be discussed? The American people have had a steady diet of this kind of gross, bloated rhetoric for far too long.
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EH
October 14, 2009 12:40 PM
Love Cramer's backhanded compliment. "Corzine is totally wrong to call you fat and sleazy. Next thing you know he'll be calling you a baby-raper, which we all of course know is not true."
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sconset
October 14, 2009 12:44 PM
Christie exceeded his reach so many times when he was the AG for NJ....he's Rove's and Chimpy's boy....he did their political bidding. I hope he goes down in flames.
I mean really, who is watching much less listening to Joe "when I was in Congress" Scarborough and his goofy sidekick, hasbeen Mika. She's lucky she has a job.
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GTFOOH
October 14, 2009 3:21 PM
When you need Jim Cramer to help you knock down fat jokes...
...Just saying!
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