Jen Kuznicki
After an entire week of covering women who degrade women in the MI legislature, do I really have to tell Jen Rubin and Ann Coulter to try to find a better VP pick for Romney than Christie, especially after this interview?
I’m not a prude, but I expect a Governor to act like a statesman, we pay their salaries after all. But after months and months of Jen Rubin and Ann Coulter telling us that Chris Christie is the man to be VP, he’s so conservative and simply the best pick, Jeff Goldberg has an interview with him during a Springsteen concert and Christie feels free and easy with the f-word.
On occasion, he’ll make a public plea to Springsteen, as he did earlier this spring, when Christie asked him to play at a new casino in Atlantic City. “He says he’s for the revitalization of the Jersey Shore, so this seems obvious,” Christie told me. I asked him if he’s received a response to his request. “No, we got nothing back from them,” he said unhappily, “not even a ‘Fuck you.’”
Then later, while Springsteen, who, by the way, is a huge jerk for not acknowledging the Governor, gets on his soap box about what’s wrong with the nation, Goldberg reports,
It’s a tradition, like playing “Born to Run” with the house lights up. The band quiets, and Springsteen steps to the mic. I’m curious to see how Christie handles the homily. Springsteen has become an angry man over the past 10 years, angry at the sort of people—billionaires, to be precise—who gathered last summer in New York to try to persuade Christie to run for president.
Christie calls over to his brother, Todd—who made his money as a Wall Street trader—and says, “Attention please, it’s a lecture. Lecture time.” Springsteen begins to mumble in what the music critic Jody Rosen calls his “flat Dust Bowl Okie accent,” and I can’t make out a word he’s saying. I ask Christie if he understands him.
“You want to know what he’s saying?,” Christie asks. “He’s telling us that rich people like him are fucking over poor people like us in the audience, except that us in the audience aren’t poor, because we can afford to pay 98 bucks to him to see his show. That’s what he’s saying.”
Freedom of speech, man.
Sure Christie has the freedom to speak, but I believe it is conduct unbecoming the second-in-line, don’t you?
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