Chris Christie, Paragon of Respectful Sensitivity, Does Not Like Fat Jokes


Chris Christie is really mad at State Sen. Barbara Buono, his opponent for governor, for making fat jokes.

Buono made the comments in a speech that surfaced on YouTube last week, at a campaign event where she was criticizing Christie for making decisions to appeal to the national conservative base, rather than New Jersey. Slamming Christie for starring in a state-funded ad campaign to promote the Jersey Shore, she said: “Now I don’t know about you, but seeing Chris Christie frolicking on the beach is not going to drive me to go to the shore.”

“The fact that someone running for governor would make derisive comments about someone’s physical appearance I think is really beneath the office she’s seeking, and I’m disappointed that she’s done it, but she’s playing out of the Corzine playbook in that way and many other ways, too,” Christie said.

We’re not big into fat jokes either—possibly being too large a target for such humor ourselves—but Chris, baby, if you can’t stand the insult-humor heat, stay out of the kitchen.