Given the recent polls showing his big lead in the state, it’s likely Mitt Romney will win the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night. But he decided to bring in his big guns anyway.
So up from New Jersey came Governor Chris Christie, who many conservatives wish could be the front-runner that the ill-supported Romney would then endorse. As Christie was speaking on behalf of “President Romney” at the rally on Sunday, a small group of female hecklers began yelling “Christie kills jobs! Christie kills jobs!” from the back of the room. “Really?,” the governor said incredulously.
He then launched into one of his patented open-mic zingers: “You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart.” Watch the video here:
Lest you think that’s some sort of gotcha! “macaca moment” for Christie, that video was uploaded directly to the New Jersey GOP’s YouTube account. Zinger pride!
Many professional and amateur pundits on the web and on Twitter are knocking Christie for his offensively sharp tongue and sexist remarks, but we won’t do that here. What he said wasn’t exactly sexist — it was crude, sure, but it wasn’t sexist. Do women give blow jobs? Just ask Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton about the place of oral sex in politics.
Christie was heckled in a public forum. He has every right to go after whomever is disparaging his character — and these women were clearly doing that. Was it professional? Probably not. But he isn’t running for president, and he wasn’t overt enough to insult our prude sensibilities.
You don’t want to be the butt of a harmless joke? Don’t heckle those on stage. These women are lucky (and Romney is, too) that Christie didn’t go all George Carlin on them, screaming “Would somebody put a dick in that girl’s mouth, please? ‘Cuz that’s what she wants.”
THIS is how you handle a heckler (not even remotely safe for work):
Or maybe he should have gone all Bill Hicks on these women (also not safe for work):
Sure, Christie is a politician and not a comedian, and the audiences are different. But in this day and age, does that even matter? Why can’t a politician act like a normal person?
Chris Christie has his faults. Mitt Romney has his faults. But you know how that whole episode would have been avoided? If these women didn’t heckle the people on stage and expect nothing in return.
Let’s wait to crucify Christie for this until he goes Full Carlin or Full Hicks.
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