Thank you, Joy BEHAR. Video of CHRISTIE sealing his fate as TOAST by "getting physical" with her

[UTUSN]

However his legal situation turns out, his verbal and near physical assaulting is no longer a semblance of "cute" as in the early press conferences. The DUer/onehandle's previous thread with the New Yorker profile has set his problem with anger management in stone. It will be out there for any future opponent to use, and the video of him performing aggression on 71 yr old woman BEHAR is icing on the cement.

The link says Tweety showed this last week. I haven't watched him in years and just read about it in onehandle's thread today. Sorry if this is old news.

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http://gawker.com/watch-chris-christie-get-really-mad-at-joy-behar-over-a-1560909561
[font size=5]Watch Chris Christie Get Really Mad at Joy Behar Over a Roast Joke[/font]

Chris Christie has long portrayed himself as someone who makes the "tough decisions" normal politicians can't—who stands up to society's leeches and tells them to stop sucking away taxpayer blood—a warrior who'll go toe-to-toe with anyone on either side of the aisle...unless that person is 71-year-old daytime television host Joy Behar.

Ryan Lizza's profile of Christie in this week's issue of The New Yorker opens with a long anecdote set at a recent roast of ex-New Jersey governor Brendan Byrne. As Lizza tells it, most of the comedians paid to tell jokes at the roast focused heavily on Christie, which is unsurprising considering he's a current and famous politician who also happens to be in the midst of a political scandal that could sink his presidential ambitions.

One of the roasters was Joy Behar, whom your mother knows from The View. Behar is a veteran stand up comic, but, as a creature of daytime television, comes across as pretty harmless.

In the video of the roast, which was shown on television by Chris Matthews last week, Christie attempts to wrench away Behar's notes before she even gets a chance to tell her jokes. The crowd seems to laugh along nervously as the comedian and sitting governor of the state get into what essentially amounts to a physical confrontation on stage. Eventually, Behar shouts him down, calls him a "coward" and says his political career is "toast."

Of all the things that should disqualify Chris Christie from being president, "getting legitimately offended by Joy Behar" is at least in the top three.

(via Huffington Post)


(from onehandle’s thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024794607
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/04/08/new-yorker-profiles-chris-christie
[font size=5]New Yorker Profiles Chris Christie. And it isn’t pretty.
"By the time you get to the end of it, I bet you’ll find yourself asking the same question I did: How could we ever have taken this bully seriously as a Presidential candidate?"[/font]


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_lizza
[font size=5]CROSSING CHRISTIE[/font]

.... Joy Behar, the former co-host of “The View,” was even more pointed. “When I first heard that he was accused of blocking off three lanes on the bridge, I said, ‘What the hell is he doing, standing in the middle of the bridge?” After another barb, Christie interrupted her. “This is a Byrne roast,” he said. He stood up and tried to grab her notes. The audience laughed awkwardly. “Stop bullying me,” Behar said as he sat down. Christie said something out of earshot and Behar responded, “Why don’t you get up here at the microphone instead of being such a coward?” Christie stood up again and moved in front of the lectern as Behar retreated.  “At least I don’t get paid for this,” he said.

Christie sat down and Behar continued, though she was noticeably rattled. “I really don’t know about the Presidency,” she said. “Let me put it to you this way, in a way that you’d appreciate: You’re toast.” ....

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[Raffi Ella]

1. HA!

That was AWEsome.

[woolldog]

2. I don't see the big deal here.

Looks like they were both playing around.

[KeepItReal]

7. Christie tried and did verbally and physically intimidate Joy Behar

He was not playing around and she was just trying to deliver her monologue.

You see she was not able to finish with Christie all in her grill.

[woolldog]

12. They were sparring verbally.

Is that unusual for a roast?

Behar didn't look intimidated to me.

[oneofthe99]

8. I agree until the very end , he was not amused when she said he was toast

[MrModerate]

9. Christie is angry much (most) of the time . . .

That's both unattractive and disquieting. The trait will, luckily for the rest of us, keep him out of the White House.

[rpannier]

13. With you on that

It's a celebrity roast and the were sparring verbally.
I think the 'bully' comment was being funny
I must have missed the physical attack

[Politicalboi]

3. I didn't find him to be angry

He looked like he was going along with the jokes till she said he was toast, then his face changed. I still can't stand the guy, and hope he goes to jail over bridgegate, and Sandy funds.

[UTUSN]

6. The first thing she said was, "Don't look at me like that, you're scaring me."&his physical crowding

her and the ugly comments about "getting paid" were crude. Now, it would be almost unimaginable that he would actually physically assault her in a room full of witnesses and cameras, but it is way beyond "playing around." As somebody posted in the other thread, it was significant that of the half dozen comedians gigging him, he picked on the woman.

Far be it for one of *my* threads to be the source for making it a "big deal". O'LOOFAH and the rest of the wingnuts already detest and dismiss BEHAR, but somebody might ask Rick LAZIO (who?!1) about the results of invading Hillary's personal space.

Here are some more excerpts from the New Yorker piece:

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.... ...Christie was seated next to former Governor Thomas Kean, a longtime supporter, but he did not say hello or shake his hand, and he glared at the comedians as they delivered their lines. ....

Just five months earlier, Christie had won a sweeping reëlection, securing nineteen of New Jersey’s twenty-one counties, sixty per cent of the vote, and endorsements from Democratic officeholders. He won fifty-one per cent of the Hispanic vote and twenty-one per cent of the African-American vote. ...

Christie managed to offend Adelson, who is a major supporter of the conservative Likud Party, in Israel, by publicly referring to the “occupied territories,” a term to which Adelson objects. ....

“He doesn’t always try to persuade you with reason,” Kean said. “He makes you feel that your life’s going to be very unhappy if you don’t do what he says.” He added that one of Christie’s flaws “is that he makes enemies and keeps them. ...” ....

...impression of Christie as the U.S. Attorney. “Scared shit of him!” he said. “The guy was on a mission.” ....

Christie turned his attention to Robert Menendez, then a Jersey City congressman, who was running for the Senate against the former Governor’s son, Thomas Kean, Jr. .... Kean ran ads describing Menendez as “under federal criminal investigation.” Menendez won the race, but he became an implacable enemy of Christie. It took him five years to secure a letter from the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, where the case had been transferred, clearing him of any wrongdoing. ....

The lines between Christie’s political campaign and the work of the prosecutors often seemed blurry. ....

The greatest danger to Christie’s political future comes from Paul Fishman, his successor as U.S. Attorney, who is conducting a criminal investigation into the Fort Lee lane closures. The circle of people who could potentially coöperate with Fishman and offer damaging information about Christie keeps expanding. ....

“If you cross Christie, he’ll come back at you, even years later. So his people might have picked up that kind of thing.” ....

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[rocktivity]

4. If it was a Byrne roast, shouldn't HE have been sitting where Christie was?

Joy should have apologized for bullying him, and explained it was due to her having been "jilted" by Current TV!


rocktivity

[spanone]

5. she was fearless and called him a bully and toast.

[Raffi Ella]

15. Yup.

The way she said "You're toast" was stated as fact, it was a raw moment of truth: It was not up for discussion. Christie knows it's true. Everybody in the room knows it's true.

[Iliyah]

10. Corporate media's darling is not looking so good, oh well

they have another JEB B. What a effing nightmare.

[mountain grammy]

11. She stood right up to him, good for Joyce!

[progressoid]

14. Sealed his fate? Nah.

More of the same from him. He was like that before and the voters seemed to be ok with it.

[Octafish]

16. ''Let me put it to you this way, in a way that you’d appreciate: You’re toast.''

Who knew?

[Cha]

17. Thank you for this, UTUSN! Excellent thread! I missed

onehandle's OP on this article.

The New Yorker piece by Ryan Lizza is excellent and many thanks to Joy Behar!

[mucifer]

18. christie IMO didn't take it well at all. Compare it to Colbert roasting george w bush

bush looked a little uncomfortable, but he didn't get all intimidating the way christie did.

[UTUSN]

19. T-y - COLBERT was the absolute best at the "correspondents" dinner n/t