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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