Wait–is there still time for AIPAC to put him back on their conference speaker list?

I see this one as demeaning either way–if he’s calling the guy a boy, miserable. And if he’s pretending he’s his friend, maybe worse, especially after telling him he can knock his tonsils out. He may have been trying to recover from the first by cozying up with the second–FAIL.

Typical Christie. Large and in charge, a natural bully.

The phrasing is all kinds of bad. Not “Boy, I hear you.” But “I hear you boy.”

But but the republicans aren’t racist just ask them.

Christy is a bush bully who took over a US attorney general position, when the 16 were fired, to carry out bushs’ agenda.

If the person in question does not look young like a boy then I think Chris is in trouble. On the other hand this should get him some racist Cred he needs to win a GOP Presidential Primary.

Fat Guys who resemble beached whales really should be careful about insults.

After Chris was not invited to that Christian Conference thing recently because he cooperated with Obama about Hurricane relief. Note I doubt that Chris was not really Conservative or Christian enough to get an invite to speak there and certainly he has some of the best poll numbers of any speaker that they had at the Christian conference so I think being nice to Obama was the reason for the diss.
So Chris is doing some racist damage control this is a PR stunt to make him more appealing to racist voters. I expect Jeb Bush to do something similar any day now.

This actually happened in a church.

Double Racist points

Wait a minute. This sounds like a voice yelling out from a crowd. So um, how is it that the governor knows the race of the person yelling?

Oh come on. He wasn’t being racist.

Thanks:))))))))))))))) Yep repugs winning the hearts and minds.

Just reading the post – not having viewed the clip yet – I wondered if it wasn’t being played up… then I saw the clip. The comment was racist.

Typical Christie. Large and in charge, a natural bully.

Well said.

Poster = “dumb as a rock”? Or just a non-native English speaker?

If I say “boy, I feel bad today”, do I have to look around to find someone I’m being racist too? Am I being ageist to myself? Is our children’s parents lurnin’?

Note the “boy” came at the beginning of his 2nd phrase – pause after first, so it’s an exclamation like “gee”, not a vocative for person addressed, “sir” or “kid”.

BTW, why is it okay to make fun of Christie’s weight while saying insensitivity to race is wrong?

People jumping the shark every day, for fun, profit, shits & giggles…

You are born with your race, you eat your way into the great physical shape of that bigot.

If I say “boy, I feel bad today”,

as compared to “Yeah I hear ya boy,”

Did you flunk high school English, or are you just playing stupid?

Given the Breitbarts of this world, the agents-provocateurs, etc., this is a case wherein I’d like to see the unedited tape.

It seems to me there is a timing glitch, a common product of editing, just before, and possibly also after, the word “boy.”

It’s difficult for me to ascertain whether we have an “I hear you boy; I hear you” or “I hear you; boy, I hear you.”

I wouldn’t put it past any modern self-identified Republican to be racist as hell, and I’m happy to think the worst of Christie, but this is not a slam-dunk, methinks…

I teach English, John J. Moron. Desider is right. Apparently you flunked both Endocrinology and Civility. So fuck you.

FDL, Take this garbage smear nonstory down. If this represents your standards of reporting and discussion, y’all are pitiful, however much I might generally agree with your views.

Boy-O-boy i don’t know what to make of this.

Considering how big that fat domino donut Christie is, everyone will look like a boy to him.

Ah the last socially acceptable form of bigotry, bashing overweight people. Enjoy, bigots. Karma’s a bitch.

Any nonpathetic FDL-ers here want to recommend another lefty site before I delete this garbage?

Well didn’t this Christy exposure bring out the trolls.

Humpy Dumpy had a great fall….

Wow DSW, you sure stirred it!

Two year gap in comments, false claims of expertise, same put-downs of the site….

Hmmm…troll?

I wish the clip above included the phrase or phrases after ” I hear ya, boy, I hear ya” because Christie’s intonation changed from the beginning of the I hear ya to the end. It seemed as if the last I hear ya was more sympathetic and fit more with “Boy, I hear ya”. However, the part preceding “I hear ya, boy” was angry and indicated a slur. We need more context to determine the meaning of this clip.

Oh, and I taught English too.

Sorry we crossed there ;-)

Agreed. I would have to give him a pass on that one, just because you really can’t tell. I would like to hear whether he uses “boy” as an exclamation at other times. It may just be an unfortunate group of phrases.

The edited repeats don’t help.

He’s still an asshole.

When I started reading, I thought he could have meant, “I hear ya {boyohboy, do I hear ya”).

Listening to the video, though, I agree that Christie referred to the man as “boy.”

I wonder why there was no push back then and there.

There are six or seven blue to purple states that currently have Republican Governors. CPAC invited only one of those Governors (the Florida Medicare grifter).

Republicans who run in those states–and maybe grew up in them–may have different views than those who grew up in deep red states, or at least have to give lip service to different views in order to get elected.

There is growing evidence that overweight has a genetic component.

I spent most of my life as a size 4, out-eating my husband by a lot. My son, however, ate about a third of what his classmates ate when we invited them, so I believe it.

Also, the cheapest calories tend to be the kind that put on weight fastest, including heavily processed foods with lots of additives.

Anyway, there are plenty of grounds on which to criticize Christie without going to his appearance.

Karma’s not alone in that!

Yep.

As the Republican clown car looked as though Romney would be the last guy out, Republicans were begging Christie to run.

Christie did not say no. Rather, he said “This is not my time.”

Republicans are not going to take kindly to put downs of one of their hopes for 2016, especially one who has a 75% approval rating in a blue state.

Perhaps RedState or The Blaze would be more your speed? Either way, go ahead and leave at any time, you won’t be missed.

Maybe, it was his son?

I have to agree with those who say the racial element of the story is perhaps being overplayed a bit here. Living in New Jersey, I feel safe in saying Christie is a dirty-dealing loud mouthed louse but probably one of the least racist and homophobic people inside the GOP mainstream. Is his behavior at town halls pugnacious, patronizing, demagogic and largely unacceptable? Yes. But to me this man, who will coast to re-election as he is an uncanny human manifestation of so much of what is wrong with this state, is smarter than to blow what will likely be a catastrophically successful push for public school privatizations in what has long been one of the most pro-union states in the country on a racist slip-up at a town hall.

To me more the fact that both Republicans and some Democrats here are advocating more wholesale privatizations of even what used to be firmly the domain of local government- public schools, mass transit, basic infrastructure and water- and that most members of the public are either receptive to these ideas or altogether comatose!

Overeating is one reason for being overweight, but there are more.