Please explain the media love for Chris Christie. Joey Scar, now Dana Millbank:

[chimpymustgo]

Chris Christie isn't pretty, and he tells ugly truths

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, February 16, 2011; 8:00 PM

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Christie, however, is talking about it. "You're going to have to raise the retirement age for Social Security," he said. "Whoa-ho! I just said it, and I'm still standing here. I did not vaporize into the carpeting, and I said it."

He resumed: "We have to reform Medicare because it costs too much and it is going to bankrupt us. Once again, lightning did not come through the windows and strike me dead!"

At home, Christie has been a skunk in the Garden State. He's made a long list of enemies: from the bitter 2007 campaign, his killing of the Hudson River tunnel, his sitting out a recent snowstorm in Florida and his gleeful fights with the unions. He recounted with unseemly pleasure his speech to 7,500 Jersey firefighters after proposing to cut their pensions. "I was booed lustily," he said, after suggesting that the firefighters had been drinking alcohol at lunch. "I made my way up to the stage, they booed some more. I got to the microphone, they booed some more. I said, 'Come on, you can do better than that' - and they did!"

His reception in Washington was rather more favorable. Political journalists crowded into the room for his appearance, taking notes so furiously on their laptops that it sounded like rain.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/16/AR2011021605970.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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I know he's carrying water for the right-wing corporate masters, thus media support...but, seriously, why do they think this quite unattractive bully is the guy to git-'er-done?

[Atman]

1. When people used to trash him they got called fattie-haters.

Now he's just a big cuddly bear. A bear that's gonna eat you for lunch and shit you out, then say it was all your fault.

[Orrex]

2. I'd like to see him "bravely" renounce military spending with the same heretical enthusiasm

What an asshole.

[rocktivity]

3. You're going to have the raise the salary cap for paying social security

if you want to ensure the system's solvency, make the richest pay their fair share, and lower everyone's rate. There, I said it.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[chimpymustgo]

4. Rocktivity tells the HARD TRUTHS!!!

[VWolf]

5. Maybe because he's the only repub

that's not currently involved in a sex scandal?

[CTyankee]

6. hmmm, visualize this guy naked and comin' atcha!

Uh, no...