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Chris Christie Blasts Media for ‘Careless, Awful Reporting’: I Didn’t Call the President, ‘The President Called Me’

Nov. 9, 2012 10:08pm Jason Howerton

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hold a press briefing on storm recovery efforts at Berkeley Elementary School in Westwood, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (Credit: AP)

New Jersey governor Chris Christie blasted the media during a news conference on Friday over “careless, awful” reporting regarding Superstorm Sandy and his interactions with President Barack Obama, CBS Philly reports.

When asked about a price gouging lawsuit filed in Bergen County, Christie set the record straight, telling reporters “you guys are starting to really misreport things. We were not part of the lawsuit.”

The New Jersey governor then took a swing at Bloomberg for reporting — incorrectly — that he called President Obama earlier this week to congratulate him on his election victory but only emailed GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

“Bloomberg had some incredibly careless reporting yesterday, saying that I called the president yesterday to congratulate him on his victory — absolutely careless, awful reporting,” Christie said. “Listen guys, people take the stuff you write seriously and I try to speak with real precision behind this microphone. So don’t report that I called the president when I didn’t; the president called me.”

“Christie set the record straight saying President Obama calls him every day and at the start of the call in question he did congratulated him and moved on to discuss the situation at hand,” CBS Philly reports.

Presumably, Christie meant the president has called him every day since Hurricane Sandy tore through his state, but the CBS affiliate did not clarify.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:43pm
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Isn’t Christie up for re-election next year (2013)?
He will have a hard time getting votes.

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- dealer@678
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:15pm
  If Obama called Christie it tells me they found a sucker
  
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- Saving_the_Republic.com
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:16pm
  Chris “Krispy Kreme” Christie keeps leaving out the fact that since he praise of the Emperor photo-op things are still bad in NJ. I have family there so I know for a fact. He is not who you think he is I suggest everyone tak e a look at the expose` done on him by conservativenewjeresy.com Krisypy Kreme is great for video one liners but thats about it, he is more liberal leaning than right.
  
  I suggest folks in NJ consider kicking him out b/c last I heard aside from the lack of help in NJ tax issues there havent gotten better either
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:00am
  SaveTheRepublic: I feel bad for your relatives up north but unless you live here you really can’t comment on the job he’s done.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:03am
  Why would Obama call him unless it was to say Thank You for another 4 years.
  
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- the_system_disconnect
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:23am
  Yeah, we heard you, Christie. Very precisely. Snot nosed suckup… Don’t even try to run in 2016.
  
  libertarian tea
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:00am
  bullsh-t — He’s in Jersey… He’ll get votes… They get down wiff da OPP der…
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:14am
  The RINO Christie never stood a chance on the national stage anyway.
  
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- Simonne
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 4:10am
  I think Christie will have a problem on a national level is he remains a Republican but he is a good governor & I can’t see why he wouldn’t be re-elected. If the Republicans don’t vote for him in NJ, they would end up with lot worse just like the Republicans who didn’t vote in the presidential election. I guess if they were stupid enough to stay house, they could do the same with NJ. Anyway, I’m done with Christie.
  
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- TD_news
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 4:46am
  At least he set the record straight. I know exactly what the communist/socialist media was doing. To tear apart the Republican Party. At least now we know exactly what happened. I’ll wait for concrete facts before I render any judgments about Christie from now on.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:17am
  This is why the republican party is going to become irrelavent….becasue of back stabbing people like you. What did Chrsitie do that was so bad? You guys will throw anyone under the bus that doesnt agree with 100% of what you crazy right wingers believe…youre all hypocrites and are dooming the republican party. Its people like you that see everything as black and white that will casue the dems to win every presidential election going forward unless you chage youre rigid ways, have some compassion, decency and honesty…and stop with all the anger….its not atractive to those who are in the middle….thats why you lost.
  
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- jakartaman
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:37am
  Fatso’s career just went way off the tracks.
  Stupidity has consequences.
  People do not like turn coats – both libs and cons
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 6:44am
  It’s called marginalization. Christie didn’t put up with any bullcrap, and now they’ve found the “right” way to deal with him. Get the morons who are emotional about the election to use him as a scapegoat, and blame him for the loss of the Presidency. It worked in Nazi Germany, it works in Alinsky-esque tactics as well. I don’t know how many of those who post on this site are Liberals posing as Conservatives, but I’d say it would not be a stretch to say that it may be many.
  
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- not funny
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 7:26am
  He didn’t deny “weeping” after talking with Springsteen (who was on Air Force One) after Bruce told him that he was happy that they could be friends now after his praise for Obama.
  
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- mycomet123
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:04am
  What if he had called? “Oh my God’ how unchristian of you Chris to actually have called him. Don’t you no that as a christian you are suppose to be as nasty as you cant to him just like Jesus was to the prostitues & all the rest of those “evil sinner people”.
  
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- HowardSternIsABigot
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:21am
  The stupid fat bastard is thinking its better if obama just played him for a fat bastard fool? He is a fool.
  
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:28am
  Hey Chris it’s Barry,thanks for the help
  
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- PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:36am
  The fat bastard is all can say!
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:57am
  @ Dose of reality. Funny, you just described everything liberals lack these days. Gone are the democrats of the Kenndy era. Barry has turned the left into an angry, intolerant, hateful group. Don’t believe me? Just turn on MSNBC or read the NYT any time a Republican or conservative is mentioned. Just look on here on The Blaze for the post about the barry supporters and their “compasionate, decent and honest” comments about Isreal! Time to remove the rose-colored glasses about liberals. The party has become completely corrupt.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:27am
  HappyConservative….seriously, youre blind. Look at the comments on ANY story on the Blaze about virtually anything…they are full of anger, vitriol, bigotry and lies. There is zero compassion for your fellow human beings….and this is coming frm people who call themselves Christians….you are a bunch of whining hypocrites. Seriously….compare the posters here vs say the Huffingtonpost and you will see the difference…..just try it.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:31am
  HappyConservative – let me add childish insults to that list – just look below if you need examples. You have become the party of anti-intellectual neandtherthals trying to cling onto the past that no longer exists…you guys are doomed unless you change. Which is sad becasue the party of small government needs to be heard to balance out the dems, but you are not going to attract intelligent, educated people to support those arguments unless you let go and come into the 21st century…grow up!!!
  
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- joey g
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 11:23am
  we the tea party have a great deal of power…we are over 50 million strong ..we might not have enough numbers of drones like the democrats….but we do have the truth, dedication , honor, we have lost the country and it may not ever return….. but we can make clowns like christie kiss our rears for votes…soooo have fun watching these dispectable people pucker up next election…
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:42pm
  or moving anywhere
  
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- WhitePaladin1
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:52pm
  The mere sight of this fat Benedict Arnold makes me wretch almost as much as having to endure the sound of barack hussein’s traitorous, lying voice. I hope others will join me in donating money to the campaign of whoever runs against this traitor to the Republican party. His political career is over…unless of course he comes out of the liberal closet. (As if he can fit into a closet to begin with!) This man helped sway the most important election of our lifetime to a victory for vile people who have contempt for this country and about half the people living in it; A CURSE ON THIS TRAITOR!
  
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- butler180
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:54pm
  No he won’t. NJ is a Dem. state and hugging Dem’s will make him a shoe-in
  
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- DDD
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 12:41pm
  Chump-Christie. Apparently Obama is not calling NY’s governor every day!
  
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- iDeStroyFakeComPuterTroLLS
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 7:01pm
  This fat slob needs to be quiet. The GOP are being exposed now. They played to lose. Stop trusting these people. And start looking at the grass roots movement and the tea party. The REAL Tea Party. We must adopt ideas off Ron Paul. Stop listening to these Rhinos!! They are frauds
  
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KangarooJack
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:40pm
Oh, what’s that quote from the movie ‘Backdraft’ about seeing a blinking light in the corner of your eye?

Christie, Elephants AND tea drinkers have LONG memories!

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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 7:34am
  yes it was a hard loss to dictator obama and yes we wont forget christie parading obama around the storm area on TV. i do believe it helped obama to win and this i wont forget or forgive. for the most part i plan to tune out obama and pay closer attention to local issues, we have an repub gov and house and senate here in PA. i will be writing my state reps like i already did on obamacare and they have a plan to fight it. STATES have rights, write to your state reps. write to your US senators regarding the UN small arms treaty.
  
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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 8:43pm
  “That light you see in the corner of your eye, that’s your career dissipation light going into overdrive!” — Emmett Walsh to Kurt Russell.
  
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dealer@678
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:39pm
Admit it you dumbass. You got played

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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 7:40am
  He may have called you Chris but you sexted him first. You are done Chris, switch parties and be done with it.
  
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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Christie got to play straight man for the comedy that is Obama. Obama played him well and got all the hurricane coverage he needed! Obama did his duty, Got his picture in the paper and bought a few extra votes! Knew who Obama was, and this proves who Christie is!
  
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GoingBeck
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:38pm
Chris Christie has no political future. Over with. Done. Finito.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:12pm
  i dont believe that for a second…..
  
  Remember 2007-2008….Remember bank bailouts and Obamacare?? And then just a couple years later the GOP nominates the guy who initially supported stimulus, supported the bank bailouts, and was the creator of the individual mandate. Just a few days ago, 59 million republicans voted for him to be president
  
  If history is our guide, Christie is a shoe-in to be the GOP nominee in 2016
  
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- PurpleStatePeopleEater
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:04am
  Kind of like the GOP
  
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- rbianco
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:13am
  I agree, he may get re-elected as NJ Governor but he can kiss any chance of being president goodbye unless of course he runs as a democrat.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:35am
  Right, because he put politics aside and worked with members of the other party to solve a problem. He didn’t just lie and say that was what he wanted to do. He actually did it. And you think that is going to hurt him because you really believe that’s what the majority of voters DON’T want. You think that when you read what voters have to say, and they all say they want politicians to put the good of the people above politics and work together to solve problems, those are just crackpots and weirdos, and that the majority of normal people are just like you. They would rather see nothing ever get done than to see a problem get solved and people you don’t agree with on every issue getting some of the credit.
  
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- TROONORTH
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:15am
  Thanks Chet. Saved me a lot of typing. You are exactly right.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:39pm
  yay we can make fat jokes about him and make him look like a fat lazy slob of a pig to make him lose the election, won’t that be fun and funny.
  
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JeffDouglas
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:38pm
Hey Christie Kream, nobody cares who called who for what. We just couldn’t help noticing the reach-around you gave Obama and Springsteen after the fact. Next time, if it’s not too much trouble, get a room and keep it in private for the good of humanity.

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- Al J Zira
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:02am
  Wow. There are no words.
  
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- Celeste.Christi
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 5:17am
  My thoughts exactly. You sucked it Christie – You own it.
  
  PS Chunky: No one cares which of you girls called first.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:35pm
In light of Christie’s recent actions, it is very likely he will be the GOP nominee in 2016. How could the progressive establishment resist???

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- dealer@678
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:40pm
  I’ll vote for Biden
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:46pm
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  If he keeps gaining weight, he may not even still be alive in 2016.
  He’s already nearly as wide as he is tall.
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:19am
  Dealer: You don’t really think the DNC is going to let Biden run for office in 2016, do you? Hillary is an obvious choice but she may be just a retread to many. I would wait and see who the DNC rolls out to the media on a constant basis to the media. That will be their golden boy/girl.
  
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rtaylor174
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:33pm
Ok Fat Boy, just plug another cripsy creme in your ***** licker and calm down.

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OHN
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:32pm
I am sure he did call you TO SAY THANK’S. YOU DUM ASS

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OHN
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:30pm
I am sure he did call you TO SAY THANK’S YOU DUM ASS

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Jhooks
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:29pm
Never liked this guy. He will go no further in politics unless, of course, he formally declares himself a democrat.

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OHN
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:28pm
I am sure he did call you. TO SAY THANK’S YOUR A DUM ASS.

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tommyr
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:27pm
Would not be surprised if Jumbo changes that R to a D at the end of his name. He may be stupid enough to get scammed by the bamster but no so stupid to believe he has any chance at all in seeking the white house as a republican.

Way to poop all over your political aspirations.

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BoehnerMustGo
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:23pm
Christie… your like a big, f@t, blubbering girly whale…… you got used for 5 min of fame for Obama and your too stupid to realize it still. Obama and his crew are laughing at you still…..they said “Bend Over” and you didnt even blink an eye…. guess you do believe if “Foward”. Your a joke to the Dems and the Repubs now too.

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- fourwheelingking
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:34pm
  How did Christie get used? NJ got their funding they wanted. Mission accomplished by Christie.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:23pm
A RINO first class!!

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sooze0711
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:21pm
This Rhino, I mean RINO, wasn’t get any votes from me anyway, ever.

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possom
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:21pm
OOOOOOO Rahm Emanuel is going to be so jealous!

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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:21am
  I know, he sounds like a 14 year old girl in an argument over her Facebook page.
  
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ThoreauHD
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:19pm
Why would the President call him to congratulate himself? What?

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- sooze0711
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:23pm
  Stop, my stitches are going to bust…
  
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- fourwheelingking
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:32pm
  President Obama called Chris Christie, Chris Christie congratulated him on his victory.
  
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Vanguard
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:17pm
Liar.

Obama won, I get it, do you? A local leader sold out his State of NJ… and it’s filthy. A local leader who thinks he can do an end run on a President (in 4 years) while he sells out his base.

The local leader wants his fiefdom. The local leader wants a certain impunity from the law so he can “manage” his welfare state the way he wants to… like a prince.

The local leader thinks that when the President is done with his second term he can stab him in the back and win the Grand Prize! I say, this Mussolini who gave away his people to a Hitler does not know or understand history.

I cleaned up two houses today in the wake of a hurricane and the filth I stepped in was nothing compared to the filth that transpired as of late.

May God help them both.

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BoehnerMustGo
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:16pm
WHAM….BAM….THANK YOU MA’AM…..hows it feel Fat B@st@rd? You just got used…. BIG TIME.

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- TelepromoterNChief
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 9:31am
  Par for he course with fat chicks.
  No one wants them other than during the week.
  
  Kris Krispie is a traitor.
  
  Enjoy diabetes fatty.
  
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bigbear_awake
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:15pm
WHY NOT TELL THE press to report the thuth on bho then

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The0bserver
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:15pm
We’re through with you, Christie — through, done, over. You didn’t have to lick the boot to get aid. There were other ways. And your timing couldn’t have been worse. You are no leader, just a Quisling. Ain’t votin’ for ya’ ever, pal. Not ever.

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Rashomon
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:15pm
obama called, said grease up dat a$$

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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:15pm
I hope you guys remember these times, cuz in 2015 this guy will be telling you what a great republican he is and Ann Coulter will be all over the media singing his praises

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- The0bserver
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:27pm
  I, for one, shall never forget.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:41pm
  he will be so easy to make fun of and make him look like a fat lazy pig.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:12pm
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Just shut up Chris. In my eyes, you betrayed Mitt Romney and the Republican party.

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ClaudeRains
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:11pm
What a turd you are Kristy.

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- 1911CK
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:22pm
  you better hope you win re-election in nj, otherwise you might as well be flying a c-130 full of rubber dogs **** out of hong kong, i.e. you’re finished. fat bastard
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on November 11, 2012 at 1:25pm
  You could call billy chris. Hes a begger too. Cry together
  
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