Originally Posted by janmcn

President Obama handles hecklers all the time in a civilized way. I missed the whole incident Gov Christie was involved in except for Christie's tirade which was on the news. Regardless of Brown's background, viewers only got to see an arrogant bully. Did Brown call him fatso?

No, but you did....assume you are lean and mean !!!!

Originally Posted by captg

Richie, you should know better than to react without counting to ten.

I'm getting at bit weary of the personal comments. Why can't people stick to the topic.

Too often I'M the topic.

I know I have an extremely dynamic personality that is hard to ignore, but people got to get over it.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

I'm getting at bit weary of the personal comments. Why can't people stick to the topic.

Too often I'M the topic.

I know I have an extremely dynamic personality that is hard to ignore, but people got to get over it.

I am with you on the personal comments. I am now handling it different.instead of 'lecturing", I am going to be as sarcastic as I can.

I posted a comment which was open to discussion on the pipeline, and seems the only comments have been referring to "stupid" and "fat"

Originally Posted by Bucco

SPOT ON....politics aside..and I mean that. And it looked like he said "idiot" sort of to himself and after the guy was led out.

This from the Daily News which I will link but paste the pertinent parts....man tried to answer his question TWICE but kept being interrupted....

"Christie began to explain the plan, when Brown shouted "what about my son? What about my neighbors? What about my friends?"

That's when Christie became slightly agitated, but continued his explanation. When Brown, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the State Assembly last year, interrupted again, the governor became irate.

Eventually, Brown was escorted from the meeting by police.

"Let me tell you something, after you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear end is going to be thrown in jail, idiot," Christie shouted as Brown was led away.

Read more: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie calls Navy veteran an

This sounds like more of the same stuff we saw and heard during the hundreds of "town hall meetings" prior to the vote on health care reform last year.

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