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| Image by Getty Images via @daylife Governor Christie scolding a protester during campaign for presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. |
Nick looked up at the wall-mounted TV and the image of a roly-poly Governor Christie campaigning in shirtsleeves for Mitt Romney in New Hampshire and said, "Whatever he's eating, we're paying for it."
Christie's size surprised even the staff and patients such as Nick in the cardiac rehab unit at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center this morning -- and they've seen it all.
Doesn't Christie have a personal trainer, one nurse asked. But the governor won't say how much he weighs or whether he's lost weight, a patient said.
You can see a photo of the media's favorite fat slob on A-6 of The Record today -- the continuation of a Page 1 story reporting Christie lashed out at an Occupy movement protester who accused the GOP bully of killing jobs.
Since Christie took office, The Record and other media have time and again praised his brash Jersey style -- as if this is now the only qualification for governor -- and forgiven his mean-spirited budget cuts, huge toll-and-fare increases and his assault on the middle-class way of life in the Garden State.
GOP comedy team
You can't see it in The Record photo, but on TV, Christie was a few inches shorter than the fashionably thin Romney, who is leading in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
They're a modern-day Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but the biggest joke is on voters.
Another story on A-1 reports NJ Transit took a $297 million bath after Christie killed the Hudson River rail-tunnel project, another $95 million was paid to settle a repayment demand from federal officials and nearly $1.2 million went for legal fees (A-6).
No attempt was made to get comment from Christie.
Sports trumps news
On Jan. 9, 2011, the day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords survived an attempted assassination that killed six in Tucson, Ariz., The Record's front page was dominated by the photo of an athlete, squeezing the Giffords story under a 1-column headline.
Today, a year later, the front page is again dominated by the big photo of an athlete, thanks to interim Editor Douglas Clancy, who thinks sports is going to sell papers.
But I guess Clancy also is telling readers they have to love all that sports has given us:
Overweight fans who drink as much beer and eat as many ribs as possible before every game, as shown on L-1 today; perverted coaches who molest young boys, obscene salaries that shock the conscience and, in Wayne, the arrest of nine thugs on one high school football team.
The third element on A-1 today is a story by the nursing home reporter, Colleen Diskin, whose last byline was Dec. 27, 2011. Diskin once wrote the Mother Load column.
Food for thought
Don't look for a Hackensack, Teaneck or Englewood report or much other local news today.
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes spent all her time raiding tailgate parties on Sunday in East Rutherford -- then plastered the fans' bacchanal all over her Local front in place of any legitimate local news.
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