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| In the Fairway Market at Broadway and 74th Street in Manhattan, the New York "attitude" comes at no extra charge. |
Governor Christie's so-called town meeting in Garfield -- which dominates Page 1 of The Record today -- was nothing more than a glorified campaign stop.
Have you seen those Christie commercials heralding an alleged New Jersey "comeback" -- despite all the foreclosures, unemployment and eroding wages and benefits?
Are we stuck with him?
The GOP bully sounds like he is already running for a second term.
The only part of "comeback" that rings true is all the "come" from Christie screwing the middle class as he continues to pander to his wealthy supporters.
In Garfield on Wednesday, he ignored town residents, including the mother of Malik Williams, 19, who was killed in a Dec. 10 police shooting, and residents concerned about toxic chemicals seeping into their homes.
Today's A-1 photo of Christie is one of the most unflattering I've seen since he took office in January 2010, but The Record and other media are keeping hands off the obesity issue.
Readers don't even know whether the state is doing anything to fight childhood obesity -- as the media bow and scrape before the fat bastard with the big mouth.
"Obesity" has become the new sex, recalling how reporters kept secret the women John F. Kennedy smuggled into the White House.
Screwing commuters
Editor Marty Gottlieb and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes keep pounding away at the bloated salaries and perks at the Port Authority (A-1).
But the story they haven't told is how the bistate agency favors toll-paying drivers over bus and train commuters, who must stand in the aisles during the morning rush hour.
The PA has resisted for years adding a second bus lane to the Lincoln Tunnel and rolled over and played dead when Christie killed the Hudson River rail tunnels.
The agency's real constituency are the tens of thousands of drivers who are paying through the nose at bridges and tunnels -- supporting all those ridiculously high executive salaries and cost overruns on the new World Trade Center.
Screwing Hackensack
Sykes throws more crumbs at Hackensack readers -- another boring story about the criminal trial of suspended Police Chief Ken Zisa (L-3).
The obituary for Charles A. Cafasso of Fairway Market in Fort Lee fails to report that the Cafasso family's market predates the unrelated, New York-based Fairway Market chain (L-5).
And shoppers in the Fort Lee store don't have to weather the New York "attitude" familiar to anyone who shops at the chain's Paramus outpost.
Another tub of lard
I was looking for a correction of Wednesday's Better Living recipe, which called for 8 pounds of artery clogging lard, 4 pounds of mystery pork butt and a cup of teeth-rotting Coca-Cola (BL-2).
But they weren't typos.
Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill has quite a scam going, promoting cookbooks, urging readers to try some of the unhealthiest food on Earth and in the process, enriching herself and her husband, Ted Axelrod, who takes all her recipe photos.
Anyway, what reader would bother spending all that time and money making pork tacos at home when great ones are available at Rosa Mexicano in Hackensack and Las Maravillas de Tulcingo in Englewood.
And if you're looking for a break from all the mystery pork Sherrill is pushing, try a fish taco.
And if you're looking for a break from all the mystery pork Sherrill is pushing, try a fish taco.
