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Town Hall Attendant Asks Gov. Chris Christie If He Plants Questions, Gets Predictable Response

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Someone attempted to grill New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at a town hall again, and thanks to that brave (or some would say, attention-seeking) soul, the media has a new viral video of the Governor getting sassy with a constituent. This time, the town hall attendant asked whether the governor planted questions at town hall meetings, citing a situation where he saw someone ask a question at another event who claimed to be a friend of Christie’s. After scolding him for “wasting time,” Christie asked, “if I plant questions, why the hell did I call on you?”

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The event in question was a town hall in West New York, NJ, flanked by several mayors of Hudson County– including those of West New York, Weehawken, Hoboken, and my hometown of Union City– Christie took questions as he regularly did, but first laid down the ground rules. “If today is the day you decided that, because all these cameras are here, you want to show off… you want to take the governor of New Jersey for a walk, what you have to understand is that here, we are all from New Jersey.”

On that note, Christie took questions, including one from a gentleman who asked, “Do you or your staff ever plant questions at a town hall meeting?” After answering “no” and that he “barely remember[ed] being in Nutley,” the town in which the man asking claimed the planting occurred, he asked how the man got to an “understanding” that questions were planted. “I was sitting next to a woman who said she was a friend of yours,” the man explained, a woman named Candy who claimed to be a friend of the governor’s.

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“I don’t know who Candy is– I may have a friend named Candy– I don’t know who you’re talking about,” Christie replied, assuring the man that planting questions “doesn’t happen” and asking indignantly, “you really, in front of this group, with all the problems we have in this state– you’re wasting these people times with a question on whether we plan questions in the audience?” The audience applauding to that scolding, Christie ended with a rhetorical question for the man: “If I plant questions, why the hell did I call on you?”

The video via the Star-Ledger below:

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  • Henry Wood

    Does Chris Christie plant ham sandwiches and candy bars in the audience?

  • Moderate

    If we could only transplant Christie’s personalty into Romney.

  • Anonymous

    When scientists recently revealed they discovered the first true Earth-like planet I didn’t realize it was in New Jersey.

    Could Christie be any more ROUND?

  • Anonymous

    Discrimination against Christie’s weight is childishly hypocritical.

  • Anonymous

    If we pulled all childish discrimination out of American politics, then the GOP would have very little to talk about.

  • Anonymous

    If you look very closely you can see his 2 moons. One is a tiny little piece of bacon and the other meat loaf. They have been orbiting him for the last 3 years.

  • Anonymous

    I have no argument with you in that regard.

  • Anonymous

    Please post you and your family’s weight.  I suspect that this might be a case of the pot calling the kettle fat. 

  • Dr. Bumpy

    WTH is christie doing??
    ….he’s getting fatter !!

  • Anonymous

    this guy is a f in bully
    and this is the republican’s dream candidate?

  • Anonymous

    I think Herman Cain has a friend named “Candy.”  Christie has a lot of candies he’s friends with, like Snickers, Reese’s and nutter butter.

  • Henry Wood

    Chris Christie is fat, ignorant, hypocritical and nasty.  That’s about 70% of the republiklan base right there.  Of course he is their dream candidate.

    Oh and I weigh about 170.  You could fit three of me inside Chris Christie.

  • Anonymous

    And then he woke up as Bruce Banner, unaware as to what had happened…

  • Anonymous

    That guy in the audience was foolish to think that he could take on Christie with that kind of a question.  He probably already regrets his mistake.

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    Too bad Corzine is not still in office. He would clean up Wallstreet.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP rarely speaks of policy, its mostly just political posturing based on childish crap.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Socrates-Gadfly/100002839062857 Socrates Gadfly

    People of NJ,

    A courageous man asks a legitimate question, is condescended to by your governor, and you all clap.

    Your governor accuses the man of wasting the peoples time by asking if there are planted questions, and you clap.  According to you if town hall questions are staged, you don’t care. 

    Then the brave man responds that Christie is wasting the peoples time if he stages questions, and you are all silent.

    Then Christie condescends some more as he cuts the mans mic off , and you all clap.

    Your leaders disrespect you, and you love them and clap for them and shun the courageous trying to protect you.

    What went wrong?

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    You right. We need Corzine back to clean up Wallstreet.

  • Anonymous

    Hey everybody, Christie is fat!  Get it?  He likes snickers bars.  OMG.  ROFLMAO.  Heeeheee.  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.  Right BFD?   Christie eats a lot!  He looks like a planet!   We’re like totally pwning Christie because he’s FAT!  Christie is FAT  and I’m not!  LOL>

  • Anonymous

    Good one!  ROFLMAO!  He’s as big as a planet!  And, your avatar is Joe Biden who once said “BFD”.  LOL.

  • Anonymous

    HAHA.  Bacon & Meat loaf cuz fat people eat bacon & meatloaf!!   I get it!  BWAHAHAHAHA.  

  • Anonymous

    Is he really getting fatter? !!  OMG, that’s funny!  Well played! 

  • Pablo

    Like “income inequality”?

  • Pablo

    Yeah, he’s like a Navy Seal crossed with a martyred saint. Somebody pin a medal on him.

  • Anonymous

    That’s not a policy really, the GOP usually speak about how giant business aren’t hiring because they are unsure of the current business climate.  Because that makes total sense and is a serious way to think.

  • Anonymous

    Governor Chris Christie is so fat that “New Jersey” is now recognized as his full address.

    Governor Chris Christie is so fat, he quit running for president as soon as he started

  • Anonymous

    Wow, you’re coming off a little condescending there, to put it mildly.  Uh, but what went wrong?  We can all answer that:  people are stupid, blind, and impatient.  Put a lot of us in a room together and the effect is multiplied exponentially.

    ETA: Sorry, that was crankier than intended, but I’ll let it stand because it’s kind of dishonest to erase your comments.

  • us995

    jerry brown should run for president moonbeam would destroy the nation quick  and humanely

  • Anonymous

    He maybe able to run rough shot over the people of New Jersey, but I doubt that would work in the office of the President.  I thought politician held townhall meetings with the idea that this is the people’s meeting.  In Christie’s case its my meeting ran by my rules and anyone that does not comply gets the microphone jerked out of their hands. Doesn’t that start to smell a little dictatorial?

  • Anonymous

    Strange to see the word “Attendant” in the headline, seems like ATTENDEE would have sounded better   ;) 

  • Anonymous

    Think it over, it’s the perfect type of question to have a plant fire at you in public.  You know it’s coming, and that you have a snarky answer to fire back.  Also, it has the effect (at least, to some) of making it appear your quick on your feet, and conveniently, outraged.  It discourages the more timid from daring to ask at all.  What more could a politician (who thrives on peoples perceptions) ask for?

    Hmm?

  • expatpatriot

    Martel is, upon occasion, diction-challenged.

  • expatpatriot

    Yeah, that “You’re my constituent? Go fukk yerself” approach only works for some people.

  • Anonymous

    I think you’ll get karma points for that, Hekime.  Unless, of course, you simply planted it.   LOL

  • expatpatriot

    Let us first define the term “funny” . . .

  • expatpatriot

    You’re not fat? Then you’re less likely to fall over dead without warning.

    Which can’t be said of Christie.

  • expatpatriot

    You’d still need a brain from somewhere.

  • expatpatriot

    You really, really, REALLY don’t want to know where he plants them.

  • expatpatriot

    I’m guessing that, added up, they equal one Christie.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    For the good of the party you could’ve pushed your big ass into the ring but like a coward you cancelled on us.   

  • Anonymous

    Bada Bing,this guy would be much more suited to stand-up comedy than trying to be Governor, and this thug thought about running for President, ah, mathone.

  • Anonymous

    If he was skinny, you would just say he is a Nazi. So lose weight or not, the childish name calling is still coming. But that’s what happens when you can’t debate the guy.

  • Hout Bosques

    All I can think is … FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFahuckleberry Finn is that guy ever FAT!

    That ain’t healthy. A heart can’t pull that boatload of needless weighty fat around for long.

  • Hout Bosques

    You make a good point: Henry Wood would NEED to take his own weight and then add in the weights of all the members of his family, or else we’d all get the wrong impression that it’s like, not normal for a human that short to weight over 450 pounds.

    I like your other point, too, but with a little correcto fluid: this might be a case of a pot calling Ma & Pa Kettle & all the young Kettles & all the Kettle kinfolk from miles & miles around, all jammed down the gullet of a family turkey being fattened up for Thanksgiving, calling that turkey Kettle … and fat.

  • Hout Bosques

    So much false equivalence, so little time …

  • Hout Bosques

    Whos drisciminatin? Taint discriminatin to say, Dude is FAT, man – fat as in, Look it up in dictionaries where even they say, “adjective, what Chris Christie is”, that kind of fat. Fat like in that Weird Al parody of the Michael Jackson song Bad, where Weird Al was always eatin eatin eatin to where he ballooned up like he was a float in a Macys parade, called it Fat. That fat. Nobody was discriminatin called Weird Al Fat Suit Fat, that was just faux fat fact. What Christie got larded all over everything there, that’s Don Sit On Me Bro fat, thats actual fact fat.

  • Hout Bosques

    Is a illusion. Once a year his Hong Kong tailor comes to Jersey to measure him up for next years suits and in the meantime he lets a little bit out, you know, in a seam or two,  let the dude breath – okay, so he don really breath from below the waist, that we know of, so thats a figure o speech, like he lets the dudes fat breath. 

  • Hout Bosques

    Assa a good routine, man. You could take that on the road. But a minor correction: its not He likes snickers bars, the Snickers company is gonna get up set with you implying eat a Snickers bar you turn instantaneously at warp speed into Chris Chrisco fat. It takes time to get a dude that fat, man, Chrisco fat, so fat you make the dude angry you think maybe theys a chance he might EAT you. No, Chris Christie likes Snicker Bar Bulk Transport Trucks. He looks like at any moment he gonna turn into a giant black hole with so much gravity he sucks this entire solar system in behind him, even the gas giants, to Chris Christie they no problem at all, just down a couple of tanker trucks of antacid, burp em into oblivion.

  • Hout Bosques

    Close, man: he so fat, he like Sandy Claus: folks wanna write him a post card, they just address it “Chris Christie” and it gets there.

  • Hout Bosques

    I think you mean “rough shod”, man, with a “d”. It’s a old phrase from back in the Roughrider days of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt, where the trail was unbroken and the ground was so rocky you’d have to work quick on the trail to replace your horses shoes with a temporary replacement before you got to the blacksmith and done a proper job, but in the meantime anything your horse stepped on was getting torn up something terrible from how “rough shod” was the temporary fix.

  • Hout Bosques

    You saying Frances Martel has trouble with looking up things in the diction-ary? Cuz thats not “diction-challenged”. “Distion-challenged”, that comes down to how you say things, like you was raised in one of them funny foreign languages like Chinese or Hungarian or Texan and every time you open your mouth words come out that are like a word barf where technically they may be right in a diction-ary sense but the SYNTAX is all screwed up. Frances Martel is not “challenged” that way, she be genuine home grown American word-challenged. It’s not that “ATTENDEE” would have “sounded better”, it’s that “ATTENDEE” would of been actually, you know, correct.

  • Hout Bosques

    Whazat “mathone” mean, mang?

  • Hout Bosques

    Pretty sure the Nazi party never discriminated over guys being FAT:
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iWmGrxYQw6Ac

  • expatpatriot

    I see your knowledge of word barf is wide and deep.

    “Diction” as in “word choice.”

  • expatpatriot

    And, to be pedantic, it’s one word: “roughshod.”

  • expatpatriot

    You’ve put your finger on one of the Republican’s major policies.

    Income Inequality: they’re for it.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Here we go again.

    The loonie left blaming a conservative for doing what the libs do on a regular basis.

  • Anonymous

    Rahm, you simpleton.

  • Anonymous

    The question about plants, was a plant.

  • Anonymous

    If he keeps showing off with all this anger and indignation, he’s going to drop, he’s carrying way too much weight  and his heart could react to all this exertion.

  • Anonymous

    well he probably wanted to wait 4 years so he could have his stomach surgery, then he will claim he lost it all by cutting out bread and exercising.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not discrimination, it’s really a health issue, why would anyone vote for someone who might not make it for four years, there’s a lot of pressure on the president and if we elect one who needs to be driven one block because he can’t walk it, we should be worried.

  • Anonymous

    what does that have to do with this post??

  • expatpatriot

    Bullying his constituents? Nope, that’s a Christie speciality.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    expatpatriot

    Your confusing bullying with pointing out the truth.
    The truth, something you libs have a problem with.

  • Pablo

    Of course it isn’t a policy. It’s childish crap, and the basis of the Obama 2012 campaign.

  • Pablo

    That’s assuming he doesn’t have anything better to do than answer his own questions. He’s not Obama, for Pete’s sake.

  • Pablo

    Telling a lib the truth is bullying them. Just like quoting them verbatim is smearing them.

    They really don’t like having reality forced upon them.

  • Anonymous

    Where’s A Grammar Cop When You Need One ??

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You’re admitting that Wall Street is “dirty” and needs “cleaning up?”  That’s a start.

    –Cobra

  • expatpatriot

    So, in reference to your original post, the “loonie left points out the truth on a regular basis.”

    The loon label is declasse, but otherwise I have to agree with you. However, I’m not sure why you would consider than an insult, as you so obviously intended.

    Incoherent much?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson

    Really? Thats all you got huh??

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    You could a least quote me accurately.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Hello Dr Bumpy.
    Nice picture.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you I did not know the History or obviously the proper spelling.

  • Anonymous

    Just like he did with his own fund. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    ANother lie. Democrats attack all day long. Never discus their so called policies except to say “It isn’t fair”

  • Anonymous

    Legitimate question? What did it have to do with anything? 

  • Anonymous

     “you really, in front of this group, with all the problems we have in this state– like when am I going to get my next cheeseburger?”

  • Anonymous

    Because he can do the job when so many others, can’t.

  • Anonymous

    Ha! beat me to it.  Planted so Christie could have another viral video

  • Anonymous

    It was a stupid question.

  • Anonymous

    Fat jokes are funny. Chill out. Just look at that guy!! He’s like Rush Limbaugh x 2.

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    The first rule in politics and/or life is NEVER trust a woman named Candy.

  • Anonymous

    To be politically correct the label would be MORBIDLY OBESE.

  • Anonymous

    How many $18 muffins can he eat?

  • MacDaddyWatch

    Too bad John Corzine is no longer around to answer any questions.   That Goldman crook bagged all those NJ libs who now hate Christie.  

  • Anonymous

    There are others who can do a great job, unfortunately they are not Republicans as you are obviously claiming,  I find his personality obnoxious, the heck with the morbid obesity.

  • Anonymous

    “Childish hypocritical”,… your kidding right? A “tea” woud dare use the words “childish” or “hypocritical”!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    This idiot is such a disgusting pig.   But…people were dumb enough to put this pig into office so New Jersey must be another such stupid state that loves being date raped by republican politicians.

  • http://twitter.com/drlax15m David Redmond

    it was a planted question! ;-)

  • Anonymous

    Your screen name should be…

    Agent of Hate!

  • http://twitter.com/StevenJKatz Steve Katz

    … and been correct! An attendant is someone who works in a rest room or gas station. An attendee is someone who attends an event. Not a minor point.

  • Greg West

    Put the microphone down!
    Love it!

  • Anonymous

    He’s no bully. He pulls no punches pushing back against liberal bullying. Republicans love that because so many of them today are cowards, refusing to engage them. 

  • Anonymous

    Which still would make him skinny enough to play the younger version of the title character in “The Jerrold Nadler Story”.

  • Anonymous

    Stop making sense. Libs won’t be able to understand you.

  • Anonymous

    Vintage Christie, just wish he were running for the Presidency.  

  • http://twitter.com/RatedRepublican Rated Republican

    Yes, Corzine did such a great job with MF Global.

  • http://www.comcast.net Anne Gelinas

    And I would put the squatters in that category too as long as you can put others in the category of being fat, ignorant, hypocritical and nasty, sounds just like the folks destroying public property on the liberal side. tit for tat   I thought it was illegal to discriminate against fat people.  I do hope no one in your family is fat. They may not like your opinion of fat people.
     But of course you are politically correct and no one else is.  I suppose all the former fat people who ran this country, some as president, and those who run many businesses that pay people to work for them should all get out of your way.

  • http://www.comcast.net Anne Gelinas

    Yup just like he cleaned out thousands of folks bank accounts and stock holdings.  Good job Corzine.

  • http://www.comcast.net Anne Gelinas

    I gather you didn’t like Mamma Fats either. 

  • http://www.comcast.net Anne Gelinas

    Think about it. If Christie planted questions then why would he have called on this man at all?  He would have chosen his plants and ignored this man. Think about it. Think.

  • http://www.comcast.net Anne Gelinas

    I think that is exactly what we have in the white house now. A dictator type of president who openly and defiantly says its my meeting run by my rules and if you don’t like it too bad. So smell the white house and then rethink your aromas. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/macgyver1969 Paul Unca Paulie Stern

    You guys really can’t accept that maybe – just MAYBE, he IS that quick on his feet? The man is comfortable with who he is and what he stands for. He is intelligent and yes, quick-witted as most NJ’s are. On a side note, I would like to see some comment on actual thoughts or policies and not just his weight. He’s big, we get it. But that has no bearing on the integrity of the guy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=595335984 Richard Hicks

    Your comment is stupid on the face of it.  I don’t even know what that is in theory supposed to mean.

  • Anonymous

    I was’nt speaking about his weight.  When I said “quick on his feet” I was speaking metaphorically and refering to mental alacrity.  You’ll find no slams on Governor Christies weight written by me.  I don’t think that has much merit or validity as an arguement and is more like a personal attack. 

    As a matter of fact, I do find Christie quick-witted and although I disagree with him on many things I’ve found his willingness to express his own point of view, at times laudible, and have said so.  For instance, when he appointed an Islamic judge.

  • Lise Stern

    All you people who condemn Govenor Christie’s weight as a point of issue worth discussing must not have much for morals and ethics! It would appear to me that there are more pressing and important issues to talk about whether you are from New Jersey or not. What difference does his wieght make on whether he can or cannot make the tough decisions that need to be made? Would you like to be judged for who you are based solely on how you look on the outside to others?

    So many bullies in this world and no one taking the time to stand up against them! Well, I just did! I stood up against all of you! Like it or not, that is all that your comments are…bullying! Use some morals and ethics here and realize that his weight is not the issue!

    One last question…do you need me to remind you of the meaning of morals and ethics?!

  • http://Mediaite.com Frances Martel

    Yeah, this is one of those moments where I shrug and go, “Actually, English isn’t my first language, joke’s on you!”

    But point taken about messing up attendant/attendee. ESL moment, happens to the best of us.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s talk about something more important instead, like the e-mails just released today by the DOJ today confirming that the obama DOJ was intentionally and illegally selling guns to the Mexican drug gangs with the intention of using the crimes committed with those “American weapons” to attack the second amendment. Subversion of the constitution anyone? Are there trials, convictions, perhaps executions for being accessories to murder and treason in order here? What would your opinion be if it had been a Republican admin that had done this and caused the death of U.S. agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican nationals?

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Reminding a lib of the meaning of morals and ethics will go nowhere.

    They would prefer to have the corrupt Jon Corzine in office rather than a fat Chris Christie.

  • Anonymous

    you don’t think the idiot who asked the question deserved all he got (and more)? lol

    love it – a perfect response to a fool.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SH7X4FPJ6BBQDPIBT34TSHZ72M Xander

    YAY!!! Do you have anymore fat jokes? I love em!!!!

  • Anonymous

    “Predictable” in the sense that he received the response he deserved.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t recall Obama ever saying or behaving that way.  Do you have some examples or are you talking metaphorically. Or is it that he just doesn’t parallel your ideology so you don’t like him. If that is the case I get it because I felt the same way toward GW Bush.

  • Anonymous

    Calling someone an”idiot” for asking a legitimate question says more about you than it does about him.

  • Anonymous

    I did think about it. He didn’t ask if Christie planted ALL of the questions, only if he plants questions. Maybe if Christie would’ve let him finish his account of when he saw this happen instead of having the mic turned off and removed mid-sentence, we all could have gotten the complete picture. Frankly, I am tired of his bullying tactics whenever he is confronted with a question he doesn’t like.

  • Anonymous

    Well, do you think that creepy dude would rather be known as an “idiot” or else a malicious asshole who was attempting to disrupt a legitimate town hall with a “planted” question from some freaking democrat?

    Whatcha think there skippy?

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    Thats never be a prerequisite for liberal politicians….so why does it matter now?

  • Anonymous

    Am I glad that Christie isn’t running for President!  If he gets this heated and nasty for someone asking a question, he would be a raving maniac after two weeks as President.  His rude comments to a simple question in front of the nation on camera was either to make himself look good and tough, or for us to see what a jerk he can be.  If you look at the faces of the dignitaries  behind him, their shocked looks tell it all. 

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