Christie gets Time cover -- but he looks like a mobster
Is Chris Christie the real-life Tony Soprano? That's what Christie said he thought when he saw the cover of this week's Time magazine, which depicts him in a tough-guy pose. The headline is "The Boss." The caption says he is the "master of disaster." We're not sure what the article is about, and Christie wasn't even interviewed for it, but Christie said today the picture makes him look like Soprano, played by James Gandolfini in the hit HBO series about the New Jersey mob, "The Sopranos." And, well, he has a point.
Christie gets Time cover -- but he looks like a mobster
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
Is Chris Christie the real-life Tony Soprano?
That's what Christie said he thought when he saw the cover of this week's Time magazine, which depicts him in a tough-guy pose. The headline is "The Boss." The caption says he is the "master of disaster."
We're not sure what the article is about, and Christie wasn't even interviewed for it, but Christie said today the picture makes him look like Soprano, played by James Gandolfini in the hit HBO series about the New Jersey mob, "The Sopranos."
And, well, he has a point.
"I'm reporting Time magazine to the like anti-Italian Defamation League. I mean look at that thing with ‘The Boss’ underneath it, I mean come on. I can't wait for that to come home for my kids to see it," Christie said, jokingly, on Fox Business Network's "Imus In The Morning" (see below).
But Andre' DiMino of the Italian-American One Voice Coalition is not joking. He told the Star-Ledger that although the cover made no mention of the fact that Christie is part Italian-American, “in the rest of the country this will just put out that subliminal message that Christie and the mafia is the same...They still have to go back to that negative, lowest common denominator of making that connection."
Regardless, there's definitely one crime committed here -- of the journalistic kind. Isn't that picture just like this one last year in The New York Times magazine?
- At least he's not a sneak!!— ttamb
- Somehow I detect envy by the writer of these stories or chronicles. Poor guy, stuck in Philadelphia.— Tommy33
- The Chin.— Tyrone Biggums
- Man, I'm an independent. And refuse to bring poilitics into a cover of a magazine. So from that stand point....yall gotta admit...this cover is BOSS!!! Great work TIME!— MrJayScott
- YOU MEAN CHRIS" THE CHINS" CHRISTIE— jok
- The best communicator since Ronald Reagan.— Cuddles
I like the guy, but man, he needs to miss a meal once in a while.— John621- Ugh everything offends someone. Get over it.— Sidewinder7
- Unless it were Obama, then you'd be calling for a boycott and demanding apologies and firings. — smfree31
- If it were Obama, they'd have Photoshopped in a halo. — Don_M
- Don... Best comment of the day. You made me laugh out loud on the train. — jerryk2b
- So still no funds for Sandy victims ? Last time something like this happened our president was blasted in every news outlet in the country for not caring about Katrina victims and being a racist. Where is the outrage? Oh that's right, it's someone else's fault and the MSM thinks Beyonce singing for Obama is a more important story LOL— 420Phillie
- This comment has been deleted. — moretea4me
- huh? try to focus on the topic at hand. but in the meantime tell me where in the constitution that the federal government is responsible for billion dollar antibullying campaigns. buhbye now — 420Phillie
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