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?
President Obama somehow looks better than Denzel on the cover, Clinton resembles a Robert Redford-type on any national mag he graces. meanwhile, Romney gets a dunce cap and Newt gets horns...
over/under on the number of days TIME Magazine has till it becomes online-only, like its liberal sister Newsweek?— theJOJ- All 17 of their subscribers will enjoy it.— smfree31
- Looks like old school gangster Louis " Tiny " Benson— fat tony
- he's a fat greasy loudmouth Italian from New Jersey. is there any way to make him look like NOT a mobster? I don't think it is possible quite frankly.— Ryan
- A left wing rag tries to make a Republican look bad. Color me shocked.— theodotius
Hahaha I think it's classic— thegamepa- Typical Time. Don't forget they "darkened" OJ for a cover too. Time is a rag. Not even good enough to line a bird cage.— Breaking Bad
- Big Fraud.I doubt that Tubby has every been in a real fight.— aguckin
- Imagine the uproar if they did that to a woman or minority.— dontavoidtheobvious
- So when Katrina hit NO, then President Bush was called a racist for the Feds response time, but not 1 single news outlet is willing to call President Obama a racist for his lack of a response to Sandy. The double standard of these corrupt news organizations is disgusting. Now King Obama is talking of using the Executive Privlage to impose 2 monumental changes to our Country (the debt ceiling and gun control). If people do not see the destruction that this President and liberals are doing to our country, they are blind. It is disgraceful— dcn
- Liberal rag.— Ressler
- Once again, just another opportunity for this writer to do what he is paid to do: publicly humiliate Christie.— Bob1
- Get use to seeing Christie, he'll be the next Prez!!— delcopa
- Wish there was a national weekly news magazine, now that TIME is just a fruity opinion rag.
— GeorgiePorgie68 - Advocay jounarlism at its best (worse). What the saying, one picture is worth a thousand words, or in Times case a thousand expletives.— STEPHEN1988
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