Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor, Reads 'A Visit From St. Nicholas'

Hey, everyone! Are you a fan of the Yuletide season? Or New Jersey? Well, either way, you will be thrilled to see New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reciting Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit From St. Nicholas," accompanied by the Boston Pops, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

As the governor and professional garnerer of 2012 speculation is best known for his angry, caught-on-YouTube confrontations, you might be curious as to how he handles the part of the poem where Santa's reindeer are clawing up his rooftop and Claus is standing in his living room. Will Christie laugh at Claus, in spite of himself? Or will he level Santa for his redistributionist policies? Sadly, this performance skips over those lines of the poem, and Christie quickly quits the stage -- probably to go off and kill some bears.

Anyway, Merry Christmas, New Jersey! Except for the bears.

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Comments

[HippieDippieWeatherman]

12:31 PM on 12/13/2010

For a second there, I though the Taftian governor was Saint Nick - disguised by wearing a Brobdingnagian "sack" suit and clean-shaven - but a quick double-take confirmed it was none other than ol' "Fourths, Please" himself.

The goobnor really should have a conversation with Mr. Huckabee, who wrote the book on this for the goobnor types: http://www.issues2000.org/Knife_+_Fork.jpg

New Jersey residents, ESPECIALLY "me, first" teabaqqers, shouldn't be expected to pay for Mr. "Fourths, Please" and his looming health problems.

[rgateman]

10:48 PM on 12/11/2010

Christie - Barbour 2012 coming to crush a stage near you!

[HippieDippieWeatherman]

12:33 PM on 12/13/2010

They'd have to revive the "whistle stop" train campaigning of the past because they could only go by train: Our crumbling highways get enough abuse, dammit!

[rgateman]

10:47 PM on 12/11/2010

Twas the night before xmas and all through the house
not a creature was stirring
I had already eaten them all including the mouse.
the end

[TimJones]

11:04 PM on 12/08/2010

I got an idea, let's call him fat, otherwise we got nothing. Christie/Rubio 2012

[HippieDippieWeatherman]

12:39 PM on 12/13/2010

You mean Christie/Barbour, right?

Or Taft/Christie?

Or Christie/Church Lady?

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Gotta love the Gawd & Oil Party, yessirree...

[ThinkCreeps]

11:50 AM on 12/07/2010

Rudolph's going to have to start doping if that guy's going to get in a santa suit and expect a ride.

[Bude]

08:34 AM on 12/07/2010

When he finishes he will donate his jacket to be used to cover the infield at Yankee Stadium.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:17 AM on 12/07/2010

... the stockings were laid on the mantel with care,
in the hopes that the end times soon would be there.

[Fbigdeal]

02:20 AM on 12/07/2010

didn't know he can read!

[ThankGodhesgone]

12:58 AM on 12/07/2010

Can't stop thinking of Austin Power's FB - "Git in mah belly".

[ThankGodhesgone]

12:54 AM on 12/07/2010

Brav (verp) O.

[medic628]

12:52 AM on 12/07/2010

This man is driving the state into the ground while playing to his base, and this is the story that is run? He still looks and acts like a wise guy.

[forty8r]

12:46 AM on 12/07/2010

hopefully that fat a** is going to die of a heart attack before the end of his term

[TimJones]

11:03 PM on 12/08/2010

Just love compassionate liberals

[MRb1000]

11:32 PM on 12/06/2010

Fatboy The man who ate Christmas

[ThankGodhesgone]

12:52 AM on 12/07/2010

Thanks for the laugh of the night. Fanned.

[Jim Pasterczyk]

11:21 PM on 12/06/2010

He's going to have to start wearing mumus if he keeps up with the William Howard Taft routine.

[Systems Nominal]

10:04 PM on 12/06/2010

Christ H. Christie lets his mouth lose more than an Opera Soprano.