Posted on 11/10/2012 3:26:36 PM PST by Arthurio
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have worked closely with President Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, but it appears he’s more emotionally invested in a different budding bromance. Christie admitted at a Monday briefing that he started “weeping” after he hugged Bruce Springsteen at NBC’s telethon for Hurricane Sandy victims on Nov. 2, the Record reported.
Christie is a longtime fan of his fellow New Jerseyan and has attended more than 130 Springsteen concerts over the past 37 years. The governor even sang a version of “Thunder Road” when he made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in September. Although Springsteen has never hid his liberal leanings, the E Street Band front man set aside his ideological differences with Christie to chat with the Republican governor and his family at the Radio City event to benefit Sandy victims.
(MORE: Poll: Bruce Springsteen Could Be the Boss of New Jersey)
“We hugged,” Christie said to a crowd of relief volunteers in Monmouth County on Monday, according to the Record. “Yeah, we hugged, and he told me it’s official: we’re friends.”
Christie and Springsteen had met twice before, but their interactions were limited to “formal pleasantries,” the Record noted. Their previously tense relationship may have stemmed from their opposing presidential preferences — Christie campaigned for GOP candidate Mitt Romney, while Springsteen was active in fundraisers for Obama. Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, however, managed to bring the two Jersey boys together.
“I told the President today actually that the hug was great and that when we got home there was a lot of weeping because of the hug,” Christie said. “And the President said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Well, to be honest, I was the one weeping. Everyone else was fine.’ ”
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Maybe Christie can call Obama so they can share their latest crying scenes in a public photo op. I’m sure Christie might be able to tap into a few more NJ Lib votes by sharing his feminine side with the President. IMHO,this whole Obama lovefest has been all about Christies re-election and nothing else.
I wept because I didn’t meet Carl Perkins.
maybe it’s the emotional toll of the fact nj is a mess from Sandy still ?!
and bruce (whom i have never been a fan of even though I lived 34 years in NJ and listen to everyone say how “great” he was) is a native and his hometown at the shore has been devisatated? Maybe Christie has some heart and soul we don’t give him credit for?
My folks are still without power 13+ days and no one is saying when it will be back. Relatives in other areas with power restored are washing clothes for people, cooking meals and letting people shower and stay at their homes. NYC, Long and Staten Islands, NJ and other hard hit areas are not seeing the humor in Christie’s reactions to bruce or even obama photo op that posters here seem to see - they are focusing on how to endure and get businesses back running best possible without power - until it finally gets restored. Power company’s and leaders say and do things to make you think all is coming along well - nope, it’s bad and will take many months thru the freezing winter temps, likely years in some areas to try to regroup from Sandy.
Every person has a conscience and is capable of human compassion. Maybe our leaders who seem so heartless and many average folks who are so snide with remarks and assumptions, will tap into theirs through these sorts of situations. we should pray for that, imho.
“And Zappa was a rocker who thought for himself.”
I had just finished a stint in a MOI type band. A friend who was the big cheese at the local “underground” radio station called me at my teaching gig, and asked me to stop by on my way home. I walked in, and there was Frank, sitting on the sofa. My friend asked me to show Frank around town. I was delighted, to say the least!
Took Frank and his bodyguard John to a local bar. FZ was quite quiet, and non-committal. Well,,,, he didn’t know me, so,,,,.A meet and greet line was set up. A very young, and very pneumatic young girl wanted to meet him, so I asked her name. She asked, “Is that really Mr. Zeppelin? So I introduced her to Frank as Mr Zeppelin. That broke the ice! I almost swallowed my tongue during the intro, and his bodyguard, John, turned around and buckled over! For the rest of the weekend, John and I would not call him Frank,, we referred to him as Mr. Zeppelin. I figured he and I had a similar sense of humor, so I spoke to him in a Southside Milwaukee accent all the time. He was in stitches!
We weren’t friends,,, at best,,, acquaintances. But,, I always got a call from a gal, (his wife?) saying “Frank will be in Milwaukee/Beloit/Whitewater/Chicago, hope you can make it! Passes are at the ticket booth.”
So,,, I had fun, and I guess Frank did too. A great memory, of a great musician/composer. Rivaled only by Robert Lockwood Jr., exclaiming, “Why! You’re White!”
This stupid tub of lard helped deliver the election to Obama in exchange for a hug from Bruce Springsteen.
Even Judas got more out of the bargain.
My thoughts and prayers are with the folks you described up north of us who are truly suffering. My parents are also currently displaced from their home in Beach Haven, NJ. I respect the opinions of all folks affected by this situation, but with that said we take no comfort in the Governor’s need to publicly express his heart, soul and compassion through posing for photos with the President and revealing his crying over a hug from a local pop star. This is a time when we need leaders to step up and just get the job done without worrying about who gets the credit. That is exactly what we’re doing here in southern NJ on a local level. Quite frankly the Christie/Obama photo op in Atlantic county served no substantive purpose other than to delay the efforts to begin our recovery efforts.
But then her unrequited love for Big Daddy will be muddled because she won't be able to tell the difference between the two.
LOL true, Ann Coulter ought to send him a case of “tan in a can” so he and Cristie can pass as twins, aka that Arnold and Davito movie./s
But then her unrequited love for Big Daddy will be muddled because she won’t be able to tell the difference between the two.
ROFL.
"Act like a man! What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? "What can I do? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. "
Why?
Springsteen sucks. Don`t own a single one of his minstrel recordings
After that he became overly commercialized and really hit the "big time."
I am roughly Christie's age and grew up and live in NJ. I agree with your take on Springsteen's body of work. The first four albums were amazing and if you were an adolescent or young adult in New Jersey at the time they had added meaning and you could easily feel an special bond with Bruce. I was not a concert goer but I know he had a phenomenal, energetic live show and if I could go back in a time machine and see three late 70s acts, Springsteen would be in my top three(with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin). When I arrived in college in upstate New York in 1981, I was amazed at how many people outside of NJ had only a slight familiarity with Springsteen and owned no Springsteen albums. That would change in a few years with "Born in the USA," which exponentially increased Springsteen's popularity and which most listeners really assumed was a pro-USA anthem. I find Christie's emotional attachment to Springsteen to be infantile, unsettling and slightly embarrassing. Cherish the music you grew up with, but grow up.
yep, and it’s not really that hard to make out the words in “Born In The USA” either (unlike some truly unintelligible stuff which is so common in modern pop and rock). it’s irony. but irony sells, ambiguity sells, vulgarity sells, dysfunction sells. there’s not so much market for clean moon, spoon, June any more.
i’ll bet you actually did meet Nervous Norvus.
One of the first songs I remember hearing as a child is “Transfusion’.
——”slip the claret to me, Barrett!”
In a previous career, Clarence Clemons sat in with my band one time...a stage fulla goofy-ass grins, but no tears.
Chris Christie=Worthless Turd
That sums it up perfectly. LOL.
BTW, I've always believed that "New York City Serenade" was one of Springsteen's most underrated tunes. It probably just never got any airplay on the radio because it was too long.
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