Dear lord, this year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays. I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor.
— Bergen County (NJ) Education Association president Joseph Coppola, in an e-letter send to 17,000 members.
So…, who’s promoting violence and using extremist rhetoric?
The local CBS News affiliate reports:
In seven years as the Garden State’s pugnacious U.S. Attorney, Christie got only two death threats -- from the bloods and the crips.
It took only three months as governor for an adversary to wish him six feet under.
“To have the leader of the Bergen County Teachers Union send out an e-mail to their 17,000 members asking them to pray for my death I think just goes beyond the pale,” Christie said. …
Christie got a swift apology.
“While it was intended as a joke I recognize that it was in poor taste, bad taste and was definitely an error of poor judgment and I sincerely apologize to the governor,” Coppola said.
Even still, in an era where the littlest statement or action of a conservative/ Republican is perceived by the hysterical Left as extremist, dangerous, or “inciting violence,” this guy doesn’t even think for a second that such a “joke” is a bad idea?
Besides, I don’t think he meant it as a joke—that is, as a joke that people other than BCTU members would find funny. I don’t know who informed Christie of the letter, but I’m sure Coppola’s was forced to apologize. In other words, it’s the typical “I’m sorry I got caught” bit, because if he didn’t get caught, he wouldn’t be sorry. Or why else would he have written such an inappropriate statement?
What if this were a conservative/Republican writing this about a liberal/Democrat? You think (1) this wouldn’t be front-page national MSM news and (2) there wouldn’t be demands for this guy’s resignation?
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