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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUPDATE: Watch Chris Christie Call Openly-Gay Lawmaker "Numbnuts" While Apologizing
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/30/while_apologizing_chris_christie_ca.phpOh Christie, Christie, Christie. The New Jersey Governor today again tried to explain those comments last week in which he said that white Southerners should have been allowed to vote on civil rights gains for blacks in the 1960s. But while the big guy was talking he went and called an openly gay New Jersey Assemblyman "numbnuts." D'oh!
Basically, as you can see in the video above, Chris Christie gets why you are upset over his statements and assures you he didn't really think that a referendum on civil rights was possible at the time ("The political climate in the South didnt give them the option to have a referendum back then...They wished they would have had the option, but the political climate did not permit it, meaning they would not win." . But he also takes offense in the way that his statements were focused on with laser-like precision by the media and his liberal opponents. Specifically, he called out Assemblyman Reed Gusciora for being a "numbnuts" when he released a statement last Thursday saying "Govs. Lester Maddox and George Wallace would have found allies in Chris Christie over efforts by the Justice Department to end segregation in the South."
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Update: Assemblyman Gusciora told us that numbnuts seemed like "Jersey talk" and that it seems like a "term of endearment" (at least, back in his high school days it was) so he's not taking Christie's remarks too seriously. However, he says, "Marriage equality is important," and believes if Southern governors had put black voting rights up for a vote during the civil rights movement, it would have been defeated. "Civil rights should not be a ballot issue. Legislators should vote their conscience."
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video at the link
Christie got his panties in a wad again. This is your future, GOPers.
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UPDATE: Watch Chris Christie Call Openly-Gay Lawmaker "Numbnuts" While Apologizing (Original Post)
deminks
Jan 2012
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cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)1. "openly gay" has no importance here
"Numbnuts" is a fairly meaningless pejoritive that some men toss around.
It is weird language for the governor of a state and marks Christie as a thugish character, but it's not a gay slur.
Oddly enough, it refers more to a person's intelligence than anything sexual -- probably began as an aliterative dirty-i-zation of numbskull.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)2. I don't think it's an anti-gay slur. It's just Joisy talk--
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)3. Its not an anti-gay slur, but its not exactly classy either
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)4. It's not homophobic, just trashy