CBS Pounces On Christie Fight With Heckler: ‘Don’t Poke The Bear’

Jeffrey Meyer | October 30, 2014
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Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. After ABC and NBC played up Governor Chris Christie’s (R-N.J.) confrontation with a heckler at an event marking the two-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy during their Wednesday night broadcasts, all three network morning shows predictably continued to pile on against the Republican on Thursday morning. On Thursday's CBS This Morning, reporter Jan Crawford began her report by noting how on Wednesday Christie “went at it with a constituent… When a former New Jersey councilman [former Ashbury Park City Councilman Jim Keady] showed up Wednesday to criticize the pace of the restoration after the storm, Chris Christie let him have it.”