‘Jersey Shore’ brings out the Jersey in Christie

EDITORIAL: It’s hard to imagine, but in a state where Howard Stern was once promised his own rest stop, we have a governor who’s taking pokes at MTV’s “Jersey Shore.”

Jerry DeMarco

07/26/2010 10:11 p.m.

Chris Christie — whom I consider a friend, an intelligent guy and an extremely funny tongue-in-cheek speaker — got his New York counterpart’s dander up when he said the cast of “Jersey Shore” is loaded with New Yorkers who overplay crude Italian-American stereotypes, giving the Garden State a bad name.

Chris is right, of course. They are a bunch of knotheads. And only one in the unctuous, garlicky pack is from here, while the rest come from the outer boroughs and elsewhere.

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N.Y. Gov. David Paterson countered that maybe the cast is better behaved when they’re in New York.

Y’know what? They both should know better. These two aren’t neophytes who haven’t seen how the media churns.

When whomever it was asked, why didn’t either governor say: “Next question”?

You guys are our reality. You’re supposed to be better than US — the working, middle and upper classes — never mind a clown car-full of numbskulls.

I’ll bet you double the Homestead Rebate I’m NOT getting this year that neither of them has seen one minute of the show. And if they have, reality truly is stranger than fiction.

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