A picture worth one word

Posted at 2:02 PM on January 14, 2013 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)
Filed under: Media

Mobster.

You'd have to be in a fairly high state of denial not to see that this is a cover intending to make a guy look like a mob boss.

Time is playing off Gov. Chris Christie's love of Bruce Springsteen, and he is the boss of New Jersey, but the giveaway is the mugshot-like image.

Christie isn't happy and anytime Christie isn't happy, entertainment follows:

"If his kids don't recognize him as the boss then he has more problems then he realizes. But I think he's having some fun with it. We had some fun with it," Time's managing editor responded.

Fun. Like Time had with the O.J. Simpson cover years ago.

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Comments (5)

Remember Sarah Palin's cover on Newsweek a few years ago too?

Posted by Cara | January 14, 2013 2:19 PM

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I didn't make that association. But I would point out he made a mob joke when he was here in 2010. I think mob jokes are OK.

Posted by Kevin Watterson | January 14, 2013 2:37 PM

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Kevin Watterson question... a joke about the mob, or did he joke the New Jersey (or himself) is associated with the mob? (big difference)

Not that is at all what I thought of when I saw this, I would have never made a mob association.

Posted by BJ | January 14, 2013 3:25 PM

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Disagree. If Christie didn't look Italian, the connection wouldn't be there. You could take a million pictures of me and you'd never come up with one that would make my Norwegian-American face look like that of a Mafioso.

Christie's just mad because if left up to him the picture would have shown him smiling while hugging a little kid with puppies playing by their feet.

Posted by Mark Gisleson | January 14, 2013 3:56 PM

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New Jersey joke.

Posted by Kevin Watterson | January 15, 2013 12:03 PM

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