The single biggest scandal of Chris Christie's political career isn't going away anytime soon.
No, forget Bridge-Gate.
Because earlier this week, the governor of New Jersey ripped Philadelphia fans, calling them "generally angry, awful people." He also characterized Citizens Bank Park as an unsafe place.
This ill-advised rant on SNY TV has been met with the exact responses you'd imagine. Fans scoffed, the Phillies threw some shade and Larry Bowa extended a friendly invitation.
But Philadelphia's mayor, Jim Kenney, might have had the best response of all. On 94WIP this morning, he actually managed to paint the blowhard politician into a somewhat sympathetic and disconsolate figure.
Sort of.
Philadelphia Phillies
Complete coverage of the Fightin' Phils and their MLB rivals from NBC Sports Philadelphia.
"You're gonna think this is strange for me to say this, but I kind of feel sorry for the guy," Kenney said to the 94WIP Morning Show. "He's got the biggest 'L' on his forehead of anybody in the country. He's the most unpopular [governor] of the state of New Jersey in history. He threw all of his people under the bus after he shut the bridge down, he's gonna send some of those guys to jail. He ran for president for one hot-mess minute and then when that was over he was moon-dogging (Donald) Trump thinking he was going to get a big job but forgot that he put Jared Kushner's father in jail. So he wasn't going to become an attorney general.
"And now I think he's just bitter and has got nowhere to go. Who's gonna hire him? He can't get elected to anything ever again and what corporation would ever take him on based on the all nasty things he said and the confrontations he's created. I just think he's just done."
Kenney 1, Christie 0.
