Chris Christie Blasts Student As "Idiot"

Apparently Christie's planning to fold the Rutgers (Camden) Campus into nearby Rowan University. I imagine this is a cost-saving move.

It might even be a prestige-increasing move, as there are three Rutgers campuses (another in New Brunswick, another in Newark) but the actual Rutgers is in New Brunswick. The other two seem to have been "branded" Rutgers or something.

I don't know.

So a second year law student at Camden, representing himself as a former SEAL, complained. Current students would still graduate with "Rutgers" on their diplomas. I guess that's the important thing (though is the Rutgers name actually worth much?).

He started asking, "What about my kids?" or something. Like, what about my kids who twenty years from now hypothetically go to a college called Rowan, not Rutgers. Will their degrees say Rutgers on them, Governor?

Um, no. If it's that important to them maybe they should Dream Big and apply to Rutgers.

Anyway, Christie got very hot with him, and called him an idiot.

Update: John Lilyea from This Ain't Hell checked with his Fake SEAL Busting sources and says this guy is definitely a SEAL.

Kind of whiny though.

Is he a SEAL? Time will tell. A lot of people say they're SEALs.

He seems pretty whiny.

[Update - Andy] Verdict: SEAL

posted by Ace at 03:13 PM

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