Every time Chris Christie is in the news, for some reason, every humor run about him has to include a bunch of mentions of the fact that he’s a fat guy. They’re rarely inventive in the least — they’re basically just mentions of the fact that he must eat doughnuts or pie or things that come in buckets, that he’s huge, that he’s big, that he eats everything and everyone and so forth. It’s like quoting Monty Python at this point; it’s not humor as much as it is something that takes the place of humor because it’s located in the same place where humor would normally be found.

Linda Holmes, “Pulling The Red Handle,” on NPR’s Monkey See blog

I’m no fan of Chris Christie, or of hardly any of the creatures who call themselves politicians these days, but what’s with the fat jokes? That’s the worst thing you can think to say about Chris Christie? That he’s fat? Really? As Linda Holmes points out so well (I love reading Linda Holmes), it’s not even a criticism, it’s just bigotry. There are so many obvious, reprehensible things about Christie to dislike that I can’t fathom why anybody thinks taunting him with lame fat jokes is the way to go.