Chris Christie Yells at Reporter, Advises Romney Chris Christie, the popular New Jersey governor who acts like a belligerent 8th grader on a sugar high, is full of advice for other people, such as Mitt Romney, and reporters. Mr. Christie doesn't like being questioned on a good day, and Saturday, what with a water emergency in Monmouth County, was not a good day. When a reporter asked him about his plans for a special legislative session, he got all Jersey Shore on him. Next question," the governor shouted. He walked off a bit later, according to the Times account. But he wasn't totally unreasonable. The governor added that he was "sorry" - "for the idiot over there." I can understand why Mr. Christie got heated. After all, the reporter was switching the topic from collapsed water mains to something completely irrelevant - the economy. Mr. Christie has vetoed yet another attempt by the New Jersey state legislature to raise taxes on the very rich (those earning more than $1 million a year, also known as Mr. Christie's donors) and lower them on the middle-class and working class residents of New Jersey who have been paying heavily for Mr. Christie's austerity program. Mr. Christie seems to think that Mr. Romney could learn from his, shall we say, "unfiltered" manner. He's been trying to breathe some feistiness into Mr. Romney since the New Hampshire primary, where he was given to bounding onto the stage at Romney events and making a normally wooden candidate look stoney. His latest advice to Mr. Romney is to open up more. In a rare example of understatement, Mr. Christie said in an interview that will air tonight on "Nightline" that Mr. Romney is "much more reserved" than he is. "I think as time progresses in this campaign, you're going to see him open himself up more and more to the American people and let them see who Mitt Romney really is," he said. Mr. Christie says he's seen this real Mr. Romney, and he likes him a lot. As for whether Mr. Christie has any plans to button up as Mr. Romney buttons down, the answer is no. "When someone acts stupid, I'm going to call him stupid," he said. This blog post has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: July 3, 2012 This post originally stated that there is a drought in New Jersey. Actually, the water emergency there is due to collapsed mains.