Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign effort in New York got slapped around last Thursday on both CNN and Fox News for his comments about “New York values,” a phrase news celebs on both cable networks said amounted to anti-semitism.
On CNN’s Situation Room, Jeffrey Toobin said:
“I think the New York values thing is a big problem. I mean. Let’s be honest, remember what Ted Cruz said, he said New York values are about money and they’re about the media. That’s an anti-Semitic trope from a hundred years. It’s been around for a very long time. Everyone in New York, everyone in the whole country understands what he was saying…
“Cruz can try to explain it away, but you can’t explain what you said when its meaning is obvious.”
On Fox’s O’Reilly Factor, Geraldo Rivera said:
“I don’t think Cruz breaks 15 percentage points, Bill. I think that he’s going to get routed in New York and deservedly so. Aside from the stinking, anti-Semitic implications that I see in that whole New York values, money and media coded message that he put out there pandering to those Iowa voters.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “A perfect illustration of how the left and journalists, but I repeat myself, try to shut down political speech by discrediting criticism of liberal policies or officials as racist, anti-Semitic – or some manner of a hostile phobia. Cruz’s meaning was obviously not anti-Semitic to non-liberals living in New York.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
