You know, this whole kerfuffle with Ted Cruz talking about “New York values” seemed familiar to me for some reason. I wasn’t sure why.
Did he mean generally liberal? Or was there something else involved?
It took me a while to remember, but I finally did. It was from the pilot of “The West Wing.” When Josh had wound up offending religious types on a morning talk show and the crew is having a meeting with them at the White House to try and smooth things over. And one of them, a woman named Mary Marsh, starts off an exchange that immediately puts Toby’s teeth on edge. This was the exchange:
MARY MARSH: You people…that New York sense of humor…it always…
CALDWELL: Mary, there’s absolutely no need…
MARY MARSH: Please, Reverend, they think it’s smart…smart talk…but nobody else does.
JOSH: I’m actually from Connecticut.
TOBY: Yes, but she meant Jewish.
A stunned silence. Everybody stares at Toby.
TOBY: When she said, “You people and your New York sense of humor,” she was talking about you and me, Josh.
So basically, if we follow the thought of Aaron Sorkin’s writing, can we safely assume that Ted Cruz just used conservative religious political code to make a nice big anti-Semitic swing?
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