Cruz's "New York Values" vs Clintons "Campaign like a brooklynite"

[DFab420]

let's discuss how these are different, and how they are similar.

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1. For one, Cruz doesn't have his national HQ in Brooklyn. nt

[JonLeibowitz]

2. Yes, odd how Cruz is the one who looks less hypocritical here.

You sir make an excellent point.

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3. either that, or--going out on a limb--Sanders supporters are exaggerating

and interpreting the statement in the most inflammatory way possible in order to gin up outrage.

That's never been known to happen in politics, though.

[JTFrog]

4. +1 n/t

[JonLeibowitz]

5. I don't know how that statement is supposed to be anything other than inflammatory.

It's borderline antisemitic and certainly classist.

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6. Benenson is from Queens.

and I have to at the suggestion that it was "borderline anti-Semitic"

Good grief. Fake outrage. Completely fake.

I live in Brooklyn, and nobody here is going to take "like a Brooklynite" to be a Jew-baiting classist slur. Try buying a home here if you think it's the wrong side of the tracks.

[JonLeibowitz]

7. Brooklyn was very different when Bernie was growing up there.

Anyway, I see the situation as similar to this famous West Wing clip:

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8. Oy. Get back to me when actual Brooklynites take offense to the comment nt

[JonLeibowitz]

10. How do you know I am not from Brooklyn?

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12. because Brooklynites are laughing at his comment, not acting like he

just put a Klan hood on.

We have a sense of humor about this shit.

And we also know that people from Queens aren't going to pull the snob routine on us. Manhattanites, maybe. People from Queens or the Bronx? Nope.

[hrmjustin]

17. That is a low blow. You should self delete that.

If you have been here anytime recently you would know Brookkyn is very different from the time he id a kid.

Low blow and disgusting.

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18. I'm still trying to picture Bernie in skinny jeans hunting in vinyl record stores

for an LP from Yo La Tengo.

[JonLeibowitz]

19. Uhhh

You said:

If you have been here anytime recently you would know Brookkyn is very different from the time he id a kid.

Brooklyn was very different when Bernie was growing up there.

I think I agree with you?

[hrmjustin]

20. No! Your video was to paint the operative as an anti-semite. Don't think you are fooling me.

Shame on you.

[JonLeibowitz]

22. I think we have very different interpretations of what that line was intended to portray.

Anyway, I reject your attempts to put "shame on me". Nothing I said was offensive.

[hrmjustin]

24. Too cute by half. I know that scene very well and you are not cute at all by posting this.

The comment was not meant as an insult and you knew that. But that did not stop you from portraing him as an anti-semite. Shame on you.

[Skid Rogue]

11. Good God!!! Is that what they're trying to say?

Hillary's already carried Brooklyn in two major elections. I lived in NYC during both of those. She beat two hometown boys, remember? 100% correct, no one is going to give a damn about her saying "like a Brooklynite." New Yorkers don't have enough spare time to worry about that kind of crap. LOL!!!!!!

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14. Benenson's comment was stupid and he deserves to be made fun of for it.

But, as far as the fake outrage is concerned, they would have us believe that people from Queens are sitting there looking down on others.

Brooklyn has 1000000X the snob appeal Queens does.

It's so deeply stupid.

[Skid Rogue]

23. LOL!!!! Okay, now that's funny.

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. Having grown up in Queens and lived in Brooklyn

You're sadly right.



Queens Get the Money, but Brooklyn get the Props.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. I voted for Hillary Clinton for Senate on the Working Families Party ticket...in Brooklyn

Is the outrage on this serious?



Good Gawd.

Special Ed fought 'em FLATBUSH STYLE!!!!

[hrmjustin]

9. The Brooklynite comment was not meant as an insult. But you knew that.

And I am a life long Brooklynite.

[Madam Mossfern]

15. Even though I'm a Sanders supporter

I have to agree with you. I was born in Brooklyn and had ties to Brooklyn for 66 years. I live in NJ and am involved in local politics. When someone tries to get to me I just take them down and remind them that I'm a Brooklyn girl and nobody ought to mess with me.

NJ tough is no where near Brooklyn tough.

[hrmjustin]

16. Well said!

[delrem]

13. Well, they're both meaningless. So there's that. /nt

[Sheepshank]

21. I adore DUer Brooklynite

Brookkyite could school Cruz.