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TexasTowelie

(116,496 posts)
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 08:56 PM Oct 2017

Jared Kushner is New Jersey's fault, says the NY Times. We are not amused.

Well, here we go again, having to defend the honor of New Jersey against the slings and arrows of the national news media.

Just months after the Boston Globe mocked President Donald Trump for his decision to spend part of his summer vacation in New Jersey, the New York Times got into the act on Sunday, when an op-ed attributed Jared Kushner's "the-rules-don't-apply-to-me" attitude to his Jersey upbringing.

"Anyone who has ever driven on the New Jersey Turnpike knows that, at a certain point in the road, the entire Manhattan skyline appears to rise from the surrounding marshland like a close-yet-so-far Land of Oz, both tempting and terrorizing with its mysterious jutting cutouts," wrote Lucinda Rosenfeld, a novelist and Bergen County native, before launching into a geographic psychoanalysis of the 36-year-old Trump advisor and son-in-law.

"[F]or those who call New Jersey home, and especially those who reside in Northern New Jersey, it’s difficult to forget that one is still not from 'the city,' as the landmass across the river is known."

Read more: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/10/dont_blame_new_jersey_for_jared_kushner.html

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Jared Kushner is New Jersey's fault, says the NY Times. We are not amused. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2017 OP
Where I live in New Jersey, we have some very nice, giving, kind people. NNadir Oct 2017 #1

NNadir

(34,533 posts)
1. Where I live in New Jersey, we have some very nice, giving, kind people.
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:17 PM
Oct 2017

Those who live in glass houses - Trump Tower is where? - should not throw stones.

If the New York Times hadn't spent all that time on Trump, Trump, Trump and Emails, Emails, Emails we might have a wonderful Madam President instead of the orange lump of shit NY Real Estate Bankruptcy scammer.

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