{"id":181708,"date":"2016-04-08T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/08\/ted-cruz-makes-geraldo-rivera-make-sense\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T23:23:00","slug":"ted-cruz-makes-geraldo-rivera-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/08\/ted-cruz-makes-geraldo-rivera-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Makes Geraldo Rivera Make Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivera has observed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/08\/geraldo_rivera_explodes_at_antisemitic_ted_cruz_on_fox_news_do_we_need_him_to_draw_a_cartoon_of_someone_with_a_big_nose_to_see_cruz_for_what_he_is\/\">Ted Cruz&#8217; attack on &#8220;New York Values&#8221; is actually an anti-Semitic code<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Geraldo Rivera appeared on Fox &amp; Friends this morning to defend  his statement on The O\u2019Reilly Factor Thursday night that Ted Cruz is an  anti-Semite, and that his words to the voters of Iowa proved him to be  such.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Steve Doocy began by asking, plainly, \u201cGeraldo, why do you think Ted Cruz is antisemitic?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cFirst  of all, Steve, good morning,\u201d Rivera replied. \u201cIn terms of this Ted  Cruz situation and this \u2018New York values\u2019 situation, when you say \u2018New  York, money, and media,\u2019 what do you need <i>really<\/i> before you get to the caricature \u2014 the dog-whistle \u2014 the code-word, of what this man is trying to say?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWhat  do you need? A cartoon of someone with a big nose from another era?\u201d he  asked. \u201cThis was designed to bring to the heartland the negative  impression of greedy New Yorkers trying to take money out of people\u2019s  pockets.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe association is indelible, and undeniable, and you  can\u2019t explain it [away],\u201d Rivera continued. \u201cThere are a million ways to  put down socialism and liberalism and excessive government spending and  the welfare state \u2014 a million ways without suggesting that you\u2019re  talking about a particular group of people.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">When  pressed about Cruz\u2019s later appearances in Jewish community centers,  River replied that \u201cwhat you say in the matzah ball factory is different  from what you say in Iowa.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/f-me-i-agree-with-peter-king.html\">I noted this 4 months ago<\/a>, but Geraldo is kind of slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivera has observed that Ted Cruz&#8217; attack on &#8220;New York Values&#8221; is actually an anti-Semitic code: Geraldo Rivera appeared on Fox &amp; Friends this morning to defend his statement on The O\u2019Reilly Factor Thursday night that Ted Cruz is an anti-Semite, and that his words to the voters of Iowa proved him to be such. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,969,1129,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-evil","category-journalism","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}