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."
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