Enough with the Mustache Pete's

Charley walked into the barber shop at the crack of noon. He had wandered down from his residential room and wanted to spruce up after his usual room service breakfast to spruce up before his usual round of meetings and sitdowns.

“Good morning Senor Ross…I be witcha in a minute” said Enrico the barber. There were a few Italians that worked in the toney WASP world of the Waldorf Astoria. Charley was just about the only Italian that stayed there. It was toney not Tony.

Charley stopped short. He recognized the stubby body under the towel in the chair. It was Albert. He didn’t belong there. Charley was always wary when somebody showed up where they weren't supposed to be.

WKRLEM: New York Values

We got six friggin zoo's!

New York Values

My old friend Jerry Rivers was on Bill O’Reilly the other night expounding on “New York Values” and what Ted Cruz the most conservativeman in the world was dog whistling when he said that in the Iowa caucuses. Jerry put his finger on it. It is basically an Anti-Semitic ploy to signal to people who hate those “New York Jews.”

I have seen this before. It is nothing new. It is Hymie town from Jesse Jackson. It is Ted Cruz not voting for benefits for the cops and fireman injured in the aftermath of 911. I get that a lot of the country hates New York and it’s people. New York is not for everyone. New Yorkers can be assholes. No doubt. We are very opinionated. We are always in a rush. We don’t have time for the slow and easy country style that is so prevalent out there in the rest of the country. We are not the laid back surfer style from Cali. It’s not for everyone.

Cruz and Trump spar over "New York values"

"Trump, Cruz clash over eligibility, ‘New York values’ at GOP debate"

Fox News: In perhaps his most withering retort, Trump slammed Cruz for questioning “New York values.” Recalling memories from after 9/11, Trump described the “horrific” clean up and the “smell of death” in the city.

“It was with us for months, the smell,” Trump said. “And everybody in the world loved New York, loved New Yorkers -- and I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement.”