As someone who has been to the NYC parade a few times I’m happy to hear this. To me, the low point in the parade is when some dopey Italian/German/Jewish/Hispanic/Black mayor makes an ass out of himself walking up Fifth Avenue in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, wearing an Irish sweater his chief of staff purchased that morning.
This is very similar to the time her Thighness Hilary, was campaigning for US Senate in NY. While speaking to a Hasidic group in New Square, she rather condescendingly tried to woo them by saying she recently discovered Jewish ancestry in her family(Recently? I thought she was the world's smartest woman? What gives?) Just the other day, the Haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, pulled the same HEY-gang-guess-what-I-got-Jewish-ancestry-in-my-family ploy while visiting Israel.