Are you such a hard core partisan that you can't perceive when the other side has been grievously offended by a statement from one of our spokesmen?
Ted didn't say, "New York City values", he said, "New York values".
If you were a conservative (or even Republican) citizen of that state, I'm pretty sure you'd be offended by such a remark, owing to the fact that it was a broad swipe against every New Yorker.
I was offended as a Californian when he said it: clearly he wouldn’t think kindly of us either. It’s the lumping of everyone together in a location that offends me.