Posted on 03/26/2016 8:01:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
PDFs of the National Enquirer article about Ted Cruz having five affairs were sent to me by a friend on Wednesday evening. When he sent it, my buddy reminded me that the National Enquirer has been right about this kind of stuff before, like in the case of former Senator Edwards.
I read the article about the Cruz affairs, but for many reasons including the fact that Roger Stone, Trump friend and "hit man" was quoted in the story paid it no heed (although it did make me wonder if Stone is the one who planted the story).
My friend was correct when he said the supermarket tabloid has been proven right at times, but the National Enquirer has been wrong more than it's been right. 
Consider stories such as Hillary Clinton has brain cancer (it may seem that way but her only mental disease is extreme liberalism), Angelina Jolie was down to 83 pounds and near death (there was a recent picture of her in the latest Vanity Fair and she looks pretty hot for a dead lady), and of course Michelle Obama’s planned divorce because the president has been with 12 different women (with all the time he is taking to ruin the country he has little time to sleep around). Face it this is the magazine that has said Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were getting divorced so many times that I am sure the still happily married couple must be beginning to doubt themselves.
But on Friday the Cruz story erupted, and things I should have noticed when I first read the story on Wednesday came to light.
For example, three of the five women have been identified, one of the women Amanda Carpenter I know personally. Not that we are good friends but she is more of a friend to some of my good friends. And from everything I know about Amanda, everything I’ve read about her, and from posts on her Facebook page about her family, I feel comfortable betting big money on the fact that Amanda has never cheated on her husband with Ted Cruz, or any one else.
Amanda vehemently denied the story on CNN today (see the video below). Another of the five women who have been identified is Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson who has denied the accusations and a third who has been identified is former Carly Fiorina staffer Sarah Isgur Flores who hasn't denied it yet, but I am sure it's coming.
The Enquirer piece neglected to mention that National Enquirer owner David Pecker is a close friend of Trump's and this is not the first time the magazine tried to destroy a Trump rival.
This past October 7th issue, on the same cover that announced Ben Afflack and Jennifer Lopez were once again an item (no one told them), the 
National Enquirer promoted a story about how Ben Carson butchered a child’s brain. Inside they published a story about Dr. Ben Carson (who just so happened to be catching up to Donald Trump in the polls) called "Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patient’s Brain!" (which btw sounds like the title of a great horror film). Per the article, Carson "brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver!" (meat cleaver? Who knew he did circumcisions). The article said he botched surgeries leaving patients disfigured and in pain. According to the author of the piece "Judging by White House wannabe Ben Carson's track record as a neurosurgeon, his presidential campaign should be declared dead on arrival!"
When Carly Fiorina had an excellent debate in September and began to rise in the polls the Enquirer ran an article called, "Homewrecker Carly Fiorina Lied About Druggie Daughter" 
That story however, didn’t make the cover because of more important stories such as "Joan Rivers Death Cover Up," "Dolly Parton's 6-year Affair" and of course, "Tom Selleck's $25 Million Divorce Shocker."
Why would the Enquirer run a hit pieces on Donald Trump’s opponents when they just so happened to be creeping up in the polls on “The Donald?” According to an October 2015 issue of New York Magazine:
Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker have been friends for years. "They're very close," said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. "He'd make it exciting and win awards!"
My favorite story coming out of this bogus scandal is that Breitbart.com had the story but former editor Ben Shapiro killed it. Think about that one for a second. They are talking about the guy who recently quit his position at Brietbart because he couldn't get management to support reporter Michelle Fields who was attacked by Trump's campaign manager. If Ben Shapiro had that kind of power at Breitbart wouldn't he have gotten them to treat Michelle Fields better so he wouldn't have felt he had to resign?
It is very difficult to prove a negative, especially when the story is about five affairs that never happened. But for all the reasons stated above I believe this National Enquirer tale is nothing more than a political smear.
I don't know it was placed by Trump operatives or whether, there were simply no aliens from a different planet working at a Kosher ice cream shoppe in Secaucus N.J. for the Enquirer to write about this week, causing David Pecker to order his staff to come up with a false rumor about Trump's only real remaining opponent to fill the magazine's pages.
In the end this is a familiar story; strong conservative women are having their reputation and dignity impugned (which coincidently is the type of attack the Trump team likes best, just ask Megyn Kelly, Cheri Jacobus, or Carly Fiorina just to name a few).
My college Joe Newby has much more on this story at his site, The Conservative Firing Line. But first watch the video of Amanda Carpenter on CNN this morning.
Your link does not identify whom the photographer is going to sue. Again, do you have a link stating who the photographer is going to sue?
The PAC isn't pro-Cruz. It's anti-Trump.
The PAC's biggest donor is an Obama supporter.
So tell me again who the reporter is going to sue?
‘Reporter’ should read ‘photographer’.
Give it a rest. Make America Awesome is now supporting Cruz like the rest of The Establishment. And don't tell me the Bushes aren't backing Cruz, or Romney, or Gramnesty.....
Really?
http://www.lizmair.com/biography.php
Link me to this Obama supporter?
With zero evidence presented that any candidate gained from it, one can only conclude that there is no relevance to this diversion intended to draw attention away from the fact that your assertions are patently false. Again:
It isn't a SuperPAC. Total contributions for 2016 come to $20,000.
The PAC isn't pro-Cruz. It's anti-Trump.
The PAC's biggest donor is an Obama supporter.
Make America Awesome is now supporting Cruz like the rest of The Establishment.
Nice. Quadrupling and quintupling down on the last three false premises by offering two more. And both in the same sentence just to save time.
But those are the pitfalls of making it up as you go. I choose to stick with the facts instead.
I gave you two links showing you that the SuperPac Make America Awesome was behind the ad.
The SuperPac Make America Awesome is Anti-Trump and therefore, Pro Cruz. They wanted Cruz to win. They smeared Melania so Mormon Schmucks would vote for Cruz. Three to four days later the POS Cruz denounced the ad AFTER he benefited from the ad.
NOW SHOW ME THE OBAMA SUPPORTER LINK OR STheckUP.
Top donor: Ann Sheffer
Now Make America Awesome is the brainchild of of GOPe Establishment Surrogate Liz Mair.
http://makeamericaawesome.com/about/#sthash.RnaF9M0W.dpbs
Run by Liz Mair
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anti-trump-pac-goes-live-on-eve-of-gop-debate/article/2578371 Dated March 22, 2016
While Donald Trump was busy wooing supporters Monday evening in Las Vegas, two Republican consultants quietly launched a super political action committee aimed at taking him down.
For weeks, former Republican National Committee staffer Liz Mair and Florida-based consultant Rick Wilson have been crafting a “guerilla campaign” against the GOP candidate, who sits second in the Washington Examiner's presidential power rankings. At around 9 p.m. ET Monday evening, they finally took to Twitter to solicit the help of others.
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/23/ad-driving-donald-trump-bonkers/
Dated March 23, 2016
Liz Mair, a Republican strategist whose anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome launched the Facebook campaign last week, said each ad is expected to reach around 10,000 Mormons of voting age a day. The goal is twofold: increase turnout among LDS voters, and urge them to strategically consolidate around Ted Cruz, who is close to the 50% winner-take-all threshold in Utah.
The group is running three ads: one that features Mitt Romney, one that emphasizes Trump’s past support for pro-choice policies, and a third that shows Melania Trump posing nude. The Melania ad, which is by far the most provocative, invites viewers to meet “your next first lady.” Mair said that one is being promoted on Instagram as well, but only to LDS women.
This happened on the Neal Cavuto Show on MARCH 8, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEPZ_alA6g
http://www.americanfreedombybarbara.com/2016/03/andrea-mcwilliams-texas-lobbyist-and.html
Disgusting and Cruz et.al are disgusting.
I provided you the name of their biggest donor, showing that she was an Obama supporter. Yet you still embrace the lie. I showed you the total donations they have received this year. Yet you still embrace the lie. That is your willful choice.
I watched the Cavuto video. What does any of that have to do with Ted Cruz?
My garden benefits from the sun shining. That doesn't mean my garden is the impetus for nuclear fusion. So back to the question you were afraid to answer: What does the Cavuto video have to do with Ted Cruz? Answer: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
That non-rational persuasion crap doesn't fly with me.
No, she isn't. And you don't have a single shred of evidence showing otherwise. Enough with the lies already. Making up crap on the fly only makes you look stupid.
Your name is in red. Underneath the paragraph is a YouTube link with the whole interview from beginning to end. Neal Cavuto introduces her as “Andea McWilliams, a Cruz Supporter. Under her image is “Andrea McWilliams, Cruz Supporter”. During the interview, questions are framed , “As a Cruz supporter, you...........” And she responds to those questions,
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