Posted on 02/07/2016 5:19:52 PM PST by conservativejoy
CNN's massively dishonest hit on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) continued on Saturday night during the debate, when Cruz defended himself from accusations that his campaign had deliberately misinformed voters that Dr. Ben Carson was preparing to drop out of the race. Here's what CNN originally reported just hours before the caucuses:
Tapper: "It's very unusual, to announce that you're going home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site."
Bash: "Very unusual...Look, if you want to be president of the United States, you don't go home to Florida. That’s just bottom line, that's the end of the story. If you want to signal to your supporters that you're hungry, that you want them to get out and campaign, you have to get out there too, it's very unusual."
Tapper: "Very unusual."
Wolf Blitzer: "Very significant news indeed."
CNN then tweeted: "After the #IACaucus, @RealBenCarson plans to take a break from campaigning."
Based on all of this, everyone in the political world assumed - correctly, as it turns out - that Carson was preparing to end his campaign. And the next week, Carson fired half his staff.
Nonetheless, Carson pushed the notion that Cruz had stolen Iowa from him; Donald Trump suggested the same. Even Marco Rubio jumped on board.
Asked about it during the CNN debate on Saturday night, here's what Cruz said:
Let me tell you the facts of what occurred for those who are interested in knowing. On Monday night, about 6:30 p.m., CNN reported that Ben was not going from Iowa to New Hampshire or South Carolina. Rather, he was, quote, "Taking a break from campaigning." They reported that on television, CNN's political anchors, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer, said it was highly unusual and highly significant. My political team saw CNN's report breaking news and they forwarded that news to our volunteers, it was being covered on live television. I regret that subsequently, CNN reported on that - they didn't correct that story until 9:15 that night. So from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15, that's what CNN was reporting. Subsequent to that initial report, Ben's campaign put out a statement saying that he was not suspending his campaign. I wish that our campaign staff had forwarded that statement. They were unaware of it, I wish that they had, that's why I apologized
Carson then responded that CNN had issued a correction tweet a few minutes later. And CNN released a statement ripping Cruz:
The Cruz campaign's actions the night of the Iowa caucuses had nothing to do with CNN's reporting. The fact that Senator Cruz continues to knowingly mislead the voters about this is astonishing.
What nonsense. Cruz's team explicitly cited CNN's reporting in its emails. Carson himself has sent emails blaming CNN. Cruz correctly pointed out what happened on CNN, as you can see from the transcript above. And while CNN reporters tweeted that Carson wasn't dropping out, as did Carson staffers, CNN did not report on air that Carson was staying in the race until later in the evening.
So CNN's ridiculous ass-covering is just that: ridiculous ass-covering. There's a reason Carson's fundraising email sent after the controversy blamed only CNN: "It was yet another example of creating rather than reporting the news, and it's wrong."
Crus is totally busTED!
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-cnn-republican-debate/index.html?eref=rss_latest
“Flat out lie”...
Look above you.
Not only that, but Breitbart has audio where the Cruz team went with the scam long after they knew it wasn’t true. Cruz fans feel the more they post this lie, the better chance they have to convince folks.
Original tape exists. CNN can’t really cover their butts on this.
CNN keeps repeating the lie using NY Times, Politifact, Factcheck.org, etc., as proof. Twilight Zone stuff.
https://twitter.com/1nicmarlo/status/696460881283170304
CNN never said he was dropping out or suspending his campaign.
Cruz’s campaign said that to voters as they were voting.
Sorry.
I figure he’ll move on to accusing someone of being racist before finally leaving the race.
No, they just said Carson "wasn't going to NH/SC"...
Maybe I’m mean, nasty and awful, but does anybody really care about Carson? He was not capable and had no chance. Cruz really had nothing to do with this and it doesn’t matter anyway. Why does this silly stuff keep appearing on FR?
Just thought as long as it was still making the news, the truth needed to be represented instead of the smear pieces.
I heard the CNN report. My first thought was “Carson is dropping out”.
What Carson did was abysmally stupid. EVERYONE thought he was dropping out.
He won’t, he’ll let Armstrong Do it.
Like telling the press he was going to Floriduh. He didn’t have the guts to admit he was out of money so he let his plebs tell CNN
A week ago, I would have said no, he isn't that kind of man....but after he tried to equate Hillary and Benghazi to Cruz and Iowa, nothing would surprise me now.
That part was made up by Jeff Roe of Axiom Strategies who is the sleezeball that Cruz hired to be his campaign director. Cruz is apparently ok with that. This is Cruz's inside the beltway politics as usual.
What it boils down to is that if Cruz wanted to tell people that Carson dropped out, he should have waited until Carson actually dropped out.
But he didn’t wait. He made the leap to something that was never reported and never occurred, and told people during an election something that wasn’t true.
That’s just all there is to it.
If CNN reports "Carson isn't going to NH/SC", you're free to draw your own conclusion.
It's not a stretch...
The reality of the situation doesn't seem to matter one bit. They just want to find something to bash Cruz with.
Ideas won't work.
Record won't work.
Knowledge won't work.
So what do they do?
“Cruz is responsible for something that happened without his knowledge!”
“Cruz is (insert childish insults. Ie. Nasty, unlikeable, ugly, oily, ad nauseam)
The only thing that would make them happy is Cruz dropping out and throwing his support behind the NY liberal.
Sure.
Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions.
Even the wrong conclusion.
And everyone is also free to act or not act upon said conclusions.
Caution is wise, because if you draw the wrong conclusion, and then spread that erroneous conclusion to voters while they are voting, and advise those voters to change their vote based upon your erroneous conclusion, and then don’t fire the people involved, you look like Ted Cruz now looks.
Oops.
You think that if this didn't happen trump wins. What you should be concerned with is that in a two man race, Cruz gets all of Carson's votes, all of Paul's votes, at least half of Rubio’s votes. That leaves trump even deeper in the losing column.
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