AP Tilt: 'Cruz Embraces Supporters' on 'Far-Right Fringe'

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 9, 2016 | Tim Graham

[Kaslin]

Senior citizens remember the Associated Press as a pithy, objective wire service, not a shop that sounds like a Starbucks circle of liberal editorial writers. On Sunday, AP ran a story headlined “Cruz embraces supporters on fringe of GOP.” Even as socialist Bernie Sanders wanders the hustings polarizing our politics by saying Wall Street is “based on fraud,” AP reporters Scott Bauer and Steve Peoples devoted an entire dispatch to Cruz’s fringy backers: 

B-listers, Bernie Sanders has Sarah Silverman, Lizz Winstead, and Susan Sarandon. Hillary Clinton has Lena Dunham and RuPaul. Can we bet AP will drag out the most extreme-sounding outbursts from these leftist celebrities? Let's bet on a big fat No. 

Bauer and Peoples then turn to the candidates who pandering to liberal journalists by underlining their “extremist” tropes: 

Former New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Fergus Cullen, who last week endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich, described Cruz backers as "a collection of misfits." He called King "my least favorite member of Congress."

"His rhetoric on immigration has been appalling," Cullen said.

Yet Cruz, who infuses his pitch to voters with readings from scripture and exhortations to "awaken the body of Christ," is betting that aligning himself with the stars of his most conservative wing will ultimately deepen his base of support in the primary election and November's general election alike.

That helps explain why Cruz called Robertson a "joyful, cheerful, unapologetic voice of truth." Robertson faced a backlash for declaring in 2014 that gays are sinners and that African-Americans were happy under Jim Crow laws.

Cruz also celebrates the backing of Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled as a hate group largely because of its anti-gay positions. The organization remains influential and well-respected among social conservatives.

Memo to AP: Never condemn a group as "extreme" or based on "hate" by citing the Southern Poverty Law Center. As you conveniently forget, an assassin entered the FRC's headquarters carrying a "hate map" from the SPLC. Their spokesmen -- especially Mark Potok -- like to compare the Tea Party "backlash" to classic American resistance to end of slavery and the beginning of female suffrage.

As Tom Blumer noted in early January, AP has let Bauer loose to slap Cruz around with purple verbiage about his aggressive demeanor: 

Ted Cruz's reputation as an arrogant, grating, in-your-face ideologue has dogged him throughout the Republican presidential race. But it hasn't stopped the Texas senator's rise.

Cruz is increasingly embracing his irascible persona, trying to turn what could be a liability into an asset.

... Foreign Policy magazine once described him as "the human equivalent of one of those flower-squirters that clowns wear on their lapels."

As if Foreign Policy magazine isn't just like a liberal editorial page, as the quote makes apparent. They attacked Cruz three months in to his Senate term.

So isn't Bernie Sanders on a "far-left fringe"? Scott Bauer wrote a story on the socialist's visit to Madison last summer. The headline was "In Wisconsin, Sanders appeals to like-minded liberals." 

[BenLurkin]

“Far Right Fringe”

You know...the Founding Fathers.

[gaijin]

The SPLC inspired a TERRORIST HATE ATTACK on the Family Research Council.

It was VERY narrowly stopped by an alert, armed guard.

[MUDDOG]

Supporters with the fringe on top.

[The_Media_never_lie]

SPLC calling some group group a hate group, now that is rich. SPLC should definitely be an expert on hate groups, since the are always stirring up hate.

[cripplecreek]

So a non church attending Methodist like me is now far right fringe?

[soycd]

>Yet Cruz, who infuses his pitch to voters with readings from scripture and exhortations to “awaken the body of Christ,” is betting

What nonsense. We need to focus on elimination of islam, illegals and Dindu terrorists.

[marktwain]

AP did not move to the Left.

People started finding other sources on the Internet and talk radio. It is their understanding that moved to the Right.

[Blennos]

“Far Right Fringe”

I proudly and happily admit to membership in this far-right fringe.

[doc1019]

Good one. ;-)

[Iron Munro]

The far right fringe:

Patriots, Christians, gun owners, married heterosexuals.

People who have jobs outside the government and support their own families.

[diamond6]

There can be no greater endorsement of Cruz. :-)

[DaveyB]

I am far right fringe! Why, because I like being right. (And hate being wrong!)

[Impy]

Hillary Clinton has Lena Dunham and RuPaul.

RuPaul. The other Paul.

[unixfox]

Far Right Fringe i.e. Patriots

[WalterSkinner]

..Southern Baptist non Dominionist Bump...

[tumblindice]

“Far Right Fringe”

You know...the Founding Fathers.”

They would be shooting by now. See tagline.

[duffee]

“The far right fringe:

Patriots, Christians, gun owners, married heterosexuals.

People who have jobs outside the government and support their own families.”

properly defined

[vpintheak]

I will wear that badge with honor!
Cruz or lose!

[Elsie]

Robertson faced a backlash for declaring in 2014 that gays are sinners

I think that GOD said this very same thing; long, long ago...

 

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

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2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

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But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Health Risks of gay sex.

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