Staffer Told Ted Cruz He Thought a Reporter Was Nice. The GOP Candidate Responded With Harsh Advice

The Blaze ^ | Jul. 2, 2015 6:15pm | Erica Ritz

[SoConPubbie]

After a young staffer told Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz how “nice” a member of the media is, Cruz said he actually stopped the young man with a harsh reminder about the intentions of most reporters.

“I actually stopped him and I said, ‘You know what? No, she’s not [nice]. She wants to destroy you. Nothing would make her happier than to take your life and filet you on the front pages. And don’t think for a minute that because she smiles and is friendly to you, that it’s anything else,’” Cruz said, sharing the story on The Glenn Beck Program.

“Isn’t that pretty cynical?” Beck asked with a laugh. “I mean, I agree with you 100 percent, but it’s a little cynical!”

Cruz responded that the mainstream media is full partisans who have “picked a team,” and “when the sheep are walking among coyotes, it pays to be cynical.”

“You see Republicans when they’re interviewed by left-wing reporters, and they get afraid,” Cruz said. “They want them to like them. They are not going to like us! They hate us.”

Cruz said he finds it amusing that, even though his father was imprisoned in Cuba for supporting Castro, sometimes the mainstream media tries to say other candidates are “more Hispanic” than he is, “because there’s nothing that makes you Hispanic like embracing the left-wing amnesty agenda.”

“And look, that’s fine, the media is who they are,” Cruz concluded. “What we need to do when we deal with the media is speak the truth, but do it with a smile. Margaret Thatcher said, ‘First you win the argument, then you win the vote.’ The last several elections, we haven’t won the argument. We haven’t even made the argument.”

[Cold Heat]

got a new tagline from Cruz......lol

[editor-surveyor]

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Its the “Girl Scouts” amnesty agenda.
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[editor-surveyor]

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Its the “Sierra Club” amnesty agenda.
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[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Outstanding and right on.

[editor-surveyor]

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Its the “United Way” amnesty agenda.
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[editor-surveyor]

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Its the “Combined Health Agency Drive” amnesty agenda.
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[Politicalkiddo]

Ugh. Reality is harsh—life sucks and is by no means “fair”. The sooner you come to terms with the fact that people look out for their own interests, the better off you will be. I learned this at a very young age. There are many people, decades older than I, who refuse to confront this truth. Beck is obviously one of them. Politics is a cutthroat business.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Cruz said he finds it amusing that, even though his father was imprisoned in Cuba for supporting Castro

His father SUPPORTED Castro?...That's disturbing.

I thought he opposed Castro.

[SoConPubbie]

His father SUPPORTED Castro?...That's disturbing.

I thought he opposed Castro.

A little history lesson concerning Bautista and Castro:

At 17, Rafael Cruz led a group of insurgents staging urban sabotage against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cruz was eventually jailed and tortured, and upon his release wanted the underground to help him personally reach Castro's camp in the Sierra Maestra highlands.

"My dad asked if he could join Castro in the mountains and keep fighting," the firebrand Republican presidential candidate writes in his book, "A Time For Truth," which is being released Tuesday. "But he was told there was no way to get to the rebels."

Instead, the elder Cruz bribed his way to a Cuban exit visa and headed to the University of Texas.

He returned home shortly after Castro seized power in 1959 but, Ted Cruz writes, was appalled to see Castro had "declared to the world that he was a communist." Castro didn't formally call his revolution socialist until the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.

[rikkir]

That’s the best analogy I’ve heard, and I believe that’s exactly what’s happening.
The left isn’t paying attention to anyone but Trump right now.

Without the media prop, anyone notice Jeb isn’t in the top 3 in IA.
I still say Jeb loses IA, I thought he might win NH but now I think Trump may take it. I also think Jeb loses SC. Maybe Cruz can pull SC, he’s not going to have Haley’s help. Jeb loses FL to Rubio. Jeb goes home to figure out what happened cause he’s toast.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“Yuppers... The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.”

The fourth estate is a fifth column.

[Bobalu]

Castro did NOT show his true colors in the early days.

He came out as a Marxist only after defeating the Batista regime.

[rikkir]

I think that was transcribed incorrectly.

[Teacher317]

The sins of the father only apply to Republicans. Sen Albert Arnold Gore Sr (D-TEN) was the leading voice against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

I'll stick with rooting for Ted Cruz, not his father. My dad holds more that a few ideas that I'm not exactly fully behind. So do plenty of FReepers. That doesn't mean that he, or they, wouldn't be better candidates than Hillary or Bernie.

[Din Maker]

If Ted Cruz does not become the GOP nominee in 2016, it will be the tragedy of the Century.

[Theodore R.]

Jebbie can team up with Perry and heal the TX breach between the families.

[Theodore R.]

The senior Cruz today is not the Cruz of 1957.

[SoConPubbie]

A more detailed history of the Dictator Bautista and then the initial role that Castro played in Cuba's history:

Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 "Revolt of the Sergeants" that overthrew the authoritarian rule of Gerardo Machado. Batista then appointed himself chief of the armed forces, with the rank of colonel, and effectively controlled the five-member Presidency. He maintained this control through a string of puppet presidents until 1940, when he was himself elected President of Cuba on a populist platform.[2][3] He then instated the 1940 Constitution of Cuba, considered progressive for its time,[4] and served until 1944. After finishing his term he lived in the United States, returning to Cuba to run for president in 1952. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup that preempted the election.

Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[5] Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large multinational American corporations that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba.[5][6] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his anti-Communist secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 people.[7][8] For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States.[9]

Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's government, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled the island with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally Rafael Trujillo held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in Oliveira Salazar's Portugal, where he lived until dying of a heart attack on August 6, 1973, near Marbella, Spain.[10]

[Kickass Conservative]

This week I bought Ted’s new Book and I Contributed to his Campaign.

Next week, I read his Book and Contribute to his Campaign.

[Theodore R.]

The sooner you come to terms with the fact that people look out for their own interests, the better off you will be. I learned this at a very young age. There are many people, decades older than I, who refuse to confront this truth

You are too wise for the American people to understand.