Posted on 02/08/2016 11:27:37 AM PST by kiryandil
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)
Sen. Ted Cruz knowingly misstated CNN's reporting during Saturday's Republican primary debate, despite the fact that CNN's reporting was correct all along.
Cruz blamed CNN for a message his campaign sent to supporters the night of the Iowa caucuses suggesting Carson was going to suspend his campaign.
"My political team saw CNN's report breaking news and they forwarded that news to our volunteers, it was being covered on live television," Cruz said during the debate.
Cruz also claimed CNN had inaccurately reported that Carson was suspending his campaign "from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15," and "didn't correct that story until 9:15 that night."
That is false. CNN never reported that Carson was suspending his campaign and never issued a correction, because there was no need to do so.
In a statement out Saturday night, CNN responded, "What Senator Cruz said tonight in the debate is categorically false. CNN never corrected its reporting because CNN never had anything to correct. 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."...
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I don’t hate Cruz, I just don’t think he’s the best choice for President.
But I do have ears, eyes, and a functional brain and I can follow the timeline and understand that Cruz is lying through his teeth about this without regard for whether the source of the information is CNN or The Pope himself.
It has nothing to do with who is reporting, it has to do with the facts. Cruz is lying to protect his campaign from having to admit that his staff pulled a dirty trick in an attempt to influence the election, which is exactly what happened.
His ethics rolled under his desk, and he couldn't reach them?
Carson called out Teddy in the debate and Cruz knew this but went ahead misleading voters in Iowa.
Haha. More like it’s easier to talk religion than to put the Golden Rule into practice.
Was there a rogue video maker at CNN. Has Cruz vowed to bring him to justice.
So wait. Cruz's DEFENSE is they believed CNN's reporting. Now it's "hate" to believe CNN's reporting.
Make up your damn minds.
+1
At least Candy Crowley FINALLY came out and said she was wrong last election. Guess you changed your company employee policy, after that, to make sure that NO ONE ADMITS TO THEIR MISTAKE.
Seriously? ROFLMAO!
Where did Cruz get the part about the ‘big announcement’ the Carson camp would soon be making?
Why do you expect a liar like Cruz not to lie?
When I see a duck, I expect it to quack, not bark.
Oh, hell’s bells, Rich.
The whole damn chronology is TIME STAMPED, for crying out loud.
Pull your head out. There is audio, there are captured tweets, within three minutes, and LIVE TV reports.
And then their is Ted. Sitting on empty.
With nothing.
With no legs.
Cruz:
” ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT I TELL YOU, OR YOUR OWN LYING EYES? “
FRiday’s radio show. I don’t know, does he simulcast?
What prevented Carson’s campaign workers from correcting the report? He surely had someone at every precinct.
And why, since the Rubio and Paul campaigns also reported this, is the Cruz campaign the only one taking heat?
Carson’s campaign put out a poorly worded release, but just like everything else, Carson blames others. He had to be coaxed onto the stage for the debate, but hat was someone else’s fault, too.
If CNN in any way implied that Cruz was dropping out of the race before the first vote had been counted, which would he prefer: A: another candidate to blast the news that he was out and a vote for him would be wasted, or B: another candidate take the mere seconds required to run this implication past Cruz himself?
It’s called the Golden Rule. If you find it hilarious, take it up with Jesus.
His supporters tried.
His credibility died.
I just had to....
:-)
What prevented Cruz from making a thirty second call to the Carson camp to inquire as to whether he had chosen that particularly strange moment to suddenly drop out of the race?
He doesn’t have a truthful answer for F-ing nice Doc Carson.
Ted Millhouse Cruz is still stuttering out his excuse.
His Pyrrhic victory actually didn’t produce a bump up but loss of support. Lots of people feel for Doc Carson knowing the entry polls showed Ted losing and Carson had more support.
4 switched votes per each of the 1500 precincts taken from Carson switched Ted Millhouse Cruz from the Winner to 2nd place.
In other words, Ted Millhouse Cruz won Ugly and Dirty.
That is the Chicago/ Canadian way
“CNN forgot I guess the original tweet, has been saved by many, as well as Carson’s statement it started with CNN.”
A lot of us don’t live on FR. I’ve never seen an original tweet or whatever it is the Cruz folks say they saw and relied on to say, “Carson quit, give us your caucus votes.”
This isn’t an evidentiary `He said, she said.’ CNN either ran a crawler across the bottom of the screen, or said it somehow on the air, or tweeted it ... or they didn’t.
So it is, ‘He said, she said’ in the sense that CNN says they did not, while Cruz says they did.
You ask CNN to disprove a negative which is tough thing to do. Show us your proof and we’ll agree with you that yeah, it’s quite likely that the Cruz operators had reasonable cause to believe Carson was ‘signing off’ from the race. (Unless Carson said “I’m going to the can.” and one of his staffers, uh, leaked to Cruz that Carson was, hmmm, “done”.)
But don’t expect an apology from us if you do. We—the field mouse in my pocket and I—have seen a lot here recently that evidences Cruz has been `skinning a lot of cats’.
“That’s the truth.”
OK, show us the truth.
See post 36.
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