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.
sorry, I’m rather new, so I did not know there was a way to CC everyone
I thought I had made some sort of spam list
btw, thanks for the heads up
I saw the video from CTH and thought it kind of looked “iffy”
Not as long as they just say they are reporting what "sources" say. Remember the NYT reported John McCain's supposed affairs with lobbyists?
Cruz, Amanda and Katrina better start SUING the NE!!
LOL!! THAT is FUNNY!!
The front cover to day has Blake Shelton cheating with 4 women at the same time he’s dating Gwen.
Since when did the Huff-Post, Salon, NE become legit news sources?
I wasn't 'slamming a character witness', I was slamming you for trying to use his opinion as evidence.
Oh - and you can save the 'shaming' bit. You're the keeper of my conscience.
NOT the keeper - essh. More coffee.
What profanity?
Be careful ascribing honesty and propriety to politicians.
I’ve come to the conclusion that all the Cruz haters on FR are GOPe supporters.
This is the title at the link, and was the original title posted here. I thought FR had a policy against changing titles?
"How I Know The National Enquirer Cruz Affair Story Is Bull Sh*t"
It isn't the number that matters. Ted is most likely, based on the confirmation evidence from the Washington Times reporter and from the brother in law of another Cruz woman, an adulterer and a horrible hypocrite. And if it is true, he is also a pathological liar.
If none of it is true, then I would be amazed. There are simply too many trails of smoke here to convince me there isn't fire.
Really? You’re offended by this? Are you one of them snowflakes?
So with that pivot, you concede the fact the credibility of the NE is faulty at best then, unless you lump Sarah Palin in with “politicians.”
Yep - and they have come out to refute some of Cruz's claims which indicates they either have something solid or they're bluffing big time (which would be useless).
Most of the article uses the guy's own personal opinions/gut feelings to "refute" the issues - not really a convincing argument unless one wants to believe it even if it does prove right.
I have no idea but I do know that Cruz has said some things and done some things that make me a bit leery of his purported role as "Super Christian Champion of the People".
Trump wants to take down the other side and Cruz wants to take down Trump - despite that still leaving him a long-shot and enhancing Hillary's chances - not what I expected of him as others tried to paint Trump as the "egotistic narcissist"...
Thanks, This is the only link that I have posted several times.
What every voter needs to know about Ted Cruz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcYCwaBKnQ&app=desktop
Bill Sill’s #736 was posted twice. And I agree with your rational.
I see, solid facts with no other possible explanation.
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1+1 generally equals 2, sorry I am not going to act as an apologist for anyone. Apparently you want the Trump campaign to announce the smear on Cruz? :D
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