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The Cruz Comments On "Backing Over Trump" in Context
Vanity | 3/31/2016 | self

Posted on 03/31/2016 10:35:47 AM PDT by conservativejoy

Since this news story made the sidebar here on FR, I decided to provide some context to the remarks that have garnered so much interest.

I just view my DVR tape of the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night. Just prior to Senator Cruz coming on was a segment on cool April Fools jokes that could be played on friends.

One of the jokes was to duct tape a Freddie Kruger action figure to someone's rear view camera. The guy demonstrating also said that a picture could be used as well. He held up a picture of Donald Trump.

Cruz was just continuing the joke by referencing that previous segment.

Meanwhile, irresponsible "journalists" are ignorantly or deliberately reporting this joke out of context as being a serious comment. Typical.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; 2016election; cruz; cruzpsychopath; globalistcruz; hypocrisy; noteligiblecruz; openboarderscruz; trumpbot; vanity; violence
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To: McGruff

If she was, she wasn’t wearing one of Trump’s ties made in China.


21 posted on 03/31/2016 10:43:14 AM PDT by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

The stabbing never stops.


22 posted on 03/31/2016 10:43:36 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: All

Yeah, it’s “real cool” and funny to joke about killing a presidential candidate...

A million laughs, right???


23 posted on 03/31/2016 10:43:46 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: mongrel; conservativejoy; Durbin

Actually, I’m doing what the other candidates and the media have done with Trump all along.

They misrepresent his comments as if their misrepresentation is what he really meant or said.

So, in terms of Cruz’s ‘summations’ of Trump’s comments, by that same standard, it is fair to say that Cruz suggested he’d prefer Trump dead.

I really don’t expect a true believer to see that, though.

Or that he’d like to kill him...be behind the wheel and run him over with an automobile.


24 posted on 03/31/2016 10:43:55 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
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To: Robert DeLong

More honest than you, you lyin’ scummy Hillary supporter.


25 posted on 03/31/2016 10:44:54 AM PDT by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: conservativejoy

Kimmel’s audience - Leftists who hate Trump and thus support Cruz

Cruz’s audience - “Conservatives” who hate Trump and thus support Leftists


26 posted on 03/31/2016 10:45:08 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: JBW1949

I bet you thought it was “real cool” when Lindsey Graham joked about killing Sen. Cruz.


27 posted on 03/31/2016 10:45:48 AM PDT by beandog (Trump and his supporters have to take the elevator up to even reach the gutter.)
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To: conservativejoy

First of all, I wouldn’t trust Ted not to run over Trump. Secondly even if he was joking, about time his words came back on him. They come back on Trump every single day.

Maybe Secret Service should look into this.


28 posted on 03/31/2016 10:46:52 AM PDT by Kenny (e)
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To: JBW1949

It is for the remaining Cruz people.
Because with zero exceptions that is who they are and that is what they are.


29 posted on 03/31/2016 10:47:17 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: conservativejoy
When Cruz was asked about Trump’s comments, he said:

“I will let Donald speak for himself. I can say I have no intention of shooting anybody in this campaign.”

30 posted on 03/31/2016 10:47:18 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: bigbob

That was an April Fools Day thing in Cruz’s office. This desperation to smear has gotten ridiculous. Folks have tried to make a big deal of the moniker “Daddy Cruz” which started when Cruz was defending his daughters from the Washington Post cartoon ridiculing them.

I realize that many Trump supporters have a tabloid mentality that makes it difficult for them not to assign every thing to the gutter, but this crap has just gotten bizarre.


31 posted on 03/31/2016 10:47:29 AM PDT by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

Don’t bother. Trump’s followers are convinced this is a vile threat and not what it was - a dumb joke from a guy who isn’t nearly as funny as he thinks. Meanwhile their guy calls for violence against those who oppose him and lies for a campaign manager caught on video committing a violent crime.


32 posted on 03/31/2016 10:49:11 AM PDT by Reaper19
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To: beandog

“I sure don’t need a hankie. It was very funny and I don’t care how it is reported. “

Yeah, ok.

We get it Trump makes a joke = “OMG I can’t believe this dangerous nut made a joke about killing someone!!!!!!”

Cruz does it = “ that was a very funny joke. Such wit can only come from a great man like Cruz. I can’t believe people would take a joke of running over someone seriously! Such rubes!”

Go make that joke about Hillary and see how many of your media friends chuckle along with you.


33 posted on 03/31/2016 10:49:40 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: mongrel; conservativejoy; Durbin

Actually, I’m doing what the other candidates and the media have done with Trump all along.

They misrepresent his comments as if their misrepresentation is what he really meant or said.

So, in terms of Cruz’s ‘summations’ of Trump’s comments, by that same standard, it is fair to say that Cruz suggested he’d prefer Trump dead.

Or that he’d like to kill him...be behind the wheel and run him over with an automobile.


34 posted on 03/31/2016 10:49:55 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
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To: beandog

Nope...Joking about murder isn’t “cool” at all...No matter who...

Why would you make such a stupid comment????


35 posted on 03/31/2016 10:49:59 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: Kenny

Why don’t you call them so they can laugh at you like we do.


36 posted on 03/31/2016 10:50:01 AM PDT by beandog (Trump and his supporters have to take the elevator up to even reach the gutter.)
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To: conservativejoy

Not a single person in that whole office ever posted a picture or comment or anything at the time or since of the supposed prank everyone was in on.

Where are their matching tats? Or does only the bottom beyatch get one?


37 posted on 03/31/2016 10:50:38 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: JBW1949

In the context of the previous guest’s segment, it was appropriate. No one knowing the context took it seriously. It was a joke and they took it that way.

Kimmel also talked about Lindsey Graham’s comments about murdering Cruz on the Senate floor. Everybody laughed about that, too, including Cruz.


38 posted on 03/31/2016 10:51:21 AM PDT by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

I would suggest all you Trump supporters who felt this was a threat, to call the Burbank Police Department and press charges.

Lindsey Graham made two jokes about killing Ted Cruz, and Ted uses them in his stump speech and at AIPAC.

Politicians and their supporters need to have a little thicker skin.


39 posted on 03/31/2016 10:51:23 AM PDT by Iowa David (Cruz 2016 - Before it's too late)
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To: Reaper19

“... a campaign manager caught on video committing a violent crime...”

Violent?????? ROFLMAO!!!!!

You don’t have a clue what violence is, evidently.....


40 posted on 03/31/2016 10:52:15 AM PDT by JBW1949
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