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.
Or Cruz understands the world of politics, he will be the target of lies, and doesn’t run run around threatening to sue everyone like Trump does.
Exhibit A is Hildebeast being a demoncrat. Exhibit B is being married to Horndog Bubba Klintoon.
He won’t mention it? I heard Ted on TV denying it. He’s handling all of this quite well. It’s all flying back in Trump’s face.
Thank you, thank you, and remember tip your server.
You wrote "If it is, Cruz is going to be the new owner of National Enquirer.
Are you indicating it is not provable and therefore you are making an assumption ? It is certainly not an observation, as you claimed. There are two parts to your sentence, and both are theoretically testable and provable. Neither is an observation or fact.
I haven’t been inclined to believe the allegations, simply because I just don’t see Cruz as being all that motivated in that direction. But, banging the table instead of categorically denying it does come across as sort of weak, especially from a lawyer who would know when to bang the table and when to categorically deny.
Cruz doesn’t have to threaten, he has the wherewithal to sue Trump into oblivion.
If you watch this CNN clip with Amanda Carpenter and the Boston Herald reporter, Adriana Cohen, it will tell you a lot.
Look at Adriana’s face before and when she starts calling out Carpenter on on the Enquirer piece and her roll in it. She makes no bones about Carpenter having an affair with Cruz. She has that look that says everyone in Washington knows about it and no, I’m not going to give you a free pass.
No, I am not “indicating it is not provable.” I am totally willing to see what happens next, like Cruz filing suit.
PS - You are one weird piece of work.
I can’t respect ANYONE who believes Ted Cruz had eight EIGHT!! affairs. that’s the new number. eight.
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I see what you’re saying, but I saw a guy eat an entire platter of hotdogs at a county fair once, and I didn’t think he could do that either....until I saw him do it. LOL
Sometimes it’s hard to wrap my mind around something so outrageous until my eyes see the proof.
Not so sure about that , because everyone I know has said this doe snot look good for him.
If it is not true then he is a lawyer and knows he can sue, but why not and put the company on a lawsuit.
he hasn’t which is strange and when will he explain why his campaign gave the Fiorina campaign 500 grand after one of the women worked for her?
I have no clue if it is true or not, but it does not look good for him and blaming Trump was a massive mistake.
[He’s got more going on than Laz]
Who is this LAZ? He’s legend here on Free Republic.
For what?
Have you seen the AC tweet with picture of her children in front of the TV with Cruz on and holding a sign thanking Daddy? Now, if that is real, that is just too strange. Maybe it would make sense if I knew what her husband does, but with the limited context we have, that is just plain freaky.
If this is simply the "world of politics", then why would any of the "accused" be outraged? Why bother pointing the crooked finger at Trump, or anyone else? After all, it's just business as usual, ain't?
One alleged affair was with a self described escort with the statement that she was flown to the DC area, all expenses paid. That would be FBI territory if true.
I state “if true”, as I do not know if any of it is true. I do not know if any of it is fabricated either. Nor do I think Cosby is innocent, as you must logically believe.
Would seem that when Cruz caused Trump's wife's picture to be posed, allegedly, he may have forgotten that Trump is tough. Just what we need to deal with Putin, illegal aliens, unfair one way trade and treaty deals, and the list goes on. Sorry, but Trump has my vote, not the establishment. Indeed, after Rubio’s destruction and positions, I think the “Conservatives” e.g. Tea Party, are just another aspect of the GOP establishment, as are the Lib RINOs etc.
ALL is just my opinion.
No, I haven’t seen that one.
A politician understands they must tolerate those who oppose them politically and even endure untruthful attacks.
Laz was the Dos Equis dudes role model and mentor.
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