LMAO!!!
Cruz' comment about how Trump bears responsibility for the violence at his rallies was also taken out of context, IMO.
Cruz' biggest mistake was to phrase his words at a level beyond the average American, one who doesn't follow current events like we do. I'm not putting anyone down, that's just the reality, and Trump has done a masterful job of getting his message out.
I understand the points Ted tries to make, but he leaves himself open for more sinister interpretations of his words. Just observe the "discussions" we've been having on FR for the past few months.
Cruz made several huge and stupid political mistakes in the last week and half and it cost him his chance. The difference is that I can see that, the Trump people make excuse after excuse and do not really listen to Trump. He is not the person his voters think he is. They are riding this train run on emotion not logic.
When Cruz started out with putting the responsibility for the actions of the protesters on the portesters, it takes a willful misinterpretation of his succeeding comments about the tone of the election rhetoric to say he is blaming Trump for the protesters.
Apparently there are plenty of people who either did not actually listen to what he said, who were looking for something to attack, or who read some of the dozens of media accounts which butchered the statements, presented clipped fractions of it with their misinterpretation filled in, or just read headlines which were hostile at best.
If they had any doubt as to what Cruz meant, then why didn't someone ask him to clarify? Where was the reporter with the balls to ask if Cruz was saying Trump was to blame for riots in the streets.
Well?
NO one did, apparently. Those who understood Cruz would never have interpreted it that way, and those who were looking to attack Cruz wouldn't interpret it any other way but to say "Cruz blamed Trump", when that just was not what was said.
Some headlines even went so far as to say "Cruz sided with protesters', which is absolute horse sh*t.
A lie will circumnavigate the globe before the truth gets out the front door, and the lie has been orbiting like the ISS.