Ted Cruz earning grudging media respect, but is it too late?

Fox News' Media Buzz ^ | March 25, 2016 | Howard Kurtz

[CASchack]

This is going to be a busy news day. I have already seen a new nickname out on Twitter:

The Canadian Mountie

[Albion Wilde]

The “grudging respect” given Ted Cruz would disappear like a fart in a wind tunnel once a serious general election campaign begins.

The media luuvved Juan McCain — until he was nominated.

[lentulusgracchus]

Fox has become the all Cruz Channel

Yes, they weren't "for" him six weeks ago .... when they were making liberalish noises reflecting their new liberalish editorial direction engendered by Old Man Murdoch's recessional after the London scandals -- never mind that it was one of his sons who was on the hook for the telephone-monitoring games that got the NewsCorp London operation in trouble. They wanted Murdoch's scalp for his editorial positions however they could get it, and now "they" have got the more liberal NewsCorp they wanted.

Which is why Cruz has nothing to celebrate over Fox's clammy embrace; but the news is still favorable for him, unless you think Fox is just making things up or spinning the numbers.