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Media Trash Cruz's Father, Spare Obama's
investors.com ^ | November 04, 2013

Posted on 11/04/2013 5:55:34 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

CNN's Piers Morgan seized on a recent "expose" of Pastor Rafael Cruz by Mother Jones to trash his Tea Party star son as "scary." The magazine cited the elder Cruz's "extreme views" in several speeches he gave to evangelicals and the Tea Party.

"Rafael Cruz blends the far reaches of extreme conservatism and Christian fundamentalism," the article said. Among his "inflammatory remarks," Cruz said Obama believes "government is your god" and has "a clear agenda to destroy American exceptionalism" and redistribute wealth. What else is new?

The leftist publication complains the immigrant-turned-successful-entrepreneur has an outsized influence over his son. So, "What Rafael Cruz says matters."

Yet no such scrutiny was paid to Obama Sr., to whom the president dedicated "Dreams from My Father."

In 1965, the elder Obama, a state economist, wrote an eight-page critique of Kenya's post-colonial government. In "Problems Facing Our Socialism," he called for Soviet-style reforms such as expropriation of land and punitive taxes to redistribute wealth on a massive scale.

Obama Sr. urged the pro-Western regime that employed him to abandon soft socialism and implement full-bore communism. He was eventually booted from his bureaucratic post for being too radical.

Obama Sr.'s extremist ideas never received mainstream coverage. The networks reported not a word of his 1965 paper during the 2008 campaign.

Only Politico.com dared to mention his communist tract. But it quoted an African professor who denied Obama Sr. was a socialist. He was just "a liberal."

The elder Cruz's influence, on the other hand, has become a major issue. Mother Jones says he "flooded" his son "with Austrian School libertarian economics."

Heaven forfend, he was raised to respect market economics and the American system that allowed his family the freedom to open their own business and escape a life of poverty.

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TOPICS: Editorial; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tedcruz; tedcruzfather; texas
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1 posted on 11/04/2013 5:55:34 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hell, they don’t know who Obama’s father is!


2 posted on 11/04/2013 5:57:38 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

which one


3 posted on 11/04/2013 6:00:28 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

People need to wake up and realize that this is total warfare, politically. Don’t expect any slack, ‘cause none will be cut.


4 posted on 11/04/2013 6:00:44 PM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Piers Morgan”P>Isn’t he on the lam?


5 posted on 11/04/2013 6:02:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Who is this Piers person of whom they speak?


6 posted on 11/04/2013 6:04:15 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The elder Cruz's influence, on the other hand, has become a major issue. Mother Jones says he "flooded" his son "with Austrian School libertarian economics."

Let it be so.

7 posted on 11/04/2013 6:04:49 PM PST by marron
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To: Paladin2

You don’t sound the “r” ... should be Piss Mogahn


8 posted on 11/04/2013 6:05:03 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (An Administration of communists, incompetents, and the corrupt ...reminds one of FDR's brain trust.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Is Mother Jones still getting two dollars a trick?


9 posted on 11/04/2013 6:16:55 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

What ever happened to all the outraged people who insisted that a politicians family was off limits?


10 posted on 11/04/2013 6:19:43 PM PST by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Any media hack that relies on Mother Jones as his source and inspiration, or even reads leftist fanaticism from Mother Jones, isn’t fit to be heard or read by the public. Mother Jones makes Mao and Stalin look fluffy pink.


11 posted on 11/04/2013 6:30:36 PM PST by pallis
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To: pallis

In the “secret” world of conservatism and anti-communism, (sh, don’t tell anyone we exist), “Mother Jones” magazine is affectionately known as “Mother F*cker” magazine, a term of endearment we reserve for all reds.

One of the oldest red rags in print, along with “The Nation”, long in the control of the Communist Party USA/sympathizers from CPUSA organizer Carey McWilliams, to pro-red disinformation writer Victor Navasky, to his successor, red-leading Katrina Van De Heuvel (the wife of leftist “Soviet/Russia” scholar Prof. Stephen Cohen).

Also have the socialist “The Progressive”.

At least “Ramparts” is dead though some of their writers are still around spreading their anti-American poison in other publications and online.


12 posted on 11/04/2013 6:37:41 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Blood of Tyrants

We don’t know who chelsea’s father is.


13 posted on 11/04/2013 7:09:43 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow

California has just passed a law allowing a person to have 3 legal parents.
If she relocates to Cali, Chels can have BJ, Hill, AND Webby.


14 posted on 11/04/2013 7:13:34 PM PST by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
And then there is B. Obamas mother. I am so thankful my mother was totally different than she. Obama did, however, have what appeared to be a kind and loving maternal grandmother.
15 posted on 11/04/2013 7:20:13 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: longfellow
Sure we do.


16 posted on 11/04/2013 7:27:46 PM PST by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: marron

As opposed to the Marxian School of Economics a la Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. That’s more palatable to the lefty kooks at Mother Jones and to many of thier friends in the Democratic Party.


17 posted on 11/04/2013 7:30:05 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Tailgunner Joe.


18 posted on 11/04/2013 7:30:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: marron
Mother Jones, a hypocritical pro-abortion rag based on a pro-life persona. Typical adolescent Marxists; hypocrisy divine since the 1970s.


19 posted on 11/04/2013 8:04:33 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

CNN: will trade news for food.

-the Simpsons


20 posted on 11/04/2013 9:01:22 PM PST by Tzimisce
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