Posted on 01/26/2014 8:57:19 PM PST by kristinn
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday morning and was met with a barrage of questions from host Bob Schieffer about his involvement in the government shutdown. Apart from being the victim of Schieffer’s accusations that the Tea Party senator was to blame for the shutdown, it also appears that Mr. Cruz was the victim of editing by CBS.
Based on video from Senator Cruz’s YouTube page and what aired on today’s Face the Nation broadcast, the senator’s comments surrounding President Obama’s “abuse of power” were edited from the program. Instead what aired was a segment that ignored many of the senator’s complaints directed at President Obama. [See the aired and unaired videos below.]
In the video that aired on CBS, the interview between Schieffer and Cruz ended with the following back and forth:
BOB SCHIEFFER: Will you run for president?
SEN. TED CRUZ: Well, look, my focus is on the challenges facing this country right now (UNINTEL) senate. My focus, for example, is on the abuse of power from the president. Let's take something like the IRS scandal--
BOB SCHIEFFER: So, I'll take that as a yes or a no.
SEN. TED CRUZ: Eight months ago--
BOB SCHIEFFER: Or still thinking about it.
SEN. TED CRUZ: Well, what you can take that as, is that my focus is standing and fighting right now in the senate to bring back jobs and economic growth. Economic growth is my number one priority…
BOB SCHIEFFER: Thank you, so much, for joining us and we'll talk to you again.
However, as Senator Cruz’s YouTube channel showed, the Texas senator had extensive commentary on President Obama that mysteriously did not make it to air, just two days before the president’s State of the Union address:
SCHIEFFER: “Will you run for President?”
CRUZ: “My focus is on the abuse of power of this President. Let’s take something like the IRS scandal-“
SCHIEFFER: “Do I take that as a yes or a no?”
CRUZ: “What you can take is that my focus is standing and fighting right now in the Senate to bring back jobs and economic growth. Let me tell you something that is deeply concerning—the abuse of power from this Administration. We’ve seen multiple filmmakers prosecuted and the government’s gone after them. Whether it’s the poor fellow that did the film that the President blamed Benghazi and the terrorist attacks on, turns out that wasn’t the reason for the attack but the Administration went and put that poor fellow in jail on unrelated charges. Just this week it was broken that Dinesh D’Souza, who did a very big movie criticizing the president, is now being prosecuted by this Administration.”
SCHIEFFER: “Senator-“
CRUZ: “Can you image the reaction if the Bush Administration had went, gone and prosecuted Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn?”
SCHIEFFER: Senator--
CRUZ: It should trouble everyone the government uses government power and the IRS in particular to target their enemies and you are talking a new minutes to Chuck Schumer—“
SCHIEFFER: “We are going to leave this for another day, senator. Thank you for joining us and we’ll talk to you again.”
Now it is certainly plausible that CBS edited out the ending of the Cruz interview for time, however given that Cruz’s comments were extremely critical of the president and came just two days before an embattled President Obama gives his State of the Union speech, the timing of such editing is highly inappropriate and unusual.
CBS should explain why it felt it appropriate to edit out a high profile senator accusing the President of the United States of targeting his politcal enemies. These are strong accusations leveled at the president, and CBS’s viewers deserve to hear them, yet strangely they were not.
I met Schieffer only once at a “Five O’Clock Follies” press briefing at the Pentagon during the Vietnam war. He was an egotistical prick then, and he’s an egotistical asshole now.
He’s moved up in rank, or is more rank than before. Well, he works for the Communist Broadcasting System. Should have expected this behavior.
Skunks never stop stinking unless you remove their balls. I guess Schieffer still has his, or does CBS own them?
Why do Conservatives keep going on these liberal shows thinking they’re ging to get any kind of message out? It’s like the man beatimg his head against the wall, why he did it. Answer: “Because it feels so good when I stop.”
Sanitized Orwellian news.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Thank you, so much, for joining us and we’ll talk to you again.
I saw this too. My remark to my wife at the time was “They cut him off”.
Afterwards, with other “guests”, we played the ‘How soon will the Republicans be blamed for Obama’s incompetence’ game.
Saw it.....noticed the messily abrupt ending.......wondered what happened.
Yes cbs... communists... they do that sort of thing you know.
I have more appreciation for Cruz than ever now.
They understand that the common “want to feel good about myself” voter, though they may support ‘rats, will NOT support the use of government to suppress political enemies.
The hardcore elitists, of course, fully support this, because their path to “victory” requires elimination of opposition.
Which is why this Republic is going to have to have GOD’s intervention to survive.
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I thought that Schieffer was dead.
Thank God for freerepublic and YouTube! We might have never heard the entire segment!
Just his soul.
Here’s evidence that the MSM are either incompetent or biased or both, and fail to use their First Amendment Constitutional right to Freedom of the Press.
Are they covering for Obama because they are aligned with his socialist agenda or are they fearful of repercussions if they present Obama in an unfavorable light? Does anyone see any resemblance to Nazi Germany where Hitler controlled the press?
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