Staffer Told Ted Cruz He Thought a Reporter Was Nice. The GOP Candidate Responded With Harsh Advice

The Blaze ^ | Jul. 2, 2015 6:15pm | Erica Ritz

[SoConPubbie]

After a young staffer told Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz how “nice” a member of the media is, Cruz said he actually stopped the young man with a harsh reminder about the intentions of most reporters.

“I actually stopped him and I said, ‘You know what? No, she’s not [nice]. She wants to destroy you. Nothing would make her happier than to take your life and filet you on the front pages. And don’t think for a minute that because she smiles and is friendly to you, that it’s anything else,’” Cruz said, sharing the story on The Glenn Beck Program.

“Isn’t that pretty cynical?” Beck asked with a laugh. “I mean, I agree with you 100 percent, but it’s a little cynical!”

Cruz responded that the mainstream media is full partisans who have “picked a team,” and “when the sheep are walking among coyotes, it pays to be cynical.”

“You see Republicans when they’re interviewed by left-wing reporters, and they get afraid,” Cruz said. “They want them to like them. They are not going to like us! They hate us.”

Cruz said he finds it amusing that, even though his father was imprisoned in Cuba for supporting Castro, sometimes the mainstream media tries to say other candidates are “more Hispanic” than he is, “because there’s nothing that makes you Hispanic like embracing the left-wing amnesty agenda.”

“And look, that’s fine, the media is who they are,” Cruz concluded. “What we need to do when we deal with the media is speak the truth, but do it with a smile. Margaret Thatcher said, ‘First you win the argument, then you win the vote.’ The last several elections, we haven’t won the argument. We haven’t even made the argument.”

[Theodore R.]

Wasn’t Ed Sullivan an admirer of the early Castro? Didn’t he call him the “George Washington of Cuba”, or was that his competitor, Steve Allen, or someone else?

[Din Maker]

I saw the Couric interview with Cruz on Yahoo night before last. You should have seen the look on the face of that old has-been when Ted Cruz said: “Well, you know it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that started this whole ‘birther thing’ about Obama in 2008....” Couric looked like the kid, in that old black and white movie, who got slapped for fartin’ at the supper table.

[Washi]

Phrased as sound advice:

If you want to win the argument, you have to make the argument.

[Din Maker]

I was a teenager at that time and I can tell you: Because Batista was an inhumane dictator, everyone in America was pulling for Castro. He not only deceived the Cuban people, he deceived the U.S. also.

[Din Maker]

I was a teenager at that time and I can tell you: Because Batista was an inhumane dictator, everyone in America was pulling for Castro. He not only deceived the Cuban people, he deceived the U.S. also.

[Cold Heat]

Yup....

Cruz said it so it’s a quote from him, but I believe he got it from Reagan.

[rikkir]

Wow, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

That’s probably why Cruz’s father left. He realized he had supported someone as bad as the guy he opposed.

[Cold Heat]

Yes, that’s true....

He never told anyone he was going to go Communist.

Ho Chi Min did the same thing...

[SoConPubbie]

That’s probably why Cruz’s father left. He realized he had supported someone as bad as the guy he opposed.

Yup, that's exactly what Cruz and his Father have been saying.

[Kickass Conservative]

For Reference, imagine Washington turning into Obama the moment Victory over King George was at hand.

Better yet, think of Castro as the Pig Napoleon in Orwell’s Animal Farm. Cruz’s Father wanted to run the Human Farmer “Batista” off the Farm and Napoleon led the effort, then Cruz’s Father realized who the true enemy was.

[Catsrus]

Another Cruz missile hits the target.

[kvanbrunt2]

The left are pheasant.
Trump is the beater, we’re the blockers.
Ted Cruz is the shooter.
very cool observation. you have articulated what might be working on the conservative offense

[ForYourChildren]

Wow! He gets it.

[jsanders2001]

> He gets it. They are the enemy.

They will twist, ambush, edit or omit key contextual information to deliver the message that pushes the left’s agenda every time. Been a victim of them before. I don’t do interviews for that reason.

[okie01]

They will twist, ambush, edit or omit key contextual information to deliver the message that pushes the left’s agenda every time. Been a victim of them before. I don’t do interviews for that reason.

Back in the sixties, I was involved in an event that became a news item.

When I subsequently read the account in Time magazine, there was no resemblance to the original event.

Accordingly, I learned my lesson about the news media early on.

[Lopeover]

Good post! I am happy to learn Cruz is wary of the press.

[RedMonqey]

Ted Cruz may only get a single vote on Election Day dammit, but it will me MINE!!!!!

Tell it like it is, Ted!!

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz may only get a single vote on Election Day dammit, but it will me MINE!!!!!

Then he will get at least 2, no matter what the outcome!

[itsahoot]

He came out as a Marxist only after defeating the Batista regime.

Ike was shocked as I recall, since we had financed and trained him.

[itsahoot]

Ho Chi Min did the same thing...

Yes but unlike Ike, Doug new better.