Posted on 10/28/2015 7:33:19 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
THE video. Enjoy!
And then aswipe Paul sanctioned the moderators’ rude behavior by allowing them to cut Cruz off.
Ted did phenomenal!
Send him some $$$$
www.TedCruz.org/donate
MONEY BOMB!!!!
When Christie made a similar statement, Cruz could be seen applauding him.
Loved it! Bares repeating.
The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” Cruz at Wednesday’s Republican debate. “Everyone home tonight knows that the moderators have no intention of voting in a Republican primary.”
Cruz later went tete-a-tete with Harwood, a CNBC contributor, for cutting him off and wanting to move on.
“Congressional Republicans, Democrats and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets of the fear that a Washington crisis is on the way. Does your opposition to it show you’re not the kind of problem-solver that American voters want?” CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla asked the presidential candidate.
“Let me say something at the outset,” the Senator from Texas said. “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.”
“This is not a cage match. And you look at the questions — Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain? Ben Carson, can you do math? John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign? Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen? How about talking about the substantive issues,” Cruz said to commanding applause from the audience.
“Do we get credit for this one,” Quintanilla asked Cruz?
“And Carl, I’m not finished yet. The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every thought and question from the media was, which of you is more handsome and why?” Cruz asked and then paused to cough.
“You have 30 seconds left to answer should you choose to do so,” Quintanilla told the candidate.
“Let me be clear,” Cruz said. “The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense, than ever participant in the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.”
“Nobody believes that the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary,” Cruz said.
“The questions being asked shouldn’t be trying to get people to tear into each other, it should be what are your substantive solutions to people at home,” Cruz said before getting cut off.
“I asked you about the debt limit and got no answer,” Quintanilla said.
“You want an answer to that question?” Cruz asked. “I’d be happy to answer your question.”
Cruz was interrupted this time by John Harwood who said “we’re moving on.”
“Senator [Rand] Paul, I’ve got a question for you,” Harwood said in his attempt to move on.
“So you don’t actually want to hear the answer, John?” Cruz called out the anchor. “You don’t want to hear the answer, you just want to incite insults.”
“You used your time on something else,” a dismissive Harwood said.
“You’re not interested in an answer,” Cruz scolded.
“I’m interested in an answer from Senator Paul,” Harwood retorted.
Thanks !
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/28/politics/republican-debate-media/
The audience in Boulder and at home was electrified by Cruz’s attack. Social media mentions of Ted Cruz blew up during his attack on the media, while pollster Frank Luntz said his focus group “burst out in applause at Ted Cruz’s media attack.”
“Ted Cruz’s focus group dials hits 98 with his attack on media bias,” Luntz wrote on Twitter. “That’s the highest score we’ve ever measured. EVER.”
Amazing performance..!!
Wow.
I’m not a Cruz supporter but that was a grand slam! Good for Ted.
Yeeeeaaaah!
Thanks to Senator Cruz and others who overcame CNBC's obvious efforts to manipulate and control by calling attention to their bad behavior and "rude" (per Christie) remarks.
I saw it on the live feed and watched it again just for fun.
My favorite line is “no one watching at home believes that the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary”
saw it and it was great again seeing it here. I think it should be the opening statement for every candidate on the stage
Ted remembered every question. I believe that floored the moderators.
I’ll be donating again to Cruz. Go baby go!
I’m going to have to throw him a few bucks after that display
10 pubbies agree to enter a lion den where the lions slash at them, then complain when the slashes begin???? What did they think they were going to get? The warm-up by the CNBC crowd laughing about the debate just before it aired should have caused them to skip the event.
Hell YES we are tired of media bias
and we are tired of the corruption in our Government.
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