Posted on 01/14/2016 2:12:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Breitbart News published at least 30 stories in the past week about Donald Trump's theory that Sen. Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president because he's not a natural born citizen, moving into birther territory despite a previous categorical statement from a lead editor that Breitbart is "not a birther site."
"I think pretty categorically, I think I can talk for our editorial team and I can certainly talk for Andrew [Breitbart]," Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro said in 2013, responding to criticism over the site's coverage of President Barack Obama's birth certificate. "We're not a birther site."
A spokesman for Breitbart did not dispute Shapiro's statement, and defended the site's prolific coverage of Cruz's birth by saying it's a mainstream story. Kurt Bardella told The Daily Caller News Foundation it's "unfair and unusual" to single out Breitbart's coverage of what he called "one of the most dominant storylines of this year" that is of "tremendous interest to the Breitbart audience."
"Under this logic, every media outlet in America would be a 'birther site,'" he told TheDCNF.
Shapiro is an outspoken critic of the mainstream media and Republican willingness to play along with its power structure. "For years, I have been begging Republicans to stand up to the mainstream media," he said in a November Townhall post. "The left has dominated the media for as long as I've been alive."
A quick examination of a few mainstream media outlets' coverage of the story reveals Breitbart's devotion to Cruz's eligibility for the White House is equaled by The Washington Post, but far surpasses the appetite of outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Politico.
"According to four sources with knowledge of the situation," Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins reported over the summer, "editors and writers at the outlet have privately complained since at least last year that the company's top management was allowing [Donald] Trump to turn Breitbart into his own fan website - using it to hype his political prospects and attack his enemies."
Trump, who is closely trailing Cruz in the Republican caucuses in Iowa, has been the lead spokesman for Cruz eligibility accusations. Following in the footsteps of Hillary Clinton, Trump also served as a prominent person questioning Obama's eligibility in 2011.
WaPo and Breitbart have been writing twice the number of stories on the subject of whether Cruz is natural born as those three outlets. Each of the two wrote at least 30 stories on it in the past week, compared to less than 15 stories each from TheNYT, WSJ and Politico.
WaPo's obsession with Cruz recently attracted public scrutiny when one of its cartoonists depicted his children as monkeys, but a comparison of Breitbart and WaPo's homepage's Tuesday shows Breitbart may be a bit more devoted to Trump's birther theory.
Here's Breitbart:
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And WaPo:
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.... But, I repeat, you are stupid....
You talk just like your hero fellow Alinsky DT. You have to name call. Why call CW stupid? She obviously is very bright. You cheer when DT trashes people. Decent people do not trash all who disagree with them.
Good grief. Why don’t you just love DT and hope the BC brings him down?
Only ones questioning the BC is Hill and DT’s supporters.
For all his reverence for the Constitution, Levin has always been embarrassed with the natural born language in the Constitution. If that language had been enforced, we would not have had Obama trying to destroy the nation. Levin strikes me as being completely deceptive on this. I have no clue why.
This article explains how Trump is using his corporate employees in violation of election laws to help his campaign.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/01/13/bush-aligned-lawyer-donald-trumps-camp-breaking-federal-election-law/78756404/
This one tells how ground-breaking Mrs Trump's third wife would be. http://nypost.com/2015/08/16/melania-trump-would-be-a-first-lady-for-the-ages/
This one tells what type of deep thoughts Donald has.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-wont-stop-joking-about-banging-his-daughter/
This is a nice one when the Clintons attended their pal Donald's third wedding. It was before Donald found out that Bill was a cad but after the Lewinsky affair.
http://time.com/3988313/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-wedding/
You are not stupid,
..but you do insult fellow FReepers.
Many of us have felt your sting.
Grania said:
“...There is no argument where Cruz was born. If Obama had to prove he was born in the USA to satisfy the critics, why doesn’t Cruz? I don’t think ANYONE at the time disagreed that Obama had to prove that he was born in the US...”
The dems have a problem; their guy 0 posted a fake birth certificate when asked to show that he was born in the US.
And he has been stonewalling ever since; there have been NO genuine documents presented, and on that account, he can’t prove he’s a US citizen.
Now they’re going after Cruz, who has real docs showing where he was born and how he got US citizenship.
Those docs have been posted online; his birth certificate and that of his mom’s.
Like I said, the dems have a problem; let them and 0 show 0’s —real— birth docs (from whatever country) before busting cruz’ chops over his.
True, they are a "U.S. citizen." However, they are not a "natural born citizen" because they have to be born in the U.S. to parents who are both U.S. citizens. This is not rocket science folks.
If posting articles that you find uncomfortable and therefore bothersome to you, amounts to “stings” then that’s on you, not on me.
I go out of my way to avoid addressing FReepers personally, despite remarks made about me, which quite frankly amount to propaganda done in an attempt to discredit me.
It is amazing how hypersensitive a Trump supporter can be when you are winning the argument.
One snapped at me out of context because I posted “you people” in describing Trump supporters.
Yea really, “you people” became his top bone of contention.
I have gave him a much needed time-out.
Election lawyers have warned that Trump appears to be crossing the line. Spies last month filed a complaint about the issue with the Federal Election Commission, citing repeated threats by a Trump corporate lawyer to sue political rivals who run negative ads about the front-running Republican candidate.
And...
In the past, Trump's camp has defiantly refused to change its practices, saying the corporate lawyers are defending Trump's business brand.
This is why I don't trust Trump. Trump will do and say anything to win. Winning is all that matters with this guy. Based on his not-too-distant past, his moral compass is highly questionable. He's a thin-skinned narcissist and we don't need another one of those in the White House.
"It's not the nature of the evidence; it's the seriousness of the charge."
There are some on FR who are total frauds. In my opinion they are leftists, here only to stir up trouble. The one who called you “stupid” is just such a person.
Trump: I'm worth whatever I feel [April 2011]
".............Trump sued O'Brien and Warner Books for libel. The case was dismissed but Trump appealed. A decision is pending. CNN has obtained a copy of a deposition of Trump that was conducted on Dec. 19-20, 2007. (Read excerpts from the deposition)
In the deposition, Trump insists he's a bona fide billionaire.
"I am a billionaire," he said. "Of course, if you read Tim O'Brien's writings and what was then transposed into the The New York Times, you would certainly not think that. But I am a billionaire, many times over, on a conservative basis."
And the book has cost him business, Trump says.
"I've lost deals. I've lost specific deals because of it," he said.
Throughout the deposition, Trump sparred with O'Brien's lawyer, Andrew Ceresney, over how the real estate tycoon determined what he was worth.
Trump: My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings, but I try.
Ceresney: Let me just understand that a little. You said your net worth goes up and down based upon your own feelings?
Trump: Yes, even my own feelings, as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day ...
Ceresney: When you publicly state a net worth number, what do you base that number on?
Trump: I would say it's my general attitude at the time that the question may be asked. And as I say, it varies."..............
I really don't understand how, in good faith, any "birthers" can support Ted Cruz. I also don't understand why you think it's a good idea to knock that door off the hinges.
That’s a distraction tactic, done deliberately to hijack a thread.
You know what Cruz's campaign feels quite a bit like? GWB's first one. A fake narrative, aw-shucks down home Texan narrative for conservatives, to get elected. With GWB, the mask came off pretty quickly, once he got in office.
Cruz-bots? Is that like using the liberal tactic of calling a tea party member a tea bagger? I’m not getting the vitriol by those so hell bent on supporting the liberal de jour Trump. If calling those that are supporting the ONLY conservative in this race a Cruz bot then I’ll wear that badge with honor. The ONLY reason I can find that people on FR support Trump is because he was never in Congress. Based on his decades of history of being a staunch liberal he’d have had to place votes and been placed on the Congressional voting record. Do you believe for one second any member on this site would be supporting him if this were the case? So why now? Why are we voting for a liberal? It’s akin to Obama saying he didn’t sit in that church all those years and he is a unifier.
How’s that working out for us?
Cruz isn't the only conservative in the race, hence you get called a "Cruzbot" for your arrogance and foolishness.
Please address the rest of the post and justify your support of Trump the bonafide liberal. This is t how this works. This isn’t a pick the question you wish to answer. There is no debate has to whether he is or not, this is fact. So tell us why you are supporting the liberal.
As to your comment on Cruz, I guess you know more than a large number of members here including numerous conservative rating agencies?
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