However, I don't think CEW quite gave Fox News it due in this...
As any sentient viewer could tell you, Fox News immediately came out of the gate after the Iowa results with a vigorous fury to spin Rubio's Iowa Bronze into Gold. There is no doubt that Fox News has some serious Rubio LUV going on and want to take Cruz out in order to clear the way for their boy. This Carsongate non-story simply provided Fox News with a convenient cudgel to beat Cruz to death with. Watching Megyn, Greta, and Bill (the arrogant, ignorant, dork) O'Reilly try to manufacture this non-story into a real scandal has been dismaying, but utterly predictable. Can you believe that they had Mr. Whiteboard and Numbers Guy, Queen of the Establishment, Karl Rove on their show to seriously make the case that indeed it's not only possible - by the numbers - that Carsongate had an impact, but that it most likely did?!
Once again, like with Dan Rather's Memogate, people had to go the blogosphere to get the real truth on what happened here. Fox News has shown itself to be no better than CBS in it's efforts to play a role in the outcome of an elections process.
Last thing... Regarding Rubio...
Let me remind any who might read this...
Amnesty is one of the seminal issues of this election (indeed it is the issue that arguably put Donald Trump on the map). By choosing Rubio as our nominee, the issue of amnesty automatically becomes forfeit before the general contest even begins. Romney had no credibility to campaign or argue against Obamacare for he himself was the grandfather of it. Likewise, Rubio will have no credibility - after being the chief architect of the Rubio/Schumer Gang of 8 bill - to make a case against amnesty. To make matters worse, Rubio is still for a pathway to citizenship. The only difference now is that Rubio's plan put's a few hoops (that will likely never materialize) in that path before we get there. If you are a mushy middle, establishment, RINO, Chamber of Commerce fan-boy type, you might find Rubio's position appealing. If you are a conservative however that cares about getting this illegal immigration issue solved, then you would be better serverd to look elsewhere than Rubio. Lastly, whatever hopes you want to project onto Rubio, remember that when he ran for the Senate in 2010 he vociferously opposed amnesty only to turn around later to stab us in the back on this issue once he was in office.
Courtesy ping to CEW.
That is - if he is dead, undead, or alive on FR at this moment.
Wow....this is rich....you’re back from your ban and you post an article by a guy who is currently banned.
Ironic.
I can just picture HilLIARy using it saying “Look at the circus the GOP field has become”
Ben Carson is a crazy-smart guy, and learning politics. At some point he will realize this whole thing was done by trump, for trump, not for carson...he is being played...
Wow....this is rich....you’re back from your ban and you post an article by a guy who is currently banned.
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LOL love it...call them like you see them...
Just what I like, pure unbiased reporting. I would have read the post if you had left out the word Contrived.
“Non story”?
The quality of thinking at American Thinker ain’t what it used to be.
I also read that Carson’s NH paid staffers had already defected to the Cruz campaign before the Iowa caucuses, and if so would have contributed to the Cruz campaign’s conclusion that Carson was bailing. Is this true or not?
If your candidacy can be done in by a tweet, it’s a pretty fragile thing.
What a waste of time.
99% of ALL political stories are contrived.
All this idiot says is that he didn’t like this particular contrived story.
The voice recordings are devistating and if one of Carson’s voters come out and says they were snookered by a Cruz operative into voting Cruz, then all hell will break loose.