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I am sorry if you think I took Ted’s comment about the violence out-of-context. In an earlier post, I placed the larger quote.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3409376/posts?page=66#66

I am just so tired of the flat-out lies. Cruz placed the blame for the violence on the protesters. Read his quote.

Then he went on to talk about DTs ‘culture’ (like his quote ‘knock the crap out of them’ maybe). Much like Obama ‘bring a gun’, the words mean something. I think it was quite obvious what Cruz was talking about, if you slow down and read the word ‘but’ in his quote, it seems to me that ‘knock the crap out of them’ would be ‘affirmatively encouraging violence’.

It seems to me that people want to believe the lies about what Ted said...and many have called out Ted for the ‘culture’ of his campaign - when a staffer repeats a CNN news story...

Again, I don’t want to misrepresent what Cruz said, I am trying to stop the misrepresentations...so many of them...constant...frustrating...I can’t sit here at work all day and try to correct the record...A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I am just so tired of the flat-out lies. Cruz placed the blame for the violence on the protesters. Read his quote. Then he went on to talk about DTs ‘culture’ (like his quote ‘knock the crap out of them’ maybe). Much like Obama ‘bring a gun’, the words mean something. I think it was quite obvious what Cruz was talking about, if you slow down and read the word ‘but’ in his quote, it seems to me that ‘knock the crap out of them’ would be ‘affirmatively encouraging violence’.

Again what seemed VERY clear was that Cruz linked together the violent protesters in Chicago with his "spin" of Trump's rallies. There was no other way to interpret this in the context of what he said. He was clearly saying that Trump's actions and attitudes encouraged and caused the violent protests in Chicago. It's like saying "Well, yes, it's clearly the rapists fault...but if that slut wouldn't have been walking around with her short skirt on doing whatever she wanted then this wouldn't have happened."