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Terrifying Ted Cruz: How the media botched tale of the 3-year-old girl
FoxNews ^ | March 18, 2015 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 03/18/2015 6:09:34 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

It’s not every day that a presidential candidate refers to himself as Freddy Krueger.

After all, the image of a serial killer using a razor-equipped gun to kill sleeping victims is not exactly reassuring, even for an aggressive politician.

But Ted Cruz used that bit of self-deprecating humor to highlight the absurdity of his latest coverage.

As you’ve probably seen, the Texas senator, gearing up for a White House run, was speaking to a New Hampshire gathering over the weekend when he declared that “the whole world is on fire.”

Suddenly a small voice from the crowd said: “The world is on fire?” Cruz played the 3-year-old girl’s question for laughs, then told the child that her mommy and everyone else in the room would make sure the world is even better.

Reporters, who listen to candidates give the same stump speech day after day, had their blooper story line. “Ted Cruz scares young girl with fiery N.H. speech,” said New York’s Daily News. “Ted Cruz’s new campaign strategy: Scare tiny children,” said New York magazine. “Ted Cruz’s speech terrifies 3-year-old,” said Gawker.

. . .

As New York put it: “Mommy, why is that mean man yelling at me? a 3-year-old named Julie Trant must have thought to herself on Sunday afternoon, when her parents brought her to a Ted Cruz speech in Barrington, New Hampshire. Forced to sit scarily close to the spittle-spewing angry monster posing as a junior senator from Texas, Julie was understandably confused and scared…”

. . . .

The girl’s mother, Michelle, told WRKO radio that her daughter was “quite happy” after the speech: "She really, basically was like 'oh, oh, this is a great man.' He's the firefighter in her mind as a three-year-old. And was quite happy and she wanted a cookie."

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1 posted on 03/18/2015 6:09:34 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

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CRUZ or LOSE!


2 posted on 03/18/2015 6:09:59 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Can there be any doubt after this last episode of wide-spread journalistic malpractice WHO the DNC media really fear?


3 posted on 03/18/2015 6:10:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

They “botched” nothing.


4 posted on 03/18/2015 6:11:43 AM PDT by Williams
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How the media botched tale of the 3-year-old girl

"Botched", my sweet hind end.

That 'story' was a legitimate hatchet job, baldfaced and plain. The left-wing press did EXACTLY what it wanted to do.

5 posted on 03/18/2015 6:13:14 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Stop scaring little girls Ted !


6 posted on 03/18/2015 6:14:44 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Colonel_Flagg

It really shows how stupid “journalists” are these days. Of all the real news stories out there, they went with this.


7 posted on 03/18/2015 6:15:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: SoConPubbie

Keep it up, Democrat media! This kind of over-the-top sniping at Cruz only makes your coverage of Cruz even less credible in the eyes of the public. Coverage this biased makes you look foolish and hurts the Democrat Party in the eyes of Independents.


8 posted on 03/18/2015 6:21:15 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

SHHH! It’s supposed to be a secret.


9 posted on 03/18/2015 6:27:20 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: sickoflibs

FIREMAN 2016


10 posted on 03/18/2015 6:34:51 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: SoConPubbie; sickoflibs
Well, then there is Al Gore.... Al Gore sings Earth is a Ball of Fire :-)
11 posted on 03/18/2015 6:35:42 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
The tale was told in 100 percent compliance with Aunt Valerie's News Stylebook!




12 posted on 03/18/2015 6:55:49 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: txrefugee

Just the other day someone posted a story where the Washington Post was fact-checking Cruz’s (true) statement that the federal tax code is much longer than the Bible. They fact-checked him even though they conceded the statement was true, and engaged in a whiny argument why they didn’t like the analogy. Cruz is beginning to occupy the space in their heads that Sarah Palin used to occupy.


13 posted on 03/18/2015 7:24:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SoConPubbie

Al Gore and the global warming alarmists have been frightening children for years with their tales of doom, and not only does the press not condemn it, they join in and condemn those who disagree.


14 posted on 03/18/2015 7:27:07 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: MeshugeMikey
And are these likely children of Obama? So WHO is Marcus Steele, II, Juwan McCallum, JaQuis Houston, and Deshay Shively,
and WHY is their MURDER of Eva Carmichael not being publicized by the LAME STREAM MEDIA.?
15 posted on 03/18/2015 7:27:10 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

When it was People Magazine writing the factual side of what happened, you have to wonder.....


16 posted on 03/18/2015 7:28:56 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yep, just like Sarah. The thing is, they don’t realize that when they give Cruz air and print time, he’s always going to come out smelling like a rose. The guy is Brilliant!


17 posted on 03/18/2015 7:46:16 AM PDT by conservativejoy ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18)
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To: conservativejoy
"Yep, just like Sarah. The thing is, they don’t realize that when they give Cruz air and print time, he’s always going to come out smelling like a rose. The guy is Brilliant!"

Which is why they are trying to demonize him before most of the public have a chance to hear him first-hand.
18 posted on 03/18/2015 8:14:45 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

I can’t wait for the debates. That’s when those voters who are not familiar with Cruz will get to see him at his best.


19 posted on 03/18/2015 9:48:25 AM PDT by conservativejoy ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18)
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To: SoConPubbie

Forced to sit scarily close to the spittle-spewing angry monster


Howard Dean?


20 posted on 03/18/2015 2:35:27 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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