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Ted Cruz Joked About Hymens While On The College Debate Circuit
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| 4/22/15
| Catherine Thompson
Posted on 04/23/2015 6:07:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
The New York Times dug up some priceless anecdotes from Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) college debating career in a story published Tuesday, from a poorly received joke about regenerating hymen to his affinity for the "Les Misérables" soundtrack.
The newspaper spoke with several of Cruz's rival debaters who said that the presidential candidate was a powerful speaker that could be undercut by humor. He would "unravel" when competitors deployed humor against him, according to former Yale debater Austan Goolsbee (an economist who later served on President Obama's cabinet).
Cruz also fared poorly when he made jokes himself. From the Times report:
Mr. Cruzs own attempts at humor sometimes missed the mark. In one debate, he proposed a method to detect infidelity, in which God should give women a hymen that grows back every time she has intercourse with a different guy, because that will be a visible sign of the breach of trust, according to a recollection by David Kennedy published in a Harvard debate team reunion booklet in 2001.
Mr. Kennedys debate partner mocked Mr. Cruzs knowledge of the subject matter by contorting herself to see how the anatomy in question could be visible, according to the booklet.
In another debate against Amherst College, the opposing team argued that Ricky Ricardo of "I Love Lucy" fame should have let Lucille Ball's character work. Cruz responded Well, guess what, Im Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work," according to the Times.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinskytactics; elections; humor
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To: wbarmy
thinking liberal Aye. There's the rub.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:22:59 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
To: WayneS
Ping me when they find a rock in Texas with the c-word on it.
-PJ
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:23:12 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: MrB
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:23:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: cotton1706
I’m sure Bill Clinton is shocked and saddened.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:25:21 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: cotton1706
If only the media spent 1/1,000,000th of the time investigating Zer0, that they’re going to trying to destroy Cruz - this country might not be in the shape it’s in.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:25:32 AM PDT
by
mykroar
("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
To: cotton1706
Well done, New York Times! Clap, clap, clappity, clap.
Say, how's that investigation coming along on Baraq Obola's college writings and whatnot?
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:27:13 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: GeronL
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:27:49 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: cotton1706
So we now know one more thing about Cruz’s college years than we do about Obama’s.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:27:58 AM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: cotton1706
We will know the tiniest detail of Cruz’s life, especially if it can by portrayed negatively. Yet most of Obama’s past remains a complete mystery.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:29:18 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: cotton1706
Oh, my, let me clutch my pearls in horror! /S
The desperation of these fools is comedy gold.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:32:06 AM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
To: cotton1706
Pass the smelling salts. I'm getting the vapors.
This is almost as bad as selling a Uranium mine to the Russians in exchange for a campaign contribution.
I guess we know who NY Pravda fears.
Viva the glorious Tea Party Revolution! Let us go forth and fulfill our 2-year plan to elect Ted Cruz and save the Homeland!
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:32:37 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: cotton1706
The New York Times dug up some priceless anecdotes from Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) college debating career in a story published Tuesday, from a poorly received joke about regenerating hymen to his affinity for the "Les Misérables" soundtrack.NOOOOOOOOooooooo
That's AWFULLLLLlllllllll
But you gotta give the New York Times credit! They are relentless at exposing even the SLIGHTEST youthful activity of ANY politician!!111!! God they are so good!!111111 And *unbiased*, OMG let me tell you!!
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:32:44 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.)
To: cotton1706
The article in the NYT did not come off as a hit piece. It had a lot of positive in it. It dealt with Cruz's college career as a debater in a similar vane that they would write about another politician's football days. I guess it would be easier to write about Cruz's college days than Obama’s for one simple reason, Cruz actually did things. Tough to write an article about someone who did nothing except hang out. If anyone bothered to read the article, the only negative was about Cruz's lack of humor and or deficiency in the use of humor in his presentations. To be honest, that observation I have noticed myself way before this article, and it worries me in terms of the general election. A little honest self criticism is a good thing. If Cruz did not have this hole in his swing, he would have easy sailing. Another observation is that article has generated more knee jerking on both Right and Left than the Rockettes over the Christmas holidays.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:32:49 AM PDT
by
gusty
To: cotton1706
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:33:15 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: wbarmy
Thinking liberals feeling shame????
Two problems with that:
Liberals don’t think.
Liberals are incapable of shame.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:33:43 AM PDT
by
Bob
(No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
To: cotton1706
Hyman Rickover? Hyman Roth? Libbie Hyman? Which is it????
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:35:45 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
To: napscoordinator
Someone has not been paying attention, Cruz is unmatched by anyone in handling the media and BS especially from the Rino’s.
The way Walker has been handling criticism is by backtracking, suddenly changing his mind and making new proposals, because he thinks it is politically expedient to do so.
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:37:11 AM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: cotton1706
Well, guess what, Im Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work," according to the Times.Good to see the Times doing such thorough vetting. What happeneed wrt obama? And what are they digging up on PIAPS?
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:38:37 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
To: cotton1706
Here is a photo of Mr. Kennedy swooning. The horror. The horrooooooooooor...
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:39:58 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:40:19 AM PDT
by
Leep
(To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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