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. Cruz’s 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. Kennedy’s debate partner mocked Mr. Cruz’s 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, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work," according to the Times.
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Disgusting, isn’t it? Not one such article about the bastard in the White House...nothing but glowing reports of his supposed Columbia and Harvard years, but not one detail. Now this focus on trifles and trivialities. How the press has fallen in the U.S. — and it puts us in terrible jeopardy of tyranny.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated.
Forget Obama’s college life. The idiot did an interview with a green lipstick wearing woman who bathes in milk and fruit loops a couple of months ago! WOW! What Leadership and Dignity!
If that’s the best the left can do to try and sully Cruz, they might as well surrender now. What silliness, and asininity (is that a word?).
Huh. I would have thought they were just self-centered a-holes.
Let’s ask some probing questions about Hillary and Obama’s college days!
Thanks for reporting on the merits of the article. Now that I’ve calmed down, maybe I should read it.
That’s it Dims? That’s all Ya got? Tee hee!
Whew! Glad we found this out NOW, rather than later. Thank you, Times, for your diligence.
BO went to college? I thought Columbia and Harvard just gave him degrees based on sheer awesomeness, sort of like that Nobel peace prize.
I guarantee they looked and found the information so damaging they ignored it and still do.
So did the Bush or Romney team put this out there? Obama was a coke snorting pot head and never once asked about it.
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Goolsby should be laughed off the national stage.
Really, with that remarkable resemblance to Bill Murray, he didn’t clone some of his comedy talent as well?
Bill Clinton was asked to comment, to which he replied; “they call me Buster, Buster Hymen.”
Actually, I've done my best to eliminate them.
Well I give him a pass because he is a Governor and not a Presidential Candidate. Until he announces, he can say whatever the heck he wants. Once he is a candidate then all bets are off and he needs to be disciplined and ready to be the 45th President of the United States. Again it is early and I have no crystal ball on who will end up our nominee and who will ultimately be President, but they all have to be ready for the position once they announce.
It’s about time for the beer in the trunk story to resurface.
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