Posted on 07/04/2015 6:06:31 PM PDT by VinL
Sen. Ted Cruz said Saturday that it is "asinine" that TV Land pulled "The Dukes of Hazzard" after widespread calls for the Confederate flag to come down.
"I think the cancellation of 'The Dukes of Hazzard' is utterly asinine and an example of corporate America’s embrace of political correctness to a degree that is ridiculous," Cruz said in an interview with The Washington Post.
"I’m curious if the Torquemadas seeking to ban 'The Dukes of Hazzard' from our TV sets are equally exercised by all of the leftist college students with posters of Che Guevara in their college dorm rooms," Cruz said, referring to Tomas de Torquemada, who served as the first grand inquisitor of Spain.
Cruz visited South Carolina for the first time since Gov. Nikki Haley (R) called for the removal of the Confederate flag from near the state capitol in the wake of of the shooting deaths of nine people at a historic African American church in Charleston. Photos have surfaced of the alleged shooter, Dylann Roof, posing with the Confederate flag. Since then, a backlash has grown against the flag, with Alabama removing it from its state capitol and retailers pulling merchandise that displays the banner.
Two of Cruz's campaign co-chairs, South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright and state Rep. Bill Chumley, have said that they will fight to keep the flag at a state house memorial.
The Texas Republican said that he has not spoken to Bright and Chumley; Cruz's campaign said last month they are going to "stand by" Bright and Chumley.
Bright likened the removal of the flag to a "Stalinist purge."
"It’s not just the flag,” Bright said in an interview with Politico last month. “They want to take down the Confederate monuments; I’ve gotten e-mails from people who (snip)
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Sounds like Mr. Cruz is sharpening his claws to gut the neo-fascist propaganda press. Cool.
When is HOgan’s Hero’s going to be pulled...Nazi’s are offensive!!! ::rollseyes::
Tom, the use of the word “exercised” in this context is a wholly appropriate usage of the word.
Boss Hogg Wins!
Well, you learn something every day! Thanks!
(now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
Ha!!
Thanks for teaching me something.
Bump that
And you would be wrong. Cruz's use of the word is correct.
Ted’s full of it: black-on-black murders in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Phildelphia and the rest of the inner cities have dropped 50% since The Duke was cancelled!
Yes. I have already dragged myself through the mud over this if you would just look at the thread above!
Some people just want a pound of flesh I guess.
I’ve always said every day’s wasted until ya learn something! Then again, that could be why I’m chock-full of absolutely useless information! ;)
I’ll give you back your pound of flesh if you let me borrow some of those italics.
And as Mel Brooks said in "History of the World", "you can't Torquemada anything!" Just like today's liberal supremacists.
Well done, Ted.
I have believed this since I was a teenager.
What makes it even worse is I have used that word in a sentence on occasion, thinking it meant something quite different. As I explained.
Then, when I read the quote of Senator Cruz's words, I was slightly dismayed; I thought he had committed a faux pas, and I believed that the snarky MSM people would "go to town" over it.
Therefore, I am truly relieved to be in the wrong, and in addition pleased to have corrected an error I propagated for many years.
I don't mean that you should "unlike myself," of course.
That picture shows the mentality of America and sadly they don’t think anything is wrong with it.
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