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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No, he meant “exercised”.
I give up.
Cruz has a good grasp/unserstanding of the English language!
I got his book on the 30th. Highly recommend. I’m actually listening to the audio version from Audible. He reads it!
Hear, hear!
It’s not a common usage— I had to look it up. -:)
It’s actually hard to believe that a female can look as splendid as Catherine Bach does in that picture.
Of course, it doesn’t last forever, as those of us who are of a certain age know only too well.
I’ve been meaning to pick it up and haven’t yet...maybe I can remember to do it tomorrow. I’ll just write it down.
The audiobook sounds great! I might pick it up for the husband.
Well, you've got to remember that people are responding to your first entry ... without going through and reading the rest of the responses. So they don't have any idea that someone else may have corrected you on that subject.
I should know .. I'm normally quite guilty of that myself.
I know, I know. My comment will live in infamy. I’ll never live it down.
You are absolutely correct.
Yes, I am supporting him with $$ and prayer!! I pray he has the strength to make it another year in the spotlight and all the increased schedule commitments.
He’d make an awesome President and we need one NOW!!
There is very little going on with the Confederate flag these days that isn’t asinine.
I love Audible, I listen to books on my iPhone.
Being against Daisy Duke is part of the ‘Rat war on wymyn.
I’ll cut you a break Tom. I like you thought the word was misused, but I assumed it was the idiot reporter. Most of them don’t the brains of a dead house plant, but they all think they’re geniuses.
Bright likened the removal of the flag to a “Stalinist purge.”
its an Obama Zombie PURGE
Yeah. Tell me about it.
Kind of like a certain President I could name.
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