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Ted Cruz: ‘Asinine’ to pull reruns of ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’
WashPo ^
| 7/4/2015
| Katie Zezima
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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cheguevara; confederateflag; cruz; dukesofhazzard; election2016; stalinistpurge; tedcruz; texas; torquemadas
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To: Steely Tom
Are you kidding me? SERIOUSLY! You think Cruz picked the wrong exercise?!
Do you even exercise? DO YOU?!!! It's hard to exercise. Ask Chris Christie!!!!
Did you notice the italics? That's as hard as exercising. Ask... I don't know ... anyone!
So... yeah! Just cool your heels, dude, on this exercise stuff.
Life under Obama is hard enough!
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posted on
07/04/2015 8:01:42 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: VinL
Ted was magnificent, as usual.
Anyone who displays a Confederate flag in any form will now be presumed a racist by the media and the left.
Since real Dylann Roof-type white racists are rare, leftists periodically find it necessary to manufacture a fresh supply of presumed racists from non-racists. They did the same thing when the perfectly good word "negro" was dropped in favor of "African-American" or "black." Anyone who still used "negro" was presumed racist.
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posted on
07/04/2015 8:02:44 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: VinL
Ted’s right...again.
Freegards
LEX
To: Steely Tom
He used the correct word.
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posted on
07/04/2015 8:13:32 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: Don Corleone
soetoro will do as much damage to the US as he can in the next 18 mos. Friday news dump suggested that the border is wide open and the feds are not deporting anyone. Too bad the Stupid Party has no balls.
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posted on
07/04/2015 9:32:01 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Steely Tom
exercised is fine.. Meaning kind of all worked up.
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posted on
07/04/2015 10:08:02 PM PDT
by
libbylu
To: Steely Tom
I’m pretty sure he meant to say “exercised”...
Just messing with you, I read the whole thread.
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07/05/2015 5:04:25 AM PDT
by
ziravan
(Choose Sides.)
To: VinL; INVAR; dp0622; left that other site; GregoTX; SgtHooper; Whenifhow; Loud Mime; lonevoice; ...
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posted on
07/05/2015 1:19:42 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: VinL; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!
If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
CRUZ or LOSE!
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posted on
07/05/2015 1:20:10 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: YouGoTexasGirl
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:18:49 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
To: RC one
Just the progressive lefties showing again how they’ll never get beyond bulling school yard tactics.....but then it’s Hollywood...so expected.
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07/05/2015 5:36:14 PM PDT
by
caww
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