Posted on 10/28/2015 11:22:01 AM PDT by Isara
Glenn Beck said Wednesday he believes 2016 hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) self-described “audiographic memory” would be a “massive plus” in a president.
Beck said Cruz remembers anything as long as it’s been said to him out loud because it “imprints on him an audio file.”
“To be able to sit down — if you could just watch all the tapes of Vladimir Putin, nobody is getting around him,” Beck said. “You’re sitting down, ‘Actually, no, that’s not what you said.’ Yes it is. ‘No it’s not.’ … To have someone with a photographic or, in [Cruz’s] case, audiographic memory is a massive plus.”
Cruz is able to remember conversations verbatim, according to Beck. Though the skill has proven helpful in the Senate and on the campaign trail, Beck recalled Cruz telling him that he feels like “everybody is going to think I’m a robot.”
However, Cruz’s memory may have been what gave the senator the ability to call out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the Import-Export Bank reauthorization.
“That’s why he could rattle off word-for-word what Mitch McConnell said to him,” Beck co-host Pat Gray said. “And that’s why nobody disputed him. Because they know he’s right.”
“Correct,” Beck replied.
Beck said Cruz doesn’t discuss his unique skill often because he’s “not comfortable talking about it.” He said he told Cruz his memory skill is not a “cross or a burden,” but that it is a good thing. Gray said he believes the only other president who may have had a similar skill was Thomas Jefferson.
The junior senator has been taking advantage of the talent since high school.
In a 2013 interview with GQ, Cruz said he memorized the Constitution and would travel around Texas reciting it with his friends in a group they formed called the “Constitutional Corroborators.” And of course in the Senate, he drew on his skills during his 21-hour speech against the Affordable Care Act.
This is astounding and is genuinely big news.
This explains his delivery that people find off-putting.
Go ahead and amaze us with your memory, Ted. It’s preferable to a slow delivery.
People could probably help Cruz a lot by stopping the “brilliant” bs. He may be, but it hurts him when trying to relate to the peeps.
This brilliant crap is a turn off to voters.
Who gives a rats azz what Beck thinks? He is bonkers.
Be still my heart........
Cruzin’ 2016
and.......
They’re all REALLY GOOD people. Principled constitutionalists.
Oh, I forgot to include the teddy bears to illegals connection, as well.
Interesting perspective. Probably accurate since they voted for a dumbass the last two elections.
Look at this screwed up US, run by the most brilliant people evah born.
They were really very stupid and screwed up the best country ever to exist!
We do not need brilliant, we need smart and realistic. A person for the people to preserve a nation under siege by the so called “brilliant”.
Wow. Okay, then. You love Trump. Gotcha. Sorry for kicking your sacred cow, FRiend.
Totally jumped the Shark, Beck has.
Followers of Beck will drink muslim vomit......
I’m not trying to “go off on anyone”, nor am I “Cruz, right or wrong”. I’m just saying that a LOT of people seem to be working themselves into an excited froth because Donald Trump happens to know how to shoot off his mouth in all our favorite directions.
I’ll be direct and blunt: I don’t trust the man, at all. I like what he says, and I enjoy him giving all the “right people” their comeuppance; but Trump is in it for Trump (and he admits that proudly). I don’t trust him to fight the unyielding fight against abortion, or forcing nuns to cover contraception in their health insurance, or the homosexual lobby, or any other “merely social evil”. If Trump sees an opportunity for Trump, then he may well fold—excuse me, “strategically reorganize”—on those issues.
Again: I don’t blame people for liking what Trump is saying and doing. What I *do* mind is their complete zeal for transferring that TV-watching enthusiasm into VOTES for him. Showmanship apparently rules the day, in those who want to vote for Trump (”hey, no one else is saying all the things that need to be said!”, etc.)... and some of the pro-Trump people on this thread alone have confirmed that, in spades. That doesn’t strike me as a solid foundation on which to choose a president.
Yeah, I know... after Obama, the American person’s standards of what qualifies for “better than what we have as president” is something below “dead, decaying sea slug”; but we really do need not to let our hearts run away with our heads, here.
I fully expect to applaud Trump and Carson when they say the right things, and when they tie the media in knots (we need people to do that!)... and then I’ll calmly vote for Ted Cruz, since I judge him to be the most qualified.
“Wow. Okay, then. You love Trump. Gotcha. “
It’s called not being stupid, and knowing the political landscape well enough to not harbor these idiot fantasies that too many on the right have whom have no clue about the abilities of the left to shape agendas effortlessly and destroy weak candidates with ease. That think that pedantic speeches and trying to be too smart by half is going to beat the left. That is not going to cut it.
“If Cruz was able to wield the authority of an owner and CEO of a company would he get results? Or if Trump was one freshman senator in an exclusive and archaically stratified rich man’s club, how effective would he be?”
To be blunt? I dont care.
Theory isn’t a substitute for results and evidence. Right now Cruz goes from one senate defeat after another with an apparent GOP majority. That tells me that as president (and it pains me to say this) that he is going to have no pull in either house.
And if this guy wont have the influence by just being one of them and at least trying, then it is time to just take a sledgehammer to it all.
“The presidency is the top executive position in a POLITICAL system, where other players have power and authority.”
All the reason why you take a sledgehammer to this, because that’s what it has become. Trump sees their vaulted authority and power and doesn’t care. It’s just monkeys in expensive suits that think they rule us.
“He’s no Eisenhower, the last person for whom the presidency was his first elective office.”
So then why elect some old general when there were perfectly fine senators to put in a “political” office?
I keep wondering...if these Trump fans are so secure in the knowledge that their boy will sweep the nation in a historic victory, that he is an unstoppable juggernaut, why do they feel compelled to swarm Cruz threads and attempt to minimize his qualities and accomplishments? They seem desperate to me.
I will say, though, I’m getting a kick out of them trying to sell Trump as the intelligent one. LOL
I’ll stick with the brilliant Constitutional conservative and solid Christian over the insecure, thin-skinned reality show celebrity.
“when we have a proven, brilliant conservative such as Sen. Cruz”
Not offended, totally agree. He should be much higher in the polls. Mark Levin says Cruz is the most conservative candidate. Don’t know why he doesn’t endorse him now, Rush too!
“I’ll be direct and blunt: I don’t trust the man, at all. I like what he says, and I enjoy him giving all the “right people” their comeuppance; but Trump is in it for Trump (and he admits that proudly). I don’t trust him to fight the unyielding fight against abortion, or forcing nuns to cover contraception in their health insurance, or the homosexual lobby, or any other “merely social evil”. If Trump sees an opportunity for Trump, then he may well fold—excuse me, “strategically reorganize”—on those issues.”
I am with you on these issues but I recognize the bigger issues facing us right now. If this country isn’t righted, if the circling the toilet boil isn’t stopped, there won’t be a country left in which to fight abortion or health insurance or homosexual lobby, can you see that?
All wives have audiographic memory. Just ask their husbands.
I think that it is their new tactic. They cannot fight the facts, so they have to change the tactic to hi-jacking the threads.
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