CNN reporting it had to repost as the other video wouldn't play
Not sure when or if CNN corrected their story, but Ted Cruz did issue an apology to Carson this morning.
The day after winning the Iowa caucuses, Ted Cruz issued an apology to Republican rival Ben Carson for falsely telling Iowa caucusgoers that the retired neurosurgeon planned to quit the race, calling it a "mistake."
Cruz said in a statement Tuesday that his campaign staff saw a CNN report that Carson was dropping out, although CNN had not characterized Carson's actions that way.
"Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story," Cruz said in a statement first shared with CNN. "That's fair game. What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out."
Cruz statement:
Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story," Cruz said in a statement first shared with CNN. "That's fair game. What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out."
You would think that anyone involved in the conservative/tea party movement would be well aware of the possibility that the MSM might spread untruths or unverified rumors in their quest to be first with a story or to advance their agenda.
The Cruz campaign, with its vaunted ground game, could have easily contacted the Carson campaign to verify the truth of what CNN was reporting before acting on it.
But they didn't. That took it out of the "fair game" category.