I hadn't seen the actual timeline on the CNN tweets and the Carson and Cruz responses until today, on SteynOnLine (Link).
From the timeline, we can reasonably infer that the Cruz people pretty quickly realized that Carson wasn't folding, and that they exploited an ambiguous bit of rumor that they knew was false.
Bad on Cruz. Even if he "personally" didn't know about it until later, it's still bad on Cruz.
Sorry for jumping in yesterday without all the relevant facts.
U R OK in my book
Bump. thx 4 being real