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Cruz Campaign Apologizes to Marco Rubio for Spreading False Bible Story
Breitbart ^ | 2/22/2016 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 02/22/2016 6:02:54 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Rick Tyler, the Senior Communications Advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), issued a public apology after spreading a false story reporting that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made a nasty comment to a Cruz staffer about the Bible.

"I want to apologize to Senator Marco Rubio for posting an inaccurate story about him here earlier today," Tyler wrote on Facebook after sharing the false story online. "The story misquoted a remark the Senator made to the staffer. I assumed wrongly that the story was correct."

The false report indicated that Rubio said that there were "not many answers" in the Bible -- when in fact, Rubio commented that "all the answers" were in the book of scripture.

Tyler indicated that he communicated with the Cruz staffer in the video, who explained that Rubio had made a "friendly and appropriate remark" about the Bible.

"Since the audio was unclear, I should not have assumed the story was correct," Tyler wrote. "I've deleted the post because I would not knowingly post a false story. But the fact remains that I did post it when I should have checked its accuracy first. I regret the mistake."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bfac; clinton; cruz; cruzfalsehoods; dirtytricks; elsleezo; nixon; ricktyler; rubio; trickyted; trumpwasright
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

/src on/Waiting for my “Reporter Scorecard” mailing from the Cruz campaign./src off/


241 posted on 02/22/2016 8:48:54 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Lucky9teen

You guys hold Cruz up as the most moral, righteous, and upstanding person in the race, then you better be ready for the storm when stuff like this comes up.


242 posted on 02/22/2016 8:48:55 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: william clark
Even so, Cruz did personally apologize to Ben Carson about the false report in Iowa without making amends and despite the sales pressure Dr. Carson did not buy the car.
243 posted on 02/22/2016 8:51:58 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Lucky9teen
As you can see

you were only able to list one NYC bank (hint, it has New York in its name).

Cap One is in Virginia (suburban Washington DC). Merrill is controlled by North Carolina based BofA. Deutsche is, of course, German, while UBS is, of course Swiss. Amboy, as you might guess, is in New Jersey, as is Investors. Royal is in Pennsylvania.

You almost had a shot at Ladder (not a bank, but a finance company), but its New York offices show a Park Avenue address between 51st and 52nd. Goldman is much closer to Wall, but we'll give you partial credit

every bank on Wall Street

Try that line on someone who hasn't been in a bank except to cash a check. Looks like Trump actually tries to avoid the big name Wall Street banks.

244 posted on 02/22/2016 8:52:52 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Fantasywriter; Fresh Wind

Another issue with Cruz that sticks in my craw is his failure to have made arrangements for a federal court to rule on his eligibility as an NBC. To me, if Cruz is nominated, he is risking the GOP nominee being DQ’d and if he loses the gamble, handing the election over to the Socialists. To me he is gambling on America’s future for the sake of his own political prospects. More career politician crap. That really turns me off.


245 posted on 02/22/2016 8:53:20 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I wonder if Trump has baited Cruz into acting this way.

Seek help.

246 posted on 02/22/2016 8:54:12 AM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Spooks , and not good ones— on their payroll.


247 posted on 02/22/2016 8:55:13 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: cableguymn
"I know these types of things are not coming from Cruz himself"

How do you know that?

After 3 or 4 similar incidents one must look to the head of the fish.

248 posted on 02/22/2016 8:56:53 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: ripnbang
"It continues the narrative of dishonesty/deceit that may or may not be true."

It is certainly and provably true.

249 posted on 02/22/2016 8:58:06 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Brilliant

“I’m going to give Cruz the benefit of the doubt and say that these repeated missteps are mistakes by his staffers and not by him. But he should have done a better job of choosing his staff.”

A bug part of a president’s job us to pick good people to advise him - and fire them when they picked the wrong person.


250 posted on 02/22/2016 8:59:06 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I do agree that Tyler and Roe have done a few dumb things during this campaign. They are now up to about 5% of the dumb things that have come out of Trump’s own mouth.


251 posted on 02/22/2016 8:59:24 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Jim Robinson

Iin this case the Dis/Misinformation appears to have originate with...

“This was pretty dope.”
http://www.facebook.com/matthew.mizbani

Matthew Mizbani “video producer”

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jAsFQTHywxwJ:issuu.com/dailypenn/docs/0203_c062bc45725737+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

https://youtu.be/V4s6CU-88l8?t=9s

Anybody seen an explanation from the Video Producer why the subtitles were false?


252 posted on 02/22/2016 8:59:25 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

https://twitter.com/gqforbes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author


253 posted on 02/22/2016 9:02:04 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I believe Cruz is a truly wonderful man, but he seems to have brought into his campaign a few people who are not of the same caliber.

I would vote for Cruz if he won the nomination though, without question.


254 posted on 02/22/2016 9:02:24 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: DJ MacWoW
Second try!


255 posted on 02/22/2016 9:03:11 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

https://twitter.com/gqforbes


256 posted on 02/22/2016 9:03:26 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: grania

That’s not really a valid criticism IMO. Heck I also thought Roberts was great going in. A lot of people did. He came in as Mr. Faithful Conservative Constitutionalist. How many SCOTUS Justices have made a sharp left once they joined the Court? Who was to know unless there was a much deeper probe into what made him tick.

I think those deep probes regarding faithfulness to the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended are needed. Unfortunately most of the inquiry revolves around adherence to partisan politics, from which which Justices should be immune, instead of the Constitution, the ONLY legal application that should be used to judge the facts of the case.


258 posted on 02/22/2016 9:08:39 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Stentor; Lakeshark; Jane Long; CAluvdubya; xzins; All
"I thought you were exaggerating and looked it up. You weren't. Holy crap what a bunghole he is."

And the fact that Ted Cruz STILL is employing the services and wild irrational rhetoric of Glenn Beck does not speak well of him either.
Check out THESE details, courtesy of the dailycaller.com on Feb 17th:

Speaking in the voice of the heavenly father, Beck told his audience, "You're welcome. I just woke the American people up. I took them out of the game show moment and woke enough of them up to say, look at how close your liberty is to being lost."

Reverting back to his own voice, the radio host added, "You now have lost your liberty. You replace one guy and you now have 5-4 decisions in the other direction. Just with this one guy, you've lost your liberty so you'd better elect somebody that is going to be somebody on [the Supreme Court]...The Constitution is hanging by a thread. That thread has just been cut and the only way that we survive now is if we have a true constitutionalist."

This isn't the first time Beck and other prominent Cruz supporters have claimed there's some divine power behind Cruz's candidacy.

Last week, Beck praised Ted Cruz as the man who could get America through the rapture.

"Fall to your knees and pray to God to reveal to you what the hour is," Beck proclaimed at a Cruz rally in South Carolina. "This is your last call, America! Stand, stand with the man I believe was raised for this hour, Ted Cruz!"

______________________________________________________________

Someone in Beck's family needs to have an intervention. He is close to that point where he is a danger to himself, perhaps to others as well. I think he's certifiable.
259 posted on 02/22/2016 9:08:51 AM PST by mkjessup (Say Ted? Glenn Beck says God snuffed Scalia so America will vote for you, GET RID OF HIM!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

So in one comment you say, “Thank You, Jesus!!!”

And in another comment you call me a liar, with no substantiation.

Nice.


260 posted on 02/22/2016 9:09:48 AM PST by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution. Choose wisely.)
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