Posted on 03/23/2016 7:39:19 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)is being accused of lifting a line from 1995’s The American President while defending his wife Heidi following a Twitter bout with frontrunner Donald Trump.
Responding to Trump’s warning to Cruz to “be careful” after an anti-Trump super PAC used a photo of Trump’s wife Malania posing nude for GQ in 2000 in an ad in Utah, the Texas Senator initially responded by calling Trump a “coward.”
Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
Cruz later responded: “Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought. #classless.”
Cruz then told CNN Wednesday morning, “If Donald wants to get into a character fight, he’s better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league.”
The New York Daily News is accusing Cruz of borrowing the line from the Michael Douglas film The American President without giving it attribution.
In the film, Douglas, who plays American President Andrew Shepherd, warns Sen. Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss) to leave Annette Bening’s character, Sydney Ellen Wade, out of a political dispute.
“You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with me, ’cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league,” Douglas says in the film.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
...asks the poster of a hundred Cruz puff pieces. LOL!!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/01/the_audacity_of_obamas_speech.html
Obama did the same, damned thing from “Man Of The Year”.
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On May 14, 2014, Ted Cruz formally renounced his Canadian citizenship
http://elpasonews.org/2015/03/ten-inconvenient-truths-that-ted-cruz-doesnt-want-you-to-know/
What about liars who don't embrace lying?
He should be arrested.
This is beyond the pale.
And here I thought we in Texas sent a great Senator to D.C. and I voted for him in our primary, too.
What a letdown!
Ted must be investigated back to kindergarten, and we must find and publish entire threads on everything that Trumpsters want to push to convince America of how horrible Ted Cruz is.
He not only can’t be the new Reagan, he must be lower than pond scum.
Kasich, Paul Ryan, Hillary, Bernie, Biden, Liz Warren, not to mention DT = infinitely better choices than the world’s worst, Ted Cruz.
ABC (Anybody But Cruz)
Sarcasm/
Has he plagerized before? Mr. Silver tongue not so smart afterall.
If Cruz is planning to secure the border and enforce immigration laws he would not have received the votes he did in Utah. Mormons are open border, support that we take in immigrants and refugee people. They had to be convinced Cruz would not be tough on the border or they would not have supported him.
“Why is Cruz not expected to disavow a pro-Cruz PAC attack on Trump’s wife?”
He did:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/23/cruz-condemns-trump-s-gutter-politics.html
“That ad was completely inappropriate and we had nothing to do with it,” Cruz told The Daily Beast. “It wasn’t our campaign. It wasn’t even a super PAC affiliated with us in anyway. It was a totally separate group. I don’t know the person who did it—we have no involvement with them whatsoever.”
Apparently the protected class can and is getting away with it.
Do you normally “refute” things that you had nothing to do with?
Mr. Haney: Most of these [rocks] came from the dark side of the moon.
Oliver: How were they found?
Mr. Haney: With a flashlight.
Flim flam Ted.
I'm beginning to doubt his alleged IQ of 150.
Unless he has hyper specialized it into the written end of forensics; or he has concentrated on formalized debates rather than ripostes or knife fighting (for which he has Stabby the Clown anyway, eh?)
You get paid per hits?
“I see the to date neither Heidi or Ted has refuted the nude photo of Trumps wife. That in of itself tells a lot.”
Yes, he has:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/23/cruz-condemns-trump-s-gutter-politics.html
“That ad was completely inappropriate and we had nothing to do with it,” Cruz told The Daily Beast. “It wasn’t our campaign. It wasn’t even a super PAC affiliated with us in anyway. It was a totally separate group. I don’t know the person who did it—we have no involvement with them whatsoever.”
You write as if he's a victim. This is a very liberal tactic ... actually it sounds more like CAIR.
Tell me honestly you really really really don't believe Cruz knew about the naked ad and could have stopped it? Tell me Liz's tweets following it don't guarantee it was orchestrated.
Come on Theo - quit the propaganda, or if it isn't, wake up from the hypnosis. You can still support Cruz and not have to pretend to by a political consultant for CAIR trying to manipulate opinion.
Or - would you prefer Cruz positioned as a victim? Not a very strong position.
Good deal. I’ll give Cruz plus credit for that.
Yes Trumps wife. The nude model. Yes the one who posed nude for GQ.
Classy
What’s your problem?
The poster posted no comment in post 1, which you replied to, accusing her of lying, of blasphemy, and of being hell-bound.
She posted a Breitbart article.
Is the article lying?
Then accuse the writer of the article of lying, not the one who posted the article.
Knock it off.
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