Cruz knocks Fox News after clash with Hannity (Just answer a simple question, Ted)

The Hill ^ | April 22, 2016 | Evelyn Rupert

[jazusamo]

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz lashed out at Fox News over coverage of Donald Trumpafter a heated interview with Sean Hannity earlier this week.

When asked on “The Dom Giordano Program”

about coverage of Trump’s claims of unfair “voterless elections” in states like Wyoming and Colorado, Cruz said, “They know it’s not true.”

“Donald doesn’t handle losing well, and when we loses, he cries and he screams and he whines and he curses and he insults everybody,” Cruz said. “So when Donald lost five states in a row in landslide elections, that’s when they began making up this nonsense about voterless elections.”

On Wednesday, Cruz and Fox host Hannity had a testy exchange over the delegate process that Trump has repeatedly called “rigged.”

“The media loves to obsess about process, this process, and this whining from the Trump campaign, is all silly,” Cruz told Hannity. “The only people asking this question are the hardcore Donald Trump supporters.”

Giordano asked Cruz “what the heck is going on with this whole deal here on what should be a home court for a constitutional conservative.”

“Fox News has got to decide what stories they want to air and what stories they want to tell,” Cruz responded. “I’m not going to worry about who they’re rooting for and what surrogates they put on and what messages they push. I’m gonna focus on my own positive message.”

[Repeal The 17th]

“... There’s no way I’m ever supporting anyone I perceive as a New York Liberal ...”
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If that is the case, you probably need to take that up with Jim Rob.

[wistful]

I’m sorry, I don’t get your point.

[Repeal The 17th]

You will.

[wistful]

What is your point and why can’t you make it clear.

Make your point the way a man might make it.

[MIA_eccl1212]

“I’m sorry, I don’t get your point.
There’s no way I’m ever supporting anyone I perceive as a New York Liberal”

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Here’s the succinct summary point you need to get. Stop being sorry. CHANGE your perception.

[wistful]

I’m done with you.

A man who can’t say what he wants to say is a coward.

[Fresh Wind]

I watched about half of that interview. I had to turn it off when Cruz went for a full repeat of his canned talking point, just as the Rubiobot did during the debate.

[TontoKowalski]

I'll go against form, at least for this post.

Cruz has to be all sorts of frustrated. This election should have been his. He had a gameplan that would have worked in almost any other year.

A solid traditional campaign, combining appeal to evangelical voters and the anti-establishment wing of the party, in a year of the outsider. It should have worked.

Win Iowa, finish respectably in New Hampshire. Rebound in South Carolina as a springboard to Super Tuesday. Concede Florida to Rubio or Jeb. Continue the dominance in the plains, pick off a few mid-west states, and it's over.

Instead, he he's played second- or third-fiddle to a hugely popular billionaire who has somehow captured he imagination of the common man while jetting about the country in his private mega-plane, while everyone else is on a bus-tour.

He's been kissing babies, while the other guy is treating children to helicopter rides.

As much as he's not my favorite candidate, and he never was, I can't imagine the puzzlement he's feeling. It has to be hard.

[nathanbedford]

I have almost no concern for the personal puzzlement of Ted Cruz but I do have a enormous concern for the future of the conservative movement in America in the wake of what Donald Trump has done.

Donald Trump has taught every aspiring conservative candidate, every tea party politician newly elected to forsake all his promises and simply go with the flavor of the week. If you stand alone on the floor of the Senate fighting to repeal Obama care you will be denigrated by the same conservatives who rooted for you at the time.

The lesson for conservatives in office, the conservative base is utterly fickle and easily seduced away from principles. How can you reconstitute a conservative movement when you ask elected representatives to stand against the establishment, to stand against the media, knowing that you will sell them out?

[Fresh Wind]

Cruz’s point was why should the media, (guys like Hannity) pick up stories manufactured by Trump and use them as talking points without really checking their validity.

Excellent point.

That's exactly what the Cruz campaign did when they took a CNN report and used it as talking points to attack Carson's campaign without "really checking its validity". It works both ways, Ted.

[Repeal The 17th]

One more time:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3422979/posts

[wardaddy]

Considering how Fox beat and still beats on Trump you’d think he’d be nicer

Megyn Kelly has softened

It was an amazing thing to watch tonight

[MIA_eccl1212]

with presentation that clear, succinct and direct, my only guess is the losses people feel this week relative to Ted has driven them to a small measure of self medication and they are under the influence temporarily after an all night angry bender.

you could not possibly have made it any clearer. If they can’t figure out J.R. simple posts to the forum members... maybe they are under some other influence. Depression is a tough hit to take.

[nathanbedford]

As best I can make out there is a new practice here on Free Republic to ban posters who declare they will not support Donald Trump in the general election. Although I have asked for clarification, I have not received guidance concerning whether criticism of Trump prior to his being nominated will be permitted.

As best as I can determine from anecdotal reading, the standard has not been applied to those who oppose Ted Cruz in the general election.

There has been a growing campaign among Trump supporters to censor all opposition to Trump, regardless whether it is directed pre-or post-nomination, by a vigorous campaign of zotting.

[Repeal The 17th]

If you keep going on your present course,
you will fly directly into the bug zapper.
The boss has made it clear for anyone who has a brain.

[wistful]

I gathered that from the tone of “Repeal the 17th” and his arse kissing mate.

Obviously too cowardly to come out and state it up front.

Its no help to this forum or the cause of Conservatism to have such trembling yes men here.

[nathanbedford]

If you keep going on your present course, you will fly directly into the bug zapper. The boss has made it clear for anyone who has a brain.

I submit that it is not clear, I have raised questions and asked for clarity but received none. I further submit that people like you do not want clarity because by darkly threatening people with whom you disagree, you can chill opinions you don't like.

You have declined to respond with particulars to the multiple requests of wistful and you have not provided me with no particulars rather you have transparently attempted to intimidate me. It will not work.

Are we to assume the meanness of character of Donald Trump and impose it arbitrarily on ourselves?

[Repeal The 17th]

Why are you bitching to me and not bitching to Jim Rob.
Coward.

[Repeal The 17th]

“... You have declined to respond with particulars to the multiple requests of wistful ...”
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Oh, I have responded all right (thus, you are a liar),
Some people just don’t get it.

[nathanbedford]

Actually I did inquire directly and publicly of Jim Robinson.

A more decent person might have asked whether I had done so rather than call me a "coward" out of ignorance. Ignorance which should not be an excuse in view of the fact that I said I had applied for clarification.

I won't call you a sycophant if you refrain from calling me a coward.