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Cruz slams media for ‘manipulating’ voters
The Hill ^ | May 10, 2016 | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 05/10/2016 10:17:35 AM PDT by maggief

Ted Cruz on Tuesday accused the media of propping up its preferred candidates, saying the news industry helped fuel presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rise.

"This election will be studied for the role of the media, and in particular network executives," Cruz said on Glenn Beck's radio program, his first public interview since ending his presidential campaign last week.

"That has a dramatic impact on the polls, when every network becomes the super-PAC for the candidate that they want to win."

Cruz attacked media execs for “manipulating and trying to deceive the voters” and said Trump's rise was "heavily fueled by the media executives who have run him 24/7."

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KEYWORDS: beck; cruz; glennbeck; tedcruz
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To: JBW1949
Not only that, Cruz doesn’t seem to be able to relate to regular folk Americans...He has always been such a “practiced” politician that what he says doesn’t resonate with people."

Most Canadians, who went to the Harvard Law School, wouldn't have the slightest idea of how to relate to regular folk Americans. Nor would they really want to learn how!

41 posted on 05/10/2016 10:56:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Vote for Trump and break your cycle of Battered Conservative Syndrome!)
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To: maggief
Ted Cruz is exhibiting an intense mistrust of the judgment of citizens ("the People")--a curious attitude for the one candidate who is, perhaps, the most familiar with the writings and speeches of America's Founders.

After all, approval of their 1787 Constitution relied on the ratification process in the States, and any future Amendment to that Constitution, by the Constitution's own provision, requires the assent of "the People."

"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
In 2016, "the People," having watched their elected so-called "conservative" Republican leaders fail miserably at even slowing the oppressive "progressive" "train" of "wretchedness and oppression."

"The People" who Justice Story called "the only KEEPERS of the Constitution" see the so-called "conservatives" they elected betray them, and they have responded with an outright rejection, county by county, in most of the states won by Trump.

It is time now for those the voters rejected to decide whether they will turn over the Executive Branch to a self-described "progressive" who promises to double down on the Obama agenda,

or

whether they will show statesmanship by accepting "the People's" choice, re-engaging in their delegated duties to preserve and protect the Constitution, and placing the Republican Party on a firm footing of fidelity to that Constitution's limits on power and protection's for liberty.
42 posted on 05/10/2016 10:59:37 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: maggief

Cruz started lying and whining months ago. The more he lies and whines, post-defeat, the more I am glad he lost.


43 posted on 05/10/2016 11:02:33 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: maggief

Ted obviously ain’t as smart as we were all led to believe. He sticks with Beck, whines like a baby and considers an action that will be his political Waterloo....if he reengages, he’s dead to me.


44 posted on 05/10/2016 11:06:24 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: boycott

Could not agree more. As a former Cruz supporter from the get-go, I found that the more he spoke in public, the less I liked him. He really ought to shut his damned mouth right now and rejoin his “friends” in the Senate...


45 posted on 05/10/2016 11:12:23 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: maggief

Sounds like sCruz needs some cheeze with that whine.


46 posted on 05/10/2016 11:14:28 AM PDT by dware (I don't care what bathroom they use, as long as it's in the nuthouse, where they belong)
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To: DoughtyOne; maggief; mkjessup; All

Most people who are nucking futs, are not aware that they are nucking futs....


47 posted on 05/10/2016 11:18:09 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ManHunter

Could not agree more. As a former Cruz supporter from the get-go, I found that the more he spoke in public, the less I liked him.


I actually voted for him in the Alabama primary. I thought it was the safe choice. I have since regretted it.

The more he opens him mouth, the less I like him.


48 posted on 05/10/2016 11:18:35 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: maggief
What Ted fails to realize is that was all Trump's doing. He made himself the news on a consistent basis. Just because he wasn't clever enough to do the same is his fault, not the fault of the press. People wanted to know what Trump had said or done that was stupid or controversial, that surely spelled his doom as a candidate. But were then impressed that it didn't change Trump's position, and instead stood tall and even doubled down at times.

That's how he Trumped you, and it was all by his design. He knew what the press was about and took full advantage of it.

49 posted on 05/10/2016 11:18:53 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: maggief

Trump’s rise was “heavily fueled by the media executives who have run him 24/7.”

That is more BS. Every network has said they offered Ted all the air time he wanted, and he refused.


50 posted on 05/10/2016 11:21:27 AM PDT by McGruff (#DumpRyan - Tell Paul Ryan, you're fired!)
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To: maggief
Cruz slams media for ‘manipulating’ voters
Maybe but don't forget you had a "ground game" and "the secret army".
51 posted on 05/10/2016 11:22:07 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Cruz-Fiorina...The tortoise and the harelip)
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To: Grampa Dave; JBW1949; DoughtyOne; maggief; mkjessup; trebb; loveliberty2

“Most Canadians, who went to the Harvard Law School, wouldn’t have the slightest idea of how to relate to regular folk Americans. Nor would they really want to learn how! “

Wee after all, we are just the Little People....the Great Unwashed....the hoi polloi....the Flyover Folks. We must be LEAD, lest we go astray.


52 posted on 05/10/2016 11:22:56 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: maggief

Turd you delusional freak.

The media is the only thing that propped YOU up, not Trump.


53 posted on 05/10/2016 11:24:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Whatever the question, Donald Trump is the answer.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Ted may have Asperger’s. He doesn’t seem to have a clue how he will be perceived. E.g., he took the cheap shot at Trump, blaming him for the violence in Chicago. Apparently he could not foresee that conservative voters would be disgusted. E.g., Ted tells Trump supporters to their face that they are “chumps.”

Ted is a cerebral narcissist. And his father, perhaps to compensate for abandoning him, has deified him for decades. Sick, sick, sick.


54 posted on 05/10/2016 11:29:11 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

Ted may have Asperger’s.

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That is a distinct possibility.

The problem is that instead of admitting to and owning the problems that being on the autistic spectrum tends to cause, instead he’s apparently trying to force people to love him and gets angry and blames them when they don’t.

I used to do that myself, but then I got treatment and training to overcome it.

But the first step is to admit that you have a problem, and Teddikins won’t admit it.


55 posted on 05/10/2016 11:32:42 AM PDT by Luircin (Stomp Hillary, build wall, stop Islam. Any of the above are good reasons to vote. Trump 2016)
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To: maggief

Greta Van Sustern (Fox News) said that she and her people contacted his campaign every day, including weekends, to get him on her show. Brett Baier said similar thing.


56 posted on 05/10/2016 11:36:23 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

I like your analysis. Many people who are single-minded and driven seem to have Asperger’s. I certainly believe my highly-successful brother has it - no ability to perceive how he’s seen by others.

Of course, Cruz has just had a major setback because today’s presidential candidates are scrutinized for character and personality flaws. That’s where Trump beat him: he has an ironic and humorous view of himself which makes people forgive his flaws.


57 posted on 05/10/2016 11:37:10 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: vette6387

True, but I’m inclined to show a little more restraint when being critical of someone whose supporters I’d like to see turn out to vote for Trump in November.


58 posted on 05/10/2016 11:41:09 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: maggief

I’ve seen several lunatics out on social media recently pushing this idea that somehow all the scurrilous attacks on Trump during the nomination fight were part of some secret nefarious plan that was designed to ensure his victory or some crazy rot like that. This is stuff for the Weekly World News or DEBKA or ZeroHedge. Chemtrails gets worked in there somehow soon, I bet.


60 posted on 05/10/2016 12:01:35 PM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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