Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Ted Cruz drives the media crazy

"During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said most violent criminals are Democrats."
It came after Hewitt brought up the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic that left three dead and nine injured in Colorado Springs, Colo., over Thanksgiving weekend. Hewitt told Cruz that he’d been doing anti-abortion events for 25 years and had never met "a single pro-life activist who is in favor of violence of any sort." 
Cruz agreed. "And I would note that this whole episode has really displayed the ugly underbelly of the media," Cruz said. "You know, every time you have some sort of violent crime or mass killing, you can almost see the media salivating, hoping, hoping desperately that the murderer happens to be a Republican, so they can use it to try to paint their political enemies. Now listen, here’s the simple and undeniable fact. The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats. The media doesn’t report that."
Polifact went on to give Cruz a Mostly False rating. But, here is Cruz convincingly defending his statement...

21 comments:

Meade said...

Good find, Lem.

Methadras said...

Video not showing up, Lem.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I'm using Chrome.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I found a YouTube upload, I'm changing it to that.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Done. It should show up now.

bagoh20 said...

I don't get the point. The truth is that most criminals are probably unaffiliated with any party and mostly non-political. You probably can also say that most criminals would call themselves Christians, and Americans, and patriotic, and Caucasian, and gun lovers, and eat at McDonald's, and you know they love that McRib too. So what? None of it proves anything. What matters is that they commit crimes. Very few do it for politics.

Trooper York said...

There is a point. Obama and De Blasio and the Black Lives Matters types are pressing for an immediate release of thousands of criminals who will be given the vote back even though they were convicted of felonies. They have explicitly said this and it is part and parcel of their campaign to delegitmize the police and stop enforcement of the law.

Because criminals are their constituents.

ricpic said...

The Democrats are all about how uncool Ten Commandments morality is. Criminals get that. Like finds like.

Amartel said...

Released criminals will be doleheads, or have family on the dole, so it's more likely they'll vote Dem for the bennies.

bagoh20 said...

They probably already voted anyway, twice when needed.

Chip Ahoy said...

My ears are not made for politics. The man's voice is too cartoonishly high and on top it somebody cranked his nose out of place and it was never properly aligned.

And a similar thing with Rubio, too urgent, too enthusiastic, too much packed into a short body. I'd be sick of hearing that voice in two weeks.

All the candidates, actually. Especially Hillary. Good Lord, if that woman is elected I'm shutting down 100% my ears will wither to belly buttons to protect the psych. No. She will NOT be listened to. Not ever. Not that voice. Electing her would be straight up torture beyond anything imagined on Guantanamo and will regard anyone who votes for her enemy of the people, direct and immediate enemy to self. Goddamnit that woman is horrible and anyone putting her forward anathema. This morning I read Barbara Streisand say she's finally come around to supporting Hillary at first she was a bit stiff.

!

And I thought to myself, "You miserably and pathetically stupid bitch. Goddamnit you are thick as California mudslide, thick as Sierra cement (<-- term Coloradans have for Tajo snow, disparaging, too heavy and wet to ski, skis simply fall into tracks of previous skiers and there's nothing you can do except allow it and follow them."

Just hearing other people speak about their stupid ass comprehension of politics brings out the very worst in me.

The next moment on MSNBC I chanced to hear an older woman, boomer type grandma, remark," Well, at first the people of Europe regarded Trump a buffoon but now they're getting quite worried he might actually win." And I'm sitting here thinking, Dear Woman, who gives a flying shit what anybody else thinks of our policies? Especially Europeans who manage this much worse than we. That's the problem with you. You are simply far too stupid to tolerate listening to.

For relief switch to Fox and be treated to poor stuttering Andy Levy sounding straight up like the ending of a Warner Brothers cartoon. And I mean exactly like the cartoon ending. The impulse to imitate the man's affected stuttering cancels out everything the man says because it's overridden with vocalized ridicule. He is ridiculous. Fox is ridiculous. All the affected stutters on Fox are ridiculous. They cannot be listened to. They just cannot. Allowing scant few of them don't. Give them ten seconds of sound and you'll get five seconds of stuttering nonsense.

This is the state of political discussion. And I'm finding now that I pay attention only to right side information that they pull the same shit the left pulls. The same manipulation, the same information culling, the same type shading, the same ideologic blinkering, the same sniping. It cannot be listened to.

Insty's got a guest blogger, the original PJ media guy, I think, who's got a bug so far up his ass about Trump that he cannot think or see straight. We notice all right wing writing comes with a new disclaimer: I don't care for Trump's ideas, but..."

Fuck your disclaimer. Minus ten points for you thinking the need of it.

No way, no can do, this is the thing that finally does it, it's not who we are, that would be disastrous, shark/jump etc, (all regarding non citizens) but we must not allow Sharia law under any circumstance. (for u.s. citizens.) Exactly backwards, and all due to Trump bug up the bum. Accompanied by the same f'n Photoshop of Obama logo transferred to Trump that he's already shown three previous times. The same goddamn Photoshop four times. And I'm thinking, how would it be if I did that here? Contrive a clever Photoshop and keep showing it repeatedly.

edutcher said...

Donald Trump drives the media crazy.

FIFY

Nobody is moving the goalposts like The Donald.

But kudos for finding that quote. It will drive the Demos crazy.

William said...

Cruz is the thinking man's Trump. I have seen several exchanges where he got the better of his questioner. You don't win elections by winning debates, but it's pleasant to watch........Trump and his followers have no place in our democracy, but we should allow convicted ferns to vote at least once in every election. Does any registered Democrat take exception to that statement.

MamaM said...

While ChipAhoy's ears may not have been made for politics, his nose for it is as keen as a dog's, along with an unparalleled ability to produce salient and singularly unique commentary.

He's another good find available through Levity.

Trooper York said...

RC that was what he was implying with out coming out and saying it.

Only Trump could get away with telling the truth bluntly and forcefully.

edutcher said...

William said...

Cruz is the thinking man's Trump

Cruz is the polite man's Trump, sometimes.

FIFY

And I don't think polite is always a virtue.

Amartel said...

The guy who forced the government shut down is "polite."
When everyone was weeping about compromise and "working across the aisle" so the poor government employees could get their pay, this guy stood in the pocket for as long as he could to make a point in favor of small, manageable realistic government. He took a real political risk and made a lot of enemies. But he's "polite" because he forms complete sentences about realistic plans that are actually constitutional instead of bellowing outrageous sound bites.

Amartel said...

Remember when Howard Stern ran for governor in NY? He had a three point plan. I think it involved reinstating the death penalty and doing something about traffic snarls, making road crews work at night. Something like that. He promised to accomplish his 3 stated objectives and then step down and let an experienced hand take over. Trump should do that. Have a three point plan - build a wall, moratorium on Syrian refugees until Congress/State comes up with a reasonable vetting plan, some other basic thing - and then step down and let Cruz take over.

edutcher said...

Amartel said...

The guy who forced the government shut down is "polite."
When everyone was weeping about compromise and "working across the aisle" so the poor government employees could get their pay


Fair enough.

He did it - once.

He also abstained when he could have voted No on Loretta Lynch.

He voted for TPP even though it was a bad deal because he said he wanted succeeding Presidents to have that authority.

This is why "polite" does not always impress me.
This

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I agree with Bags.

Plus, the overwhelming majority of American Revolutionaries were also considered "criminals".

Come on. This is such a ridiculous point. It's why Ted's not loved even among Republicans. At some point every rhetorical excess has its limits.

bagoh20 said...

R&B said: "I agree with Bags."

And I was doing so well today. Dammit!