Posted on 03/26/2016 8:01:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
PDFs of the National Enquirer article about Ted Cruz having five affairs were sent to me by a friend on Wednesday evening. When he sent it, my buddy reminded me that the National Enquirer has been right about this kind of stuff before, like in the case of former Senator Edwards.
I read the article about the Cruz affairs, but for many reasons including the fact that Roger Stone, Trump friend and "hit man" was quoted in the story paid it no heed (although it did make me wonder if Stone is the one who planted the story).
My friend was correct when he said the supermarket tabloid has been proven right at times, but the National Enquirer has been wrong more than it's been right. 
Consider stories such as Hillary Clinton has brain cancer (it may seem that way but her only mental disease is extreme liberalism), Angelina Jolie was down to 83 pounds and near death (there was a recent picture of her in the latest Vanity Fair and she looks pretty hot for a dead lady), and of course Michelle Obama’s planned divorce because the president has been with 12 different women (with all the time he is taking to ruin the country he has little time to sleep around). Face it this is the magazine that has said Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were getting divorced so many times that I am sure the still happily married couple must be beginning to doubt themselves.
But on Friday the Cruz story erupted, and things I should have noticed when I first read the story on Wednesday came to light.
For example, three of the five women have been identified, one of the women Amanda Carpenter I know personally. Not that we are good friends but she is more of a friend to some of my good friends. And from everything I know about Amanda, everything I’ve read about her, and from posts on her Facebook page about her family, I feel comfortable betting big money on the fact that Amanda has never cheated on her husband with Ted Cruz, or any one else.
Amanda vehemently denied the story on CNN today (see the video below). Another of the five women who have been identified is Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson who has denied the accusations and a third who has been identified is former Carly Fiorina staffer Sarah Isgur Flores who hasn't denied it yet, but I am sure it's coming.
The Enquirer piece neglected to mention that National Enquirer owner David Pecker is a close friend of Trump's and this is not the first time the magazine tried to destroy a Trump rival.
This past October 7th issue, on the same cover that announced Ben Afflack and Jennifer Lopez were once again an item (no one told them), the 
National Enquirer promoted a story about how Ben Carson butchered a child’s brain. Inside they published a story about Dr. Ben Carson (who just so happened to be catching up to Donald Trump in the polls) called "Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patient’s Brain!" (which btw sounds like the title of a great horror film). Per the article, Carson "brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver!" (meat cleaver? Who knew he did circumcisions). The article said he botched surgeries leaving patients disfigured and in pain. According to the author of the piece "Judging by White House wannabe Ben Carson's track record as a neurosurgeon, his presidential campaign should be declared dead on arrival!"
When Carly Fiorina had an excellent debate in September and began to rise in the polls the Enquirer ran an article called, "Homewrecker Carly Fiorina Lied About Druggie Daughter" 
That story however, didn’t make the cover because of more important stories such as "Joan Rivers Death Cover Up," "Dolly Parton's 6-year Affair" and of course, "Tom Selleck's $25 Million Divorce Shocker."
Why would the Enquirer run a hit pieces on Donald Trump’s opponents when they just so happened to be creeping up in the polls on “The Donald?” According to an October 2015 issue of New York Magazine:
Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker have been friends for years. "They're very close," said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. "He'd make it exciting and win awards!"
My favorite story coming out of this bogus scandal is that Breitbart.com had the story but former editor Ben Shapiro killed it. Think about that one for a second. They are talking about the guy who recently quit his position at Brietbart because he couldn't get management to support reporter Michelle Fields who was attacked by Trump's campaign manager. If Ben Shapiro had that kind of power at Breitbart wouldn't he have gotten them to treat Michelle Fields better so he wouldn't have felt he had to resign?
It is very difficult to prove a negative, especially when the story is about five affairs that never happened. But for all the reasons stated above I believe this National Enquirer tale is nothing more than a political smear.
I don't know it was placed by Trump operatives or whether, there were simply no aliens from a different planet working at a Kosher ice cream shoppe in Secaucus N.J. for the Enquirer to write about this week, causing David Pecker to order his staff to come up with a false rumor about Trump's only real remaining opponent to fill the magazine's pages.
In the end this is a familiar story; strong conservative women are having their reputation and dignity impugned (which coincidently is the type of attack the Trump team likes best, just ask Megyn Kelly, Cheri Jacobus, or Carly Fiorina just to name a few).
My college Joe Newby has much more on this story at his site, The Conservative Firing Line. But first watch the video of Amanda Carpenter on CNN this morning.
How does that compare to no argument at all that Ted did this? Seriously, there is not one single piece of evidence here against Ted. Not a shred. Yet you slam a character witness for Amanda Carpenter. Shame on you.
I think you’re probably right, but has anyone else noticed how Ted’s suit jackets never seem to fit him very well?
Things that make you go hmmm...lol
Amanda Carpenter sister in law says everyone in her family knows it true, but you know better.
I’ll be apologizing a lot around here if it’s true lol.
i’m no ducker!!
i’ll be here to eat crow, though I don’t know where that expression came from.
I could down a platter of hot dogs :)
Well, except for statements from family members that this happened and the tattoo thing and the fact that we all know it’s freaking true, there really isn’t anything.
yeah man, not the best looking guy, but with power and an ego and if he’s as self centered as, unfortunately, it seems he might be, it’s possible.
Isn't that exactly what Bill Clinton did?
Literally eating a crow is traditionally seen as being distasteful; the crow is one of the birds listed in Leviticus chapter 11 as being unfit for eating. Scavenging carrion eaters have a long association with the battlefield, “They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island,” says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Along with buzzards, rats, and other carrion-eating scavenging animals, there is a tradition in Western culture going back to at least the Middle Ages of seeing them as distasteful (even illegal at times) to eat,[5] and thus naturally humiliating if forced to consume against one’s will.
In the modern figurative sense of being proven wrong, eating crow probably first appeared in print in 1850, as an American humor piece about a rube farmer near Lake Mahopack, New York. The OED V2 says the story was first published as “Eating Crow” in San Francisco’s Daily Evening Picayune (Dec. 3, 1851),but two other early versions exist, one in The Knickerbocker (date unknown),and one in the Saturday Evening Post (Nov. 2, 1850) called “Can You Eat Crow?”.All tell a similar story: a slow-witted New York farmer is outfoxed by his (presumed urban) boarders; after they complain about the poor food being served, the farmer discounts the complaint by claiming he “kin eat anything”, and the boarders wonder if he can eat a crow. “I kin eat a crow!” the farmer says. The boarders take him up on the challenge but also secretly spike the crow with Scotch snuff. The story ends with the farmer saying: “I kin eat a crow, but I be darned if I hanker after it.” Although the humor might produce a weak smile today, it was probably a knee slapper by 19th-century standards, guaranteeing the story would be often retold in print and word of mouth, thus explaining, in part, the idiom’s origin. In 1854 Samuel Putnam Avery published a version called “Crow Eating” in his collection Mrs. Parkington’s Carpet-Bag of Fun.
A similar British idiom is to eat humble pie. The English phrase is something of a pun—”umbles” were the intestines, offal and other less valued meats of a deer. Pies made of this were known to be served to those of lesser class who did not eat at the king’s/lord’s/governor’s table. Another dish likely to be served with humble pie is rook pie (rooks being closely related to crows). “Pie” is also an antiquated term for the European magpie, a type of crow. There is a similarity with the American version of “umble”, since the Oxford English Dictionary defines crow as meaning “intestine or mesentery of an animal” and cites usages from the 17th century into the 19th century (e.g., Farley, Lond Art of Cookery: “the harslet, which consists of the liver, crow, kidneys, and skirts).”
The woman in the picture, whomever she is, is wearing a jacket that fits her and appears to have three-quarter sleeves. Since she’s on the slender side and Cruz isn’t, nor is he likely to have a three-quarter-sleeved jacket, it’s safe to say that isn’t his jacket. Even if it were, men have been known to lend women their jackets for entirely innocent reasons.
It’s amazing what some will accept as evidence.
Can you provide the link where her husband's sister says this? I find no source for this statement other than from Trump supporters here on Free Republic.
Bfl
Oh let’s have this scandal live on for years because your guy Trump is a prince of immorality. So, Cruz HAS to be immoral, too. He couldn’t be better than your Donald at anything could he old usafa94?
The Associated Press has to be in Hillary Clinton’s camp, yet here is a paragraph from the AP’s Saturday story in my Northern California newspaper:
“The Cruz story published this week in the tabloid described what it called rumors, PROVIDING NO EVIDENCE that Cruz had engaged in an extramarital affair. THE ONLY SOURCE quoted by name was a former Trump campaign adviser, Roger Stone, who said such “stories have been swirling around Cruz for some time” without offering any evidence they are true.”
SO LET’S RECAP: Trump has lived a rather immoral, sleazy life, dumping two wives for mistresses and then being a serial adulterer (by his own accounts in two books). So now Trump’s pal at the National Enquirer (the publisher) runs a sleazeball story attacking Cruz as having affairs and the only source quoted is Trump’s advocate, Roger Stone. WHO IN THE SANDHILL IS CIRCULATING THE RUMORS — none other than Roger Stone. The source of the attacks on Cruz keeps coming back to Trump — what a doubly sleazy guy.
Documented where? The ONLY source I can find for this is from Trump supporters here at Free Republic. The story started here.
Wow. What a cool read.
Thanks man :)
The Humble Pie thing was cool too.
“stories have been swirling around Cruz for some time”
There’s nothing to take issue with here: this is a true statement. Then then story goes on to cover the very stories in question, which have been discussed by Rubio people and other GOP operatives and the press under the hashtag #TheThing on twitter publicly, and who else even knows privately, for months now.
So, you can get all high and mighty about it if you want to, but all evidence suggests this had nothing to with Trump, the Melania ad, or anything else. It’s all Cruz and nothing but the Cruz, and his denial of the allegations was weaksauce and his profession of innocence/fidelity was non-existent.
Oh sure, pal, Trump had nothing to do with this information (WINK, WINK, WINK). You just keep believing in your guy. He doesn’t have a touchback amnesty, he never lied about his $1 million fine for hiring Polish workers, etc., etc.
The Associated Press has to be in Hillary Clinton’s camp, yet here is a paragraph from the AP’s Saturday story in my Northern California newspaper:
“The Cruz story published this week in the tabloid described what it called rumors, PROVIDING NO EVIDENCE that Cruz had engaged in an extramarital affair. THE ONLY SOURCE quoted by name was a former Trump campaign adviser, Roger Stone, who said such “stories have been swirling around Cruz for some time” without offering any evidence they are true.”
SO LET’S RECAP: Trump has lived a rather immoral, sleazy life, dumping two wives for mistresses and then being a serial adulterer (by his own accounts in two books). So now Trump’s pal at the National Enquirer (the publisher) runs a sleazeball story attacking Cruz as having affairs and the only source quoted is Trump’s advocate, Roger Stone. WHO IN THE SANDHILL IS CIRCULATING THE RUMORS — none other than Roger Stone. The source of the attacks on Cruz keeps coming back to Trump — what a doubly sleazy guy.
yep, as the season heats up, we’re getting a large shipment of crows, and humble pies in stock for the sad affair of the current primary.
what a freaking disaster. like girls fighting on twitter over a boy.
Sure thing. You say Rubio is swirling the rumors. Trump’s pal’s publication comes out with the story — and quotes Trump’s guy, Roger Stone.
Who else is good ole Roger talking to? I say Roger Stone is the source of many of the swirling rumors. And I’ll get as high and mighty as I please, since you’re defending the two-time wife dumper and serial adulterer.
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