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.
I just made an observation. Is my observation untrue?
You are quick to take personal offense. Are you sure you don’t have Democrat DNA?
drudge has been quiet on his site but on social media hes been rolling with it all weekend
I expect there to be legal filings over this. There has to be.
I agree with you, it’s trash and no one should take the NE seriously. However, why do you resort to the same tactics of hints, hearsay and innuendo with happenstance connections to strongly imply this story was ‘planted’ by the Trump campaign?
These unsubstantiated accusations back and forth are petty and unfair to the reputations of people involved in both camps.
Sadly we expect candidates to be maligned, but it’s really low to drag respectable ladies into the mud too... or well, at least semi-respectable.
I don’t know if this story is true or not but is the NE now the go publication for political news or just when it prints stories that people like?
Yeah, they get it right now and then but they also get it wrong.
Time will tell
I’m also ,right when I say if the story was one that could hurt Trump, the same people who are taking this as gospel would be quick to point out that it’s the NE
So full of crap, not worth the time to refute. Just wait as proof is forthcoming and reality will set in for this guy.
The GOPe must be laughing their butts off on their latest hit job. Ted Cruz may be book smart, but he’s dumb as sin when it comes to street smarts. He’s getting played like a fiddle by his establishment “handlers”, who’ve double crossed him, and he doesn’t have a freaking clue what to do except to blame Trump. This guy would be a disaster as the nominee. The Democrats would have his hide roasted and hanging on a hook by Labor Day!
.@tedcruz's aspirations:
1. Be in teen tit films (in process)
2. Take over the world #MolesTED #CruzSexScandal pic.twitter.com/O6x5FgfV9G— MicroChip (@WDFx2EU) March 26, 2016
When Cruz et.al. file their suits, and discovery reveals as many facts as possible, then the air will be cleared.
I expect there to be legal filings over this. There has to be.
You’d think Ted Cruz would have talked about this at his press conference. He didn’t. He talked about Donald Trump for 5 minutes and then disappeared.
Doesn’t exactly scream “total innocence” to me.
But he would come to her defense, at all?
Why would Trump want to trash his own spokesperson???
If it is, Cruz is going to be the new owner of National Enquirer.
I’m not an attorney but I play one on TV but that’s my understanding
If National Enquirer printed the same story about you and it weren’t true, would you be damaged?
The hookers will talk, they always do.
Translated to English. 'She hasn't denied it, so it can't be true.' Pretty long reach there.
..... Why has Ted DROPPED his TrusTED branding?...
Why has he dropped his demands for Trumps tax returns?
If only Cruz could find a lawyer. Preferably one who argued before SCOTUS.
I can’t respect ANYONE who believes Ted Cruz had eight EIGHT!! affairs. that’s the new number. eight.
Anyone who spends four minutes thinking this through will either laugh out loud or is clinically insane.
btw, I didn’t know Hillary had brain cancer, jolet was down to 83 pounds, ben and Jennifer got back together, Tim and Faith broke up again, Joan Rivers’ death was a cover up, Ben Carson BOTCHED a bunch of brain surgeries using a scalpel like a hack saw, etc.
these are terrible things :)
come on man.
If National Enquirer printed the same story about you and it weren’t true, would you be damaged?
Don’t know. I’m not famous
You wrote "If it is, Cruz is going to be the new owner of National Enquirer."
This is not an observation. It is supposition.
You then graduated to the theater of the absurd by writing "You are quick to take personal offense. Are you sure you don’t have Democrat DNA?"
I did not take personal offense from your suppostion. Therefore I was not quick to take personal offense.
Democrat refers to someone from a particular political party, which at times, has had patriots in it. DNA refers to the science of the human body. Education is a valuable asset and ignorance is a disability.
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