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.
They were very careful to write in terms of reporting rumors and allegations, which is in fact true, there have been rumors and allegations. If they’d have crossed the line and written that Cruz actually had affairs with these women, then it would be actionable if untrue. They didn’t do that. They’ve been sued before, and have gotten a lot more cagey.
I hope that’s the case and I hope this lands right in the middle of Trumps lap. Maybe he can be sued into ANOTHER bankruptcy....LOLOLOLOL.
This is fantastic....Trump will get blamed anyway....sure are blaming him on my local tv station....LOLOLOL.
“If” is not a supposition.
“Suppose” is a supposition.
“If” presents two or more equally likely alternatives.
“I’m glad Hillary has brain cancer.”
Your are one sick puppy!
Trump doesn’t own it. He has no control over what they publish. You’re just engaging in mental masturbation.
“reporter Michelle Fields who was attacked by Trump’s campaign manager.”
Just a flat out lie Jeff Dunetz ... seems everybody is on the get Trump train
The Enquirer got this recent story on Sheen’s HIV correct.
What a refreshing thread! Most of the threads have declared Ted Cruz guilty basically because he IS NOT Trump and is breathing.
Not positive, but “daddy Cruz” may be in reference to Ted’s father.
If Ted Cruz was banging all those hotties he’s my new hero. If true I’m voting twice for him. He’s got more going on than Laz.
Just wait...the Trumpbots aren’t all here yet.
Americans would accept the righteous indignation and fully comprehend the necessity for a man to do so. If these are lies, taking strong and concrete steps to smash these allegations would blow them off the radar and into the shadows.
Why has this not been done? It is very confusing how timid Cruz has been and how quick to blame Trump when Cruz has no believable evidence that Trump is behind this.
Post of the week!
Dude...it was a joke directed at someone unthread who seemed over-willing to believe everything the NE said. The NE had also run a fake story about Hillary having brain cancer. While they are sometimes right, they are not exactly a credible source.
This was during the political cartoon flap when Cruz was using his children for political gain.
Nat. Enquirer is also currently running a story of how the CIA used a “$2,000 a night hooker” to murder Supreme Court Justice Scalia - with a secret poison shot. Pretty sure that will turn out to be true.
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";^)
Besidew that, it’s Ted Cruz.... I mean Ted Cruz. There’s a lot of ick factor there. I voted for him in the primary, but still...an affair with Ted Cruz? Ick.
No wonder the family said no autopsy.
then he should sue , but as of right now he won’t and will not mentio0n it which is strange to say the least.
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