Posted on 02/03/2016 6:09:05 PM PST by ElainaVer
"CNN is reporting that Ben Carson will stop campaigning after Iowa. Make sure to tell all of your peers at the caucus supporting Carson that they should coalesce around the true conservative who will be in the race for the long haul: TED C
BEN CARSON: “A culture exists within the Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way. Isn't this the same thing we see with the Obama administration, the IRS scandal? No responsibility. ((EDIT)) They were awfully anxious to get it out there, weren't they?â€
But the Cruz campaign is also wrong and Senator Cruz should take disciplinary action against some of his staff.
However, that may not happen:
RICK TYLER, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR TED CUZ: “We simply as a campaign repeated what Ben Carson had said in his own words. He said after Iowa he was going to go back to Florida for a couple of days and then he was going to go to D.C. to the prayer breakfast. And what that told us was he was not going to New Hampshire.â€
But again, Carson had events booked in New Hampshire, so come on.
As far as CNN is concerned, it is standing behind its initial report, which is ludicrous.
That news agency screwed up big time and apparently doesn't care.
Talking Points has said it many times. The state of American journalism is on the verge of collapse.
Ideology has permeated hard news coverage and honest reporting is becoming almost scarce, especially in political circles.
CNN should apologize. Ted Cruz should take some action. And this should never again happen.
The Carson campaign was damaged by erroneous information, period.
And that's the memo.
(Excerpt) Read more at billoreilly.com ...
How quickly did CNN correct their report? I don't have cable/sat tv...
I have never heard of a candidate flying home before the caucus results come out and announcing that rather than campaigning in NH or SC their next public appearance is going to be at the DC prayer breakfast. That is what was reported by CNN 15 minutes before the start of the caucuses and clearly sounded like he was about to suspend his campaign.
“After the Talking Points Memo, Karl Rove shocked me by giving full support to Trump’s claims about Cruz . .”
I too saw that and nearly fell off my chair! But Rove is right here, and I doubt we’ve seen the last of this. All the Cruzers here are acting like the RATs, “let’s just move along now, nothing to see here!” So long as their guy benefits, they are willing to excuse behavior that they would be going to war over had it happened to “Reverend Cruz!”
“Is he campaigning anywhere? Looked on his website and found no events”
He is attending the Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. before returning to New Hampshire.
1. Who is Chris Moody?
2. Why is the Cruz campaign responsible for desiminating his tweets?
3. Wouldn’t that be what the Carson team is for?
He probably needed new clothes for the Prayer Breakfast and possibly for some D.C. donor appointments. JMO
What was the proper context of child molester?
Where is his schedule posted?
Post of the year, so far.
The year is young:)
“It’s in the book that he’s got a pathological temper,” Trump told “Erin Burnett OutFront,” speaking about Carson’s autobiography. “That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that ... as an example: child molesting. You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure a child molester. There’s no cure for it. Pathological, there’s no cure for that.”
“How quickly did CNN correct their report? “
First one:
Chris Moody Verified account
â€@moody
Carson won’t go to NH/SC, but instead will head home to Florida for some R&R. He’ll be in DC Thursday for the National Prayer Breakfast.
4:43 PM - 1 Feb 2016
Second One:
Chris Moody Verified account
â€@moody
Ben Carson’s campaign tells me he plans to stay in the race beyond Iowa no matter what the results are tonight.
4:43 PM - 1 Feb 2016
Third One: Chris Moody Verified account
â€@moody
Folks, Ben Carson is just making a brief stop at home in FL tonight and campaign says he’ll be back on the campaign trail by Wednesday.
5:30 PM - 1 Feb 2016
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More stuff entirely disconnected from reality.
Of course it happened, but it wasn’t any kind of dirty trick. Folks just took the Carson campaign at its word. I guess that makes them evil persons.
You Trump people don’t handle losing well.
Elaina, may I crosspost this to Conservative Treehouse H/T to you at FR?
‘’After the Talking Points Memo, Karl Rove shocked me by giving full support to Trump’s claims about Cruz . . going so far as to say they checked and all 1500 caucus sites had received the message from Ted Cruz. Rove said if only Four people from each of those caucuses had changed their vote from Carson to Rove . . it would have made the 6,000 vote difference that gave Ted the unexpected win over Trump.
Rove said it should be legally investigated.’’
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