Posted on 02/05/2016 2:46:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
CNN's broadside of Ted Cruz is wrong. The network has denied that it bears any responsibility for Cruz's camp spreading rumors that Ben Carson might be quitting the presidential race. CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin even went so far as to call Cruz's explanation "BS" on the air.
Yet the network's claim can be true only in the most deceptive - in other words, the most Clintonian - sense. Instead of what the meaning of the word is is, CNN is parsing what the word indicate means.
Somewhat ironically, the network rests much of its case on tweets rather than on-air coverage. CNN concedes that during the Iowa caucuses the network reported that Carson would not be going from Iowa to New Hampshire as the other candidates would. But after Cruz's people used the report as their reason for suggesting Carson might be getting out of the race, CNN on Wednesday declared, "Senator Cruz's claims about CNN are false. At no point did the network indicate Dr. Carson would suspend his campaign."
While their embeds in the field may never have specifically reported that Carson was out, the network's live coverage - which included star anchor and face of CNN Anderson Cooper - not only operated on the assumption that Carson was withdrawing, but actually included speculation of where his voters would go after Carson left the race.
Here's a transcript of this segment of CNN's live Iowa coverage:
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The printed word doesn't fully capture the CNN panel's air of incredulity over Carson's stated reason for not going on to New Hampshire. Watching live, it was obvious that the moderator and the panel felt that Carson's campaign was toast.
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Forces Align to Assault the First Hispanic-American to Win a Presidential Primary
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"I know campaigns are what they are, and victory is what it's all about, and going after people is how you do it. I understand all that. This is the big leagues. I'm an adult. But this Ben Carson thing, I mean, he started it; CNN propelled it. And Ted Cruz has apologized for it, more so than anybody else. You know, Cruz could have blamed a staffer for this. Cruz didn't do this. Cruz could have gone out there and said, "A staffer did it," and satisfied what Carson wanted and fired somebody. But he didn't. What did he do? He went up there and he took the hit himself.
That's a sign of tremendous character to me.
Have you stopped to think what Ted Cruz overcame to win the Iowa caucuses? He overcame $8.5 million arrayed against him, all of the ad money arrayed against him, all of the so-called, "He's not even a legit candidate 'cause he was born in Canada," all of these "religious revival evangelist nutcase," all of that stuff thrown at him. "Phony Hispanic," all that, and he still wins. And after that victory, Ted Cruz is the first Hispanic-American to ever win the Iowa caucus. He is the first Hispanic-American to win any presidential primary for any party.
It didn't happen in the Democrat side.
The first Hispanic-American to win a presidential primary happens to be Ted Cruz, who happens to be a Republican -- and furthermore, it was the Religious Right that propelled him to victory. And I knew this was gonna happen precisely because the establishment and everybody else anti-Cruz is arraying all of that arsenal and resources against Cruz precisely... Well, not just precisely, not exclusively. But a big reason is because the Religious Right or the evangelicals were the margin of victory.
"We can't have that! No, no, no. We have got to destroy that. We have got to shoot that down. We can't allow that to be the message coming out," say the opponents and enemies of Cruz. "Oh, my God," the Republican Party's out there saying. "These are the people we want to get rid of! These are the people we think are causing us problems, the pro-lifers, the social issues people. Oh, no! They're the reason Cruz won?" He's the first Hispanic to win. What's the Republican Party...?
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"PPP's "newest national poll finds the race on the Republican side tightening considerably in the wake of Donald Trump's surprise loss in Iowa on Monday night. Trump's lead has fallen to just four points." He's at 25%. Ted Cruz is at 21%. Marco Rubio is at 21%. Ben Carson, who's not there, in New Hampshire is at 11%. Jeb Bush, Kasich, and Rand Paul are at 5%. Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina 3%, and Jim Gilmore still in the race at 1%. Santorum had zero supporters in the Public Policy Polling final poll.
I thought demanding an apology was a Trump tactic.
I agree with Rush. The problem started with Carson particularly his people who told CNN he was leaving the campaign on the eve of the Iowa caucus. When fuzzy/strange information was provided assumptions were made by CNN and others.
Ted Cruz is destroying himself with his blatant dishonesty and lack of integrity. His supporters are not doing Ted Cruz any favors by compounding his sins.
Cruz didn’t ask for or demand an apology. So what’s your point?
Right...
That’s really warped.
Lol. Cruz is guilty.
It’s been documented that his campaign manager has pulled this trick many times before. There was no misunderstanding here. The Cruz campaign deliberatly lied to voters during the caucus.
Cruz cannot be trusted.
For you Cruz was guilty before he “did it”.
Rush is wrong there. Cruz blamed "my team":
Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated the grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story. Thatâs fair game. What the team should have done is send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out. That was a mistake from our end, and for that I apologize to Dr. Carson.
CNN owes Cruz nothing.
The two CNN people who discussed the subject presented a factual report of what they heard from the Carson campaign, and then started talking about how strange Carson’s plans seemed, and what they thought those plans meant.
But they were judging a non-politician first-time campaigner by what they thought experienced professional politicians would do.
They never said Carson was dropping out, all they said was that it looked like he was on the verge.
If anything, CNN owes Carson an apology.
And Rush, of all people, is now playing the race card. LOL!
“He is the first Hispanic-American to win any presidential primary for any party.
It didn’t happen in the Democrat side.”
He’s pointing out the Left’s hypocrisy.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all of this, it’s that the left doesn’t have a monopoly on hypocrisy.
And low and behold...the Carson campaign IS unraveling. Didn’t I see that Carson’s NH team quit and went to support Cruz yesterday. What happened to Cruz and Rubio for that matter, is completely the Carson camps’ first and CNN second, fault. As I said all along, they heard the news and ran with it. Who cares...? Everybody whose guy, or gal, isn’t Cruz. Trump’s behavior is embarrassing lately. I’m liking him less and less knowing that he was a flaming liberal 1 year ago.
The only dishonesty I see is the faux outrage.
“The only dishonesty I see is the faux outrage.”
That statement demonstrates a contempt for ethical conduct, and such contempt for ethical conduct is inconsistent with the standards for being a political conservative.
Yes, I was surprised that Rush said this because he did say “his team.” He’s blamed underlings before. He’s a junior high debating team president, not a presidential candidate.
Where?
Apparently claiming a candidate has dropped out is a tactic Cruz’s mafia style campaign manager, Jeff Roe, has used before. Blaming CNN is ridiculous. So who is Cruz going to nuke based on comments from a couple of political pundits without verifying the facts first?
He did it to Scott Eckersley. Read up on Jeff Roe. Hard to believe someone who claims to be ‘the body of Christ’ would hire such a man.
Mr. Whiskey, I think you need to switch to another beverage.
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