New York Heroes Debunk Ted Cruz

nydailynews.com ^ | January 17

[Helicondelta]

The toxic barbs Ted Cruz tossed at New York City just don't hold up.

In a city teeming with 8.5 million people there are everyday heroes who walk among us and know the true meaning of "New York values."

The Texas senator's decision to denigrate the big city has rubbed some the wrong way and led to a Big Apple-sized backlash against the Canadian-born presidential contender.

These everyday New Yorkers, who embody the true spirit of the city, weigh in.

Richard Singleton was working in the token booth of the 6 train subway station at 28th St. and Park Ave. South last March when two men began arguing on the platform. The fight escalated and one of the men whipped out a knife.

Singleton jumped into action and tackled the knife-wielding 27-year-old before he could slash the other man.

[ETL]

Trump is a real slime ball for suggesting that Cruz was referring to the heroes of 911, most of whom are conservative! (firemen, policemen and construction workers). If Cruz did make an error it was in underestimating the sleaziness of his opposition. In other words, he should have spelled it out more clearly so to avoid any BS like this.

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TRUMP: And just so - if I could, because he insulted a lot of people. I've had more calls on that statement that Ted made - New York is a great place. It's got great people, it's got loving people, wonderful people.

When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York. You had two one hundred...

(APPLAUSE)

... you had two 110-story buildings come crashing down. I saw them come down. Thousands of people killed, and the cleanup started the next day, and it was the most horrific cleanup, probably in the history of doing this, and in construction. I was down there, and I've never seen anything like it.

And the people in New York fought and fought and fought, and we saw more death, and even the smell of death - nobody understood it. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air.

And we rebuilt downtown Manhattan, and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers. And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sixth-republican-top-tier-debate-2016/
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Also from the debate...

CRUZ: there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of New York. But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro- gay-marriage, focus around money and the media.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-sixth-republican-top-tier-debate-2016/

[Lee'sGhost]

Oh the sweet irony. Funny how the writer was so clueless.

Sure there are good people in NY. Cruz was speaking to what the majority is about, arrogant for no reason, rude, and “what’s in it for me?”

Trump throws out 9-11, and while that is something for NYers to be proud of, resilience is not a value, it’s a trait.

[odawg]

“First, the difference between Cruz and Trump is that Cruz actually REPAYS his bank loans, and Trump doesn’t.”

Do you really think Trump could have gotten where he is, and stayed where he is, if his reputation among the moneyed class and investors was as you portray it? The answer is a loud “no”. They would not be caught in the same room with him.

All the frenzied activity on the floor of the New York Stock Market is on the honor system. You can retract once, and get away with it, but you will never be allowed on the floor again.

[Labyrinthos]

Even with the so-called crime wave, NYC remains one of the safest big cities in the world.

[ETL]

Meanwhile, that arrogant phony had this to say about our enemies...

"The US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has praised North Korea's despotic leader Kim Jong-un, saying the way he executes his political opponents shows "he's the boss".

-snip-

After coming to power when he was 28, Kim cemented his rule through a series of purges, including the execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek.

"You've got to give him credit," Trump said. "How many young guys - he was like 26 or 25 when his father died - take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden - you know, it's pretty amazing when you think of it."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Donald-Trump-praises-Kim-Jong-un-for-how-he-wipes-out-political-opponents/articleshow/50520135.cms

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TRUMP: Vladimir Putin's praise is 'a great honor'

Business Insider ^ | December 17, 2015 | By Maxwell Tani

Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.

"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.

He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...

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"I think that I would probably get along with him [Putin] very well."
--Donald Trump, CBS' Face The Nation, Oct 2015

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Trump: "I think its fine. I think its fine, but we should have made a better deal"...
"The concept of opening with Cuba is fine."

A Better Deal with Cuba, says Donald Trump
Humberto Fontova | Jan 16, 2016:

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2016/01/16/a-better-deal-with-cuba-says-donald-trump-n2105426?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad

[VanDeKoik]

“Trump is a real slime ball for suggesting that Cruz was referring to the heroes of 911”

Then maybe he should have been specific when he said what he said.

You are PO’d that Trump took an opening left there by Cruz, instead of letting it go just to spare Cruz the consequences of his own screw-up?

And you want him to be the nominee in the Fall? You think the Democrats are going to care how much people here whine over how “unfair” it supposedly is?

[odawg]

“The US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has praised North Korea’s despotic leader Kim Jong-un...”

In case you can’t figure it out, that is a headline written by someone who doesn’t like Trump. The context was Trump comparing him to someone like John Kerry.

[dp0622]

yep.

people speak like their state or town doesn’t have its BAD area.

i’m pretty sure every town has one

[windsorknot]

so just specifically what is a "psalm singing bastard?"

I'd take it as a compliment. I love the Psalms....and Proverbs, too.

[MarDav]

Here’s the thing, whether it’s NYC, Chicago, LA, Boston, Philadelphia...what all these cities have in common is a population that invariably turns toward liberal representation at the local level. That’s just the way it is. All sorts of conditions contribute to this, but this is the undeniable reality in cities all across America. Now, that liberal representation has often pitted rich against poor, played the race card, created and maintained a nanny state that is self-perpetuating, dismissed individual responsibility, catered to the liberal path when it comes to social issues (abortion, homosexuals, education, etc.). This bent, as we ALL know here at FR are the values that Ted Cruz was speaking about. Anyone here who did not know this is either being willfully ignorant or disingenuous. Period. This is FreeRepublic, for crying out loud. Except for trolls, this is the place where you come to speak out against all these things. We deem them to be at the very core of so many of our nation’s problems. Yet many here, because they feel that it somehow taints their candidate of choice (Trump), willfully choose to turn Cruz’s statement into something it was so CLEARLY NOT. They call Cruz liberal, for goodness sake! And then, the Cruzers respond in kind.

So, once more we have republicans eating their own, lowering the level of discourse, providing the opposition with enough ammo to get them through the election cycle, wounded Hillary, notwithstanding.

[odawg]

“But, they are not values - they are character and integrity.”

You mean, you want to start separating values from character and integrity? Good luck with that.

[ETL]

Trump reminds me of some other billionaire moron/lunatic we all know...

Ted Turner Talks Politics, Fidel Castro and Jane Fonda With O'Reilly

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

[excerpt]

O'REILLY: Fidel Castro, do you admire the man?

TURNER: Yes.

O'REILLY: Now he has murdered people. He's imprisoned people. There are political prisoners now. He won't let his people use the Internet. Nobody can use that. And you admire the guy?

TURNER: Well, I admire certain things about him. He's trained a lot of doctors, and they've got one of the best educational systems in the developing world. And you know, he's still popular with a lot of people down there. He's unpopular...

O'REILLY: But he's a killer. He's a killer. He's a guy who...

TURNER: But that has never, to my knowledge, that's never been proven. I mean...

O'REILLY: He's executed political prisoners. I mean, he enslaves people who don't see it the way he sees it. Come on. He's a dictatorship. If you admire him, then why wouldn't you admire Mussolini? I mean, what's the difference? Mussolini put people back to work. There was order. The educational system was fine. See, I'm not getting this. This is what I don't understand about it.

TURNER: Well, OK, well, if you don't see the difference between Castro and Mussolini, you know, then you know, I likened some aspects of FOX News to the Nazis, so, I mean, you know, it works both ways.

O'REILLY: But you just admitted to me that that wasn't a very good thing to do and wasn't accurate.

TURNER: Hey, listen, I didn't say I wanted to live in Cuba. And I didn't say that I was buddy buddies with Fidel Castro. I just said that I respected certain things that he's done.

O'REILLY: All right, well...

TURNER: What's wrong with that?

O'REILLY: Well, you said respect the man. And I just don't - I can't possibly see how you could do that, but...

TURNER: Of course not.

O'REILLY: Now I asked this question through one of my producers to Ms. Fonda. And I'm going to ask it to you because by reading your book, it struck me that the Vietnam experience changed you. I'm saying to myself, you know, Turner comes into the Vietnam era, conservative guy, pretty much traditional guy, it changes him.

TURNER: Yes.

O'REILLY: It changes him. And now he's a very liberal guy. So I asked Ms. Fonda, didn't it ever bother you that after all your activism and getting America out of Vietnam, which it subsequently did in the mid '70s, that 3 million human beings were slaughtered by the people that you were lionizing, the North Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge Communists who wouldn't have been slaughtered if we stayed. And their skulls were stacked on top of each other. And I never heard from you, Jane Fonda. And I never heard a word from Ted Turner about that. And that, to me, is a good question.

TURNER: You've got me. I didn't really think about it. You know, it didn't make the news very much.

O'REILLY: No, it didn't. And you had a vehicle that you could have had - the revisionist history is what I'm worried about here. I think America's a noble nation. I think we've made mistakes. I think we tried to have freedom in Vietnam for the South Vietnamese. Unfortunately, the government was corrupt. I don't think that was a venal, terrible thing to do. I think we were trying to protect people there.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,465124,00.html

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: TED TURNER

• Successful businessman and founder of CNN
• Major funder of leftist causes and politicians
• Calls himself a "socialist at heart"
• Admirer of Fidel Castro

  More:
  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2004

[libbylu]

911 was American values.
NY values are what they are. Trump clearly laid them out in that interview and that is what he lives by.
If they want to make a big deal out of a perceived insult which was in no way what it referred to may they enjoy their pain.

[VanDeKoik]

Um, ok...

[dp0622]

It was a DUMB statement, it pitted state against state.

and it might not be the best home, but it’s MY G_dam home!! and i like it!!

and those who dont can go straight to ####.

[ETL]

"The US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has praised North Korea's despotic leader Kim Jong-un, saying the way he executes his political opponents shows "he's the boss". "

In case you can't figure it out, that is a headline written by someone who doesn't like Trump.

"You've got to give him credit," Trump said. "How many young guys - he was like 26 or 25 when his father died - take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden - you know, it's pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that? Even though it is a culture, and it's a cultural thing, he goes in, he takes over, he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one."

[MarDav]

You can like your state, but you can also dislike the current political state of your state. Now, if you like the current political state of your state (liberal governor/liberal mayor/votes liberal in general elections faithfully all the time, etc.), then, maybe you aren’t as conservative as others around here.

I’m guessing, though, that you don’t like the current [political] state of your state very much.

[dforest]

Many do not know that the commie mayor basically won because the GOP had such an awful candidate that nobody wanted to vote for him.

De Blasio was not elected because everyone shares his values. He won with a low vote turnout.

There is crime and corruption all over this country. It isn’t JUST New York that has problems.

Values aren’t regional.

[ETL]

In case you can't figure it out, that is a headline written by someone who doesn't like Trump.

How about this one, Mr. "In case you can't figure it out"...

"TRUMP: Vladimir Putin's praise is 'a great honor'...
It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement

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How Russia arms America's southern neighbors

Ioan Grillo
May 9, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.

Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.

Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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Russia Boosts Arms, Training for Leftist Latin Militaries

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/

[ETL]

From a respected conservative source,
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy In Media (AIM)...

" Trump's relationship with Russia goes far back. In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of "luxury hotels" in Moscow and Leningrad .

A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.

The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union.

Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners. ..."

"...we are left thinking [whether] Trump understands the aggressive intentions of Vladimir Putin.

"...when Trump was asked about the nuclear balance with Russia during the most recent Republican presidential debate, he displayed ignorance of the decaying nature of the U.S. nuclear triad, which constitutes our ability to deter and survive a Russian nuclear first strike.

"Putin has just presided over a ceremony honoring the KGB's successor agencies, and the Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel has announced the grand opening of a "cultural center" dedicated to mass murderer Joseph Stalin.

It looks like Putin has outmaneuvered Obama and Trump. It is an opening for Trump's opponents, especially Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL). But do they have the courage to "follow the money" and hold Trump accountable for doing business with a criminal regime that threatens the survival of the United States? At the end of this money trail, they may find an explanation of why Trump is so reluctant to hold Putin responsible for his crimes.

Follow Trump's Money to Moscow
Renew America ^ | December 25, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/151225