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New Yorker Mag Publishes Ethnic Othering Of Cruz, Rubio
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February 22nd, 2016 5:07 PM
The New Yorker publishes the latest in a series of articles intended to ethnically disqualify Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
The NY Times Takes a ‘Hard-Line’ on the GOP -- But No Labels for Dems?
February 22nd, 2016 3:15 PM
The New York Times continues to list portside in its labeling, going particularly overboard in the last several months in using “hard-line” and “hard-right” to describe conservative presidential candidates, their policy positions, and the voters those candidates are appealing to. Yet no similarly unflattering term emerged in stories about liberal presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and…
Notable Quotables: Liberal Loathing for 'Troll-Like' Ted Cruz
February 22nd, 2016 9:17 AM
This week, liberal journalists announce their disdain for the "troll-like" conservative presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who "operates below the level of human life," while USA Today says socialist Bernie Sanders is the "most Christian candidate" in the race. Also: reporters condemn the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's conservative philosophy, while playing the race card when it comes…
Conservatives Must Not Squander This Opportunity
February 22nd, 2016 2:02 AM
As a supporter of Ted Cruz I have had many supporters of other candidates tell me that he would not be electable in the general election. I disagree.
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Zakaria Hails 'Responsible' Dems Versus Implausible, 'Outlandish' GOP
February 21st, 2016 3:53 PM
CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria lived up to his reputation as someone who’s always willing to trash conservatives and praise liberals at the top of his Sunday morning CNN program by blasting the GOP’s “unwillingness to produce serious proposals” verus the “responsible” Democrats who “buttress their policy with real research.”
Alan Colmes Fabricates Cruz's Absence From Scalia's Funeral
February 20th, 2016 9:41 PM
Liberal Alan Colmes, apparently miffed at people who have criticized President Barack Obama for not attending the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, asserted earlier today that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz would not be there.
Colmes got it wrong. Cruz was there, and it was known for quite some time that he would be there. Colmes, since the words "I'm sorry" are apparently…
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CNN Touts Evangelicals Who Find Cruz 'Against the Teachings of Jesus'
February 20th, 2016 5:11 PM
On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, correspondent Randi Kaye filed a report recounting her discussions with mostly young evangelical Christians in South Carolina as she asserted that the group she spoke with think GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz is "against the teachings of Jesus" on the issues of "poverty, war, and how to treat strangers." Implying that Cruz is not "compassionate," she…
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Halperin Scoffs at Scarborough Notion It's 2nd-or-Die for Rubio in SC
February 19th, 2016 8:22 AM
Talk about setting someone up to fail . . . Heading into a contest, politicians traditionally like to lower expectations. But Joe Scarborough has raised expectations for Marco Rubio almost to the roof. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough repeatedly cited talk that if Marco Rubio doesn't finish second in the South Carolina primary, "he has to get out of the race."
Chuckling through Joe's…
Professor: Republicans Rejoice in Their ‘Culture of Stupidity’
February 18th, 2016 9:55 PM
A famous T-shirt of the early 1990s featured Bart Simpson’s message that he was an underachiever “and proud of it, man!” Such shirts would be fitting garb for the many Republicans who squander their intellects for ideological reasons, implied NYU public-policy professor Mark Kleiman in a Wednesday Washington Monthly blog post.
“I doubt that Republican office-holders or voters have, on average,…
Media Wages Ethnic Disqualification War Against Cruz in Two Languages
Latino
February 18th, 2016 5:33 PM
The media is attempting to ethnically vitiate Sen. Ted Cruz across multiple platforms and in different languages.
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Leno Mocks Clintons, Trump’s Dislike of Megyn Kelly in Guest Monologue
February 18th, 2016 3:39 AM
Former longtime Tonight Show host Jay Leno returned to the deliver part of the monologue on Wednesday’s show for current host Jimmy Fallon (as the show was held in Los Angeles for the week) and Leno used the opportunity to pan Republicans but also the Clintons for their countless scandals, Bernie Sanders over his age, and Donald Trump for his disdain of Megyn Kelly.
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Pelley Jokes Cruz & Trump ‘Might Like to Try’ Waterboarding Each Other
February 17th, 2016 10:43 PM
At the onset of the 2016 coverage on Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley mentioned how Donald Trump discussed torturing terrorists at one appearance and then joked that perhaps Trump and GOP rival Ted Cruz “might like to try” waterboarding each other due to the heightened tensions between them. Before tossing to correspondent Major Garrett in South Carolina, Pelley first noted that…
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CBS, NBC Barely Acknowledge Gov. Haley’s Endorsement of Rubio
February 17th, 2016 9:01 PM
Moments after South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley endorsed Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and NBC Nightly News saw almost zero interest in this massive endorsement to the tune of only a combined 32 seconds. In contrast, ABC’s World News Tonight reserved two minutes for the big breaking story…
AP Strikes Again with Photo Bias: 'Rusted' Ted Cruz
February 16th, 2016 3:59 PM
So it's not as blatant or graphic as a gun pointed to his head, but a recent Associated Press campaign photo of presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz shows the Texas Republican appearing with the word "Rusted" in the background during a campaign stop. The sign reads "Trusted" in contrasting colors of blue (Trus) and red (Ted), but Cruz himself is standing in such a way as to obstruct the letter "T."