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Cruz makes a funny

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 22:03
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Monday, January 27, 2014 2:16 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

The normally reserved elder statesman of broadcasting, Bob Schieffer, couldn’t contain his laughter Sunday morning on Face the Nation when Ted Cruz gave his preposterous response to a question about the previous government shutdown.

Schieffer tried to get Cruz to answer the question posed. Cruz, in true political double talk, slithered his way into blaming the president and opposing party.

Bob Schieffer – “You became a celebrity when you led the drive to shut down the government over Obamacare… Can you conceive of any situation in which you would do that again? Try to shut down the government in exchange or in demand for some action by the President?”

Ted Cruz - “… I opposed a government shutdown. I said we shouldn’t shut the government down. I think it was a mistake that President Obama and the Democrats shut the government down this fall. The reason they did so, is that President Obama dug in and said he wouldn’t compromise, he wouldn’t negotiate.”

And so, Schieffer tried again,

“Would you ever conceive of shutting down the government again?”

Cruz responded,

“Well, as I said, I didn’t threaten to shutdown the government the last time. I don’t think we should ever shut down the federal government, I repeatedly voted to fund the federal government.”

Schieffer asks while laughing, “Senator, if you didn’t threaten to shut down the federal government, who was it that did?”

Ted Cruz answered with a straight face, “Senator Harry Reid and President Obama.”

Maybe the best part of the entire interview was, as Cruz is still trying to bob and weave politically, Schieffer just cuts him off. He couldn’t stand to listen to the bullshit anymore either. Video:

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Monday, January 27, 2014 2:33 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Quote:
Sunday Show Round-Up: Ted Cruz Is Officially a Laughing Stock

I know it’s old hat at this point to complain that Senator Ted Cruz (R-But Enough About You) is—gasp—rude, but every once in a while he deploys his brashness in a way that makes it seem fresh, in both senses of the word. To wit, Cruz all but called venerated and veteran journalist Bob Schieffer stupid on his own show, patiently explaining that while Old Man Schieffer may be distracted by Democratic talking points on the government shutdown, it was he, Ted Cruz, who really—

Schieffer laughed Cruz away, twice. “Senator, I know what Republicans were telling me, like John Boehner (R-OH), who said this was the disaster and never again.” Cruz, ever the lawyer, tried to cross-examine him, and Schieffer, ever the pro, rolled on to the next question as if Cruz were an uppity teenager mouthing off at the dinner table.

Yes, Cruz’s whole schtick is the unmediated upstart who doesn’t care whom he offends, but the operative word there is offend; it doesn’t work when the guy who’s supposed to be shocked can’t keep a straight face while talking to you. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sunday-show-round-up-ted-cruz-is-officially
-a-laughing-stock/

It WAS rather amusing to watch...

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Monday, January 27, 2014 2:48 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Nominee for the Bandini Award ( after the fertilizer company ) for biggest sack of B S of the Week.

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Monday, January 27, 2014 4:35 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Cruz = sincere, honest, sober discussion on the issue.

And the Left mocks him as if they were back in Jr High.

Also, it's not PC to criticize Islamo Radical Nutjobs for who they ACTUALLY ARE.

But distort Ted Cruz's position as one of being a terrorist, in the image of those exact same Islamo Radical Nutjobs ?

" Chortle chortle chortle ! Bravo! Well done! "

Utterly upside down in how you see the world, Niki.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Monday, January 27, 2014 5:46 PM

MAL4PREZ

Soooo amusing... after the quoted parts of the interview Shieffer asks about the next debt ceiling deadline, and if Cruz will just raise it or demand something in return, and the moron goes off on how of course he can't just raise the ceiling etc etc...

So he said that yes, he will hold the economy hostage again. Oh, but when he did it last time it wasn't really him doing it. I doubt this man can even spell stupid.

This is where we need people like Jon Stewart who will be ready to play clips of Cruz before and during the shutdown, when he was crowing about how happy he was to be "making" a stand and shutting things down.

About the troll - damn! So desperate! I mean, does anyone not see how obvious the creature is? The more he's ignored, the stupider and more blatantly wrong his posts get. *please please argue with me!* What a sad little thing.

*-------------------------------------------------------------*
MAL4PREZ: Clearly [The Rap]'s doing nothing but trolling now.
STORYMARK: And not even cleverly.
RAPPY: [My trolling] did its job, did it not? Easiest marks in the 'verse.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=57146
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Monday, January 27, 2014 6:05 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:

So he said that yes, he will hold the economy hostage again. Oh, but when he did it last time it wasn't really him doing it. I doubt this man can even spell stupid.

That's not what he said ( had you bothered to even WATCH the video ), and no, he did NOT hold the economy hostage. Not even close. Closing what, * 17 % of the govt, which was Obama's choice, didn't impact the country anywhere near as bad as the doom/gloom sayers predicted.

BTW - Where'd Cruz graduate from college again ? Oh yeah...

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992. After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor

What a moron.

* http://washingtonexaminer.com/wheres-sense-of-crisis-in-a-17-governmen
t-shutdown/article/2536862

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Monday, January 27, 2014 6:51 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is a BLUE PILL ADDICT!

As evidence of "rape mentality"
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:11 PM
MAL4PREZ
And just remember, according to Rappy, the term befitting a women who wants the insurance she pays for to cover medications affecting her reproductive organs is whore

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:23 PM
little rappy
The term applies

And this is Geezer being non-partisan ... HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...

Dem Super Pac slams Obamacare because it really sucks and will cause herpes
Geezer
So some Democrats are running on pointing out that the Healthcare.gov rollout was an unmitigated disaster.

I feel so vindicated.

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Monday, January 27, 2014 7:00 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992. After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Monday, January 27, 2014 8:38 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Quote:
About the troll - damn! So desperate! I mean, does anyone not see how obvious the creature is? The more he's ignored, the stupider and more blatantly wrong his posts get. *please please argue with me!* What a sad little thing.

Yup Mal4, and look how desperate the poor little thing gets when he's ignored; he even REPEATS HIMSELF!

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Monday, January 27, 2014 11:06 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2: Yup Mal4, and look how desperate the poor little thing gets when he's ignored; he even REPEATS HIMSELF!

And you don't repeat yourself ?

WOW. Too gorram funny.

Oh, and that bad ass in your pic? You can tell he's tough sob. He's smoking a cigarette. Only tough dudes do that !

*edit* Or is that a bull dyke lesbian ? It's sorta hard to tell w/ that pic.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Monday, January 27, 2014 11:13 PM

JONGSSTRAW

Cruz is a Senator, and despite his filibuster before the vote the Senate passed their budget.

So how did Cruz shut down the Govt.?? Obama worshippers are such desperately pathetic liars.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:54 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Obama worshippers are such desperately pathetic liars.

Exactly what one would expect from the folks who follow the liar of the year.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:34 AM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
Quote:
About the troll - damn! So desperate! I mean, does anyone not see how obvious the creature is? The more he's ignored, the stupider and more blatantly wrong his posts get. *please please argue with me!* What a sad little thing.

Yup Mal4, and look how desperate the poor little thing gets when he's ignored; he even REPEATS HIMSELF!

You're giving it what it wants by even making these comments. Just ignore.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:35 AM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Soooo amusing... after the quoted parts of the interview Shieffer asks about the next debt ceiling deadline, and if Cruz will just raise it or demand something in return, and the moron goes off on how of course he can't just raise the ceiling etc etc...

So he said that yes, he will hold the economy hostage again. Oh, but when he did it last time it wasn't really him doing it. I doubt this man can even spell stupid.

He knows that his followers won't have the attention span to remember what he said 10 seconds ago.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:33 PM

FREMDFIRMA

If yer planning to ignore someone, do it, don't then go on and on and on about how yer ignoring them, yeesh...

That said, what happened to Cruz is *exactly* what needs be done, stop taking them seriously, laugh in their face, scorn them and outcast them, treat them like the pariahs they deserve to be, and whenever they open their stupid pieholes to spout more hatred, malice and intolerance, ridicule and shame them.

-F

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:36 PM

MAL4PREZ

Quote:
Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

If yer planning to ignore someone, do it, don't then go on and on and on about how yer ignoring them, yeesh...

Which has been my plan for years. And I did it. The site did not change.

Just a while ago I looked at threads from five and more years back and found pages and pages of the same exact tit for tat that continues today. Hello Signym! "Show me facts or I'll know you're full of it and I won't listen to you anymore..." Said it 5+ years ago and is still saying it now. Really, I begin to wonder is there's a symbiosis there, with Sig's need to be "right" feeding and being fed by the troll's need to be a dick.

In any case, I have taken it as my duty to occasionally post a reminder of how stupid it all is. I will continue to do so.

Quote:
That said, what happened to Cruz is *exactly* what needs be done, stop taking them seriously, laugh in their face, scorn them and outcast them, treat them like the pariahs they deserve to be, and whenever they open their stupid pieholes to spout more hatred, malice and intolerance, ridicule and shame them.

Hear hear! Is that not exactly what I'm doing with our troll?

*-------------------------------------------------------------*
MAL4PREZ: Clearly [The Rap]'s doing nothing but trolling now.
STORYMARK: And not even cleverly.
RAPPY: [My trolling] did its job, did it not? Easiest marks in the 'verse.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=57146
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:18 PM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Quote:
Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

If yer planning to ignore someone, do it, don't then go on and on and on about how yer ignoring them, yeesh...

Which has been my plan for years. And I did it. The site did not change.

He may not change, but the conversation can - if we decide to do it.

Right now all we've done is segue from every thread becoming about him - to every thread becoming a series of pics and comments about how we're not gong to let it be about him.

Just actually ignore the little shit. He can keep spewing - but we don't have to let him dominate EVERY GODDAMNED conversation.

Maybe we need some sort of designation. The first person to acknowledge any of that shit is the "sucker of the day" or something.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:52 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Even though no further proof is needed to show the bias of the MSM, Shieffer and ABC omitted a part of the Cruz interview, where Ted Cruz brought up a very legitimate issue. The incarciration of not 1 but 2 people who have made videos which run counter to the wishes of THIS tyrannical President.

The broadcast omitted the Texas senator’s comments about what he called abuse of power including last week’s federal criminal indictment of conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza.

As Newsbusters.com observed, “Apart from being the victim of Schieffer’s accusations that the Tea Party senator was to blame for the shutdown, it also appears that Mr. Cruz was the victim of editing by CBS.”

Viewers did get to see Cruz call on President Obama to apologize during tomorrow night’s State of the Union speech for all the canceled health insurance plans under Obamacare and to do something to fix the problem.

If you watched the interview as aired, however, there was an obvious abrupt jump cut at the end. A video released by Sen. Cruz contains the comments that CBS left on the cutting room floor.

As noted above, a significant part of the program consisted of Cruz and host Bob Schieffer sparring over who was responsible for the government shutdown. When Schieffer asked Cruz for a yes or no about whether he will run for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination (which he didn’t want to answer as no politician does prematurely), there was an interesting omission from the broadcast.

Here’s what viewers at home didn’t get to see of Cruz’s response that seemed to make Schieffer very uncomfortable:

http://www.inquisitr.com/1111057/did-cbs-news-censor-the-ted-cruz-dine
sh-dsouza-comments/#QRWctLLpoiuWdDVu.99

Oh sure. Speaking out against a thuggish, tyrannical administration is soooo HI-larious.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:00 PM

STORYMARK

I posted this elsewhere, but since the argument mocked here was literally just made (they committed the crime, cuz Obama!), it seemed appropos to add here.

Quote:
"You’re saying Obama is targeting D’Souza by enforcing a law that D’Souza broke on his own. Makes perfect sense!"

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/27/obama-driving-right-literally-
figuratively-insane

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:08 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Never heard of trumped up charged before, huh?

Of course not. But when Leftist wire tap or eaves drop electronically, which is illegal, btw, ' HEY, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM ? '

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:23 PM

MAL4PREZ

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
He may not change, but the conversation can - if we decide to do it.

I'm game. Frankly, I'm doubt others will carry through, but I have no problem with 100% ignore.

Now, I did pick this thread because "Cruz is a moron" is not a topic that requires much expanding on, in my mind. I really have nothing else on topic to add.

Quote:
The first person to acknowledge any of that shit is the "sucker of the day" or something.

OK.

*-------------------------------------------------*
I am not the sucker of the day.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:33 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

You hens have been clucking that 'ignore' tune for years now.

I'd love for you to see it through, for once.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:03 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Quote:
Maybe we need some sort of designation. The first person to acknowledge any of that shit is the "sucker of the day" or something.

I'm up for it. This is past tiresome; probably won't change anything, but couldn't hurt.

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