{"id":31526,"date":"2016-05-04T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31526"},"modified":"2016-05-04T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:00:39","slug":"loser-ted-cruz-finally-tells-the-truth-about-donald-trump-and-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31526","title":{"rendered":"Loser Ted Cruz Finally Tells The Truth About Donald Trump And Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the endlessly peculiar aspects of the timeline of political campaigns is the tendency for losing candidates to suddenly find the nerve to say what they actually believe after they have been rejected by voters. For some reason they never learn that it might be advantageous for them to be honest from start.<\/p>\n

An excellent example of this took place yesterday as Ted Cruz came to the realization that he was not going to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. In an extended and rambling press conference, Cruz said at least two things that may be remembered as the most (or only) truths he uttered in ten months on the campaign trail. The first addressed a criticism of the media<\/a> that has long been recognized by almost everyone but Ted Cruz until yesterday:<\/p>\n

“Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes of Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump network<\/a> 24\/7.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Donald
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed. Fox News has given Trump far more airtime than they have given any other candidate of either party. They broadcast his stump speeches live and in their entirety. They allow him to phone in interviews, an advantage that they don’t offer to his opponents. Their featured anchors and pundits openly endorse his candidacy. And all of that has been happening in an environment wherein Trump has been blasting Fox News<\/a>, bitterly insulting many of its stars, and even promoting a boycott of the network. Not long ago Trump tweeted that…<\/p>\n

“FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won\u2019t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like most of the BS spewed by Trump, he didn’t carry through on that threat and continues to dominate airtime on the network. So we are in a bizarre situation where it is now Republicans who are complaining most about how biased Fox News is. Who would have thought it?<\/p>\n

The other Cruz attempt at truth-telling concerned his personal opinion of Donald Trump. Certainly there have been expressions of this in vague terms as the campaign has unfolded, but his latest comments were unambiguous in their detestation of Trump, who has battered Cruz as an utterly amoral, phony evangelical, philandering Canadian, whose father worked with Lee Harvey Oswald. Yesterday Cruz said of Trump…<\/p>\n

“I’m going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Welcome to reality, Ted. What took you so long? Many people have been saying this about Trump for months, including some steadfastly conservative Republicans. But the feeling is mutual on Trump’s part. Trump famously labeled Cruz “Lyin’ Ted”<\/em> and explicitly called him out as “the single biggest liar I\u2019ve ever seen.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Now that Cruz has suspended his campaign, making Trump the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, many of the questions in the press are about how the party will unify its warring factions in order to compete against the Democratic nominee. Those are good questions considering the stark animosity that has been layered on so thick. Some of the most loyal GOP voices are loudly declaring<\/a> that they will have nothing to do with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump himself, however, is trying to put on a untied front despite having previously said that he doesn’t want Ted Cruz’s endorsement. In his victory speech last night Trump said that Cruz “is one hell of a competitor. He is a tough, smart guy. And he has got an amazing future.”<\/em> That’s an awfully generous sentiment for someone he thinks is “the single biggest liar”<\/em> he’s ever seen.<\/p>\n

\n

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Will the glassy-eyed disciples of the Trump Cult swallow this sort sort of flagrant hypocrisy? You better believe they will. They can only see as far as their lust for xenophobic discrimination, racial and religious bigotry, misogyny, and the painfully ignorant blathering about economics, health care, and national security that are the hallmarks of Trump’s blisteringly stupid campaign. And this is just the beginning, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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