Rightwing Conspiracy Theory - CBS Censored Ted Cruz

The Right Wing smells a new conspiracy - CBS edited Ted Cruz on Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer last Sunday. Apparently they didn't notice how Cruz was rambling on about Obamacare and denying that he was to blame for the government shutdown. Schieffer asked him at least three times to clarify his statements before he cut to another guest. But no one on the far right will ever let go of a good conspiracy theory! Maybe Cruz can come back to Face the Nation and ramble crazy again, perhaps during the GOP Primary - please proceed, Senator.

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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.
~ Newsbusters

UGH: CBS Face the Nation cuts out RED MEAT portion of Ted Cruz interview, exposing OBAMA’S ABUSE OF POWER
This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, hosted by Bob Schieffer, almost a full minute from Ted Cruz’s interview, where he went after the president for his abuses of power, were completely cut from the interview. It looked rather abrupt when it happened and was fairly clear they edited the interview, but host Bob Schieffer never mentioned it nor apologized for it to the viewers which is pretty irresponsible to those watching it live or DVR’ing it.
~ The Right Scoop

CBS News Denies they Edited Cruz Unfairly: 

This was not uncommon at all, this was a quick turnaround pre-tape. That just happened to be at the end so it was easy to trim for turnaround. And we had breaking news of the [Maryland mall] shooter's name ... We had already gone overtime, that is pretty much the gist of it.
~ CBS Spokesperson via Media Matters

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They cut it out bc they couldn't stand to hear anything negative about their Messiah
~ Phillycon on Right Scoop

Shades of fat Katie Couric leaving the best parts of the Palin interview on the cutting room floor!
~ Guest on Right Scoop

Wow, what a class a A-hole. What a bunch of A-holes. CBS (Certified Bull Shite company) The whole bunch of them CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC and all of the rag newspapers ought to be forced to look every American in the eyes and confess their shameless lying to America. After wards they should be publically caned.
~ armyvet10 on Right Scoop


Apparently its tough for an old turd like Schieffer to contain their contempt.
Good - let the nation see the bias in all of its partisan ugliness.
~ Skeeter on Free Republic

Of course: “Face the Nation” edited out the most important part of Ted Cruz calling out Obama http://t.co/5w7yN0j1Lv #LamestreamMedia
— Young Conservatives (@YoungCons) January 27, 2014

Shame On You @CBSNews for editing out Ted Cruz's scathing indictment of Obama's abuse of power on Face The Nation..More like Dupe The Nation
— #BENGHAZI Watch Dog (@DanMartin_cards) January 28, 2014

HATE #Schieffer! #TCOT #CCOT #CWOT Unaired Segment CBS Slashed: Ted Cruz' Warning to the American People About Obama http://t.co/QL859FUu06
— Barbara (@Equilady) January 28, 2014

Face The Nation is such a junk show. Droopy won't led Ted Cruz talk issues, but Chuck U. Schumer can ramble about absolutely nothing.
— Country Strong (@CountryLife87) January 26, 2014

Romnesiac Ted Cruz Blames Shutdown on President and Harry Reid

Senator Ted Cruz R-Texas is using the old Romney Etch-A-Sketch Trick and a severe case of Romnesia to say that he had nothing to do with the Government Shutdown last year.

Bob Schieffer of CBS called him out several times on Face the Nation this past Sunday, laughing at him in disbelief, but Cruz is sticking to his wacko bird story. The Senator has apparently forgotten all his own threats to shut down the government if Obama didn't "repeal Obamacare" as well as his "Green Eggs and Ham" filibuster to stop the vote on the budget agreement. It's the epitomy of childish behavior to not own what really happened, but believe that in this age of YouTube and Google anyone can rewrite history so soon after it happened. Just look at how many posts we wrote last fall here on Snark Amendment about Cruz's Filibuster of the Budget and the subsequent Shutdown, and this is an incomplete list but ridiculously long. On just one blog, so multiply this list by hundreds of thousands out on the interwebs.

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From Transcript of Face the Nation

SCHIEFFER: . . . Let me ask you this, you became a celebrity when you led the drive to shut down the government over Obamacare. But afterward your fellow Republicans said you led them over a cliff. 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?

CRUZ: Well, Bob, with all due respect I don't agree with the premise of your question. Throughout the government shut down 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.
In fact, I went to one of the most surreal meetings I've ever been at where President Obama invited all the senate Republicans to go up to the White House. He sat us in a room -- this is in the middle of the shut down -- and he said I invited you here to tell you I will not negotiate, I will not compromise on anything. That's why we had a shut down.
That was a mistake.

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SCHIEFFER: All right, let me go back to one thing. And the question I asked you was, would you ever conceive of threatening to shut down the government again?

CRUZ: Well, as I said I didn't threaten to shut down the government the last time. I don't think we should ever shut down the government. I repeatedly voted to fund the federal government.

SCHIEFFER: Senator, if you didn't threaten the shut down the government who was it that did? But we'll go on to something...

CRUZ: It was Harry Reid and President Obama.

Bob, look, I understand that the White House said over and over again the shut down is the Republicans fault. And I understand, that's what you're repeating. But the reality is, I voted over and over again to fund the federal government and the reason we had a shut down -- look, the Democrats were very candid. I know they told you, they said, we think the shut down benefits us politically. Right now the Democrats are telling you that they want another shut down, because they think it benefits them politically.

Why is it hard to understand that they forced the shut down when they think it benefits them politically.

SCHIEFFER: Senator, I know what Republicans were telling me like John Boehner who said this was the disaster and never again.

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Ted Cruz Is Officially a Laughing Stock
~ Headline on Mediaite

Well, a lot of it sort of Alice in Wonderland.
~ Senator Chuck Schumer on Face the Nation

Cruz is recasting his ineptitude as innocence. He’s asking you to believe that because the shutdown hurt Republicans politically, he never wanted it. He wants you to follow his logic instead of researching what he actually did. Logic is useful, but it’s not enough. Always check the record.
~ William Saletan on Salon

. . . the meeting Cruz refers to happened after the government shutdown had taken effect. Obama didn’t call up the Senate in advance to tell them he wouldn’t deal. He told them he wouldn’t deal on Obamacare. Funding of the federal government legislation could be passed without involving healthcare.
This meeting happened after Cruz and his cronies had already made their move to halt the government. Not before. Had Cruz and his Tea Party comrades negotiated the budget deal in good faith there would never been a necessity for Obama to call a meeting and clarify his position on his signature legislation. But after they committed to their strategy Obama let them know discreetly that their posturing would not bring him to the negotiating table
~ Greg Miller on Addicting Info

None of this makes a lick of sense, but by all appearances, being sensible isn’t the goal. For Cruz, coherence is irrelevant; what matters is to capture the Republican id – these are talking points intended to convey primal impulses, free of niceties such as reason.
At a certain level, Cruz is arguably insulting conservatives by preying on their worst instincts, presenting them with nonsense he probably knows to be false, but so long as he’s rewarded for it, Cruz will almost certainly keep these tactics going indefinitely.
~ Steve Benen on Maddow Blog

.@TPM who knew @tedcruz is a comedian! That's a good one, Senator Cruz!

— Malarkey (@cbrodrick) January 27, 2014

Ted Cruz's Delusion Continues, Accuses Bob Schieffer of Repeating Liberal Talking Points for Simply Stating Facts http://t.co/kEB44Ta6Mw

— Annie (@txstarkeeper) January 27, 2014

I just watched that Ted Cruz clip from Face the Nation. Seriously, he should star in a remake of "Liar Liar"

— ProfB (@AntheaButler) January 26, 2014

Surprise, surprise: Ted Cruz bombs on Face the Nation, then blames Bob Schieffer http://t.co/NoH3NZmaav #TeaParty #tcot

— Twilight Zone (@DaTwilightZone) January 26, 2014

Ted Cruz Hunts the Presidency in Iowa

Ted Cruz, Iowa frontrunner? http://t.co/nwljLXIar1

— PostTV (@PostTV) October 29, 2013

On the hunt itself, at which several reporters trailed Cruz with cameras, he seemed only to chat with his fellow hunters briefly and in hushed tones, at one point discussing a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as "a principled conservative." Cruz and King discussed loyalty in electoral politics as they pushed through the underbrush, both agreeing that "you never forget who was in the first foxhole with you."
. . . Cruz used his own shotgun -- flown up from Texas as checked baggage on his United flight. He hit two pheasants himself and cheered others along the way.
"Someone make a pillow!" Cruz said when one bird fell from the sky in a hail of feathers. "Or just turn it straight into McNuggets."
~ NBC News

Chris Matthews on Hardball, Oct. 28, 2013

The Wacko-Birds go pheasant hunting. Let's play Hardball.
Halloween is about pretend goblins - we can laugh at what we're afraid of. Death, zombies, ghosts, monsters. Tea Partiers. But Ted Cruz is for real and he's not just a nightmare and he was out there this weekend in the broad scary daylight of Iowa. . . . Senator Cruz is the right wing zealot of the season. His shutdown killed public confidence in government, and his attacks relentless and righteous have stirred resistance to the President's health care program. His tactics of shutdowns and threats to default have hurt economic growth even as he campaigns on a promise of, guess what? Economic growth. He reminds me of the kid who kills his parents then begs the judge's mercy on the ground that he's an orphan. A perfect candidate for Halloween Week.

From Buzzfeed

Friday night at the Iowa Events Center, conservative Christian activist Steve Scheffler came to the podium to give thanks to God for the Tea Party savior — and plead for more principled conservative leaders like him willing to “be crucified for their belief system.”
The ballroom full of amens that followed went a long way toward explaining why Cruz — fresh off a failed crusade to dismantle Obamacare that resulted in a 16-day government shutdown and a political disaster for his party — has been greeted with such adoration by Tea Party crowds in recent days.
. . . “Every time one of these guys attacks him, it’s good for him,” said one Iowa Republican operative. “He’s like a superhero. The more bullets that get shot at him, the bigger and stronger he gets.”

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Terry Branstad to Ted Cruz: "Welcome to Iowa. Come here often. Spend a lot of money." http://t.co/iCEvlLb2HW

— Gabriel Debenedetti (@GDebenedetti) October 21, 2013

Sen. Cruz now collecting Iowa cell phone numbers, by asking audience to text "GROWTH" to the number he provides. #2016

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) October 26, 2013

Ted Cruz speaking in Iowa on his filibuster:"21 hours is a long time, that's almost as long as it takes to sign up on the ObamaCare website"

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) October 26, 2013

With Ted Cruz. RT @SteveKingIA: Good hunting on opening day. pic.twitter.com/yjZc8pz0B5
— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 26, 2013

Ted Cruz thinks he is hunting peasants today. Imagine his surprise when he learns it is pheasants. :) #p2
— Stephany (@steffy7680) October 26, 2013

I saw Ted Cruz on TV pheasant hunting. Where is Dick Cheney when you really need him?
— Barbara J. Eastman (@eastman1292) October 28, 2013

Cubanadian Rafael Cruz is going hunting with Steve (cantaloupe calves) King. They should take Dick Cheney, he could shoot 2 birds at once!
— DamnedObama (@auldphartt) October 25, 2013