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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sun Mar 27, 2016, 05:28 PM Mar 2016

CBS Host Smacks Down Ted Cruz–‘You Don’t Even Know How Many Muslims Are In America’

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/03/23/watch-cbs-host-smacks-ted-cruz-dont-even-know-many-muslims-america/

Yesterday, shortly after the terrorist bombings in Brussels, our favorite serial-killer smile wearing weirdo Ted Cruz found the nearest microphone and declared:
“We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”

When he was later asked if he wanted to clarify his statement–which would be blatantly illegal–Cruz decided to double down on his extremely objectionable remarks, because that’s what Islamophobic asshats who are trying to outdo the equally xenophobic Donald Trump do when they want to pander for the votes of frightened Americans.

But today on CBS “This Morning,” karma paid a call on Senator Cruz, in the form of Norah O’Donnell, who asked Cruz how in the hell his plan would work logistically. How, she wondered, do you patrol 3 million American Muslims, who are not, as Cruz suggested, “ghetto-ized” in festering radical communities as they are in Europe. Cruz, as you might expect, had no reply that made sense, and this led O’Donnell to comment that Cruz didn’t even know how many Muslims live in the United States. Sheepishly, Cruz admitted that was true....

And with all due respect, Senator Cruz, you don’t even have all of the facts, yet you also want to wage a form of war on innocent Americans who just want to live here and contribute to society. Just because you’re a Christian and your father is a pastor, that doesn’t mean you have the right to declare all other forms of belief invalid or dangerous.


BOOM! Drop the mic!
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CBS Host Smacks Down Ted Cruz–‘You Don’t Even Know How Many Muslims Are In America’ (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
Norah O'Donnell did a great job TheCowsCameHome Mar 2016 #1
"Tha man in the melted goalie mask"...oh my God--that's perfect! First Speaker Mar 2016 #3
Well, he is Canadian. KamaAina Mar 2016 #5
Cruz is toast. Socal31 Mar 2016 #2
.../... Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #4
I watched a bit over 4 minutes and then had to stop. phylny Mar 2016 #10
Facts kind of interrupt the flow... Wounded Bear Mar 2016 #6
Well you cannot expect much from a political party that spent the last 35 years avoiding facts. Rex Mar 2016 #7
It's Really A Race to the Bottom Ccarmona Mar 2016 #8
Heidi needs to give Ted just one number for him to remember! csziggy Mar 2016 #9
that liberalamerica site has ads all over that look like soft porn LOL snooper2 Mar 2016 #11
That's the only way Cruz's plan will work -- if they're ghettoized. AngryOldDem Mar 2016 #12

phylny

(8,353 posts)
10. I watched a bit over 4 minutes and then had to stop.
Mon Mar 28, 2016, 09:01 AM
Mar 2016

He's a hateful, fear-mongering man. He makes my stomach turn.

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
6. Facts kind of interrupt the flow...
Sun Mar 27, 2016, 08:14 PM
Mar 2016

of the Ready, Fire, Aim philosophy the RW war-mongers like to follow.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. Well you cannot expect much from a political party that spent the last 35 years avoiding facts.
Sun Mar 27, 2016, 08:18 PM
Mar 2016

Facts are the enemy of the GOP.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
12. That's the only way Cruz's plan will work -- if they're ghettoized.
Mon Mar 28, 2016, 12:30 PM
Mar 2016

And if that happens, then we are all fucked as a society.

Or maybe that's what Ted wants? A Warsaw Ghetto for Muslims?

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