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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 10:43 PM Jul 2014

Fox host calls out Ted Cruz’s false compassion on border crisis: Your plan ‘doesn’t help the kids’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday declared that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and other Democrats “want” a situation where refugee children were maimed and brutalized.

In an interview on Fox News, Cruz told host Chris Wallace that Reid and President Barack Obama were holding thousands of children “ransom” because they had been unwilling to “fix the problem” by deporting every undocumented immigrant child in the U.S.

“You keep talking about helping the kids,” Wallace noted. “One question I have is, how do you help the kids — I understand how it helps the United States not to allow them to come into this country — how does it help the kids to just say, ‘Hey, you’ve got to stay in Central America.’”

“You talk about the violence in Central America, the murder rate in some of these countries,” Wallace added. “I’m not saying it’s our responsibility to help the kids, but it doesn’t help the kids.”

More, including video, at http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/20/fox-host-calls-out-ted-cruzs-false-compassion-on-border-crisis-your-plan-doesnt-help-the-kids/ .

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Fox host calls out Ted Cruz’s false compassion on border crisis: Your plan ‘doesn’t help the kids’ (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2014 OP
Wow. FNN is now using logic and reason? I'm simply stunned. freshwest Jul 2014 #1
Okay. Hang on for a second... jmondine Jul 2014 #2
Okay. I'm back. jmondine Jul 2014 #3
*snicker* Rod Beauvex Jul 2014 #4
I haven't seen fish in the trees yet... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2014 #5
Ahem..... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #7
Wallace didn't say he thought kids should be helped,perhaps he just was looking for consistency lunasun Jul 2014 #6
Well that's one..... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #8
Oh come on. FOX helped create this phoney "crisis", delrem Jul 2014 #9

jmondine

(1,649 posts)
3. Okay. I'm back.
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 12:03 AM
Jul 2014

When I heard that Fox had called out Cruz, I just had to make sure that the sky wasn't purple and fish weren't living in the trees.

Rod Beauvex

(564 posts)
4. *snicker*
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 12:30 AM
Jul 2014

It does seem like Fox is slowly starting to turn on the GOP, or at least the crazier factions of it. It seems to me this is the second or may be third time I've seen something like this in recent weeks.


I wonder if it is planned? Not that I'm disappointed in seeing the right and it's mouth piece at odds.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
6. Wallace didn't say he thought kids should be helped,perhaps he just was looking for consistency
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 12:51 AM
Jul 2014

from Cruz
Good luck

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
8. Well that's one.....
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 01:26 AM
Jul 2014
- Broken clocks are right twice, correct?

K&R



Baby Facepalm now
sees why his future
is in peril!

delrem

(9,688 posts)
9. Oh come on. FOX helped create this phoney "crisis",
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 01:35 AM
Jul 2014

and FOX is now doing some kind of cleanup duty. That's all it is. Not a single FOX employee has come to some "better understanding". Not one won't be there the next time they're called on to do their employer's bidding.

FOX is no different than MSNBC and CNN and ABC and the US MSM in general.

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