I would not support Ted Cruz for President. But that doesn\’t mean I don\’t like – in this case, love – how he takes apart media people who dutifully, even reflexively, barf out the same crap at Republicans over and over again instead of asking a range of substantive questions.
This exchange occurred Tuesday, between Senator Cruz and Kevin Steele, a reporter for ABC\’s Beaumont, Texas affiliate, Steele, after Steele repeatedly asked questions about his position on gay rights:
SEN. TED CRUZ: Let me ask a question: Is there something about the left, and I am going to put the media in this category, that is obsessed with sex? Why is it the only question you want to ask concerns homosexuals? Okay, you can ask those questions over and over and over again. I recognize that you\’re reading questions from MSNBC…
You\’re wincing. You don\’t want to talk about foreign policy. I recognize you want to ask another question about gay rights. Well, you know. ISIS is executing homosexuals. You want to talk about gay rights? This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals. That ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic.
REPORTER: Do you have a personal animosity against gay Americans?
CRUZ: Do you have a personal animosity against Christians sir? Your line of questioning is highly curious. You seem fixated on a particular subject. Look, I’m a Christian. Scripture commands us to love everybody and what I have been talking about, with respect to same-sex marriage, is the Constitution which is what we should all be focused on. The Constitution gives marriage to elected state legislators. It doesn\’t give the power of marriage to a president, or to unelected judges to tear down the decisions enacted by democratically elected state legislatures.
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I may not agree with Senator Cruz on same-sex marriage. But I 100% agree with his take-down of a reporter asking a Republican about nothing but social issues which are guaranteed to then be used by Democrat opponents.
Good for you, Mr. Cruz. Please do it over and over again.
And that goes for every other Republican candidate as well. Make this the election cycle where media bias is challenged – strongly challenged – until some of these partisans posing as journalists finally get the message.
