Ted Cruz is tired of the media making him look bad with accurately quoted remarks
In an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood, nascent Republican 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that his reputation as a “wild-eyed lunatic” is an invention of the liberal media, which is bent on smearing him through the use of “yellow journalism called PolitiFact.”
According to Mediaite, Harwood pressed Cruz, asking him why people should support him when the facts he uses to bolster his points don’t match up with the truth.
“You’ve said a few things that don’t necessarily comport with the facts,” said Harwood. He quoted a statement by Cruz asserting that there are “125,000 I.R.S. agents, so send ‘em to the border.”
“They’ve only got 25,000 agents,” Harwood said.
Furthermore, Cruz claimed that Obamacare would kill jobs, said Harwood. It hasn’t.
“Why shouldn’t somebody listen to you and say, ‘The guy’ll just say anything — doesn’t have to be true?’” Harwood asked.
“There is a game that is played by left-wing editorial writers,” Cruz said. “It’s this new species of yellow journalism called PolitiFact. Colloquially I was referring to all the employees as agents. That particular stat is in a joke I used. So, they’re literally fact-checking a joke. I say that explicitly tongue in cheek.”
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All righty then, please carry on....
