Wow! (Your Opinion, Please!)

[H2O Man]

An associate just sent me the following link. It is to a news article, complete with an audio recording of Senator Ted Cruz. I read the article and listened to the recording; admittedly, I am only half-way through my first cup of coffee this morning, and can't be 100% sure, but I suspect that this could remove this pimple on the republican party's ass.

http://www.thestatelyharold.com/#!Exclusive-Ted-Cruz-calls-Obama-an-Nword-in-secret-audio-recording/cmbz/556c8bde0cf2312d7962f040

[DanTex]

1. Here's the recording. Hard to tell if it's him, at least for me.

If this is actually Ted Cruz, his career is over. I don't know his voice well enough to tell, and without other evidence, I don't think it's conclusive.

[H2O Man]

2. Thank you!

It sure sounds like him to me.

[malthaussen]

3. Well, it's not like blacks were going to vote for him to begin with.

I'm sure there will be good excuses offered, or it will be claimed the sound quality is insufficient to determine the word used. Granted, I've only just started on my first cup of coffee this morning, but I think they'll brazen it out.

On edit: from comments appearing downstream, it appears Poe's Law is in operation.

-- Mal

[cali]

4. I honestly can't tell, but it sure wouldn't surprise me.

[bravenak]

5. I think it's a satire site.

[morningfog]

14. That is not very good satire. It is offensive.

[bravenak]

16. Terrible. Not even funny. Just nasty.

[IDemo]

24. Since genuine satire such as The Onion and Andy Borowitz have become indistinguishable from reality

Wannbe's have taken a sharp downwards turn in the rhetoric to try to get their point across.

[tkmorris]

6. It's not true

WHAT was said is clear as day. I just can't be certain it was Cruz that said it. Sure sounds like him though.

On edit: This is on the "about us" page of the site linked to. "Disclaimer: The Stately Harold is satirical fabulation and fabrication. No stories presented have a grain of truth to them".

So... it's a fake.

[DanTex]

7. Looks like this is satire, based on other articles on that website.

[djean111]

8. Sadly, I am pretty positive that Cruz is just saying what most of the GOP say when they think

no one else is listening or recording, and that this, sorry to say, won't lose any support or votes for Cruz that he already has. Maybe it would energize more voters to vote for Obama if Cruz was running against Obama, but that is not the case. But I think that it might even get Cruz more support from voters, if not from GOP hierarchy. It would be a big mistake to think the GOP has any shame.

If it is satire, or not - i don't think it will hurt Cruz at all.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. I can't tell if it sounds like Ted Cruz

or Ross Perot.

It didn't sound much like Ted Cruz's "public speaking" voice.

[Greybnk48]

10. Cruz has a very smarmy distinctive voice.

If that's not him, I would be surprised. He's done.

[spyker29]

11. Satire.

Sadly I don't think it would hurt him if it wasn't.

[NCTraveler]

12. If it is him or not.

I will bet he has to consciously think about not using the word in reference to Obama.

[TexasProgresive]

13. There are enough bigots in Texas to agree with carnival

and give him their vote. If I was a bigot like him I would say we have a s(word) or g(word) in the Senate. It's ironic because his voters would use those pejorative words to describe him. "Well he is a Güero (light skin) nearly gringo so it's alright."

[Agnosticsherbet]

15. Disclaimer: The Stately Harold is satirical fabulation and fabrication. No stories presented have a

The Stately Harold
Disclaimer: The Stately Harold is satirical fabulation and fabrication. No stories presented have a grain of truth to them

Another telling quote from the original source.

Exclusive: Ted Cruz calls Obama an N-word in secret audio recording

The statement is already drawing angry reactions from liberal groups such as the organisation VLLWOOE "Vocal Loud Liberals With Opinions On Everything", a spokesperson of which, Helen Eritas, had this to say to TSH:

[tblue37]

17. It is a satire site. The story is a total fabrication.

From the "About" page for the site:

Disclaimer: The Stately Harold is satirical fabulation and fabrication. No stories presented have a grain of truth to them

ON EDIT: Oh, I see others beat me to it. I rushed to point out that it is untrue (without pausing to read the replies to the OP) because I feared others would run with it and thus offer a target for Tea Party operatives.

[brush]

19. One less in the clown car

It's like in 2012 when the crowded repug field winnowed itself down with — I'll be kind — unforced errors, the worst and most consequential being Rmoney's "47%" remark, also caught on tape.

Buh-bye, Cruz, nice knowing you.

[DrDan]

20. satire site . . . read their disclaimer

Disclaimer: The Stately Harold is satirical fabulation and fabrication. No stories presented have a grain of truth to them

on edit - guess I should have looked at the thread before posting - disclaimer posted several times

[Faux pas]

21. He's a

skid mark on the underwear of life.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Stick to The Onion and Borowitz, IMHO. nt

[yuiyoshida]

23. I don't think its him...

to my ears it doesn't sound like Ted Cruz. But if it proves to be him, a huge brick will be falling soon!

[fadedrose]

25. I hope that Cruz will deny it

if it's not true. Not for his sake, but for the President's sake. It will be difficult to complete his term with this insult flooding the Capitol and White House.

When one gets to the high level of the office of a US Senator, he and we would expect more. If Cruz did say it, it's sad for all of us that he made it this far, and this should be the end of his journey in politics.

Listening to the tape several times, I catch a word starting with an "L", not an "N", sounds like "leager," but that makes no sense at all. And the accent - isn't it deeper southern than Cruz' and his companion said it? It's obvious they are joking, but that doesn't excuse using the N word.

I am hoping he didn't say it, and that the word was not the N word.
In spite of that stupid Pamela Gelller woman, speech isn't free and there are consequences, like losing an election and making people feel hurt and angry....

[blogslut]

26. Sorry

As others have shown it is a bad satire site.

[Bluenorthwest]

27. That's a clearly labled satire site.

Disclaimer: The Stately Harold is satirical fabulation and fabrication. No stories presented have a grain of truth to them.

Also, an obvious satire site.....