Salon - "CNBC did ask substantive questions. That’s why Republicans are mad"

[DirkGently]

31. Cruz did duck the question though. And the clowns

created the circus atmosphere themselves.

Cruz was asked about his ongoing efforts to shut down the government and default on America's debts, a stunt he pulled before that cost us $24 billion and lowered America's credit rating.

http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/17/heres-what-the-government-shutdown-cost-the-economy/

About $3.1 billion in lost government services, according to the research firm IHS
$152 million per day in lost travel spending, according to the U.S. Travel Association
$76 million per day lost because of National Parks being shut down, according to the National Park Service
$217 million per day in lost federal and contractor wages in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area alone

Earlier this week, the White House and congressional leaders reached a tentative two-year budget deal to lift mandatory spending caps on defense and domestic programs and raise the federal debt ceiling, in an attempt to avert yet another fiscal standoff. Cruz has opposed agreements to avoid the shut down.

The deal would raise the government debt ceiling until March 2017, removing the threat of an unprecedented and market-rupturing national default after the government would have run out of spending authority next Tuesday. At the same time it would set the federal budget through fiscal 2017 and ease punishing spending caps by providing $80 billion more for military and domestic programs. It would be paid for with spending cuts and revenue increases touching areas from tax compliance to spectrum auctions.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28/cruz-this-is-why-we-dont-trust-the-media.html

There's no avoiding the fact that Cruz and others were really objecting to being asked FOR substantive answers. Answers they didn't have to questions they'd like everyone to ignore. Which is the reason for the whole RW "media bias" trope in the first place.