Fox Goes To Bat For Another Dysfunctional Tea Party Star

Only a few months into his first term as Senator, Ted Cruz (R-TX) is catching severe criticism for being arrogant, grim and a bully. An op-ed in Friday’s New York Times called him “an ornery, swaggering piece of work,” and Chris Matthews compared his style of questioning at the Hagel hearing to Senator Joe McCarthy’s. Obviously time for Fox to step in with some damage control. Yesterday on Special Report, Bret Baier’s All Star panel weighed in on the issue, and some thought yes, the liberal media had it in for the new guy from Texas.

Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal said there was a double standard at work in the media, and wondered why they weren't beating up on Senator Elizabeth Warren in the same way, for her hardball questioning of bankers? But Maria Liasson of NPR and Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard thought Cruz was doing exactly what he'd come to Washington to do. Hayes: "[Cruz] made a conscious decision that he was going to accept the very public role he was certain to have being an outspoken conservative from Texas and a Hispanic... So to a certain extent you have to expect that he would get greater scrutiny given the fact that he has chosen to accept that role.” But he also thought the scrutiny was “over the top harsh…there has been a systemic effort I think to go after Ted Cruz, to marginalize him, to make him look crazy.”

Does Fox see this ornery Texan as a potential 2016 Presidential candidate? Many in the far right appear to do so, because already they're trying to talk their way around a certain little obstacle that, not long ago, they swore up and down should disqualify Obama for candidacy. But that, gentle reader, is material for a later post, and I'm sure someone on Newshounds will get the chance to write it.

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Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-21 14:27:46 -0500 · Flag

@truman. I thought the same thing. But reading the article at the laughable "news"max, it’s pretty obvious that neocons don’t care that cruz was born in Canada.

Obama was born in the U.S. (Hawaii) to an American mother and Kenyan father. The teabaggers/birfers accuse him of being a ferriner.

cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. The teabaggers/birfers say that it doesn’t matter where he was born because his mother was/is American and so, he’s an American.

The hypocrisy, hate and racism makes me sick.

truman commented 2013-02-21 10:57:36 -0500 · Flag

Born in Canada to a Cuban father? tRump needs to turn his crack team of investigators on to this birth certificate.

Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-21 08:35:03 -0500 · Flag

Oh, and to compare Sen. Elizabeth Warren to a pig like cruz is stupid. She’s not a documented liar like cruz is. She doesn’t talk out of her ass like cruz does. And she’s not an ignorant teabagger asshole like cruz is. Sen. Warren seems to know and understands the U.S. Constitution and therefore knows how the government works. By the display of his ignorance, it’s doubtful that cruz has even read the Constitution, and he’s shown us that he has no idea how the government works.

Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-21 08:26:19 -0500 · Flag

Being from TX, I saw cruz’s campaign first hand. He made it known that he was going to oppose everything President Obama did or proposed. He promised that he was going to be a bigger asshole than, and even dumber than, Cornyn and KBH. He’s delivered on his promise.

As for his eligibility to run for Pres…well, according to the racist teabaggers, he doesn’t qualify. Neither does rubio or piyush jindal. And in fact, since Etch-a-Sketch Rmoney’s pappy was born in Mexico, he didn’t qualify. But that didn’t matter because he’s white. cruz, rubio and piyush might face opposition from the racist teabaggers. We’ll see.

Rob Willhelm commented 2013-02-21 07:08:18 -0500 · Flag

If only a line has been drawn in the sand…..

Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-20 22:50:35 -0500 · Flag

The more I find out about Cruz, the more I’m convinced that only people who are hopelessly biased to the far right don’t consider him a polyp with legs.

Seriously, there’s a list of problems with this man’s mentality longer than I am tall.