Kaboom! Ted Cruz blasts liberal moderators during third GOP debate
It was a beautiful moment that will go down in debate history. It was a moment when a conservative presidential candidate finally discussed the elephant in the room:
Media Bias
The night was a win for the Republican candidates and a loss for the mainstream media. Republican voters cheered, because Senator Ted Cruz did what John McCain and Mitt Romney should have done: He turned the tables on the liberal media.
Moderator Carl Quintanilla asked Senator Ted Cruz, “Congressional Democrats and Republicans are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets that fear of another Washington-created crisis is on the way. Does your opposition to it show that you’re not the kind of problem solver American voters want?”
Cruz replied, “Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media. ”
The crowd applauded while Cruz continued, “This is not a cage match. And if you look at the questions: Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain? Ben Carson, can you do math? John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign? Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen? How about talking about the substantive issues people care about?”
Quintanilla tried to speak, but Cruz cut him off. Cruz said, ” Carl, I’m not finished yet. The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every thought and question from the media was, “Which of you is more handsome and wise?’ Let me be clear, the men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Nobody watching at home, believes that any of the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary.”
Cruz continues, “The questions that are being asked shouldn’t be trying to get people to tear into each other. It should be, ‘What are your substantive solutions to people that are hurting.'”
Preach it, Senator Cruz.
