Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday criticized those who have linked the deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last week with anti-abortion rhetoric, arguing that most criminals are actually Democrats.
During a discussion of the shooting with Cruz, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt said, “I have never met — not once — a single pro-life activist who is in favor of violence of any sort.”
Cruz responded that he hadn’t either.
“And I would note that this whole episode has really displayed the ugly underbelly of the media,” Cruz said. “You know, every time you have some sort of violent crime or mass killing, you can almost see the media salivating hoping, hoping desperately that the murderer happens to be a Republican so they can use it to try to paint their political enemies.”
“Now, listen, here’s the simple and undeniable fact: the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats. The media doesn’t report that,” he continued.
Cruz said that Democrats are “soft on crime” and want to give convicted felons voting rights because they believe those individuals will vote Democrat. But he said the media fails to report on that.
“But you can see in every one of these — every time there’s a terrible crime, they’re so excited, come on, please, one of these be a Republican so we can try to paint the other side. It is one of the more egregious examples of media bias, and it’s something we see over and over and over again,” Cruz said.
Listen to part of the interview via the Hugh Hewitt Show:
“The Overwhelming Majority Of Violent Criminals Are Democrats”
Cruz continued,
"Except for, you know the ones who kill abortion providers like
Eric Rudolph
James Kopp
Paul Jennings Hill
Scott Roeder
Micheal Griffin
Peter James Knight
and all the fascist Trump supporters who kick brown people, and the white supremacists who bomb Negroes, and of course politicians like me who make incendiary statements that lead to more violence. But other than that…"
Lew, you left out Robert Dear.
OK, Rafael “Maybe Not An American Citizen, But I Play One In The Campaign” Cruz, continuing with your model:
Here’s a simple and undeniable fact: the overwhelming majority of pedophiles are Republicans.
Here’s a simple and undeniable fact: the overwhelming majority of genocidal maniacs were right-wing.
Here’s a simple and undeniable fact: the overwhelming majority of Republican Presidential candidates are amoral, sociopathic liars.
Here’s a simple and undeniable fact: the overwhelming majority of seditious, treasonous elected officials are Republicans.
See how easy (and fun!) that was, you evil, lying motherfucker?
Hmmm. 2 smug assholes get together to lie and go, “Heh, indeed” to each others’ lies. Not really news these days. But worth having the examples of these idiots, I suppose.
My guess (since that is what he is doing) is that the overwhelming majority of violent criminals do not have any political party affiliation, nor do they vote, etc.