Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on an extensive rant Wednesday about media bias during the CNBC debate.
One of the moderators asked Cruz about the national debt. But instead of answering, Cruz said the questions asked of the GOP “illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.”
“This is not a cage match,” Cruz proclaimed. “And 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?”
“I’m not finished yet,” Cruz said.
The CNBC moderator reminded Cruz that he had 30 seconds to answer his initial question about that nation’s debt limit, “should you choose to do so.”
He didn’t.
“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,” Cruz said. “The questions that are being asked shouldn’t be trying to get people to tear into each other. It should be about substantive solutions.”
“I asked you about the debt limit and I got no answer,” the moderator said.
Cruz then fought to answer the question, but the moderator moved on to a question for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
Watch the exchange:
Justin Trudeau and the Liberals sweeping the election seems to have upset the Cubanadian. He was so confused, he referred to the Democratic debate and not the “Democrat debate.”
Damn, that image makes him look like a cardboard cutout.
Pretty standard fare, dodge the question, attack the media, and the debate hosts as unlikely to vote in the Republicans primaries (as if Wall Street-centric CNBC could be accused of being liberal), run out the clock, and then accuse the questioner of throwing out insults instead of letting him answer the question.
Do you like
green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.
jw1
Grandpa is upset that Eddie, as Speaker nominee, is getting more press