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kpete

(71,953 posts)
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 07:06 PM Nov 2014

Ted Cruz saves America

But isn't he Canadian?

Last year, the St. Louis-based publisher Really Big Coloring Books released a Ted Cruz coloring book. In it, the firebrand Republican senator from Texas is depicted as a kid-friendly “passionate fighter for limited government.”

This week, the publisher released a new eight-page supplement to the original children’s book. It’s titled “Ted Saves America” and includes images of the tea-party darling flying like Superman and riding an eagle.



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Cruz’s office did not respond to a request for comment regarding the image of the senator brandishing a rifle while riding a gigantic bald eagle.

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Really Big Coloring Books has also published titles such as Superheroes of the Bible and Fairies & Princesses. But it gets way more attention for its political coloring materials for small children. For instance, their September 11th coloring book “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom,” published in 2011, was slammed as anti-Muslim “disaster porn”. Back in August, the company reissued two terrorism coloring books with supplemental pages depicting the horrors of ISIS and other Islamist killers:




MORE:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/13/ted-cruz-saves-america-in-this-right-wing-coloring-book.html

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Ted Cruz saves America (Original Post) kpete Nov 2014 OP
God help us I thought it was The Onion randys1 Nov 2014 #1
Zoiks shenmue Nov 2014 #2
that is real? nt arely staircase Nov 2014 #3
yet still more liberal than the ones saying "ISIS is the only true Islam" MisterP Nov 2014 #4

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. God help us I thought it was The Onion
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 07:11 PM
Nov 2014

I do NOT live in the same country as these people

PLEASE tell me I dont

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