The National Enquirer story about Ted Cruz having affairs is BS

[oberliner]

This is nothing like the story they ran about John Edwards which involved photos and other pieces of actual evidence of his behavior.

In fact, the only claim the current National Enquirer story makes is:

"Private detectives are digging into at least five affairs Ted Cruz supposedly had.”

With that quote being credited to a "Washington insider".

The article does not provide any evidence from said detectives, nor does it even actually claim that any affair took place - just that detectives are digging into affairs he "supposedly" had.

The Enquirer is, of course, notorious for BS.

And this particular story makes no actual claim with evidence of Cruz having an affair. Nor does it even actually assert that he did have an affair - just that detectives are digging into the possibility.

[salinsky]

1. I'm sorry ...

... but, I just cannot believe that there are that many women on the face of the planet who would lower themselves to the level of having sex with Ted Cruz.

[UTUSN]

7. That is exactly the crux!1 n/t

[Javaman]

61. the cruz crux? LOL couldn't resist. ;) lol nt

[roguevalley]

84. the wife of one of the women's brothers confirmed it today

Not bs

[EL34x4]

18. Ted Cruz may be a creepy, pasty, pudding-faced, thin-lipped, vampire-looking troll,

But he is still a United States Senator. There are plenty of women who would have sex with him.

[dorkzilla]

33. I just threw up in my mouth a little

No amount of brain bleach will ever obviate that awful mental picture.

[Zorro]

70. They may very well be lies

but I like watching a liar like Cruz get a taste of his own medicine.

[enid602]

77. affairs

Even if they did have an affair with Mr Green Eggs and Ham/eat your own boogers, who would actually come forward and admit it?

[Laffy Kat]

78. I don't know.

Trump has had three wives. Of course, I guess with that kind of money you could overlook a lot (not me, but some).

[dembotoz]

2. men in black said they were the most trusted source out there

[lame54]

4. If an alien slept with Cruz...

I might believe it
But a human female? - that's a stretch

[lame54]

3. And Katrina Pierson's involvement should raise red flags for everybody...

but I think everybody WANTS it to be true so the inquirer is now a credible source

[oberliner]

6. Exactly

Just because we don't like Ted Cruz and what he stands for doesn't mean we can't evaluate this National Enquirer story rationally.

[cwydro]

48. Thank you for a sensible post.

I'd love for him to get tripped up by ANYTHING, but it's just silly and hypocritical for us to jump on this story without proof.

[Sanity Claws]

10. Why would that raise red flags?

She strikes as very ambitious and totally unscrupulous. I think she would hitch a ride with anyone or anything that would be advantageous to her.
Maybe she could convince him that a plastic bag over his head would heighten the experience.

[lame54]

11. or maybe she was told to take one for the team

[Sanity Claws]

13. Only if there was a prize for her at the end

She is not a team player. She plays for herself. If she did it for Der Drumpf, then Drumpf promised her something.

[lame54]

14. ok

[csziggy]

23. That and another woman possibly linked is connected to Carly Fiorina

Unless the campaigns are using some of their women to set up dirt on Cruz, this seems pretty unlikely.

[lame54]

24. unlikely for Trump?

[csziggy]

26. Just as I posted that I thought, "NOTHING is unlikely for Republicans!"

Especially for Trump!

So I take back my "unlikely" statement.

[LiberalArkie]

31. You are talking about the Republican party here. Nothing is out of line for the Republican

party.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

51. Sane people dont need an affair to change their votes. Liberals dont care about affairs

anyway.

The only way this story negatively affects Cruz is by losing voters to Drumpf

[runaway hero]

5. well

she made her Instagram private TODAY...judge for yourself.

[lame54]

25. Why is that guy putting a Cruz sticker on her belly?

[runaway hero]

27. the pic

that's just the angle of the picture.
http://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/blogs/news/94574273-8-things-you-need-to-know-about-ted-cruzs-sex-scandal

[lame54]

28. rhetorical and sarcastic question...

having to explain ruins it

[runaway hero]

32. sorry!

I'm not good at sarcasm

[lagomorph777]

55. Another question: Why is that guy so small?

[Mbrow]

83. That's right! BAD PUNS

NEVER APOLOGIZE, NEVER EXPLAIN!

Thanks for the laugh... I got it right off.

[braddy]

85. LOL, and I think it is Dennis Hastert doing it.

[Sanity Claws]

62. That look says she wants him

She is wearing a midriff-bearing tank top in bright yellow. That together with the look she had when gazing at him, I definitely think she had the hots for him.
No accounting for taste.
Even Nixon got a chance to reproduce.

[Kip Humphrey]

8. Don't you dare ruin this for me!

I mean, the jokes write themselves!

[oioioi]

15. :).....

[Kip Humphrey]

17. Oh THAT's GOOOOOD!

Beats Trans Rectal UltraSound Ted - TRUSTED
(Google TRUS)

[Nac Mac Feegle]

74. Don't need to

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. And the scars. And tattoos.

IMRT for prostate cancer.

[leftynyc]

9. The owner of the Enquirer

is a good friend of Trump. That's why the story ran with zero back up.

[Human101948]

36. If the claim is that investigators are looking into Cruz affairs it's probably true...

because there are undoubtedly P.I.s loooking for dirt on him.

[leftynyc]

43. Oh - I'm sure they're looking

but the Edwards story had back up along with a baby. This is nothing but inuendo.

[basselope]

12. First... I don't care about his personal life.. BUT...

I highly doubt it is BS. Anonymous had threatened to out his dalliances with prostitutes a couple of weeks ago.. I am guessing in hacking him they stumbled on some things that led in this direction.

Now the NE runs with this.

It's probably true.

But, with that said, I don't care. I didn't care when Clinton had an affair, I didn't care when Gary Hart did... the only thing that I cared about with John Edwards was the fact that he was apparently using DONATIONS to help keep it quiet.. the actual affair.. none of my business and not an indication of his ability to lead.

Yes, I hear people saying, BUT THE HYPOCRISY. They are ALL hypocrites on something.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Well Edwards railed against marriage equality on the basis of his own traditional views of marriage

which he got from his Baptist Deacon Daddy, as they all do. 'It's just a part of me' he'd claim 'marriage is for one man and one woman' he'd proclaim. He did that to help cover his own tracks. He has never bothered to apologize much less to make any sort of amends for that act of exploitation and denigration of others for his own advancement.

It's the hypocrisy. Bill Clinton's affairs only mattered after DOMA, in which Bill defended Sanctified Marriage from the gays. Shortly after his own marriage was shown to be no so sanctified. He exploited us for his own sake. The virtue of those who stand as judges of others is in fact my business because they use that fake virtue to oppress me.

Without the posturing I could not care less what they do. But if you do the 'Baptist Daddy Tango' and also fuck around you are just a hypocrite and a liar and a bigot. That's John. To a lesser extent it's Bill, he had Hillary to do the 'Baptist Daddy' routine for him, he never really tried to pull off the St Bill act. She did it for him.

[Kip Humphrey]

20. "They are ALL hypocrites on something." Except Bernie.

that is unless you can link to instances of Bernie's hypocrisy.

Second, Crude is running as the "Anointed One" so it is entirely appropriate to call out his gross hypocrisy. If he were not so "Holier than Thou", I would agree it is not relevant. However, he is misleading his supporters and the American people so it is not only fair game but also politically correct to discuss and expose him thus.

[basselope]

29. I am a YUUUGE Bernie supporter.

But there are instances of hypocrisy, though not nearly on the same scale.

There was the whole Uber thing (he came out against Uber, but his campaign expenses shows he uses it almost exclusively). The F-35. Little things like that. I could find links if you want.

No one is 100% pure.. however, when it comes to degrees of honesty, Bernie is BY FAR the most honest of any major candidate I have ever seen.

[oberliner]

35. Bernie Sanders: "It would be hypocritical of me to run as a Democrat...

...because of the things I have said about the party."

That would be the most obvious example.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. My money is literally on the story being true.

[Stallion]

22. I Bet That Reporter Might Be Fired

you don't confirm that kind of story on twitter-and you better run that information by the newspaper's attorneys before stating something publically

[Chiyo-chichi]

30. Well... The Washington Times is hardly a bastion of journalistic integrity.

So he's probably OK.

[Stallion]

66. Nailed it!

http://www.therightperspective.org/2016/03/26/washington-times-fires-writer-for-confirming-cruz-scandal/

[AgerolanAmerican]

53. same

if it weren't substantial there'd be no reason for the Brietbart guy to complain of being "scooped"

[ibegurpard]

21. prostitutes I could believe

But anyone willing to freely have sex with that creepy fuck? I have a difficult time believing that.

[Agnosticsherbet]

34. Power, Sex, and hypocrisy are an inseperable ménage à trois

So U am not surprised

[Vinca]

37. The National Enquirer is a sleazy rag, but among sleazy rags it usually

doe not put out stories that will result in them being on the receiving end of a lawsuit. I imagine it's probably true, even if it's hard to believe that many women would willingly have sex with Cruz. They've brought down a number of politicians and Cruz is just the latest hypocritical GOP "family" man.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Remember when Hustler exposed Bob Livingston's affair...

He accused Larry Flynt of being in the gutter...Flynt said "look at what I found while i was down there."

[oberliner]

40. It deliberately phrased the elements of this "story" in a way that would avoid a lawsuit

The only thing they are claiming here is that private detectives are looking into the possibility of Ted Cruz having had affairs - which is most likely a true statement.

[herding cats]

39. Eh, it's probably true that there are private detectives digging for dirt there.

It's been rumored for awhile that Brietbart had a lead on an affair by Cruz and chose not to mention it. Probably due to the optics it would create with their being strong Trump supporters.

It's not difficult to hire some private detectives, toss some names at them, and then leak the story to a tabloid. It gives Trump plausible deniability with his supporters, and still manages to smear Cruz to an extent.

[oberliner]

42. Exactly

I am saying that part is most likely true, but the idea that Cruz is therefore actually having affairs with five women as some seem to be concluding is BS.

[herding cats]

44. The five women part was over kill in my opinion.

If they'd have stopped at one, or even two it would have had a better chance of being taken seriously. As it is, I think most people know it's BS, but they're having fun with it because Cruz is a pretty vile creature.

Still, it's trending on Twitter with over 360k tweets. The National Enquirer is going to have a nice sales bump this week, and Trump is laughing his butt off right now.

[oberliner]

46. Yeah

I just would prefer that people reject Ted Cruz because of the policies he supports rather than because they think he had affairs.

[herding cats]

50. Considering they've traded barbs about penis sizes and each others wives recently

I'm not sure where policy fits into this Republican primary.

It's the most bizarre political event I've ever witnessed.

[underpants]

41. It stinks of a Trump planted story

[ProfessorGAC]

59. I'm Thinking More Of A Trump Set Up

If he really is a hound, how difficult would it be for a devoted supporter set up Cruz with something like this?

Could it be designed by the Trump campaign? Sure. I'm willing to blame him. That doesn't mean Cruz didn't do it, though.

[leftyladyfrommo]

45. That's typical for the Inquirer.

They have a real gaudy headline with a big photo and then the article is just a bunch of allegations which are worded very carefully so they don't really say much h of anything.

They do that with Hillary and the Obamas all the time.

Bunch of hot air. But it sells.

[Justice]

47. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/24/the-national-enquirer-runs-story-of-multiple-ted-cruz

Some interesting points in this piece

- One of the women is identified as Sarah Isgur Flores, well known political operative, and campaign manager for Carly Fiorina. And that little factoid brings an earlier discovery into question; where the Super-PAC for Ted Cruz (Keep the Promise) curiously sent the Super-PAC for Carly Fiorina (Carly for America “CfA”) $500,000.

- If you look up #TheThing and go back to March 10th – March 14th, what you’ll find are multiple conversations about finding someone, anyone, to report on the Ted Cruz affairs. The group pushing for the requested articles were seemingly all supporters of Marco Rubio.

- also reminding us that someone from Cruz's senate office had an AshleyMadison account. An the lawyer for the late madam said in February had records of interest to Presidential race, but court blocked him from releasing all the records.


Other notes of interest. HMM.

twitter name for story - #CubanMistressCrisis

[DemocraticWing]

49. Rubio staff were planning to leak the story a few weeks ago. It fell through for some reason.

Maybe it was because Rubio dropped out and they wanted to stop Trump, but their plan was to beat Trump in Florida (which they failed miserably at) and then drop a bomb on Cruz to set up a one-on-one with Trump.

Twitter speculators think Breitbart had the story a few weeks ago but got some blowback on publishing it, so it ended up at the Enquirer.

Could it all be BS? Sure. But it's not something made up from nowhere like Aliens in New Jersey or Kim Kardishian running the Illuminati.

[Reter]

65. It fell though because Rubio's affairs are worse

And he loved gay foam parties in the early 90's.

[1StrongBlackMan]

52. LOL ... It's just refreshing to see this kind of crap thrown at a republican ...

rather than, any of the Democratic candidates, for once.

[oberliner]

58. Sadly, when the Enquirer did go after a Democratic candidate, they were correct

That was one of the more embarrassing moments for our party.

[1StrongBlackMan]

63. True ... Maybe they'll get lucky, again ... But I'm not holding my breath.

[fun n serious]

54. No proof yet BUT

I would wait before calling is BS. Twitter is floating a rumor about a video expected to be released in a few days....

[WDIM]

56. Even if 1 out of 5 were true

It would be enough to ruin his campaign with the evangelical right.

The rumor itself may be enough already I've seen right-wingers blasting him for his affairs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

57. It would be more believable if the claim involved prostitutes

because it's hard to believe anybody would have sex with him for free.

[mnhtnbb]

68. Actually, there is now an interview with an escort that has surfaced.

[struggle4progress]

60. Oh, see Teddy! See Teddy fling monkey-poo! Fling, Teddy, fling!

Duck, Donny, duck!

Oh dear, said Mother, Donny looked for a duck. But he did not see a duck. He got hit by monkey-poo!

You fling monkey-poo like a girl, said Donny

Oh, Donny, said Mother, It is not nice to say that. It is not nice to say that Teddy flings monkey-poo like a girl

I have big hands, said Donny. Look how much monkey-poo I can hold!

Oh, see Donny! See Donny fling monkey-poo! Fling, Donny, fling!

[bravenak]

64. Look at Cruz!

Nobody would get with him except his wife, ew.

[mainer]

67. One paramour's sister-in-law just confirmed it

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

[krawhitham]

69. Enquirer hounded Edwards for months with story after story before they released photos

the media refused to pick it up until they ran the pictures

[Boomerproud]

71. I'm curious to why the OP is defending weasel Cruz. I couldn't care less what he's going through

whether the story is true or false. He's a very nasty piece of work and he has said horrible things about liberals.

[oberliner]

72. National Enquirer could pull the same thing with anyone

Including people we care about and respect.

[Rex]

73. .

[Mc Mike]

75. Looks like the lie's going halfway around the site before the truth gets its boots on. Rec. nt.

[Peregrine Took]

76. Why hasn't he threatened to sue?

He's a lawyer - that would be the first thing he would say if he was innocent.

[oberliner]

79. The only claim in the Enquirer is that investigators are looking into rumors of affairs

Nothing to sue about.

[PeteSelman]

80. I agree. Nobody would fuck that guy.

Can you imagine that weasel with his sniveling, whiny voice trying to be all sexy?

Makes me want to vomit.

[snagglepuss]

81. i havent followed the story but there is a post saying that the SIL

of one of his alleged mistresses confirmed an affair. Did you see that?

[oberliner]

82. That post was locked

For not being from a reputable site.