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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS Host Smacks Down Ted Cruz–‘You Don’t Even Know How Many Muslims Are In America’
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/03/23/watch-cbs-host-smacks-ted-cruz-dont-even-know-many-muslims-america/Yesterday, shortly after the terrorist bombings in Brussels, our favorite serial-killer smile wearing weirdo Ted Cruz found the nearest microphone and declared:
We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.
When he was later asked if he wanted to clarify his statementwhich would be blatantly illegalCruz decided to double down on his extremely objectionable remarks, because thats what Islamophobic asshats who are trying to outdo the equally xenophobic Donald Trump do when they want to pander for the votes of frightened Americans.
But today on CBS This Morning, karma paid a call on Senator Cruz, in the form of Norah ODonnell, who asked Cruz how in the hell his plan would work logistically. How, she wondered, do you patrol 3 million American Muslims, who are not, as Cruz suggested, ghetto-ized in festering radical communities as they are in Europe. Cruz, as you might expect, had no reply that made sense, and this led ODonnell to comment that Cruz didnt even know how many Muslims live in the United States. Sheepishly, Cruz admitted that was true....
And with all due respect, Senator Cruz, you dont even have all of the facts, yet you also want to wage a form of war on innocent Americans who just want to live here and contribute to society. Just because youre a Christian and your father is a pastor, that doesnt mean you have the right to declare all other forms of belief invalid or dangerous.
We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.
When he was later asked if he wanted to clarify his statementwhich would be blatantly illegalCruz decided to double down on his extremely objectionable remarks, because thats what Islamophobic asshats who are trying to outdo the equally xenophobic Donald Trump do when they want to pander for the votes of frightened Americans.
But today on CBS This Morning, karma paid a call on Senator Cruz, in the form of Norah ODonnell, who asked Cruz how in the hell his plan would work logistically. How, she wondered, do you patrol 3 million American Muslims, who are not, as Cruz suggested, ghetto-ized in festering radical communities as they are in Europe. Cruz, as you might expect, had no reply that made sense, and this led ODonnell to comment that Cruz didnt even know how many Muslims live in the United States. Sheepishly, Cruz admitted that was true....
And with all due respect, Senator Cruz, you dont even have all of the facts, yet you also want to wage a form of war on innocent Americans who just want to live here and contribute to society. Just because youre a Christian and your father is a pastor, that doesnt mean you have the right to declare all other forms of belief invalid or dangerous.
BOOM! Drop the mic!
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CBS Host Smacks Down Ted Cruz–‘You Don’t Even Know How Many Muslims Are In America’ (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2016
OP
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)1. Norah O'Donnell did a great job
of dismantling the man in the melted goalie mask.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)3. "Tha man in the melted goalie mask"...oh my God--that's perfect!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)5. Well, he is Canadian.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)2. Cruz is toast.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)4. .../...
phylny
(8,366 posts)10. I watched a bit over 4 minutes and then had to stop.
He's a hateful, fear-mongering man. He makes my stomach turn.
Wounded Bear
(58,571 posts)6. Facts kind of interrupt the flow...
of the Ready, Fire, Aim philosophy the RW war-mongers like to follow.
Rex
(65,616 posts)7. Well you cannot expect much from a political party that spent the last 35 years avoiding facts.
Facts are the enemy of the GOP.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)8. It's Really A Race to the Bottom
Cruz's Brain v Cruz's Mouth.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)9. Heidi needs to give Ted just one number for him to remember!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)11. that liberalamerica site has ads all over that look like soft porn LOL
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)12. That's the only way Cruz's plan will work -- if they're ghettoized.
And if that happens, then we are all fucked as a society.
Or maybe that's what Ted wants? A Warsaw Ghetto for Muslims?