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To: Sdgla who wrote (849172)	4/10/2015 11:35:13 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575193

Media Tries Getting ‘Pedantic’ On Ted Cruz ..................................................................................................... Breitbart's Big Government ^ \| April 10, 2015 \| John Hayward The Left has become very devoted to the strategy of defining Republicans with early hits. Conventional wisdom holds such tactics were particularly effective against Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential candidate in 2008, and Mitt Romney on the top of the ticket in 2012. That’s why we have overheated and dishonest attempts to portray Senator Rand Paul as a short-tempered misogyinst, and a crusade to discredit Senator Ted Cruz as a spinner of tall tales, disconnected from reality. The interview between Cruz and CNBC’s John Harwood I mentioned yesterday – in which Harwood asked, “Why shouldn’t somebody listen to you and say, ‘The guy’ll just say anything – doesn’t have to be true?'” – is getting kicked around on the Left quite a bit, even though it was the weakest of challenges, and Cruz handled it adroitly. The folly of making such a big deal about a number Cruz quoted in a single speech, in the midst of a joke, hasn’t slowed down the narrative-builders. The Huffington Post, for example, reported the incident with the preposterous headline “CNBC Reporter Hammers Ted Cruz: Why Should Anyone Believe What You Say?” Harwood didn’t “hammer” Cruz; he asked a single question at the end of a generally cordial interview and was given a thoughtful response, on a topic so nitpicky that it made Harwood look ridiculous for harping on it. Word of warning, kids: if Hillary Clinton ever sits for a serious interview, instead of spending the entire campaign in a hermetically sealed bunker, a decent journalist will be able to “hammer” her veracity with issues far more serious than getting the total payroll of a federal agency wrong while telling a joke... (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...