Ted Cruz Absolutely ETHERS Reporter

[QUOTE=ProfessorMurder]There are so many garbage people in this thread.[/QUOTE]

Also, a lot of people who don't understand the purpose of the constitution.

Ted Cruz has 0% chance of winning a national election for president. He's just fleecing rubes for cash right now, nothing more.

Ted Cruz sounds like a smart guy then he goes and says that he's a Christian. That confuses the hell out of me.

If all he had to say was in the summary link posted thats far from an ether. He was asked a question and went all "There are more important issues!".

We all know he's not going to come out and says what he really feels but the OP is saying he 'ethers' a reporter when that is far from the truth. I don't care how he feels about the question that was asked but it was far from an ether. More like dodging the question.

Apparently, a Ted Cruz ethering session looks a lot like a rambling deflection of a legitimate question. Who knew? :confusedshrug:


Q: How do you feel about gay rights?

A: The liberal media is obsessed with sex. ISIS is beheading gay people. I'm for the constitution, btw.


Allow me to translate his response...
[I]
There are certain social issues far to the right of the current American mainstream, so while I need to pander to the Republican base -- who will turn on me if I waffle on this subject -- I'd prefer not to discuss my stance on gay rights unless surrounded by strictly right-wing audiences. Thank you and have a nice day. [/I]

this only proves he can't control himself. :oldlol: he looked completely shook & on the defensive.

had he TRULY "ethered" that reporter, it would've been done with a direct answer and less voice cracking.

[QUOTE=NumberSix]Ted Cruz Absolutely ETHERS Reporter[/QUOTE]
i'm not sure what "ether" means in your mind, but based on that clip it seems to mean "being called on your own homophobic shit, plunging your foot right in to it, then gleefully dragging it around in front of the cameras."

[QUOTE=BigBoss]Ted Cruz sounds like a smart guy then he goes and says that he's a Christian. That confuses the hell out of me.[/QUOTE]


The United States identifies itself as 83% Christian. Are you telling me that you and the other 2.4% of Atheists are smarter than everyone else?? :oldlol:


Unless you can show me your NASA badge, I don't want to hear it.

[QUOTE=Patrick Chewing]The United States identifies itself as 83% Christian. Are you telling me that you and the other 2.4% of Atheists are smarter than everyone else?? :oldlol:


Unless you can show me your NASA badge, I don't want to hear it.[/QUOTE]

The number of Americans who believe in God has dropped to 74% and I'd argue that many of those who do believe use Pascal's Wager to justify their beliefs.

[QUOTE=RedBlackAttack]Apparently, a Ted Cruz ethering session looks a lot like a rambling deflection of a legitimate question. Who knew? :confusedshrug:


[B]Q: How do you feel about gay rights?[/B]

A: The liberal media is obsessed with sex. ISIS is beheading gay people. I'm for the constitution, btw.


Allow me to translate his response...
[I]
There are certain social issues far to the right of the current American mainstream, so while I need to pander to the Republican base -- who will turn on me if I waffle on this subject -- I'd prefer not to discuss my stance on [B]gay rights [/B]unless surrounded by strictly right-wing audiences. Thank you and have a nice day. [/I][/QUOTE]
He wasn't asked about gay rights. He was asked if he personally hates gays. It's a wildly inappropriate, and insulting question.

Back when Obama was opposed to gay marriage, he was asked about his position on gay rights, and that's completely fair. Nobody ever asked him if he personally hates gay people.

Cruz didn't remotely dodge. He was asked if he hates gays. His answer was, as a Christian he loves everybody.

[QUOTE=Patrick Chewing]The United States identifies itself as 83% Christian. Are you telling me that you and the other 2.4% of Atheists are smarter than everyone else?? :oldlol:


Unless you can show me your NASA badge, I don't want to hear it.[/QUOTE]

1% of the world owns 99% of the wealth. Are they smarter economically then the rest of the world?

Your logic is so flawed. A majority of those Christians are born in families, environments, and societies that are largely Christian based that has built momentum for hundreds, if not thousands of years. That doesn't disappear overnight.

Your stat is wrong Christianity was 76% in 2007, it's at 70% in 2014. It's on decline. Those who identify as having no religion went from 16% up to 22.8%.

I know i'm smarter then you LOL. I'm paying attention to the wealth of information we do have in regards to our socialization from cave man to where we are today. Why are the Egyptians, Greeks, the indigenous in Africa, and the monks in East Asia wrong, but Christians are right? Because they outnumber everyone so by default it has to be correct? You do realize that people thought the world was flat once upon a time ago too and laughed at scientists/astronomers who theorized it was spherical. Just because everyone is buying into something doesn't mean it correct.

My position is that there is a source to all of this but to box myself in and say that in the VASTNESS of space and the Earth's rich history that our creation is due to a God whose sent his son down to die for our sins. Flat out ignorant to reduce ALL of this to a fairy tale. Go look up in the sky and find the star Canis Major which is so fukin far away yet we can see it. There are thousands if not millions of galaxies out there with so many undiscovered planets. We don't know shit!

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Rho_Cassiopeiae_Sol_VY_Canis_Majoris.jpg[/IMG]

Some perspective.


Pray to your sky wizard because he really gives a shit about you over that child in Africa hungry and living with AIDS.

I keep reminding myself not to argue with an uneducated fool who speaks in opinions vs facts, but i fall for it every time.. I always tell religious folks this. Go educate your self on the SCOPE of the universe and what has been discovered from chemistry, physics, space exploration and your beliefs will fall apart.

Here is a sunset on Mars.

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/MarsSunsetCut.jpg[/IMG]

Some more perspective. Now go pick and choose a passage that can be vaguely explain this ****ing picture and discredit it entirely as if it means nothing when in reality it means EVERYTHING. It means we don't know shit and we're not that unique. We are actually very uninteresting and so insignificant. We're so afraid of admitting that, that we've come up with shit like Christianity to give purpose to our lives to allow us to feel better because the 99% would go ape shit.

Your that dude in the Matrix who takes the blue pill. I take the red pill.

[QUOTE=NumberSix]He wasn't asked about gay rights. [B]He was asked if he personally hates gays.[/B] It's a wildly inappropriate, and insulting question.

Back when Obama was opposed to gay marriage, he was asked about his position on gay rights, and that's completely fair. Nobody ever asked him if he personally hates gay people.

Cruz didn't remotely dodge. He was asked if he hates gays. His answer was, as a Christian he loves everybody.[/QUOTE]
That's actually not what he was asked. The first question was, "Do you have a personal animosity toward gay Americans." That's a completely fair question based on his past statements and actions.

Cruz has, in the past, gone as far as attacking other politicians for partaking in gay pride parades. Why would he care unless there was some kind of animosity? The constitutions that he apparently loves so much gives those gay men and women the right to free speech and the right to free assembly and expression.

Here was one of his many statements on the issue...

"When a mayor of a city chooses twice to march in a parade celebrating gay pride that's a statement and it's not a statement I agree with."

So, it's not the media who has made sexuality an issue. It's Ted Cruz. And, he'd be happy to talk about it if this were a right-wing audience, because he has often done it in the past. His anti-gay pandering would have looked a lot like the above quote if it were a different media member that serves a different publication asking the questions. The reason he took offense here and flat-out dodged them is because he knows an unpopular view and that people outside of the hardcore Repub base would see/hear it. Period.

[QUOTE=BigBoss]1% of the world owns 99% of the wealth. Are they smarter economically then the rest of the world?

Your logic is so flawed. A majority of those Christians are born in families, environments, and societies that are largely Christian based that has built momentum for hundreds, if not thousands of years. That doesn't disappear overnight.

Your stat is wrong Christianity was 76% in 2007, it's at 70% in 2014. It's on decline. Those who identify as having no religion went from 16% up to 22.8%.

I'm not smarter, but i'm paying attention to the wealth of information we do have in regards to our socialization from cave man to where we are today. Why are the Egyptians, Greeks, the indigenous in Africa, and the monks in East Asia wrong, but Christians are right? Because they outnumber everyone so by default it has to be correct? You do realize that people thought the world was flat once upon a time ago too and laughed at scientists/astronomers who theorized it was spherical. Just because everyone is buying into something doesn't mean it correct.

My position is that there is a source to all of this but to box myself in and say that in the VASTNESS of space and the Earth's rich history that our creation is due to a God whose sent his son down to die for our sins. Flat out ignorant to reduce ALL of this to a fairy tale. Go look up in the sky and find the star Canis Major which is so fukin far away yet we can see it. There are thousands if not millions of galaxies out there with so many undiscovered planets. We don't know shit!

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Rho_Cassiopeiae_Sol_VY_Canis_Majoris.jpg[/IMG]

Some perspective.


Pray to your sky wizard because he really gives a shit about you over that child in Africa hungry and living with AIDS.

I keep reminding myself not to argue with an uneducated fool who speaks in opinions vs facts, but i fall for it every time..[/QUOTE]
All of your post is addressing a point he never made.

His simple point was the being smart and being Christian isn't contradictory. There is no reason to be confused that somebody could be smart and also be a Christian. One isn't in opposition of the other.

[QUOTE=RedBlackAttack][B]That's actually not what he was asked[/B]. The first question was, "Do you have a personal animosity toward gay Americans." That's a completely fair question based on his past statements and actions.

Cruz has, in the past, gone as far as attacking other politicians for partaking in gay pride parades. Why would he care unless there was some kind of animosity? The constitutions that he apparently loves so much gives those gay men and women the right to free speech and the right to free assembly and expression.

Here was one of his many statements on the issue...

"When a mayor of a city chooses twice to march in a parade celebrating gay pride that's a statement and it's not a statement I agree with."

So, it's not the media who has made sexuality an issue. It's Ted Cruz. And, he'd be happy to talk about it if this were a right-wing audience, because he has often done it in the past. The reason he took offense here and flat-out dodged the questions is because he knows an unpopular view. Period.[/QUOTE]
That's actually exactly what he was asked.

He was asked if he has a personal [B]animus[/B] towards gays. Google the definition of "animus" and get back to me.

[QUOTE]ANIMUS

:a strong feeling of dislike or hatred[/QUOTE]

If you think it's fair to ask if he personally hates gays, then argue that. Don't pretend that's not what he was asked.