You mis-spelled "untrue and damaging".
Like "Lying Ted"?
You mis-spelled "untrue and damaging".
Like "Lying Ted"?
If Cruz doesn't like being called a liar, then perhaps he should not lie.
If Cruz doesn't like being called a liar, then perhaps he should not lie.
Well it ain't like Trump ain't lyin'. Imagine a world where politicians don't lie and don't invent straw monsters.
Trump started on this during that Carson canard. He knew (and anybody that can discern what really happened) that wasn't a case of Cruz lying but has insisted on pursuing this harmful and damaging course of action ever since. Good thing not all candidates are so thin skinned as Trump as to want to threaten legal action in an attempt to shut them down and up.
Cruz lied about Carson. Cruz's campaign staffers lied about Carson, even after Carson refuted the lies. That's simply fact. But Cruz's lies go well beyond that incident.
We'll never truly know, regardless. He won't be President.
No, they are not facts. Carson said he was not going to New Hampshire and CNN picked up the story and theorized that Carson was ending his campaign. The Cruz people (and to a less publicized extent, so did the Rubio and Trump people) repeated this as news at the Iowa caucuses. No intentional lie was made by any of them, including Rubio and Trump. Carson was the one that initiated that scrum. And when he thought he might have caught a bit of a spark, all of a sudden, he decided he could live with the wardrobe he had on his bus another week. Carson, as a result of that episode, proved himself to be more of a politician than I gave him credit for.
After Carson refuted the rumors, Cruz campaign staffers were still making phone calls to caucus goers, saying that Carson was rumored to be dropping out. There is recorded evidence of that happening, after Carson refuted the rumors.
Refute? More like spin the rumors.
On the day of the Iowa caucuses, when the Cruz campaign was telling caucus goers that Carson was ending his campaign, Carson was merely "spinning the rumors"? Really?
Do politicians lie? Is water wet?
The question is: what constitutes libel? If Cruz lies, and Donald Trump calls him "Lyin' Ted", is that libel?
(And that line of discussion ignores the point that Trump's issue is specifically with libel in the media - not by individuals, politicians or otherwise. Further, it ignores the point that Trump's issue is with the malice standard, not with the standards of falsity or damage.)
No. That's not libel. But neither is Ted Cruz using Donald Trump's own words against him. I'm not apposed to candidates calling each other poopyheads, you know, free speech and all. I'm just not sure why mature audiences wouldn't just roll their eyes at that.
Yeah, we could call Drumpf a liar but he'd sue us because it's on the internet and we're now defacto news agencies and he's going to free all that up...
Him calling other people liars for questionable reasons that's okay though, just politics and him being not PC and what not.
I keep seeing that. Is it supposed to be some sort of slight, or smear? What is the substance behind it? Or is it just Alinsky-ite ad hominem?
Who has claimed otherwise?