It was really only a matter of time before someone other than Sarah Palin said something really stupid about the Planned Parenthood attack. Ted Cruz was the first presidential candidate to respond to the attack, and he did so in a classy way, with prayers and condolences. Now he’s in damage control mode. He is trying to distance himself and the GOP from this tragedy in the most insane way imaginable.
At a press conference, Cruz told reporters that associating Robert Dear with Republicans’ attempts to interfere with women’s reproductive rights is just “vicious rhetoric on the left blaming those who are pro-life.” Well, no, not really, but people like Ted Cruz will think what they want.
That’s not the kicker, though. The kicker is when he responded to a question about Dear saying, “no more baby parts,” with this:
It’s also been reported that he was registered as an independent and a woman and transgendered leftist activist, if that’s what he is. I don’t think it’s fair to blame on the rhetoric on the left. This is a murderer.
That is disgusting. It paints a picture of transgender people as psychotic murderers. They are not.
Some are saying that Dear’s voter registration form listed him as a woman, but there’s no way to draw the conclusion that he was transgender. Even so, that’s what the right has run with ever since that came out. It should be noted that this was first reported at The Gateway Pundit, which likes to play fast and loose with facts, but which the right likes to take seriously for some reason.
According to Think Progress, Dear was a recluse who was generally conservative in his political leanings. He was also Christian, loved the Bible, and believed abortion was wrong. He was critical of President Obama. Neither his appearance nor what people know about him, suggests he was transgender. There is currently no explanation for his voter registration form.
Calling Dear transgender because of a sketchy report about his voter registration form is like all the conservatives who took a single report that the shooting might actually have been a bank robbery and ran with it. They do not want to face even the possibility that everything they’ve been spewing about those lying videos that claim Planned Parenthood sells baby parts for profit might have helped set this in motion.
Yes, he was a murderer, but he was also a conservative, Christian terrorist. Ted Cruz is scared about how this will play out against the GOP in the upcoming elections. He should be.
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Unbelievable !!
What kind of people believe anything these shills say? Who votes for them?
So will there be a multi-year, multi-million-dollar congressional investigation into why he blamed this terrorist attack on a completely unrelated group?
what scares me are the republicans that support this madman.
I know many Rs and they have not had one word of support for this individual. The same Rs who think life is precious and should be preserved. Which is why they oppose PP in the first place. They would support someone that kills people indiscriminately? That makes no sense.
planned parenthood is not a killing machine i have been there years ago. it is for women and men. you need to do some research before you post such nonsense.
Did you watch any of the dozen + videos? I bet not. I believe my eyes and ears. Who is the one who is ignoring research. Ignorance of facts is ignoring the truth.
some lying crap from the right wing crowd?of course they do abortions which is certainly none of your business. stick to what you know best lying republicans.
Oh honey, as if you liberals never lie. Stop trying to use the same old liberal trick of blaming the conservatives for everything. Oh, and when taxpayers foot the bill, it is their business as is everything taxpayers fund. Republicans aren’t guilty of this shooting. The individual is and at this point nobody even knows if he had an actual agenda other than maybe he’s just a nut.
oh honey, the right wing conservatives are a gang of thugs. they need to mind their own business and continue paying taxes to fund planned parenthood. its the law of the land honey, no matter how many gun totin right wingers dont like it.
Taxpayers don’t foot the bill, “honey.” Let me break it down for you very clearly.
PP does not get money in advance for ANY service. Period. They perform various medical services and tests and they BILL BACK the government for those services and tests that are covered by their funding. They do not bill back for abortions as it is not covered by their funding and would be rejected.
Again, let’s review: Taxpayers foot the bill only for services that are approved for government funding. They do not foot the bill for abortion in any way, shape, or form and don’t pay a DIME for any service until AFTER the services have taken place. They pay only for the service that has been billed back.
So no, it is none of the taxpayers business what private abortions happen as they’re not paying for it.
Killing babies should be everyone’s business. If you can’t see that your the lying one.
Many of those videos didn’t come from PP, but you fell for it anyway. That ignorance jab cuts both way, it seems.
Again. You obviously didn’t watch, you just babble your ignorance. These were interviews with PP employees. Of course liberals will deny facts to show how they believe the end justifies the means. Sick.
You must be confused by how editing works. Just because you hear someone’s voice over footage, does not mean the two are in any way related or taken from the same place.
What? I know for a fact now you didn’t watch any of the 12+ videos or the interviews with the management of PP. I am done with you. Your not smart enough to have a discussion with.
Subject: Re: Comment on Ted Cruz Thinks The Planned Parenthood Terrorist Was Really ‘ Transgendered Leftist Activist’
“Your[sic] not smart enough to have a discussion with”
God, that one made me smile.
I most certainly watched the videos. I’d point out where they’re deceptively edited. Where they source images unrelated to planned parenthood. Where they show images of a stillborn fetus when they claim it was an aborted one.
I’d do that, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t understand any of it.
What a moron. Must be a Jesse Ventura fan and see a conspiracy in everything.
You believe something without even the slightest hint of critical thinking about it and I’M the moron? Ok. What’s funny is you probably believe in countless other right wing conspiracies, like Benghazi, but when a video is PROVEN to be false, we’re the conspiracy theorists.
Here’s a fact for you - The living fetus on the table kicking? It was a miscarriage, not an abortion, and there’s no indication that it happened in this COUNTRY, let alone in a planned parenthood.
“Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random acts of violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.”
In an incident of stochastic terrorism, the person who pulls the trigger gets the blame and will either go to jail, be killed or commit suicide. The person(s) triggering the attacker—the actual stochastic terrorist(s)—go free, protected by plausible deniability. Here’s how it works:
1. A public figure with access to the airwaves or a pulpit demonizes a targeted person, group of persons or an organization.
2. With repetition, the target is gradually dehumanized and depicted as morally reprehensible and dangerous, arousing a combination of fear, contempt and moral outrage.
3. Graphic images, violent metaphors, suggestions that it’s just a matter of time before violence occurs, and, use of righteous religious language are implemented, all of which stop just shy of a call to arms.
4. When violence erupts, the public figure(s) inciting the violence condemn it, claiming no one could possibly have foreseen the possibility.
Who? This was a senseless murder by a deranged person. Stop trying to politicize it!
it IS political thanks to the right wing busybodies who cant keep out of women;s business.
Se we are supposed to blame “left wing environmentalists” for the death of Benjamin and Kristi Strack and their 3 kids? Do you want to restrict free speech in an attempt to not encourage crazies?
What did environmentalists have to do with that case? Stack was afraid of the apocalypse, not unlike many right wing preachers who claim God is coming to cleanse the world. Not a rise in sea levels.
If anything you could blame doomsday preachers.
Stop trying to excuse their behavior, there are “crack pot” people.
why would anyone blame left wingers for what is obviously a xian fear of the future….aka riech wing conspiracy fear based disease? your being obtuse and you know it.
“Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random acts of violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.”
In an incident of stochastic terrorism, the person who pulls the trigger gets the blame and will either go to jail, be killed or commit suicide. The person(s) triggering the attacker—the actual stochastic terrorist(s)—go free, protected by plausible deniability. Here’s how it works:
1. A public figure with access to the airwaves or a pulpit demonizes a targeted person, group of persons or an organization.
2. With repetition, the target is gradually dehumanized and depicted as morally reprehensible and dangerous, arousing a combination of fear, contempt and moral outrage.
3. Graphic images, violent metaphors, suggestions that it’s just a matter of time before violence occurs, and, use of righteous religious language are implemented, all of which stop just shy of a call to arms.
4. When violence erupts, the public figure(s) inciting the violence condemn it, claiming no one could possibly have foreseen the possibility. It’s a real thing, educate yourself!
It became political the second someone with a political ideology shot up a PP. You want to blame someone for politicizing it, blame Dear.
So Dear has a “political ideology?” He thinks he’s a woman, so what’s his “political ideology?” Sounds like a left wing nut-job to me - what do you think?
He doesn’t think he’s a woman, you clown. No reputable source has reported that. My original statement was very clear as to what his ideology was. He shot up a PP clinic and repeated the phrase “no more baby parts.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that his politics drove this action.
This guy also had a girlfriend. How, I don’t know, but kinda shoots down Cruz’ lie about transgender. But, then, Cruz couldn’t give a weather report without lying or saying Obama caused the rain.
Seriously America, this joke is no longer funny. These Republican wannabees are the worst set of politicians, and human beings, since Joe McCarthy. Cruz and his fellow Presidential wannabees are hateful, greedy, heartless, arrogant, blasphemous, bigoted, racist, misogynistic, dishonest, sanctimonious, crude and vulgar. Are those, seriously, the traits Americans want to see in the President of the United States?? What does it say about our country, our morals, our standards, our intelligence and our ability to lead the free world when ANY of these Republicans could even be CONSIDERED for the position they are seeking?
Proven to have been faked? Are you that ignorant. Those were PP employees you idiot.