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EE_
18th February 2016, 01:49 PM
Cruz gets slimier and slimier...

S.C. Rep. Trey Gowdy demands Ted Cruz denounce misleading Facebook post
Donovan Slack, USA TODAY 5:50 p.m. EST February 16, 2016

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., called on Sen. Ted Cruz to denounce a potentially misleading Facebook post that suggests Gowdy has switched his endorsement from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to Cruz.

“The truth actually matters to me and to all South Carolinians,” Gowdy said in a statement Tuesday. “Unfortunately it appears that the campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz may not place the same value on waging a contest based on the truth and facts.”

The Cruz camp quickly responded and denied any responsibility, saying "Our campaign had absolutely nothing to do with this fraudulent Facebook post."

The Facebook post, signed “Trey Gowdy Prayers,” features a picture of the lawmaker and the post dated Monday that says endorsing Rubio was a “grave mistake” and the writer — whomever that is — was now formally endorsing Cruz. Although it doesn't explicitly say so, a reader could believe that Gowdy himself switched.

“Nothing could be further from the truth and I’m demanding that Senator Cruz and his campaign repudiate these dishonest and underhanded tactics,” Gowdy said Tuesday. “We can have a debate about the future of our party and our country. But we need not leave our integrity behind.”

Gowdy is demanding that Ted Cruz repudiate this post.

The Cruz campaign tweeted their disapproval a few hours later:


Rubio’s campaign, which blasted out Gowdy’s demands, also noted that television stations in South Carolina pulled an ad from a Cruz super PAC in recent days after a legal review.

Cruz came under fire in Iowa after his campaign sent mailers alleging voter violations for failing to caucus, and later, for spreading a false report to caucusgoers that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/16/trey-gowdy-ted-cruz-fake-facebook-post/80466052/

mick silver
18th February 2016, 02:55 PM
all they people are below being nasty low lifes

EE_
18th February 2016, 03:53 PM
Cruz Campaign Pushes Photoshopped Image of Rubio Shaking Hands with Obama
by Alex Griswold | 10:55 am, February 18th, 2016 783


The Marco Rubio campaign is livid Thursday after the Ted Cruz campaign released a website that includes a photoshopped image of their candidate shaking hands with President Barack Obama.

Cruz’s website “The Real Rubio Record” ironically features a very unreal image of Rubio smiling ecstatically while shaking Obama’s hand. “The Rubio-Obama Trade Pact” the text ominously reads, a reference to Rubio’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Cruz website also features a photoshopped image of Rubio smiling while leaning on a business sign reading “Closed.”

Rubio Obama

Among the red flags that the image is fake… who shakes with their left hand? Certainly not the right-handed Rubio.

The Rubio campaign was predictably less than amused. “This is how phony and deceitful the Cruz campaign has become,” Rubio advisor Todd Harris told a gaggle of reporters in South Carolina, while holding up the image in question.

The pushback comes after Cruz faced criticism for what his opponents termed “dirty tricks” in Iowa. In particular, Cruz was criticized for pointing out an official-looking flyer telling voters they faced a “voter violation” unless they voted for him, and for telling supporters to spread a rumor that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.

UPDATE (11:13 AM): The Cruz campaign doubled down, telling CNN that they believe the image is authentic.


UPDATE 2 (11:47 AM): The Cruz campaign is now walking back its initial denial, while not quite admitting the image is fake. “If Rubio has a better picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama I’m happy to swap it out,” Spokesman Rick Tyler told CNN. “Two days before presidential primary in South Carolina, they want to talk about a picture we used.”

Meanwhile, Internet sleuths have tracked down the stock photo that was the basis for the photoshop the Cruz campaign won’t say is a photoshop.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/cruz-campaign-pushes-photoshopped-image-of-rubio-shaking-hands-with-obama/

madfranks
18th February 2016, 04:43 PM
http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Rubio-Obama-650x326.jpg

And the original, unedited photo:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cbgodv3WwAA-G55.jpg

EE_
18th February 2016, 04:50 PM
http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Rubio-Obama-650x326.jpg

And the original, unedited photo:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cbgodv3WwAA-G55.jpg

How scummy!

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