Ted Cruz's festival of fraud

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Ted Cruz's festival of fraud

by Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-ted-cruz-climate-change-global-warming-chapman-20151211-column.html

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His patented formula is a mix of repellent ingredients: misrepresentation of facts, baseless smears, exaggerated sincerity and pretended solidarity with the average person. If Cruz tells you it's raining, you can leave your umbrella at home.

Most candidates need a full-length speech or a 45-minute town hall meeting to show off all the qualities that should disqualify them. But an interview he did with NPR the other day captured the essence of Cruz in six minutes of nonstop mendacity.

The topic was global warming. Every major scientific body has confirmed its existence, but as "the son of two mathematicians and computer programmers and scientists," he feels particularly qualified to debunk it.

"The scientific evidence doesn't support global warming," he informed NPR. "For the last 18 years, the satellite data — we have satellites that monitor the atmosphere. The satellites that actually measure the temperature showed no significant warming whatsoever."



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1. 18 years ago was an outlier. It was an unusually warm year. That is why he chose the 18 year

timeline rather than say 15 years. Or 10. Or 20.

[world wide wally]

2. The fake sincerity is the thing that drives me over the edge

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3. We in Canada were talking tonight. The question was who would you vote for if you had to? Cruz

or Trump? Everyone shivered and protested. It is just one of those questions.

[Martin Eden]

5. That's marginally less painful than Sophie's Choice

I think Cruz is more dangerous.

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6. I agree. I think Trump is pandering with all his racism. Which is bad. But it means he is only a

user and exploiter and persecuter of the downtrodden vs. Cruz who wants to close the IRS and I don't think actually likes most other human beings. Doing away with the IRS would destroy middle class ....but on second thought it is too painful to imagine a Trump President for any length of time.....either..... Then again they both say they would slaughter innocents in the Middle East what with carpet bombing and killing the families of jihadists. I think I'd have to puncture my eardrums and pour acid on my eyes if either one got elected.

[Martin Eden]

4. The Tribune is my "local" paper.

Steve Chapman is a conservative, but not a partisan hack. He came out against invading Iraq before "Shock & Awe" was launched. I agree with him fairly often, and definitely on this commentary (which I read when it was printed).

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7. Didn't know he was a conservative.

[Scuba]

8. He is indeed a conservative, and is also occasionally right. When I used to get the Trib I read ...

... his column a couple times a week. If only all Republicans were as sane as he.