Ted Cruz Campaign Wants Stations to Pull Ad Attacking Candidate

[RockaFowler]

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/ted-cruz-campaign-wants-stations-to-pull-ad-attacking-candidate/164014

Ted Cruz‘s presidential campaign sent a letter to local stations in South Carolina and parts of Georgia asking them to pull an ad attacking its candidate.

The Republican Presidential candidate’s campaign wants the ad, paid for by Super PAC American Future Fund, pulled “immediately,” because it “disseminate[s] a false and misleading advertisement lying about Senator Ted Cruz’s record.”


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Cruz’s letter also says stations are bound by their FCC licenses “to avoid deliberate misrepresentations and intentional falsehoods” and goes on to say “Your failure, as an FCC licensee, to fulfill this obligation, may be deemed an ‘underlying abdication’ of your duties as such a licensee and result in the loss of your station’s license.”

This guy is unreal. He wants to control any and all messages. Scary guy here. This guy is the one acting like a dictator.

[Myrina]

1. Because only Ted has the copyright to "disseminate a false and misleading" info

The hypocrisy is stunning.

[patricia92243]

2. In his world, it is ok for him to use misleading info against other - but not for them to do likewis

[Katashi_itto]

3. Well he is possibly the Zodiac killer after all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027624547

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Pffft!

It says there he was born after the last zodiac shooting. So, i saw that movie with Malcom McDowell and Mary Steenbergen. How do we know that Teddy doesn't have one of the time machine thingies?

[Katashi_itto]

6. Agree, Jack the Ripper is a possibilty too!

He hasn't denied it.

[phantom power]

4. Cruz: "Nobody accuses ME of hating immigrants less than other Republicans!"

Keep digging, Ted...

[leftynyc]

7. Welcome to Citizens United

you sniveling hypocrite. Where anyone gets all the rights of citizens and none of the responsibilities.

[trotsky]

8. 'stations are bound ... “to avoid deliberate misrepresentations and intentional falsehoods"'

Oh please please please let's go down this road. FAUX News would be shut down in an instant.

[KamaAina]

9. The regulation applies only to broadcast stations.

Fux and its ilk do not hold FCC broadcast licenses. It is, however, banned in Canada for misrepresenting itself as "news"!