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Actress Launches Failed ‘Gotcha’ Moment on Ted Cruz
A minor celebrity named Ellen Page had a brilliant idea. She would go to some flyover state called “Iowa,” find dumb, evil, bigot Senator Ted Cruz, and confront him over his backward views on gay rights. Better yet, she would bring her own camera crew to document every second of her courageous destruction of the christofascist Texan and the snake-handling hill people he represents. America would finally see a white Hollywood millionaire standing up to small-town evangelical bakers and octogenarian florists.
Unfortunately for Page, Sen. Cruz had no clue who she was and never realized he was supposed to be intimidated by the 28-year-old.
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Cruz calmly explained his well-considered position for about four minutes, and stressed the importance of religious liberty and the protection of LGBT people from harm, especially by the hands of Iran and ISIS. And he did all this while holding a hot pork chop.
Sheltered progressives are often shocked when conservatives don’t conform to the stereotype. Anyone who had conducted the most elementary research would have known Cruz is no dummy and that he would easily best even some of the brightest minds on the left. This actress created the gotcha moment for an upcoming web series produced by Vice Media. It will be interesting to find out how much ends on the cutting room floor.
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When Cruz debates and discusses issues with other people, he is completely courteous and gracious, while being relentless in his logic and reason. If Trump had been in that confrontation I imagine he would have called Ms. Page a loser or something similar.
Cruz actually comes off better in one-on-one interviews with hostile questioners than in speeches, where he has a preacher vibe that can turn people off.
He comes right up to the edge of insincere earnestness that makes people think he is trying to sell them something. It doesn’t bother me because I know his actions/words are sincere.
Even if she was out of her depth, kudos to Page for making the effort. More than most celebrities would do.
Cruz came off fine here. He deflected the question skillfully as a politician.
I’m horrified to find out that Ellen Page is 28. She thinks at the level of a thirteen year old. It’s scary.
I think he comes off better with hostile questioners than with friendly questioners. I remember listening to his interview with Jay Nordlinger at CPAC and thinking, “Man, even in a one-on-one interview he speaks entirely in applause lines.” Thankfully that proved inaccurate.
In my experience, the hard left in a nutshell consists of arrested development: it’s 1) all about teh feelz, 2) to the extent there’s any cause/effect reasoning going on at all, it’s strictly first-order (A living wage will reduce poverty! Regulate speech and the social problems it signifies are solved! Give our enemies what they say they want and they’ll stop being our enemies)! It’s profoundly magical thinking, literally a case of saying the right thing being the right thing, regardless of demonstrable—and demonstrated—unintended consequences (Obamacare costs) or even outright failure (War on Poverty).
This would be merely risible if the morons weren’t so numerous, didn’t gain political power, and didn’t also have a demonstrated totalitarian bent. It might also help if the U.S. had anything remotely resembling a serious opposition party. Instead we have the crapless feckweasel Progressive-lite party who equally demonstrably are committed to driving the nation over the cliff at 55 MPH instead of 60, marginalize the only candidates who take the Constitution and Bill of Rights seriously and make an effort to reach out to the African-Americans who should be the party’s most natural constituents, and take a flip-flopping populist blowhard with no political experience seriously.
LGBTQ? What does the “Q” stand for? I didn’t realize another letter had been added…
Queer.
Oh its even worse than that Aimee. Its now LBGTQA because apparently the Asexuals get lumped in with the LGBTQs now.
Let’s be done with it and use LGBTQQIAPHDBDSMBFDVIPRSVPRESPECTEIEIO.
To quote Twitter, SMH…
If I was an asexual I wouldn’t want to be lumped in with the rest of those groups.
Actually, I believe it’s “Questioning”.
It’s both. Sometimes you’ll see two Q’s.
They do love to have it both ways.
The progressive revolution has no borders. Flags are simply a convenience to be used until the glorious day when workers of the world will unite.
Demonstrating the Borg-like mentality of political correctness, I have some liberal acquaintances that just a decade or two ago, made fun of the whole “LGBT-add-letters-later” thing. They’d type things like “LGBTBBQ” in IRC and texts, making fun of it, even thought they were pretty gay-friendly.
Now? They religiously recognize the progressive rules of language and text concerning gay movements. The very same liberals that were typing “LGBTBBQ” 15 years ago will now attack you as a homophobe if you do the same thing today. Once a narrative sets in, the devotion must be complete, no matter what you previously thought or said. Violate the narrative in any way, and you’re an apostate bigot.
We’re talking about the same ideology that spawns movements like Queers for Palestine, never stopping to think for even a second what would happen to them if they staged a gay rights march in Gaza. Cognitive Dissonance is a feature, not a bug.
Absolutely. It’s the Jon Stewart effect (and before him, Noam Chomsky). If one of my tribe is attacking, then he’s always cool and always right and destroyed your guy. Even if my guy came off like a complete fool in reality.
She’d have done better if she were playing the role of someone smarter.
Sheesh. Where have you been…
LGBPTTQQIIAA+
Plus-sign?
Because they realized it was a never ending list…..
If you click the link you will see why.
That’s plus sized. I feel so included…..
I remember when ” I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body” was a joke, now it’s a viable option….
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The war on poverty was successful by the most basic measure. There is no poverty in America.
Cruz should have ended the conversation with, “Just let me eat my pork chop right now” a la Barry and his waffle.
This is good. Stealing it.
I remember when it was LGB. Give it 10 years and there will be 30 characters.
Had their been no war on poverty, capitalism would have still managed to wipe out poverty.