April 8, 2016, - 6:18 am
Latest Ted Cruz Natl Enquirer Cover: Do You Believe There’s Any Truth to This? – UPDATED
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The latest issue of the National Enquirer has a cover full of stunning, salacious headlines against Ted Cruz. While it seems to me that most are likely BS, the Enquirer has a history of breaking credible stories the mainstream media won’t cover. What do you think?
Above is the cover of the latest issue of the National Enquirer, dated yesterday. As has been documented since the first sorta discredited Enquirer hit piece on Cruz last week, the tabloid’s owner David Pecker is close to Donald Trump (though it appears the story had been floated by the Marco Rubio camp when “Kinky Boots” Boobio Schmubio was still running). Ted Cruz never flat-out denied that he never cheated on his wife, but the “five women” story has been mostly discredited or denied.
While others dismiss the Enquirer as trash and not to be believed, you can’t disregard the fact that the publication broke stories in the last couple of decades that the mainstream media wouldn’t touch: the Jesse Jackson’s love child story, the John Edwards’ love child story, etc. Maybe one day they’ll do the Hillary Clinton love child story (my friend Adam Taxin calls her, “Chelsea Hubbell-Mezvinsky”).
On the other hand, I look at these headlines, and they don’t all pass the smell test. For one, there’s the “DC Madam” story that MSNBChlamydia’s Rachel “Pat” Maddow has been pimping for a while now. As you may recall, back in 2007, Washington, DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey was arrested and charged with racketeering for running a prostitution ring of “high-class call girls.” (She committed suicide in 2008, a couple of weeks after she was convicted.) When the news broke and part of her client list was disclosed, Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter was revealed to be among Palfrey’s repeat clients. But the entire list (which is actually a set of Verizon phone records of calls made to Palfrey’s hooker agency) was never released because a court order prohibited it.
Palfrey’s former lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, has been seeking a reversal of that order. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant that reversal.
Much of the news coverage of the list, including that by Maddow, implies that Ted Cruz is on it–including the blaring Enquirer headline, which outright asserts Cruz is on the list. I don’t believe it, and here’s why:
Those who’ve reportedly seen the list say Cruz isn’t on it, but that “four candidates” (for what office I don’t know, as it isn’t noted in the story) are. Also, Cruz wasn’t elected to the U.S. Senate until 2012. The list is from 2007 and earlier. Cruz was on the Bush legal team and spent several years in Washington. From 1999 to 2003, he worked at the Federal Trade Commission and at the Bush (In)Justice Department. But I think if he had used the prostitution service, it would have probably come out by now. (You never know, though, as longest-serving GOP Speaker of the House Denny Hastert nearly got away with being a serial child rapist.)
I think that maybe four candidates for other offices, like U.S. Senate and House, might be on the list. But I doubt there are any Presidential consequences. So, the Enquirer headline asserting that Cruz is on the list sounds like absolute BS to me.
As for the other headlines about “Ted’s affairs,” I think that stuff also would have come out by now, and we’d see actual names and proof. The women in last week’s Enquirer stories were weirdo, clingy Ted groupies, including overly flirty and completely unprofessional Amanda Carpenter (something’s completely off about her) and Trump spokeschick/Tea Party puck bunny Katrina Pierson. And while I think something odd and creepy was going on between former Cruz employee Carpenter and Cruz, I don’t believe he was sleeping with her. He just doesn’t seem the type (as weird as he is). She just seems like a desperate egomaniac who had a huge infatuation with him.
We need to see what’s inside the Enquirer stories behind these headlines (and most of those aren’t online). I haven’t gone to the supermarket yet to check out what’s inside and behind the cover.
What do you think?
**** UPDATE: Well, I guess my skepticism was well placed. Reader PolitiJim writes:
The top heading of the Enquirer is correct but the bottom is photoshopped. This is the cover for the issue coming out tomorrow with Elton John having a “threesome” not Cruz. . . .
Read the rest of his comment below in the comments section. He has a lot of interesting info indicating that Ted Cruz may, indeed, have been a john.
Tags: DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Heidi Cruz, Montgomery Blair Sibley, MSNBC, National Enquirer, Rachel Maddow, Ted Cruz
What is the credible evidence that Ted Cruz did what he is accused of doing? Until there is credible evidence, then all is baseless slander.
A very serious sin, loshon hora,is it not? Or do we live in a time where “anything goes”? What happens to a community where loshon hora is rampant?
bobguzzardi on April 8, 2016 at 7:28 am