Ted Cruz national spokesman Rick Tyler misleads
Ted Cruz’s spokesman Rick Tyler appeared on All In with Chris Hayes. Hayes asked Tyler how long Ted Cruz would stick to the strategy of not criticizing Ted Cruz in public. Tyler attempted to spin the question by stating that Cruz does not criticize any of the candidates.
“But that’s just not true,” said Chris Hayes. “Ted Cruz basically called Marco Rubio a neocon the other day. … He has criticized Marco Rubio just for the record.”
Tyler then responded that Cruz criticized policy and that neocon was not meant as a pejorative. The interview later took an interesting turn. Chris asked Tyler if Cruz did not think those who spoke about banning Muslims should be criticized. That is when Tyler went into a state of alternate reality.
“I think people are concerned that it seems like all the terrorist attacks, from Fort Hood to Chatanooga, to SanBernardino come from radical Islamic terrorism,” Tyler said. “That’s just a fact. People are worried about that.”
“What about Dylan Roof in Charleston who murdered nine people for an ideology,” Chris Hayes pushed back. Tyler tried to spin by saying we are at war with radical Islamic terrorism. Hayes stopped him cold. “You just didn’t answer the question,” Hayes said. “You said all of the attacks came from Jihadis, and I understand. You sighted some. But Dylan Roof murdered nine people. Why doesn’t that count?”
Tyler continued his cognitive dissonance by concentrating on Muslims who effected violence as he disregarded the vast majority of the violence perpetrated by all others. He continued the standard GOP talking points of demonizing Muslims and the President. Hayes hit him with reality when he spoke about the president not fighting ISIS.
“We have had more than ten thousand air strikes, right?” Chris Hayes said. “Ten thousand airstrikes isn’t nothing.”
Rick Tyler stuck to his talking points. Nothing Hayes said moved him. This is the reason the GOP constituents are so uninformed. Their leaders have failed them miserably.