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Venezuelan bonds rally on
bets Chavez sick again
Reuters, by Michael O´Boyle
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/28/2012 12:02:44 AM
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| MEXICO CITY - Venezuelan bonds rallied on Wednesday by the most in nearly six months after President Hugo Chavez said he would return to Cuba for medical treatment, raising bets that his health has faltered. Chavez said he will travel to Cuba on Tuesday for medical treatment, following a nearly two-week absence from the public eye, months after undergoing cancer surgery on the communist-run island. If his health does worsen, his unwieldy coalition of military leaders and leftist social activists could fall apart. "This announcement is in line with our view that the president´s health is deteriorating,
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Comments:
The bond market isn´t subtle.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 11/28/2012 12:14:24 AM (No. 9036946)
Even if Chavez dies, so many Venezuelans are now dependent on the government that they´ll elect another dictator.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/28/2012 3:00:23 AM (No. 9036999)
At least those people have hope under bizarre circumstances,we don´t.No such luck for us.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
noddy, 11/28/2012 3:07:37 AM (No. 9037001)
So what could make U.S. bonds rally?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Elvira, 11/28/2012 6:21:18 AM (No. 9037054)
I don´t know about a rally incentive for bonds here, #3. However, my husband a I have moved a large part of our investments to bonds. My financial advisor says that with a good bond group we can look to make 5%, which ten, fifteen years ago would be small change. Today not losing money is the goal. Our advisor is crazy busy with folks looking to ptotect what they´ve got left.
As an aside, when my youngest got a great job after graduation I sent her to him after the "if I had known at your age about 401ks, investing, blah blah" speach I was very impressed at her investments which included gold! Lord, all that "raising" paid off!
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Cardinal urges Government to
stop persecution against officials
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/24/2013 6:02:29 PM
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Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, the Archbishop of Caracas, on Tuesday urged authorities to stop "immediately" the persecution of civil servants supporting the opposition and called on the parties to overcome the political crisis Venezuela is facing. "That must stop immediately; it must cease straight away," Urosa told radio station Unión Radio as he referred to reports of persecution and harassment against civil servants and dissenters by pro-government sectors. The reports have been filed by human rights and political organizations recently.
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US rules out sanctions on Venezuela
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/24/2013 6:00:54 PM
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The US Government on Tuesday denied that it is "considering" any sanctions on Venezuela and said it did not see any threats to the bilateral economic relation. "That´s not something that we´re currently contemplating at this moment," US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said. Reference was made to US sanctions on Venezuela. His comments came in a daily press briefing on Tuesday, EFE cited. The statement came in response to declarations on Monday by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua, who said that the Venezuelan Government would respond to any US sanction by taking actions in trade and energy.
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Minister Varela threatens to
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/24/2013 5:58:43 PM
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Minister of Penitentiary Affairs Iris Varela said the government would present at domestic and foreign bodies evidence of the attacks where a number of healthcare centers were burnt and Chavezism activists were harassed during the April 14 presidential election and subsequent days. Just like other government spokespersons, she accused opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski of igniting violence across the country because he failed to recognize the election results. She vowed to send Capriles to jail for such actions.
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Tara Reid Throws Tantrum at
All Saints After Being Denied
Discount (Report)
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Hollywood Reporter, by Erin Weinger
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/23/2013 2:19:53 AM
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These days, young Hollywood is much less raucous than the "golden age of crotch shots" in the mid-2000s, long before Lindsay inflated her lips and Paris still seemed relevant. Which is why Monday´s report of OG trainwreck Tara Reid getting escorted out of All Saints for acting like an animal revives a spot in our heart once held for the out-of-control, pin-thin party girls of yore. The New York Daily News reports that Reid popped into the British import´s Robertson Boulevard location over the weekend to pick up some Coachella gear
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Gosnell Trial Witness: Baby
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CNS News, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/19/2013 6:21:59 PM
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On the last day of testimony before the prosecution rests in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, a former worker at Gosnell´s clinic testified that she saw one late-term baby who survived an abortion "swimming" in a toilet and "trying to get out." Kareema Cross, a “medical assistant” who worked at Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society clinic for four-and-a-half years, testified in a Philadelphia court today, telling of the horrors of babies who survived abortions only to have their necks snipped with scissors. “Did you ever see those babies move?” asked Prosecutor Joanne Pescatore. “Yes, once in the toilet,” said Cross.
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Ahmadinejad to attend Maduro´s
inauguration ceremony
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MTV, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/19/2013 2:52:19 PM
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The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad headed to Caracas to attenf the inauguration ceremony of the newly-elected Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. "Relations with Venezuela is strategic and it symbolizes Iran´s ties with Latin America," Ahmadinejad said prior to his departure for Caracas on Thursday.
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The Texan who stole the show
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Foreign Policy, by Elias Groll
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/18/2013 10:38:03 AM
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After being carried through the streets of London in a flag-draped coffin aboard a gun carriage, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this morning in St. Paul´s Cathedral. But the big story of the day wasn´t Maggie. No, it was a 19-year-old Texan who stole the show from the deceased Iron Lady. With a poise reminiscent of the elder Thatcher, Amanda Thatcher, Margaret´s granddaughter, delivered a reading from Epistles that has the British media agog. Amanda, who lives with her mother in Texas, chose a rather militant passage that calls on believers
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U.S. Does Not Recognize
New Venezuelan Government
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Breitbart News, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/17/2013 1:05:37 AM
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Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told the State Department press pool today that although the election results were certified, the U.S. would like a recount to occur in the Venezuelan elections. Multiple countries have recognized the new government and sent congratulations to the newly elected President of Venezuela, when asked if the U.S. government was going to do the same Ventrell replied, "We´re just not there yet."
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International viewers unable
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Reyes Theis
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/16/2013 3:22:43 PM
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"After what we have lived and seen, and the delicate situations we have witnessed, we may say that we cannot objectively and categorically attest to a fully democratic and clean vote in this great country," said Spanish Gustavo Palomares, the president of the Institute of Higher European Studies. He was one of the international guests accredited by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and invited by the opposition coalition. In this sense, international guests supported the petition of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski for a thorough and objective recount of "each tally sheet, each polling station, and each voters´ roll."
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Pot-banging in Caracas against
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/16/2013 3:03:57 PM
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Neighbors of various sectors of Caracas are banging their pots in protest against the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela at the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE). Downtown Caracas people are on balconies banging their pots, as well as in east and southeast Caracas. Pot banging was also reported in Cumbres de Curumo, Los Chaguaramos, Santa Mónica, Altamira, Los Palos Grandes, La Boyera, El Cafetal and Los Naranjos, among others.
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Venezuela: An Election
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/16/2013 8:47:39 AM
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Latin America: Venezuela´s election on Sunday, which saw bus driver Nicolas Maduro declared the winner by a razor-thin margin, reeked of electoral fraud. Kudos to challenger Henrique Capriles for calling it out. Fraud is a strong word but, yes, it´s the clearest conclusion from Venezuela´s election Sunday to pick a successor to the late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez. Chavez´s hand-picked successor "won" Venezuela´s election Sunday, with what Chavez´s anything-but impartial CNE electoral body declaring he´d gotten 50.6% of the vote, while his challenger, Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles Radonski garnered 49.07% — a gap of just 235,000 votes.
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Chavez Heir Maduro Wins Venezuela
Vote as Foe Rejects Count
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Bloomberg News, by Charlie Devereux & Corina Pons
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/15/2013 9:45:00 AM
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icolas Maduro, political heir to the late Hugo Chavez, was declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election yesterday in a result that was immediately challenged by the opposition. The 50-year-old former bus driver received 50.7 percent of the votes, the national electoral council said after about 99 percent of ballots were counted. Henrique Capriles Radonski, who temporarily stepped down as governor of Miranda state to run, had 49.1 percent and vowed to contest the results. “We had a fair and constitutional victory,” Maduro said after the results were announced. “This is another victory, a homage to our comandante Hugo Chavez.”
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Can a President Who
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American Thinker, by Lauri B. Regan
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Posted By: DW626- 4/23/2013 3:11:30 AM
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In Obama´s Audacity of Hope, he stated, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in any ugly direction." He also asserted in Bob Woodward´s Obama´s Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack." These are two straightforward statements that raise the question of whether a man who has been seemingly obsessed with reaching out to "the Muslim world" since taking office is capable of fulfilling his duty as commander-in-chief to keep America safe and secure.
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As Bush library opening puts
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Washington Post, by Dan Balz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/23/2013 12:29:52 AM
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George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush’s relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy.
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Republican Benghazi Report
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Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Internal emails in the week following the 9-11 anniversary assault on the U.S. facility in Benghazi show the White House and State Department removed references to al Qaeda and the mention of other recent attacks in Benghazi from widely distributed talking points used to explain the incident to the public, according to a new report from five House Republican committee chairmen released Tuesday afternoon. Citing administration emails provided to the House committees, the 46-page report claims that “to protect the State Department, the Administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaeda-linked groups and previous attacks
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev got
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy
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Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam —
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The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage
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Time Magazine, by Jeffrey Kluger
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 5:17:04 PM
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense
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Kerry on Global Warming:
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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In a statement marking Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry pledges to deal "responsibly with the clear and present danger of climate change." The former presidential candidate also notes the "fragile planet we share with the rest of humanity and which we must protect for future generations.""The United States joins countries around the world today in commemorating Earth Day. Ever since I was involved in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts, way back in 1970, this has always been a day to reflect on our environmental challenges and our responsibility to safeguard our God-given natural resources
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President Obama to daughters:
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New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/24/2013 12:18:38 PM
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President Obama and the First Lady have come up with a crafty strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos — and it banks on the girls thinking their parents are deeply uncool. “What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you´re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we´ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” “And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that that somehow that´s
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Franken: The Senate needs to
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:26:58 AM
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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) suggested on Earth Day that the Senate should spend more time talking about climate change issues. “I’m here to suggest we talk more about climate change so that we can agree on taking action to address it,” Franken said Monday. “The Senate cannot afford to ignore climate change, we need to talk about it.” Franken pointed out that 98 out of 100 scientist say climate change is real and needs to be dealt with. He said people outside Washington, D.C., understand this. “Many of my other colleagues I suspect don’t talk about
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National Review Online The Corner, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/23/2013 6:55:51 AM
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Apparently the latest craze in NYC is to let your babies’ freak flags fly by letting them go commando: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called,
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Ben Affleck to live on food
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Star-Ledger [Trenton, NJ], by Janelle Griffith
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/23/2013 7:53:21 PM
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Academy Award winner Ben Affleck is the latest Hollywood star to lend his celebrity to a social cause. Next week, the "Argo" and "Good Will Hunting" actor will join thousands of others when he lives off of $1.50 per day as part of the Live Below the Line campaign, from April 29 to May 3. Billed as a means to challenge the way people think about poverty, the campaign requires participants to feed themselves on no more than $1.50 a day for five days.
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Bloomberg Says Interpretation
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New York Observer, by Jill Colvin
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 12:10:33 PM
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In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”
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David Brooks: Ted Cruz ´Has
a Face That Looks a Little
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:18:25 PM
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NewsBusters reported Sunday the media´s chorus to silence Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is growing louder. As fate would have it, at roughly the same time, David Brooks was sitting down for a chat with PBS’s Jeff Greenfield at the 92nd Street Y during which the New York Times columnist said, “It doesn’t help that [Cruz] has a face that looks a little like Joe McCarthy” (video follows with transcript and commentary): After Greenfield brought up the Texas Senator, Brooks said, “So Ted Cruz is, just violates my sense. And I think if you mention the name Ted
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