{"id":701,"date":"2015-03-24T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=701"},"modified":"2015-03-24T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:06:01","slug":"cruz-media-coverage-of-me-backhanded-compliment-ill-go-straight-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Cruz: Media Coverage of Me &#8216;Backhanded Compliment,&#8217; I&#8217;ll Go Straight to People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cruz-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cruz-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Cruz 2016\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>If you want to know why the FCC took over the internet, here&#8217;s the reason why:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/03\/23\/cruz-media-coverage-of-me-backhanded-compliment-ill-go-straight-to-people\/\">Cruz: Media Coverage of Me &#8216;Backhanded Compliment,&#8217; I&#8217;ll Go Straight to People &#8211; Breitbart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">Cruz said, &#8220;\u2026that\u2019s how we do it, we go over the heads of the reporters. And it\u2019s easier now, we\u2019ve got social media,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">we&#8217;ve<\/span><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">\u00a0got Facebook,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">we&#8217;ve<\/span><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">\u00a0got Twitter,\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0got, God bless, Fox\u00a0News,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">we&#8217;ve<\/span><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">\u00a0got the Internet,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">we&#8217;ve<\/span><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.9200000762939px;\">\u00a0got the\u00a0Drudge\u00a0Report, we\u2019ve got talk radio. We have all of the tools, the media gatekeepers are hopeless, but we can go directly to the people with the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t think they will try to shut him &#8211; or any other conservative contender &#8211; up, you have another thing coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know why the FCC took over the internet, here&#8217;s the reason why: Cruz: Media Coverage of Me &#8216;Backhanded Compliment,&#8217; I&#8217;ll Go Straight to People &#8211; Breitbart. Cruz said, &#8220;\u2026that\u2019s how we do it, we go over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,5,8],"tags":[22,154,44,153,49,50,51,56,57,63,137,86,138,100,155,115,116],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","category-first-amendment","category-politics","tag-tcot","tag-conservate","tag-conservatism","tag-cruz","tag-culture-2","tag-culture-war","tag-current-events","tag-election","tag-election-2016","tag-first-amendment","tag-internet","tag-mainstream-meda","tag-net-neutrality","tag-politics-2","tag-reagan","tag-tea-party","tag-ted-cruz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-bj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}