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Ted Cruz Responds to ‘New McCarthy’ New Yorker Article: ‘Curious’ They Would ‘Dredge Up a 3-Year-Old Speech & Call it News’

Feb. 23, 2013 10:42am Madeleine Morgenstern

Ted Cruz Responds to New Yorker Article Where He Accused Harvard of Having a Dozen Communists on the Faculty

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Sen. Ted Cruz’s office told TheBlaze it was “curious” that the New Yorker would dig up a years-old speech for the purpose of dubbing him “our new McCarthy.”

Nevertheless, Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said the Texas Republican’s “substantive point” about Harvard Law School being home to Communists “was absolutely correct.”

Cruz, the New Yorker reported, said in a 2010 speech that President Barack Obama “would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School” because “there were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were 12 who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.” Cruz attended Harvard Law after Obama.

“It’s curious that the New Yorker would dredge up a three-year-old speech and call it ‘news,’” Frazier said in a statement to TheBlaze late Friday. “Regardless, Senator Cruz’s substantive point was absolutely correct: in the mid-1990s, the Harvard Law School faculty included numerous self-described proponents of ‘critical legal studies’ — a school of thought explicitly derived from Marxism – and they far outnumbered Republicans.”

A Harvard Law School spokesman had told the New Yorker they were “puzzled by the senator’s assertions” and “unaware of any basis for them.” Charles Fried, a Republican who served as President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general and taught Cruz at Harvard Law, also disputed the notion.

The New Yorker had said it was possible Cruz had been referring to the left-leaning critical legal studies, “a method of critiquing the political impact of the American legal system”:

Professor Duncan Kennedy, for instance, a leader of the faction, who declined to comment on Cruz’s accusation, counts himself as influenced by the writings of Karl Marx. But he regards himself as a social democrat, not a Communist, and has never advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government by Communists.

It’s not clear precisely what kind of Communist “overthrow” Cruz said the professors supported — an actual physical takeover or, given the academic setting, a kind of intellectual one with an emphasis on ideas.

Frazier defended Cruz’s original assertion, stating: “As two professors explained in the Stanford Law Review in 1984: ‘A large segment of the [critical legal studies] membership forms part of the revisionist wing of Marxism. These members remain faithful to the central premises of Marx’s thought, especially to the view that the material conditions of life are the engine of social history. Their course is defined by the magnetic pull of Marxism.’”

The New Yorker’s “new McCarthy” is the latest allusion Cruz has drawn to McCarthyism in his short tenure in the Senate, a reference to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s notorious and aggressive pursuit of Communists in the 1950s.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) told the New York Times earlier this month Cruz “was really reminiscent of a different time and place, when you said, ‘I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such and such a date,’ and, of course, nothing was in the pocket.”

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Evolved
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:17pm
Ah, I see all 12 of Ted’s supporters have gathered here.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:13pm
Just Noted SINsay 2:07
Must be the Commiequeer New Math, SinS.
4800 Dark Age Barbarian KLANbanger JihadiNAZI Sandyknickers > 4 Americans IF and Only IF
(S+K)B=A. It does not.
The Current Big Mick Exchange Rate for Sanduskies per American is TEN Thousand to One.
We just getting STARTED making them pay. Got nearly an order of Magnitude to go.

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trickball
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:01pm
If anyone knows what Communism looks like it’s Ted Cruz. His father fled Cuba because of Castro and his tyrannical takeover. So Ted Cruz knows what he’s talking about. But, what’s more interesting is that Barack Obama won’t admit that he is a communist! I mean when you are raise by a mother, father, and grandparents who are communist and you want to remove the Constitution then does that make you a communist or Marxist-Leninist? That should be no surprise that they are at Harvard. It is where critical race theory first appeared by Obama’s professor, Bell. So why are people surprise? Because they don’t like to be called out and put on blast! That’s why. When Allen West tried to warn us Chris Mathews and Joe Scarborough tried to shame him when he was revealing the obvious. Communist are everywhere and that’s why we have to fight them on every front and by any means necessary.

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grickm
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:48pm
Get ‘em, Ted!

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Look4DBigPicture
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:51pm
It’s time for this country to start talking about the progressive communist leanings in the Democratic Party, and ignore the liberal media’s attempts to squelch the conversation. We sat back and allowed them to sway voters by mocking Allen West, but we should not allow them to do the same thing to Ted Cruz.

Most CPUSA organizations have a web page in every city. View their website frequently and when you see your representative attending an event, report it to every media source you can think of and post it on your FB page. Here are our 2013 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members:

http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:47pm
Take them head on. The reason the weasels in the alinksy media go on attack is because they are afraid of the truth in your message.
Stick to your guns and they have nothing to cover, except their own fear.
Ask yourself why Chris Christy is popular?, Palin was demonized at the highest level and well orchestrated at that (yet a highly competent individual and recognized by anyone who looks at her honestly)? People love Rubio? Jan Brewer?
It is always the same thing — THEY SWING BACK!
Swing back and those weasels shrink back behind the bushes.

It is the simple formula they try to scare you away from.
Fess up with a ‘so what’ noi matter what they come up with.
Repeat “nancy pelosi” “saul alinsky” “barak obama” << There is nothing more evil. they cannot cover you whenever you put 'saul alinsky / barak obama or / nancy pelkosi" in the same sentence!

They are one in the same – USE IT!

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BacktotheFounders
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:28pm
Looks like the left wing media has started its campaign of hatred against Ted Cruz. They are going to spend the next four years viciously trying to destroy him, reminiscent of the way they attacked Sarah Palin.

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brovet
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:26pm
Whenever the dummycrats fear a politician, they find a negative (usually false) label to attached to him so that the left wing media can attack him.

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emmaliza123
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:25pm
Anyone who uses the term McCarthyism or demonizes the late senator shows his/her total ignorance of the Kremlin’s files which were made available at the end of the Cold War. Books that translated the papers known as the Verona Files have been around for years. One of them is “Dupes”. Joseph McCarthy was correct, and so was Cruz, as ivy league schools were a target for the communist indoctrination. Good grief! These people seem to be totally out of touch. Even Latin America was infiltrated, and books are written about that as well.

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noslave
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:12pm
I GUESS MY POST HURTS THE SCREENERS FEELINGS so ill just say SPEAK YOUR MIND IF IT ALLOWED and flip them the bird that disagree?? its political correctness that allowed the communist to become so emboldened??

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:52pm
No Mr. Cruz, there is no comparison of the school of Harvard, and its silence regarding the attacks by Domestic enemies of the US Constitution on a range of issues, because corruption can not be compared to any other thing than corruption?

Rush Limbaugh’s Cigar Puffing,
Says go ahead laugh, let me tell you something?
Democrats think they can pave the way,
and all they have to do is think and say,
Republicans want dirty air,
Republicans want dirty water,
But Riddle me this, ask us to dismiss,
radioactive tanks leaking faster,
don’t bother me now,
I’m golfing like a master?
You can cuss and fuss,
You can pout and plead,
but you can’t fill the Democrat’s,
greed you’ll see?
That’s all going to change,
you won’t think its strange,
all it took was little old you,
inspired by me,
finding out where its at,
Glenn Becks wid that,
he’s got a tv station and a microphone?
Where its at?
Glenn Becks wid that,
He’s got a tv station and a microphone?

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South Philly Boy
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:37pm
He’s Exactly what America NEEDS… NOW

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- Barbara Tee
  Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Leave it to South Phillies to recognize the truth.
  Way to go!
  
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The_Fifth_Column
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:35pm
McCarthy was correct about his assertions of Communism in America, and who they were. There is no doubt about it. So……….Why is Senator Cruz criticized for telling the truth. Obama ought to be proud of his beliefs. Have you read Obama’s book? Not the newly abridged version; but, the original version. Have you listened to his old speeches from Harvard and other engagements, He does believe in Communism. He just doesn’t say the nasty word. He was raised by Communist parents, his mentors were Communist when he was growing up, and his political philosophy is Communist with a twist of Americana. To Quote the President during his first campaign concerning Governor Palin. “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Or should I say………You can put lipstick on a Communist, but it’s still a Communist.

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GrandpaOf4
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:26pm
Saying there are communists hiding in the halls of higher education behind the skirts of tenure is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. It might not come up. What impresses me here is that this might possibly be a hundred times the investigative journalism effort that the New Yorker put into informing us about that unknown senator from Ill. You know the one I mean. The Marxist they helped elected into the white house. Hey New Yorker if you could put even half this much effort into something that actually matters I might consider lining my bird cage with your trashy rag.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:45pm
For years and going Strong. If you would not Respect Authority. You were said to have some Mental Issue. Low Life Parents Loved it….SSI for my kid, More Drugs for them. Yahhhhh! Teach your Children to Respect Authority. Only if it is Proven to be Respectable. Very hard to find in any School System Today! Home School Them.

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texanpatriot
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:40pm
Go Ted. This is why we sent you to DC. Keep raising the heat and making the too comfortable pols as uncomfortable as possible.

We need more like him. When the RINOs and government media get after a statesman like Ted Cruz it should make us all sit up and cheer.

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UseTP2wipe
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:34pm
One does not need to “dredge up” older speeches by this mentally unstable turd. You can merely Google and find great examples of Cruz’s nutty, stupid, and insane ramblings, from any point in time, including most recently. Speaking of “dredging up old speeches,” how about Beck posting the idiotic utter BS about Krugman and his “death panels” speech, when the almost same talk had been given and explained away already in 2010! http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/death-panels-and-sales-taxes/

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:22pm
  Commie koolaid drinker. And even when one of your commie dorks says something, he/ she or it didn’t really say it.
  
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- UseTP2wipe
  Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:13am
  13th mammy: Good comeback. Nothing to dispute what I stated. Just the usual Tea Party playbook garbage. Keep sending your money to Beck. He loves and is looking out for you…..and your money,
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:30pm
I keep posting some facts I heard from a Grad Student at Duke and I don’t see them showing up.
If you’ve seen them tell me here, would you.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Early 90s I’m a Grad Student at Duke.
  The gentleman in question came up in class. I say “It was Hollywood who got him.”
  Grad Student–who’d DONE the research FOR the Proff ON the Subject says:
  “NO! It was only when he started looking into the ARMY that THE PRESIDENT pulled the plug on him.”
  DDE did the deed to protect his fellows.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:20pm
  tried again as reply here and still it ain’t showin
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:22pm
  FINALLY!
  I was beginning to think the Grad Student in question was working for the Blaze.
  
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truthnstuff
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:20pm
McCarthy was proved right. Ted Cruz is right and let’s hope he hits back even harder. The commies aka democrats, are scared to death that he will not be shut down by PC and that he has a set of cojones. They and the Repube establishment will be all out to destroy Rand Paul and Ted Cruz as well as Cr. Carson. Now is the time for them to launch an all out assault on the MSM and the regime.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:15pm
Alinsky proposed hiding out propagandists exactly where you would EXPECT to find them. As Professors and Film makers!
It’s not even a puzzle. They are exactly where you expect them to be doing exactly what you would expect them to be doing.
It’s not rocket science. To even take issue with someone commenting on it exposes angst at being ‘found out’
WWAD (what would alinksy do)? He would say- “Demonize anyone who exposes you in a collective effort to discredit them.

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pennswoods
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:15pm
Liberals need to be reminded that John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert were good buddies of Senator Joe McCarthy after WW II and until the early 1950′s. Robert Kennedy even went so far as to work as a lawyer for the hated anti Communist Senator and admired McCarthy so much he asked him to be the Godfather of his first child Kathleen. The late 40′s and early 50′s (before the Republican Eisenhower became President) was a time when the Soviets refused to leave the lands they “liberated” from the Nazi’s in Eastern Europe forcibly and turned them into slave states of the USSR. Czechoslovakia fell to a Communist coup in 1948 and China was taken over by Mao’s thugs in 1949. Then there is North Korea invading South Korea in 1950 with the support and aid of Communist China and the USSR. McCarthy might have been in extreme at times but he was right on the spot about what the intentions of the left and their Communist leaders in the USA had in mind and what the intentions of the USSR was all about during that era. The Venona Files prove everything he, Whittaker Chambers, and others said during Congressional hearings in the late 1940′s about Communist infiltration of our Government back then was fact. Sorry liberals. To be called a “McCarthyite” is a badge of honor. Your side supported the enemies of our country after WW II and still do. Thank God there are people like Glenn Beck around who can stand up to the left today.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 2:02pm
WE NEED about 10,000 NEW McCarthys. These are perilous times, corrupt, infiltrated government and labor unions. Over 100 members of the US Congress are Marxists and no longer even hide it. Chicago is a swamp of Commies as are University Academia and Media.

Others need to join Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz TO SPEAK THE TRUTH without fear. There are few others willing to stand tall and be counted FOR AMERICA.

WE MUST Support those brave enough to not be dragged into the sewer of corrupt DC & UN globalists. G-d Bless Them Always and Protect Them from Harm.

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gili0806
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 1:48pm
WE NEED MORE TED CRUZ’s. In the early days of our nation, people voted for those who had morals and principles. This man, is a man of morals and principles. He is doing what he said he was going to do. Let’s support this man and encourage others like him to run. Keep up the good work Ted Cruz.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 1:47pm
VofRearson.
Rebut that McCarthy was RIGHT about Commies in DC, Hollywood, Media.
Venona Intercepts and Mitrokhin KGB files clearly demonstrate he WAS right.
Rebut THAT!
The Charge of “McCarthy-ism” stands or falls not on the % of Commies at Harvard Law, but on whether McCarthy was WRONG about Commies in DC and Hollywood.
If McCarthy the Elder was correct, and THE EVIDENCE says he WAS, then to SPECULATE on the Commies at Harvard Law has at least the presumption of Fire where there is Smoke in EXACTLY the vein of McCarthy the Elder.

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aconstitutionalistlivesinbrooklyn
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 1:38pm
Stand strong Ted. We support you.

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- annie-oakley
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:03pm
  Amen.
  
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