It’s Washington, not Ted Cruz, that’s abnormal.
According to a new Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans say they have “not very much/none at all” confidence that they can rely on the media to report the news “fully, accurately, and fairly.”
Forty-six percent say the media are too liberal, and just 13 percent think they’re too conservative.
Justification for this public sentiment is evident as the budget and debt-ceiling issues heat up and the press an hardly restrain its disdain for tea-party Republicans and the idea that our nation may really be in crisis.
New York Times columnist David Brooks does a regular political commentary feature along with Mark Shields on the “PBS NewsHour.” It’s hard to believe that this feature is supposed to be balanced, with Brooks the alleged conservative and Shields the liberal. But for PBS, like the New York Times where Brooks writes his column, anyone not on the far left is a conservative.
In a recent “NewsHour” segment about the budget debate, Brooks talked about “the rise of Ted-Cruzism.”
According to Brooks, Cruz is not a “normal” senator who sees himself in Congress to form alliances and pass legislation. Rather, per Brooks, Cruz is more a “media protest person.”
The same thing is happening in the House, says Brooks. House Republicans are “not normal. … They just want to obstruct.”
My organization, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, held an event in Washington two weeks ago titled “Reversing the Urban Plight.”
A room filled with about 100 black pastors and community leaders from around the country listened to presentations by black conservatives like Dr. Ben Carson, economist Walter Williams, Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory and CURE Chairman and Family Research Council Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell talk about how freedom and conservative principles hold the key to reviving our urban crises.
At dinner, Sen. Ted Cruz dropped by.
In stark contrast to what the PBS viewing audience heard from David Brooks, this audience heard remarks from Cruz, the freshman senator from Texas, that everyone in the room found refreshingly normal.
Cruz had a crisp, clear message about getting America back on track and about what it will take to save our low-income urban communities.
He talked about the importance of school choice and personal retirement accounts for low-income Americans.
Only in Washington is it considered abnormal and obstructionist for a member of Congress to ring the alarm about the loss of freedom in America, to take a stand to restore it and suggest that Americans, particularly low-income Americans, should be able to decide what kind of school they send their child to and to keep and save more of their hard-earned income.
The black pastors who heard Cruz heard someone who wants to liberate, not obstruct, and understood that the obstructionists are the political class in Washington whose agenda is holding onto and expanding their own power.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/its-washington-not-ted-cruz-thats-abnormal/#eKoMS40sRB201q4h.99
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