Memo to Ted Cruz: Not only are you the most hated man in the Senate, not only does Donald Trump call you an anchor baby, but now Fox News has decided to call you out for your massive lies over the years about Obamacare.
Teddy Boy walked into the lion’s den of “Fox News Sunday” and got a lesson in truth from host Chris Wallace. One of Cruz’s all-time favorite fabrications is when he says that Obamacare would lead to massive job losses, but as Wallace reminded him:
“The fact checkers say you’re wrong. Since that law went into effect, the unemployment rate fell from 9.9% to 5% as 13 million new jobs were created, and 16.3 million people who were previously uninsured now have coverage. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of problems with Obamacare, but more people have jobs and health insurance than they did before Obamacare.”
How’s that for a truthbomb from hell?!
Cruz, as is his usual approach, then resorted to name-calling, yammering on about “unfair” fact-checkers who were in reality “liberal editorial journalists. Such people, he maintained “have made it their mission to defend Obamacare.”
So Wallace came right back at him:
“There’s certainly no question that more people have jobs and more people health insurance.”
But Cruz had his feelings all hurt at this point and told Wallace not to interrupt him. How I wish Wallace had said, “So what if I do? Are you forgetting whose show this is, dillhole?”
Wallace again used facts to trip up Cruz, who has never been a fan of actual reality. Wallace hit him with the fact that 13 million jobs have been created under President Obama.
Lying yet again, Cruz claimed 13 million was a “historically slow rate of job creation.”
I guess the Texas Senator isn’t bothering to use recent history such as the George W. Bush Administration’s job numbers, where a mere 21,000 new jobs were created a month during the eight years Dubya sat in the Oval Office.
Yes, facts can be ferocious things, especially when they don’t support your blatant lies, Senator Cruz.
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