'Can't make this up': AP 'corrects' false claim Ted Cruz called pro-abortion protesters 'Satan worshippers'

Protesters: "Hail satan."

Ted Cruz: "They said 'hail satan.'

AP/NatJourno: "Cruz called protesters satanists."

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 13, 2014

At an abortion bill protest at the Texas Capitol last summer, abortion rights supporters engaged in a chant of “hail Satan” in an attempt to drown out the prayers of some pro-life groups.

At an event in Texas yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz simply quoted what happened, stating that the pro-aborts were “arm-in-arm, chanting ‘Hail, Satan,’ embracing the right to take the life of a late-term child.”

Somehow that has translated into Ted Cruz comparing the pro abortion demonstrators to Satanists:

https://twitter.com/emmaroller/status/444167102379724800

Seriously?

No he didn't, you hack. RT @emmaroller Ted Cruz compared abortion supporters to Satanists

— RBe (@RBPundit) March 13, 2014

Now, if YOU want the protesters who chanted "Hail Satan!" satanists, that's YOUR call. Ted Cruz didn't call them that. @emmaroller

— RBe (@RBPundit) March 13, 2014

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/444173898817761280
https://twitter.com/rolltideroll95/status/444176758154096641

To "report" that Ted Cruz compared abortion supporters to Satanists requires willfull ignorance. http://t.co/FE3hRv6lv7 #MSM #DoYourJob

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 13, 2014

The Associated Press got in on the act big time:

https://twitter.com/AndrewStilesUSA/status/444160040518557696

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The original AP report claimed that Cruz (and other speakers) called the pro-abortion protesters “Satan worshippers.”

The AP subsequently issued a correction (but not an apology):

IMAGINE THAT. MT @amandacarpenter: AP issues correction to story that said Cruz called people satan worshippers. http://t.co/xeVxYqNn5k

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 13, 2014

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/444176796867919872

Worst. Correction. Ever.

https://twitter.com/TheRightWingM/status/444179062190530560

Newsbusters reports media outlets running the original AP story included the “Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, U.S. News and World Report and several other organizations.”

The angrier lefties get, the bigger the lies MT @dangainor AP, Dallas News, WaPo Lie abt Ted Cruz Abortion Statementhttp://t.co/vTq73VV2BC

— Stars and Stripes (@StarznStrypz) March 13, 2014

Bias baseline:

https://twitter.com/zhanover/status/444177162531528706

Indeed.

Editor’s note: The title of this post has been corrected to fix a spelling error.