Ted Cruz schools another lib (NYC councilman) who didn't like his reality check for Colin Kaepernick

Doug P. | 12:10 PM on July 06, 2019

As Twitchy told you yesterday, New York Times editorial board member Mara Gray took offense to Sen. Ted Cruz adding full context to a Frederick Douglass quote from one of his speeches that Colin Kaepernick shared on Twitter. The isolated quote was obviously intended as a slam on America (on the Fourth of July no less) but the full speech, from which Cruz shared many quotes, revealed something very different.

Next up to try and criticize Cruz for having the nerve to directly quote Frederick Douglass is New York City Councilman Justin Brannan:

Ted Cruz should not be "clarifying" Frederick Douglass.

— Justin Brannan (@JustinBrannan) July 5, 2019

That was teed up perfectly for Cruz to respond:

I know for NYC elected Dems words can lack “meaning,” but directly quoting at length is not “clarifying” (nor is linking to the entire brilliant speech). But selectively quoting Douglass to make him seem like a modern America-hating Leftist is, well, the opposite of “clarifying.” https://t.co/uUtcmU686v

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2019

It’s amazing those things have to be pointed out, but here we are. Meanwhile, Brannan’s tweet is getting ratio’d into the stratosphere:

Leave it to a low level democrat to appoint himself arbiter of who is allowed to say what.

— Hialeah Gringo (@hialeahgringo) July 6, 2019

Yes he should, especially when the quote in question was completely taken out of context and weaponized to further divide.

— SkepticalHippo (@hippo_skeptical) July 6, 2019

What is it with Lefties and picking utterly stupid beaches to die on rhetorically? https://t.co/dL1UgS3Hff

— Medieval Knievel Gets Over Macho Grande FTW (@smitty_one_each) July 6, 2019