"The premise of your question isn't true. I didn't make that comparison."
That was Ted Cruz' response to Meet the Press host David Gregory when asked if he regretted comments made during his faux-filibuster.
According to Cruz, this is what he meant to convey:
"I went through the centuries where, over and over again, when facing big challenges, Americans have risen to the occasion. At every stage, there were the voices of conventional wisdom that said this can't be done, and every time, Americans have risen to the challenge."
So apparently his comments were misconstrued.
Here's what he actually said during his everybody-look-at-me tour de force:
"If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany," Cruz said. "Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, 'Accept the Nazis. Yes, they'll dominate the continent of Europe but that's not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We can't possibly stand against them.
And in America there were voices that listened to that, I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on TV and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"
See? Gregory was trying to make something out of nothing, apparently.
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