Patricia Murphy at the Daily Beast launched this assault on Thursday: “Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions.” The subhead was "Ted Cruz's war against Obamacare is a racket to raise his profile and millions of dollars." Murphy saw only greed in his 21-hour speech: “Cruz was leading a fake fight over a fake vote that nearly all in Washington agree would never actually defund Obamacare the way Cruz said it would.”

This is not exactly the way Tina Brown and her liberal minions treated Barack Obama when he was raking in many millions of dollars with two different memoirs that were filled with fraudulent personal history. Out came the anonymous sources to trash Senator Ted: