Ted Cruz Fires Communications Director For Lying That Marco Rubio Had Renounced His Christianity

Ted Cruz today fired his campaign’s communications director Rick Tyler – the guy in charge of social media, among other things – for claiming that Marco Rubio had renounced his Christianity by mocking the bible. The Cruz campaign has repeatedy lied about his GOP rivals and all of those lies resulted in nothing more than shrugs and more lies by Ted Cruz. But lying about Jesus, that is apparently the one thing that Cruz will take action on.

UPDATE: Fox News reports.

“We are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate. Even if it was true, our campaign should not have sent it. That’s why I’ve asked for Rick Tyler’s resignation,” Cruz said. “The standards of conduct in this campaign have been made absolutely clear.”

Tyler originally had linked to a story showing a video of Rubio walking by a Cruz staffer and Cruz’s father Rafael, who were reading the Bible in a hotel lobby. The original subtitles on the video showed Rubio saying to the staffer, “Got a good book there, not many answers in it.”

But after Tyler linked to the story, Rubio communications director Alex Conant tweeted out the same video with what he says are the correct subtitles — and they tell a very different story.

In them, Rubio actually says of the Bible, “All the answers are in there.” Conant called the move “another dirty trick” by the Cruz campaign.