“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz,” Al Franken wrote in in his autobiography, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
Lindsey Graham joked at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s 72nd Congressional Dinner, “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”
Ted Cruz is a soulless, craven coward. He allowed himself to be emasculated this week by the effeminate trust fund baby Proud Boy white supremacist, Tucker Carlson, host of “White Power Hour” on Fox News. “Here’s your balls in a jar, Teddy.” Making Texan men proud, Ted. Cruz Begs Tucker to Forgive Him. Tucker Makes Cruz Beg Harder.
A day after Tucker Carlson publicly scolded him for the unforgivable sin of calling the Jan. 6 insurrection a “violent terrorist attack,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hightailed it to the Fox News star’s show on Thursday night to grovel for forgiveness.
Yet, while Cruz repeatedly claimed he’d made a “mistake” due to “sloppy and frankly dumb” phrasing, Carlson wouldn’t let the Texas senator off the hook—prompting the one-time presidential contender to plead harder for Carlson’s approval.
Cruz, one of eight senators who objected to the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, drew Carlson’s wrath on Wednesday when he solemnly described the deadly Capitol riot as “a violent terrorist attack” during a Senate hearing.
Carlson, [a January 6 conspiracy theorist] who has downplayed the violence of Jan. 6 and suggested the insurrection was a “false flag” orchestrated by federal agents, wondered “what the hell’s going on,” while accusing Cruz of “repeating the talking points that Merrick Garland has written.”
In a moment that evoked Cruz siding with Donald Trump in 2016 after Trump personally disparaged his wife and father, the Republican lawmaker appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to kiss the ring and beg the Fox News audience to forgive him.
“There are a lot of dumb people in Congress. You are not one of them. Smarter than I am [that’s a low bar.] And you never use words carelessly,” Carlson kicked off the interview. “And yet you call this a terror attack when by no definition was it a terror attack. That was a lie. You told that lie on purpose and I’m wondering why you did.”
You mean this domestic terrorist attack, you little fascist prick?
Cruz then claimed the way he phrased his words “was sloppy and frankly dumb.” Carlson, however, was having none of it.
“I don’t buy that,” the Fox star interjected. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! I’ve known you a long time since before you went to the Senate. You were a Supreme Court contender. You take words as seriously as any man who’s served in the Senate. And every word—you repeated that phrase, I do not believe that you used that accidentally. I just don’t!”
“Tucker, as a result of my sloppy phrasing it’s caused a lot of people to misunderstand what I meant. Let me tell you what I meant to say,” Cruz implored. “What I was referring to are the limited number of people who engaged in violent attacks against police officers. I think you and I both agree that if you assault a police officer, you should go to jail. That is who I was talking about.”
Again saying his “phrasing was sloppy,” Cruz insisted he “wasn’t saying the thousands of peaceful protesters supporting Donald Trump are somehow terrorists.” Carlson, though, remained unconvinced.
“Hold on, what you just said doesn’t even make sense,” the primetime host replied. “If someone assaults a cop, he should go to jail, I couldn’t agree more. We’ve said that for years. But that person is still not a terrorist. How many people of been charged with terrorism on January 6? Like, why did you use that word? You’re playing into the other side’s characterization!”
Cruz maintained that for over a decade, he had used the word “terrorist” to describe people who had violently assaulted police officers. At the same time, he attempted to appeal to Carlson’s ego.
“That being said, Tucker, I agree with you, it was a mistake to say that yesterday and the reason is what you just said,” the former presidential candidate said. “We have now had a year of Democrats and the media twisting words and trying to say that all of us are terrorists. Trying to say you are a terrorist, I am a terrorist.”
Ted Cruz is one of the coup plotters fingered by Peter Navarro in his new book. It was Ted Cruz who seconded coup plotter Rep. Paul Gosar’s objection to counting Arizona’s electors in furtherance of the “coup memos” by Trump lawyers John Eastman and Jenna Ellis. Ted Cruz is eventualy going to be subpoenaed by the January 6 Committee. The committee should make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
Cruz went on to say that he understood “why people were angry” with his comments, claiming that it was within the context of the “corrupt corporate media” taking aim at “anyone who objected to election fraud” over the past year.
“Wait, wait, wait, can I just ask, I guess I just don’t believe you! And I mean that with respect, because I have such respect for your acuity and your precision,” said Carlson, alongside an on-air graphic blaring “Cruz’ing For A Bruising.”
“I’ve seen it on display, I’ve covered you as a reporter, I know how you speak. And you have sat there for a year and watched people use language to distort the events of that day intentionally. Insurrection, coup, terrorism!”
Eventually, after agreeing with Carlson that the Jan. 6 insurrection wasn’t an insurrection, Cruz again apologized for calling Jan. 6 rioters “terrorists” while peppering in right-wing buzzwords.
“But the reason I’ve used that word is I’ve used that word for people who violently assault cops. I used that word in 2020 for the antifa and BLM terrorists who assaulted cops and firebombed police cars, but I agree it was a mistake to use the word yesterday,” the conservative senator proclaimed.
After putting Cruz through the wringer for nearly eight minutes, Carlson ended the interview by thanking the Texas lawmaker for coming on his show.
What a wuss. The only appropriate response to this effeminate trust fund baby Proud Boy white supremacist Fox fascist propagandist is to kick his sorry ass and make him cry for his mommy. Any true Texan man would have told this Fox fascist propagandist, “This is Amurica. We don’t take kindly to your kind around here,” and then kicked his sorry ass live on TV. Instead, Ted “Cancún” Cruz groveled before this little fascist prick and was emasculated. What the hell is this country coming to?
Texas needs to trade Ted “Cancún” Cruz, maybe to one of the “stan” countries, for a late round draft pick or maybe a player to be named later. Or just cut him from the roster and kick his pathetic ass to the curb.
A real man, Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps veteran (Semper Fi!), who was prepared to defend his House colleagues by fighting the MAGA/QAnon domestic terrorists (fuck you, Tucker!) who had broken into the House chamber on January 6 with murder and mayhem on their minds, was interviewed on MSNBC’s All In With Chirs Hayes about his thoughts on Ted “Cancún” Cruz groveling to Fox fascist propagandist Tucker Carlson.
Aaron Blake of the Washington Post writes, Ted Cruz grovels to Tucker Carlson over Jan. 6 ‘terrorist attack’ remark:
If you tried to script an interview that epitomized the GOP’s post-Jan. 6 evolution, its subjugation to its more extreme elements and its rewriting of its own narrative of the Capitol riot, you would struggle to do better than Sen. Ted Cruz’s interview with Tucker Carlson on Thursday night.
To recap, Cruz (R-Tex.) set off a bit of a MAGA backlash on Wednesday by calling the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol a “violent terrorist attack.” Among those criticizing Cruz was Carlson, who laid into the senator on Wednesday night.
So Cruz appeared on Carlson’s show Thursday night to back down, take his medicine and hopefully move on.
It did not go so well. But it did provide an extremely apt picture of the current state of the post-Jan. 6 GOP — on the evening of the anniversary of Jan. 6, no less.
[T]he thing is … this, after all, was hardly the first time Cruz had labeled Jan. 6 a terrorist attack. He did so Jan. 7, 2021 — “a despicable act of terrorism” — and in a Jan. 8, 2021, tweet. He did so in a local news interview published Jan. 8, as well.
Even more than four months after the riot, while voting against the creation of a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission, Cruz was still using that word. “The January 6 terrorist attack on the Capitol was a dark moment in our nation’s history,” Cruz’s May 28 statement began.
That is, indeed, a lot of slipping up to do — over a long time — for a Princeton- and Harvard-educated lawyer. Cruz’s sudden backtracking is pretty much a case in point in the GOP’s long-standing effort to disown its previous acknowledgments that Jan. 6 was as bad as it was — along with Donald Trump’s culpability. This wasn’t him slipping up; this was him deciding that the talking point was no longer welcome.
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The interview had it all. Here was the runner-up for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination appearing on the airwaves of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theorist, who instantly made clear who had the real power in their relationship. (Cruz even acknowledged that he sought out the interview shortly after seeing what Carlson had said Wednesday night.) Rather than truly defending himself, Cruz meekly tried to explain away his repeated comments, and that same host wasn’t having it. The host literally began the interview by calling Cruz a liar — repeatedly — and Cruz didn’t even directly dispute the premise.
The end result was a U.S. senator who, as Carlson rightly notes, knows how to choose his words carefully and would have been well familiar with how such words could be supposedly misconstrued — including in this specific set of circumstances — effectively groveling and hoping to get a pass. That pass never arrived. But Cruz promoted the video on social media, anyway.
Pathetic loser. His own teenage daughter disses him. Ted Cruz’s daughter knocks him on TikTok: “I really disagree with most of his views”.
Everyone really does hate Ted Cruz.
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