...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title
most hated man in the Senate.After a close win over
Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
for parroting Democrat talking points about the so-called "insurrection" has stirred up the party’s media mouthpieces who are piling on the Texas Republican who was put on the spot by the Fox News ratings king for his flippant remark that Trump supporters were terrorists.On Thursday, Carlson hosted Cruz and raked him over the coals for the misleading characterization that was also used by AG Merrick Garland
...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholarObama nominated for the Supreme Court...
, remarks that the senator admitted were "dumb" while walking them back in an interview that has leftists jittery over the influence that Tucker will have on GOP candidates as the all-important midterm elections draw nearer.
One talking head who wasn’t pleased about Cruz’s straying from the narrative that the chaos at the Capitol was a legitimate threat to overthrow the entire U.S. government was CNN
...the organization formerly known as the
Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
’s Brian Stelter who bemoaned Carlson’s clout with the Republican base and what he fears will be a "Tucker Carlson primary" this year and in 2024.
During a "CNN Newsroom" segment with co-host Victor Blackwell, Stelter said, "Cruz folded like a paper airplane. I think what it shows is the Republican messaging about being tough on crime, which is something that’s gone back decades, that Cruz was trying to lean into, has come up against this denial of the Jan. 6 crime," putting a devious spin on the GOP’s anti-crime message.
"So, you have Tucker Carlson try to take a position that what we saw with our own eyes didn’t really happen, or not that many coppers were maimed," he continued, "even though some of the officers that were attacked that day still can’t get back to work because the injuries were so severe. But Carlson’s in such profound denial about that, Victor, that he has to put on this performance and Cruz absolutely begged for forgiveness."
He added, "About a year ago, media news hounds like yours truly started to say Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, and I’ve never seen a bit of proof that’s better than this. This is the ultimate example of Tucker Carlson’s power, he essentially now runs the GOP media and as we think about the midterms and 2024, there is going to be a Tucker Carlson primary and you just saw what it’s going to be like. It’s going to be this kind of obsession with sticking to the party orthodoxy and denying the reality of the riot."