Ted Cruz is having a very bad week. On Monday, which happened the be the sixteenth anniversary of 9/11, he (accidentally) liked a bisexual adult film on Twitter featuring a “cheating mom” doing the nasty with her stepdaughter and a man.
SexuallPosts, the account that originally shared the steamy video, was kind enough to thank their high profile fan:
They followed that up by changing their Twitter bio to say: “Follow for the Same Porn @TedCruz Watches.
It took 40 minutes for Cruz to unlike the video and go into damage control.
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Now, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Cruz called the whole thing an “‘honest mistake” and says the staffer “feels terrible” about it. According to him, the staffer (who, of course, was an intern) accidentally hit like on the porno while logged into Cruz’s Twitter account.
“I promise you,” Cruz said, “the staffer feels terrible.”
Well, so long as he feels terrible, we guess it’s OK.
Things only got more awkward from there when Bash brought up Cruz’s past remarks on people’s private sexy time.
She pointed to an incident in 2007 when he was solicitor general of Texas and argued in favor of a law that banned the sale of sex toys claiming that Americans didn’t have a legal right to masturbation.
His exact words at the time were: “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”
When asked about this, Cruz told Bash:
I spent five and a half years as the solicitor general in Texas, I worked for the attorney general. The attorney general’s job is to defend the laws passed by the Texas legislature. One of those laws was a law restricting the sale of sex toys, which is a stupid law. Listen, I am one of the most libertarian members of the Senate. I think it’s idiotic.
Which prompted Bash to say, “I can’t believe I’m going to ask you this, but so you’re officially saying Ted Cruz is okay with people buying sex toys?”
To which Cruz, thoroughly embarrassed by this point, answered: “Consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in their bedrooms.”
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Hmmm. That’s quite a reversal from his stance last year when he said porn was a “public health crisis” that had “harmful effects, especially on children” and “destroyed the lives of millions.”
Then again, its kind of destroying his life right now, isn’t it?
And, just for the record, the video he liked on Twitter does not appear to feature any sex toys.
Watch the totally awkward, slightly NSFW interview below. Or don’t.
1EqualityUSA
The “staffer” was is wife?
NateOcean
Look at that face. You just *know* he jacks off a lot.
Artiewhitefox
I want to know if Ted Cruz’s war aginst the homosexual is over. If it is not he will be at war against zoosexuals and others too. Some People like to be seen when they have sex. They that do should be given peace. It is up to the individual to be in their right mind when they pull it out stroking it.
Bradsman
He wanted to be President and to win the dumb votes, you have to be anti gay.
1EqualityUSA
Is this why he shared a stage with Pastor KevinkillthegaysSwanson?
Jaxton
Porn is prostitution, not sex. They are 2 different things.
Porn is harmful because it encourages women to accept cash to demean themselves in front of men. Such acts of prostitution do not engender respect for women in general.
Most of the women who do porn have serious drug addictions too.
JamJewel
Queerty missed an opportunity to blast a headline that Ted Cruz supports gay marriage.
Dana Bash’s reaction to his statement that “Consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in their bedrooms.” was something to the effect that she couldn’t believe that Ted Cruz was in favor of gay marriage but why that quote has been mysteriously edited out of all these clips that I have seem is really disturbing. I know this because i saw it on a taped replay that I keep on my DVR for a couple of days after I immediately posted on FB that Ted Cruz supports gay marriage and people, of course, didn’t believe it till I saw the tapes with Dana’s comments edited out while I could still see them on the tape I had.