Yesterday we reported on a student asking former Vice President Mike Pence what he would say to one of his kids if they came out as gay.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz may have been wishing that was the question he’d been asked when he took part in a podcast recording on Monday night. Instead, a Yale student posed a more risque dilemma: “Assuming it would end global hunger, would you fellate another man?”
Cruz visited Yale to record an episode of his own podcast, Verdict. He co-hosts the show with political commentator Michael Knowles.
Much of the show covered the political hot topics, which they discussed with their special guest, conservative podcaster Liz Wheeler. However, then they threw the floor open to questions from the audience. That’s when someone named Evan posed his fellation question to Cruz.
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You can watch it at the 1:37:47 mark below.
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The shocked audience laughs at the question, and both co-hosts also look amused. Cruz declines to answer and says he thinks it better if Knowles responds.
Knowles turns the question back on the student: “Like a typical left-wing undergraduate, you are engaging in consequentialist ethics. You are attempting to justify flagrantly immoral behavior to achieve a good end. And I tell you, my friend, the ends do not justify the means. Absolutely, absolutely not.”
It’s not explained why Knowles regards a man fellating another man to be “flagrantly immoral”.
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Cruz then poses his own question to the student.
“I am curious with that young fellow. If it would solve world hunger, would you vote for Donald Trump?”
The audience laughs but the recording does not capture whether the student replied.
H/T: Mediaite
Polaro
The real difficulty is finding anyone who would allow Teddy near their privates.
BennyTheHill
The Yale student who posed the question must be an affirmative action pick because that is beneath the dignity of an Ivy League student.
Den
Obviously Benny the Fool never attended an Ivy League school. Probably never gained admission to any college or university, if “his” posts are any indication of the intellect he possesses.
ZzBomb
I don’t like Cruz at all but questions like that don’t do our side any favors either. There’s plenty of other questions one could ask Cruz to let him hang himself with the amount of rope he’s laid out for himself.
AuntieXhrist
You answer BS, lies, as SC Ketanji Jackson hearing by Josh Hadley, RandPaul, Cornyn and Cruz with same. There’s no honor turning the other cheek with moral churls. Ah,men.
My2CentsWorth
This is very true. The question also made no sense.
rphillips4165
Forget the ending hunger. The republicans are still pushing that you can choose to be straight or gay. So could Cruz choose to be in a gay relationship? That’s the question. Because if he says definatly not. Then why can a gay person choose to be staight.
eeebee333
I’m with ya, ZzBomb.
RJ6
Cruz thinks he’s being clever, but the truth is that he never is. I wouldn’t vote for Trump if it would end world hunger. That would be like setting off nuclear bombs to end world hunger. What good would it do to end world hunger if you destroy life in the process?
BennyTheHill
You twit!
The ONLY nuclear war America may be headed into was not started by Trump. It will be started by Biden when we get into a fight with Russia.
Den
Benny the Twit calling someone else a twit. That is rich. The war in Ukraine was started by Putin . It was made easier by Trump who coddled Putin and destroyed the unity we had with our historic European allies.
Only those few who are as stupid as you would believe the far right lies about Biden somehow “getting into a fight with Russia”. Seriously, you must need someone to dress, feed and wipe your ass…you are that dull!
cheks
Hur dur Bro, would you like, do something GAY for like billion dollars!?? If you say yes you’re a F*G! Harhar!
What a stupid question. The story should be why this idiot thought it was a “good” question. It begins with the premise that a man sucking off another man is “gross”. Even if the person asking the question doesn’t think so, they know that’s the what the audience will understand: Would you do something “gross” to achieve some desirable outcome.
Did the person asking this really think it would be some “gotcha” moment? If these are the critical thinking skills of Yale students, I weep for the future.
Kangol2
Actually, you’re projecting your own feelings and anxieties and adopting a conservative frame onto a neutral question. I don’t find fellatio with men “gross” in the least. It’s a very pleasurable act. Ted Cruz and his host Michael Knowles do, but you are assuming their attitudes and framing, and universalizing them. Do you find it “gross”? The questioner knew that Cruz, a homophobe, would not want to do that, so he posed the question, but male-male fellatio is not inherently “gross” unless you have a problem with male same sexual behavior and homophobic attitudes.
cheks
cheks
Kangol2, Of course it’s not gross that’s the idiocy of the question. But the premise of the question sets up as “gross”. No one would ask “Would you eat this delicious cake if it would end world hunger?” Or would you do this amazingly pleasurable thing and end this massive world problem. Because everyone would say yes. So, what I think, or what you think of fellatio is irrelevant.
The question itself sets up as doing undesirable thing “A” in order to achieve desirable outcome “B”.
So again, I’m not “universalizing” that fellatio is gross, the question itself is. That’s why it’s a stupid question. And I made that clear in my original statement. It perpetuates that normal, healthy sexual acts between two men are inherently repulsive, and any “normal” man would only do them if forced to or to achieve some greatly desirable outcome like ending world hunger.
cheks
Kangol2, I suppose you could argue that the person asking the question wasn’t trying to imply that fellatio was abnormal, only that Ted Cruz would think it is. Like asking a lesbian to perform fellatio on a man. She might not think it’s “wrong” or “gross” for other people to do it, she just would go out of her way to do it.
However, the stigma and homophobia (and misogyny) of being a “c**ksucker” is still very prevalent, and questions like this perpetuate these attitudes.
cheks
*not go out of her way to do it.
drmiller
Immoral? Wtf. Let’s say it is immoral. Gay is a sin god is real, you’d go to hell if you suck one D. If that one sin would save countless lives and end untold suffering (including children and other Christians)… isn’t that worth one soul going to hell? I find that incredibly selfish. Which is its own sin. If god is real and his “values” are all true, so true that he’d find this act grossly immoral, then I’m sorry but that god is evil. The question is obviously suppositional and absurd (not least of all because god is not real) but the question puts these idiots up against their own values and ultimately shows how religion has them in such a chokehold they can’t see beyond themselves for five fking minutes. What a joke. Clowns.
Fahd
This sort of question is great to highlight the absurdity of taking Cruz seriously. Just because a bunch of Republican operatives (spawn of Rove) in Texas are able to manipulate and rig the vote, doesn’t mean the rest of us have to consider whatever this carpetbagger has to say as anything other than hot air. Deflate the sanctimonious gasbag at every opportunity!
BennyTheHill
The ONLY rigged votes were done by Democrats to get Biden elected.
And now look at what you’re putting all of America through with that imbecile – Joey Biden – at the helm.
Den
“BennyTheTwit
The ONLY rigged votes were done by Democrats to get Biden elected.”
The ONLY verified election fraud in the last few elections (both national and local) has overwhelmingly been perpetrated by registered republicans. If you can produce verifiable information to negate that FACT, do so.
As far as the election being rigged, there was no evidence produced in approximately 60 cases brought to court, and thrown out of court. Some presided over by Trump or otherwise Republican appointed judges. They, unlike you and your ilk are honest people of integrity.
As for imbeciles…Trump is clearly one if we consider so much of what he has said. You are clearly one as well if we look at your repetitive dogmatic, lying posts. Biden not so much if one looks at his reputation, international respect and the totality of his accomplishments. Trump has nothing but failures, most recently with his sinking social network. His only success has been to grift and con the dullest of Americans, like you.
M149
You think Republicans would be thrilled with hypothetical, since it’s all they run on and legislate against.
BennyTheHill
LOL!!!
Now, don’t cry in November when the Republicans wipe the floor with the Democrats.
🙂
gaym50ish
I think I would have asked Knowles if his wife engaged in “flagrantly immoral behavior.”
IvanPH
It would be immoral to not engage in oral sex to save children from dying from malnutrition,
BennyTheHill
There is an important precept in philosophical ethics:
The ends don’t justify the means.
CNY1983
benny the shrill – whats gonna happen when the audience for fox shrinks to 1, YOU?
white-queer-african
@CNY1983, slight correction to your comment. It will be 1 troll with 10 different screennames!
LOL. LOL. LOL.
BennyTheHill
Won’t happen, you moronic twit.
Fox News Channel has been the NUMBER ONE cable news channel – beating out CNN & MSNBC – for 20 years.
LOL!!!
Den
Over its 25 years, Fox News has shrunk from 17,000,000 viewers to its current 1,500,000. This represents the extreme lower end of the intellectual bell curve: those driven more by fear and stupidity than by intellect and critical abilities (in short, folks like you).
And even if they get more viewers than other cable news networks, the fact that it is well established that they lie and misrepresent is much more important. Though it is not likely you would understand that, is it child?
Den
And I have to repeat, it is incredibly amusing for BennyTheFool to be calling anybody a twit. He (or She?) represents the apotheosis of “twitness”.
MISTERJETT
no man that i know would want anything to do with this creep.
Peter
His truthful answer should’ve been, “Yes, donald trump. And I already have.”
Doug
Ewww.
Kevan1
Is it just me, or does “Benny the shrill” come off as a self loathing closet gay something or the other?
BennyTheHill
Quinnipiac Poll: Only 33% of Americans approve of Joey Biden.
CNN: “Biden has the lowest approval rating on record of any elected President: 33%.”
LOL!!! 🙂
Den
@BennyTheTwit:
Trump’s approval rating over 4 years was the lowest and remained within the narrowest range of any president for whom such figures were kept. He NEVER achieved even a 50% approval rating.
That is a much more important figure than the current disapproval rating for Biden. Especially as it is based on problems and issues set in motion by the man whose feces you would eat in a second, given the chance (or perhaps already have). Trump emboldened Putin. Trump delayed aid to Ukraine based on his personal lack of ethics. Trump enabled the massive spread of Covid in the US, and fueled the anti-vaccination sentiment (so much so that he failed in a late attempt to encourage vaccination after losing the election). Trump worked hard to weaken democracy and strengthen the right wing desire for an autocratic ruler.
If it wasn’t so damn sad it would be amusing how anti-American folks like you are. And as a hetero, why are you even here, child?
AntiRepubliQueer
Performing fellatio on another man is certainly not immoral and it’s utter ridiculous to suggest that it is. But voting for Donald Trump is obviously one of the most immoral acts imaginable!