CNN anchor Anderson Cooper bit into Sen. Ted Cruz over the weekend, following the Senator’s remarks criticizing an ad for the US armed forces.
It all started May 20, after Cruz shared a video mash-up of a Russian army recruitment ad intercut with an American one, in which a woman talks about her same-sex moms.
“Holy crap. Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea…,” Cruz commented in the video post. The Twitter post attracted immediate blowback, including a commentary from Mr. Cooper.
Cooper opened his criticism of Cruz by noting his trip to Mexico amid a blizzard in Cruz’s home state of Texas which left residents without power and freezing to death.
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“When last we caught up with the junior senator from Texas, his constituents were freezing,” Cooper observed. “Some were dying in dark, unheated homes during the state’s worst winter disaster in recent memory. As for the Senator, he high-tailed it to a seaside resort in Cancun lying about why he was leaving and at the same time, blaming his 10 and 12-year-old daughters. Which is kind of amazing.”
“These days,” Coopery continued, “the man whose own colleagues don’t bother even trying to say anything nice about him has found a new way of showing contempt for the people he serves, and the people who serve us all in uniform. He retweeted a TikTok contrasting a muscled Russian man doing military training with a US Army video showing a very American notion: that our troops, in this case, a woman raised by same-sex parents, come from all walks of life. This is a source of strength.”
When the “opportunity presented itself to join…he thought about it and thought better of it,” says @andersconcooper after Sen. Ted Cruz mocked a “woke, emasculated” military.
“When somebody doesn’t serve I don’t know it’s a great idea to be attacking someone who did serve.” pic.twitter.com/cftNOYATXa
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 22, 2021
Cooper then noted that the video Cruz retweeted has been circulating on anti-American sites for some time, including those promoting fascism and antisemitism. Cooper then lit into Cruz’s attempt at deflection for posting the video.
“Not content to carry water for this country’s enemies,” Cooper continued, “as the angry replies came in, Senator Cruz then decided to go for the old anti-gay slur. Quoting from a subsequent tweet, ‘We have the greatest military on Earth. But Dem politicians and woke media are trying to turn them into pansies.’ A word I’m quite sure he’s familiar with, from his youth.”
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Cooper added that Cruz always avoided serving in the military himself. He then showed an archival interview of Cruz talking about his decision to not join the military, and how he regrets not doing so.
“I bet he does wish he served because it’d be better for him politically now,” Cooper observed, “but he spent a lot of time imagining himself in a uniform, but probably not to actually serve. He was clearly too busy in college pursuing other manly, un-pansy-like pursuits.” Cooper then recalled a story of Cruz’s college dormmates seeing him wander the halls in a paisley bathrobe.
Cooper then went on to interview retired Army Gen. Mark Hertling, who also criticized Cruz’s remarks.
The moral of this story: Ted Cruz should just shut up. The Senator has a long history of homophobia, including remarks on his controversial Cancun trip. He has also referred to the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage as one of the darkest moments in American history. Recently, former House Speaker John Boehner labeled Cruz a “jack*ss” and also claimed that Cruz is openly despised by members of his own party.
Invader7
Ted Cruz’s karma = a deranged , rabid , right wing nut bag ( describes most , if not , all republicants ) attacks the POS and actually physically hurts the turd . Maybe keeping out of office FOREVER. Even better he & Heidi and the spawn move to CANADA !! And stay there..
Terry
Hey wait a minute! When did we become the dumping site for your trash? I’m not speaking for all Canadians but… Cruz is your problem, not ours. 🙂
Seth
He was born in Canada, we’d just be returning him, but I agree you all don’t deserve that, either. Isn’t there a trash island out in the Pacific we could migrate him to?
Heywood Jablowme
@Seth: That would be toxic waste! Also I think most Canadians don’t think very highly of Cruz’s native province, Alberta: it’s like the Texas, West Virginia and Alabama of Canada rolled up into one.
After all the Republicans lied about Obama supposedly being born in Kenya, we should NEVER allow Cruz to run for president again! Unlike Obama, Cruz really wasn’t born in the U.S., nor were either of his parents U.S. citizens at the time, so he shouldn’t be allowed to run.
Fahd
Wow, Anderson Cooper criticized Ted Cruz – someone practically everyone in Washington whether Republican or Democrat hates. How courageous! What’s next? He’s against serving spoiled milk in schools?
I can’t believe AC pontificates the way he does given the shaky ground he himself inhabits.
Instead of these publicist-planted, feel-good stories about what a champion of gay people AC allegedly is, let’s have a post that goes back and reviews how AC deserted Kathy Griffin in a moment of need and how he’s confounded that moral failing in the years since.
I still don’t watch him on anything, and I detest these stories that his publicists plant.
Heywood Jablowme
Since you say that, I may as well add that Cooper has been by far the worst guest host on “Jeopardy!” since Alex’s death. Stiff and robotic, read the questions too quickly, yet after most contestant replies he made this awkward pause that with Alex meant “oooh, sorry, that’s incorrect,” but AC made the same pause when they were correct! Like he was looking at cue cards to see if they were right. It threw off the entire rhythm of the game. Maybe he’d have been better if he’d been drunk on air like he is on New Year’s Eve.
Fname Optional Lname
Ultimately the amount of good Anderson does outweighs the bad ten fold. If he didn’t react to Cruz’s hate then he would be attacked for lying down and not lashing out. We have to stop eating our own, especially when the people who seem to be getting the brunt of it are the one’s who have consistently done most for the community.
cuteguy
He is prob jealous bc he goes home to a fugly wife,
petej
way to go, anderson!
joeboyle49
GOOD FOR YOU ANDERSON GOOD FOR YOU!
Jimmy
Having reluctantly moving to Texas for a job that sucked and never paid me what I was worth, I have decided to move on. I feel like I’ve been freed from prison. The idiot politicians who try to run the state of Texas say a lot about Texans in general. I live in Harris County (Houston), the one true blue county in the state but It’s a joke here. Ted Cruz please go walk in front of a fast moving bus. For the record, Anderson Cooper is a fantastic news person.