Ted Cruz Falsely Suggests CDC Guidelines Are Why He Won't Wear A Mask On TV

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Were you worried that Sen. Ted Cruz might run out of new ways to act like a jerk?

Never fear. He always comes through in the clutch.

On Wednesday, the Texas Republican was about to speak to a group of journalists when a reporter asked if he would mind putting on a mask.

Evidently sensing a chance to promote his personal brand of all-around unpleasantness, Cruz declined to do so.

Link to tweet

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ted-cruz-mask-cdc-guidelines-225126483.html

[Karadeniz]

1. How I wish they'd turned around en masse and walked away, depriving him of his excuse.

[kimbutgar]

2. Why do I wish a karmic payback for all the asinine stuff he has said and done.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Douches gonna douche and he is the douchiest. What a OOS.

[demtenjeep]

4. so stop covering him. Cruz likes him some camera time

deny him

[House of Roberts]

5. Cruz won't mask because he is a maskhole, covidiot, plague rat.

It's what they do.

[rickyhall]

6. I'd rather he put on mask.

[liberal_mama]

7. No one needs a mask more than Ted Cruz

Cover up that lying mouth, Ted!

[TreasonousBastard]

8. No mask? How about a muzzle?

[FBaggins]

9. Is he wrong?

Surely, the CDC has said that vaccinated people should still wear masks in public. But that isn't what he's doing (at least here). He's speaking at a press conference on camera. Joe Biden did that today without a mask. Governor Cuomo did that today without a mask. Psaki briefs almost every day without a mask ad says "If health and medical experts told me I should wear a mask while I was briefing, I would do it - But I am following the guidelines they are giving us, as is the president"

I don't see what the difference is (other than the comparative value of what they choose to say at the microphone).