Ted Cruz knocks MSNBC's Brian Williams over 'Kremlin Cruz' label

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Ted Cruz knocks MSNBC's Brian Williams over 'Kremlin Cruz' label
By Dominick Mastrangelo - 05/23/21 08:20 AM EDT


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tore into journalist Brian Williams after the MSNBC anchor dubbed the lawmaker "Kremlin Cruz" during a segment last week.

The dust-up came after Cruz criticized a video put out by the Pentagon telling the story of a recruit who marched for marriage equality before joining the armed forces. The senator called it "woke" and "emasculating" to the U.S. military and shared his comment along with a Russian propaganda video depicting members of its military as strong and masculine.

Williams called the tweet a "remarkably stupid lapse of judgment" and displayed the nickname "Kremlin Cruz" on an on-air graphic below him as he spoke during the segment on his weeknight show on MSNBC.

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"Is there a more pitiful example of corrupt corporate media than Brian Williams?" Cruz asked. "Now, he’s throwing a hissy fit that I criticized the ridiculously woke video that the Biden admin put out. Williams accidentally told the truth, when he describes it as 'a video meant to diminish the U.S. military.' TRUE. That’s the problem. (The Pentagon put it out.)."

The Republican senator also rejected the nickname Williams gave him, saying, "I hate communists, my family was imprisoned & tortured by communists, and Brian is a shameless apologist for Russian (and Chinese and Cuban) communists."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/554948-ted-cruz-knocks-msnbcs-brian-williams-over-kremlin-cruz-label

[gordianot]

1. If Ted Cruz hates you, you must have some redeeming qualities.

[jimfields33]

3. Please have video of Ted calling Senator Warren "Pocahontas"

And then tell him to shut up!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Did Ted deny "Cancun Cruz" then?

Flab on the beach didn't seem too military-like

[DFW]

4. Moscow Mitch, Leningrad Lindsey and Kremlin Cruz

When the Republicans get really upset about being compared to their Soviet role models, you know it stings.

And yet, their efforts at one-party rule and vote suppression are all reminiscent of Stalin.

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
--attributed to Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin (and apparently adopted by the Republicans, see "Arizona" )

[Best_man23]

5. Aw, does Red Cruz have a sore ass?

What a little snowflake.

[BlueStater]

6. Who cares who this pudgy little twerp mocks?

Williams fabricated some of his reporting years ago, but at least he didn’t pathetically nuzzle the leg of the prick who attacked his family like a neutered puppy, help orchestrate an attempted overthrow of the US government, and abandon his constituent to freeze to death while he gets a tan.

[abqtommy]

7. Oh, stick around Teddy-Bois KKK Kruz. You ain't seen nothin' yet!

[underpants]

8. They consider Brian Williams one of their bigger "WINS"

He’s a prize trophy to them. He got caught embellishing a story while their media is built simply to distract lie and play victim.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Congrats Brian Williams, you hit a nerve!

Link to tweet

[nuxvomica]

10. Contrary to Cruz' strawman, Russia is not a communist country

He knows that, of course, but the knuckle-draggers who listen to him probably don't.