Ted Cruz knocks MSNBC's Brian Williams over 'Kremlin Cruz' label [View all]

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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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