U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz loves getting into online pissing matches. The wetter, the better.
Actors, comedians, fellow politicians, sports figures, you name it. If you have an online following and Texas’ junior Republican senator perceives you as “woke” or a “leftist,” it’s a matter of time before he responds with a snide remark fired off from his tweeting device.
Lately, though, Cruz has widened the circle of piss to include fellow far-right bloviator Tucker Carlson. The pair have been engaged in a game of prep-school slaps and wedgies for months now, but, ooh, did Ted get salty on Monday’s edition of his podcast, The Verdict.
Cruz went after Carlson for criticizing President Donald Trump’s Iranian military adventure, as first reported by online news site Mediate, even going so far as to accuse the former Fox News talking head of being an anti-U.S. propagandist.
“There is a group of isolationist folks on the right. It is a small group, but they are loud and vocal. And Tucker Carlson has now all but declared war on President Trump’s foreign policy,” Cruz said before sharing a clip of his mop-topped nemesis talking about the White House overselling its goals in Iran. “I want you to listen to Tucker Carlson in his latest show. I’m gonna warn you, what he says here is shocking, and it is to the left of Chris Murphy. So, it is more anti-Donald Trump than Chris Murphy and the Democrats.”
In the clip, Carlson asserts that Iran isn’t on the threshold of “unconditional surrender,” something Trump called a necessity for reaching any kind of peace deal. That’s because, Carlson asserts, “if there’s one consistent lesson of history, it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter.”
After that, ahem, provocative claim, Carlson makes the considerably more rational argument that the U.S. doesn’t have the ground troops required to subjugate Iran, a country of 90 million people.
“I don’t think Americans would voluntarily participate in it,” he said. “I just don’t think we can do that. It would require weapons of mass destruction.”
That criticism, apparently didn’t sit well with Cruz, who went on to trash Carlson for daring to raise questions about Daddy Peace President‘s latest use of the U.S. arsenal to blow the shit out of people, including elementary school kids.
“You hear Tucker there. And I mean, you want to talk about unhinged,” Cruz fumed. “That is like some of the most anti-American propaganda I’ve ever seen spewed by someone like Tucker Carlson. It is a new low even for him.”
Of course, this pair of hard-right loudmouths has been engaged in their little tiff since last summer. That’s when Carlson humiliated Cruz over his lack of basic knowledge about Iran — such as its population and ethnic makeup — despite the senator’s repeated insistence the U.S. wage war with the Islamic republic.
Observers have also noted that a public war of words with Carlson helps Cruz cement his position as a GOP hawk as he lays groundwork for a 2028 presidential bid.
How sad it is to see grown men let a little thing like a “very complete” war in a faraway place destroy a friendship.
Why, it just seems like last week that Cruz appeared on Carlson’s Fox News show to beg forgiveness for making his “sloppy” and “frankly dumb” statement calling the Jan. 6 sacking of the Capital a “violent terrorist attack.”
Kiss and make up, you two.
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