[SPOILER ALERT] Ted Cruz bites back at ‘True Blood’

[MohRokTah]

Ted Cruz bites back at ‘True Blood’

By Colby Itkowitz July 22 at 4:24 PM

There were only a few ways Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) could react to HBO’s “True Blood” portrayal of Texas Republicans being murdered at a fictitious Cruz fundraiser.

He could have ignored it, or laughed it off. But he went political.

A scene in Sunday’s episode took place at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, where a Cruz function was being held. The vampires who went made disparaging comments about the Republicans in attendance (What do you expect? It’s Hollywood.) and then there was a vicious bloodbath. (We admittedly do not watch “True Blood,” so we can’t offer further context, but we know it’s a show about vampires and can be quite grisly.)

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Of all the places I never thought to be mentioned, HBO’s True Blood vampire show would have to be near the top of the list. Sunday night, they aired a misogynist and profanity-ridden episode where Texas Republicans are murdered attending a “Ted Cruz fundraiser.”

Well, I’m sorry to have lost the vampire vote, but am astonished (and amused) that HBO is suggesting that hard-core leftists are blood-sucking fiends….

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Them grapes sound sour, Ted.



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[Puglover]

1. Erik Northman as

a Texan Repuke in a ten gallon hat was priceless.

[William769]

2. Damin it! I have it DVR"D

Oh well, I guess I have to go watch it now.

[Gothmog]

3. Carnival Cruz does not have a sense of humor

[FarPoint]

4. I loved every second of the scenes!

I always sensed that the writers were using real time republican bigotry as there role models...this episode confirms my suspicions...I was thrilled!

[Retrograde]

11. We'll have to agree to disagree

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Yellow Dog Democrat, and think a constitutional amendment banning all descendents of Prescott Bush from Federal office is a good idea, but I though setting the action at a Ted Cruz rally (at the George W. Bush Library, no less) was a cheap shot and indicative of a lack of ideas on the part of the show's writers. (I did like Pam's dress, though. The crack about Republicunts, not so much.)

[AnnieBW]

16. Well, the Creator, Alan Ball, is Gay

He might have a few bones to pick with Sen. Cruz and his daddy.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. Slight spoiler alert........

I loved the part where Pam asked Eric if she looked like a "Republicunt" in her dress.

[MohRokTah]

6. I love how he picked out Pam's clothes and Pam picked out his.

I also liked the Bill flashbacks to the start of the Civil War. We needed a reminder there were Southerners opposed to the idiocy of succession.

[MrScorpio]

7. A friend of mine was telling me about a similar scene in "GONE WITH THE WIND" not to long ago

I think that the TB scene was a tribute.

[MohRokTah]

8. Rhett Butler told them all how much of fools they were in GWtW.

They were too foolish to realize their cause was lost before they ever seceded.

I think it was a tribute to more than one film set during the ACW.

[Paladin]

9. Great line.

Hope the language police don't have a problem with it, it deserves to be shown off.

And make no mistake, Cruz has the vampire vote locked up in Texas---nobody sucks like he does.......

[mwrguy]

14. That was great

Republicunt, lol

[FarPoint]

17. Pam was marvelous!

Spoken straight from my heart with that line.

[Shoonra]

10. The real problem ....

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The real problem is that Cruz has been depending on the bloodsucker vote and is terribly disappointed to find out that even the undead are not impressed by a politician who has no heart.

I might add that the expression that Pam uses to describe herself in high-priced GOP drag is not new, but it was the first time that I heard it. However, a little googling shows it was in use even before Obama was elected. Anyway, it's a term I'll use from now on to characterize the allegedly female spokesmen for the Party of Hell No, people like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Jan Brewer, etc.

[Blue Owl]

12. Carnivore Cruz

n/t

[Skidmore]

13. His Dan Quayle moment...

[AnnieBW]

15. Pam had the BEST. LINE. EVAH

"Oh my Gawd, I'm a Republicunt!"