Ted Cruz bares fangs at ‘misogynist’ True Blood episode mocking him

[octoberlib]

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday attacked the HBO vampire series True Blood — calling it “misogynist and profanity-ridden” — after the show featured him on Sunday’s episode.

“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,’” he wrote on his Facebook page.

“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,” the Texas Republican said.

In the episode, characters Eric Northman and Pam De Beaufort dress up in stereotypical Texan Republican trappings to infiltrate a Cruz fundraising event in Dallas . Once she arrives at the gala, Pam adds: “Of all the horrible things I’ve seen over the last 100 years, this could be the most disturbing.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/22/ted-cruz-bares-fangs-at-misogynist-true-blood-episode-mocking-him/

[dballance]

1. Once again, GOP'ers are totally stupid sometimes strategically.

All Cruz (Asshat-TX) did by acknowledging the True Blood episode is ensure it will get seen by many, many more people than if he'd kept his yap shut. Of course, Cruz keeping his yap shut is no more likely than finding real vampires.

[octoberlib]

2. I actually missed Sunday's episode but I'll damn sure watch it now.

[dballance]

4. Thanks! My Point Exactly!

[Uncle Joe]

3. This looks like a corporate media propaganda gift specifically for Cruz and the Republicans

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in general.

Thanks for the thread, octoberlib.

[Luminous Animal]

5. My first thought. Democrats are the undead who want to kill Republicans.

[Uncle Joe]

7. The corporate media has transformed vampires from reprehensible creatures to 90210 beautiful people.

I've always thought this was subliminal programming of the people in coming to subconsciously accept corporate domination sucking the life blood from the people, living in perpetuity and having immense power.

The fan base becomes conditioned to admire vampires as protagonists if not heroes of multiple vampire programs.

In this case the program directly slurs women in general and particularly feminists; that being among the strongest bases of the Democratic Party while turning Republicans into victims.

[Luminous Animal]

9. I don't have a TV so I rarely know what it is out there but I appreciate that analysis.

My 24 year old daughter is a fan of some of the zombie genre but she stridently critiques True Blood's misty reminiscence of a pre-feminist united states.

[Uncle Joe]

10. I've watched Vampire programs or movies from time to time but I try to recognize them

for what they are.

Some people believe propaganda only occurs during the "news" or talk shows but it's also most powerful with regular T.V. programming shows, movies and even commercials.

We had a thread here on D.U. not too long ago regarding the increased cruelty of our society but television is rampant with examples highlighting cruelty in one form or another and I'm convinced there is a cause and effect.

[Luminous Animal]

11. The stories that we tell each other reflects the ethos of our society. Also the stories that we tell

can normalize the unthinkable.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Precisely and that's ages old since stories were told around campfires during

the Stone Age.

[MohRokTah]

17. I wish they'd do a series based on Brian Lumley's vampire novels, The Necroscope series.

Lumley always disliked how Vampires are romanticized in nearly all literature and media and considered the fictitious creature to be a parasite, so he asks the question, "would you romanticize a tick or a leach?"

Incredible novels ensued.

[octoberlib]

19. Now, that sounds interesting.

[yurbud]

6. It's pretty daring of a show about vampires to cast Cruz as one of the living

He looks like a cross Joe McCarthy and a greasy, Bela Lugosi style vampire.

[Iggo]

8. True Blood "misogynist"? Maybe. But they're fictional. What's your excuse, Mr Cruz?

[Warren DeMontague]

13. That sounds like the funniest line written for that show in 3-4 seasons, easy.

Good on Pam.

[tblue37]

14. A funnier line was when Pam told Eric that they could never get tickets to the fundraiser,

because "The only invite a**holes."

Eric replied, "That's not a problem. We can be incredible a**holes."

[MohRokTah]

16. It was Willow who told Eric that. eom

[lapislzi]

22. Pam gets the best lines

"I look like a Republic--t!"

[Baitball Blogger]

15. True Blood has nothing to lose in its final season.

That was a nice touch.

[Punkingal]

18. I'm shocked he knows the word misogynist...

nt

[Babel_17]

20. Spoiler below

A scene from The Addiction came to mind. Go to the 1:02:00 mark.

Great movie, worth watching in its entirety.

Spot the people from The Sopranos? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112288/ Something about Vampire flicks ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104511/

[conservaphobe]

21. Best episode ever.

Watching the Yakuza make America a better place was the most fun I've ever had watching True Blood.