"Simpsons Showrunner to Ted Cruz: We Don’t Love You Back"

[Jamaal510]

Link: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/simpsons-showrunner-to-ted-cruz-we-dont-love-you-back/

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may love the Simpsons, but the Simpsons (or at least their creators) may not love him back.

During a podcast with The Federalist‘s Ben Domenech, Cruz told The Daily Beast‘s Washington bureau chief Will Rahn that he was indeed a Simpsons fanatic, and as proof, cited his two favorite episodes: “‘Round Springfield,” which originated the famous post-9/11 French slur “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”, and “Treehouse of Horror VII,” in which the aliens Kang and Kodos take over the bodies of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. (These are, incidentally, the Cruz-iest episodes Cruz could like.)

But alas, much like the relationship between Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen, this relationship is purely one-sided:

“To paraphrase Kang, ‘Ted Cruz?’ Go ahead, throw your vote away,” Simpsons showrunner Al Jean told The Daily Beast, using one of the senator’s favorite episodes against him.

[Cha]

1. Good! Mahalo Jamaal~

[freshwest]

2. Cruz ship of fools on their way to hell. Just say, 'No way!' to death cult theocrats. n/t

[frylock]

3. Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.

[gratuitous]

4. Unbelievable

Someone is paying the plagiarist Ben Domenech to do anything except ask "Would you like fries with that?"