Ex-Ted Cruz aide: Media focusing on wrong part of Fox interview (CNN)

[ItsjustMe]

Amanda Carpenter, a former aide for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), shares what concerned her most about her former boss's interview with Fox's Tucker Carlson when Cruz backtracked on calling January 6 rioters "terrorists."

[magicguido]

1. Cruz only believe in the direction of the wind

and don't you know; if you attack cops and you are White ; you "can't be a terrorist"

[thesquanderer]

2. I wish they'd stop calling the Republic party the "GOP"...

... because basically, it's a term of endearment (grand old party). It's a minor point, like Republicans calling the other side the "democrat" party. But it's still irksome. They are the Republican party. If they want to use a cute and fuzzy, warm and cuddly self-promotional name for themselves, fine, but Dems and "independent" media don't need to be using it, especially when referring to the pro-insurrectionists. (Okay, I could see using it sarcastically, but I'm sure that sarcasm would generally get lost. Grand old party indeed!)

[grumpyduck]

3. How about "greedy old pricks?"

[plimsoll]

5. But they aren't republicans either.

Nothing about that gang shows one bit of republican sentiment.

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. It's funny how Tucker/Ted agree violence against cops is wrong

but they must think violence against anyone that doesn't see things their way is ok, like a congress trying to certify a legitimate election.