Ted Cruz Likes a Porn Video on Twitter, Blames it on a Staffer
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Look, we all have our different ways of honoring the victims of 9/11. It was a horrific tragedy, one that irrevocably changed the course of our nation’s history. Some people have a moment of silence. Some brands tweet out weird reminders that they will #neverforget (thanks, VeggieTales, we were worried you might).
Ted Cruz apparently decided to honor this day by watching porn on Twitter.
Twitter users found the video in the Likes section of Ted Cruz’s Twitter profile late Monday night, and while it was, er, yanked off fairly quickly, it was up long enough for (NSFW) screenshots to be taken:
holy shit this is real pic.twitter.com/UaBkonTOtO
— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) September 12, 2017
Twitter, as is its God-given right, had a field day with this.
Butler – “would sir like to indulge In a sexual post?”
Ted Cruz – “oh I mustn’t, but then again it is the anniversary of 9/11…”— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) September 12, 2017
Me waiting for Ted Cruz to respond to this drama pic.twitter.com/Iy4BBHpyY6
— Matthew D’Ambrosio™ (@drmattdambrosio) September 12, 2017
[extremely ted cruz voice]: time for a little porn-a-roonie
— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) September 12, 2017
Cruz has since blamed the incident on his staff (which is a very common thing to blame this kind of behavior on). From Politico:
“There are a number of people on the team who have access on the account. It appears that someone inadvertently hit the like button. When we discovered the post, which was I guess an hour or two later, we pulled it down,” Cruz (R-Texas) said of the incident. “It was a staffing issue. And it was inadvertent, it was a mistake. It was not a deliberate act. We’re dealing with internally, but it was a mistake. It was not malicious.”
Finally, however, someone used the controversy to get at the real issues:
while every one is talking about ted cruz pulling his hog on 9/11 it’s a good time to sneak in some opinions. ketchup is a garbage condiment
— leon ???? (@leyawn) September 12, 2017