![]() ![]() "I think this is just one iteration of a phenomenon that's going to continue," he said. There we go /LtyW9ivV6I- lindsey February 9, 2016įor LaMagna, who led the charge to get Cruz/Zodiac trending during the CBS GOP debate, it was all about the worlds of politics and social media colliding. and there's none of that with him at all. "It seems to be something that has always been true of presidential candidates, people say 'I wanna have a beer with this guy.'. Monahan said that Cruz has a likeability problem. I think it just sort of crystallized for me that there's something about this guy that really kind of is off-putting to people." Monahan added, "and then there was a protester in one of the Iowa rallies that stood in the back and yelled 'Ted Cruz looks weird' a bunch of times. The column never pointed to any scientific reason and its author concluded he was "at a loss to verbalize what unsettles me." It's important to point out that was one person's take in one column, and not accepted science. "There was something about the fact that there was a neurologist that went on the air or did an interview that said there's a neurological reason why Ted Cruz's face seems strange," Monahan said. Monahan cited a column that went viral last month in which a professor of neurology attempted to explain why "Ted Cruz's Facial Expression Makes Me Uneasy." I'm just asking questions /kh98UCekTv- Patrick Monahan February 22, 2016 I just tweeted out: 'Hey everybody should Google 'Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac killer?' and see if we can hit the ticker on there.'" "But while I'm watching this, I'm like well if it's showing what the Google Trends are, what's to stop somebody from making that trend. "It wasn't going to help anybody get informed," LaMagna, who is an Independent supporting Bernie Sanders, said. What are people Googling about the candidates? It was stuff like 'How tall is Jeb Bush?' Stuff like that. the Google Trends ticker along the bottom of the screen, kind of a way to make things more interactive. "I didn't really engage with it too much up until the CBS GOP debate, the most recent one," Nathan LaMagna, one person who helped make that happen, told NPR. During a recent GOP presidential debate on CBS, comedians behind the Cruz/Zodiac meme were determined to make it trend. He was once criticized for taking his daughter on a trip to Cancun, Mexico, while large parts of Texas were without power due to a winter storm last year.WOW! /skTG39kLDU- lindsey February 14, 2016 This is not the first time Cruz's daughter was in the news. "And I say this as someone who despises him." "What a 13-year-old says about her dad on TikTok - in an account that had been made private prior to publishing this story - is not newsworthy, absent some extraordinary revelation," Eric Columbus tweeted. #ifixeditforyou," Douglas Karr, who has a "verified" Twitter checkmark, tweeted.Īn Obama administration appointee was appalled by the News' report, too. "Dallas Morning News agrees 'with views of a 13-year old'. ![]() Our media is so gross."Ī veteran from Indianapolis mocked the News for agreeing with the politics of a 13-year-old. "We're getting more 'dirt' from minors than the president's 51 year-old son. "Ted Cruz's daughters are 10 and 13," she tweeted. "A lot of people judge me based upon him at first glance, but I really disagree with most of his views," she said in the clips.Ĭonservative journalist Jessica O'Donnell noted a media double standard in getting "dirt" from the coverage of political children. ![]() While the TikTok account of Cruz's daughter is private, clips from her videos were shared on Twitter. The story also mentioned former White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway's teen daughter coming out on social media against former President Donald Trump. The Twitter account of the News captioned its posting of the story, "Ted Cruz's daughter says she disagrees 'with most of his views.'" "An utterly classless story from the former Cruz spokesman Ron Nehrling, once a California GOP chairman, tweeted shortly after midnight ET on New Years. The News story mentioned the daughter's political disagreements with her father posted on her TikTok account, which has since been made private. The Dallas Morning News has come under fire for its brief report on the 13-year-old daughter of Sen. ![]()
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