After losing the Indiana primary to Donald Trump Tuesday evening, Ted Cruz announced he was officially suspending his campaign for president. The somber news brought out the worst in the media who have long hated the Texas Senator for his anti-establishment, conservative values. Several journalists took to Twitter to throw in their final punches at Cruz, who, let’s be honest, will probably continue to get beat up by the media even after leaving the race.
Rania Khalek, a radical liberal reporter for Al Jazeera America and her anti-Israel blog, Electronic Intifada, tweeted this inflammatory sentiment: “The world officially dodges a Christian fundamentalist bullet.”
The world officially dodges a Christian fundamentalist bullet. https://t.co/Ctk8lGq0RS
— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) May 4, 2016
Josh Barro, writer for Business Insider said that Cruz “deserved this humiliation.”
Ted Cruz had it coming. Has any politician ever deserved his humiliation as much as this? https://t.co/CKAdkImRCF
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 4, 2016
Ana Marie Cox, writer for MTV News, The New York Times and formerly The Daily Beast, went on a tirade, bashing Cruz’s likeability and wondering “how Ted will rationalize this loss is [sic] everyone else’s fault.”
I wonder how Ted will rationalize how this loss is everyone else’s fault.
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) May 4, 2016
Of c Ted will draw this out for as long as possible. It is the last time people will even try to like him.
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) May 4, 2016
David Ehrlich, writer for Rolling Stone and movie reviewer for IndieWire.com tweeted this cheap shot:
shocking to learn that The World's Most Hateable Man couldn't win a popularity contest. #Cruz
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) May 4, 2016
While Vox’s Dylan Matthews threw in his own:
Ted Cruz says he believes in "equal rights for all" right after telling Indianans that trans people were going to attack them in bathrooms
— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) May 4, 2016
Simon Maloy, political writer for Salon tweeted:
CRUZ: "The pundits all said it was hopeless"
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) May 4, 2016
take a bow, pundits
and CNN’s Sally Kohn snarked:
Lucifer in the flesh is out.
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) May 4, 2016
Actual devil advances.
