CNS Keeps Up Cruz Stenography To Start The Year

We’ve documented CNSNews.com’s enthusiasm for serving as a stenographer for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz — 46 articles about his pontifications in 2020 and 72 in 2021. That PR effort continued in the first three months of 2022:

• Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘Here’s Something I’ve Never Said Before’
• Sen. Ted Cruz Proposes Three Potential Grounds for Impeaching Biden
• Ted Cruz Goes on Gleeful, Emoji-Filled, Twitter Tear Mocking CNN after Zucker Resigns: ‘The Most Busted Names in News’
• Sen. Cruz: Biden Administration ‘Transmitted Appeasement to Putin in Secret…I’ve Seen the Details’
• Sen. Cruz: ‘We Need to Stand Up’ to China Holding ‘Our Supply Chains Hostage’
• Sen. Cruz: 12 Major U.S. Cities Set Homicide Rate Records in 2021 and ‘Every Single One of Them Is Run by Democrats’
• Sen. Cruz’s Three-Word Rebuttal to Schumer’s Claim Republicans Don’t Have a Plan to Curb Inflation
• Sen. Cruz Replies ‘Nuts,’ ‘Shameful,’ ‘Insane’ – and with One Emoji – to News Posted on Twitter
• Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘Europe Is on the Verge of War Because of the Weakness, the Fecklessness of Joe Biden’
• Ted Cruz: ‘Oil and Gas Sales Are the Principal Source of Revenue for Putin That He Is Using to Fund This War’
• Sen. Cruz: Biden Gave Putin ‘Green-Light Invitation’ to Invade Ukraine by Lifting Nord Stream 2 Sanctions
• Sen. Cruz: Biden Did Two Things to Cause Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and He Can Do Two Things to Stop It
• Cruz Challenges Left-Wing SCOTUS Nominee: ‘Will You Protect Freedom or Restrict It?’
• Cruz to SCOTUS Nominee: In 100% of the Child Porn-Possession Cases, You Sentenced ‘Far Below’ What the Prosecutors Requested
• Sens. Cruz, Hawley: SCOTUS Nominee Unable to Define ‘Woman’ is ‘Remarkable,’ Ridiculous,’ and ‘Bizarre’
• Sen. Cruz: Biden’s 2023 Budget Proposal is ‘Wildly Irresponsible’
• Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘Democrats Don’t Believe in Democracy;’ They Think Voters Don’t Have the Right to Make Decisions

That’s 17 stenography articles, keeping him on pace to achieve his 2021 total. There was no fact-checking, of course, and Cruz’s critics were rarely granted an opportunity to respond to his attacks by CNS writers.

And just as is the case with another favorite CNS stenography subject, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, CNS rarely reports any criticism of Cruz or anything that might make him look bad. For instance, when Cruz took his infamous 2021 vacation to Cancun while the Texans he represents were suffering the effects of a freak winter storm that knocked out power to many parts of the state, CNS did no article about that. It did get a couple mentions in other articles, though; an article by Melanie Arter about Texas Democratic politician Beto O’Rourke quoted him noting that Cruz “is vacationing in Cancun right now, when people are literally freezing to death in the state that he was elected to represent and serve,” and an anonymously written article complained that longtime CNS target Bette Midler “sent out a couple of tweets at the end of last week attacking Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) for briefly accompanying his wife and children to Cancun, Mexico when a winter storm was hitting his home state of Texas.”