{"id":21124,"date":"2016-04-05T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21124"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:25:37","slug":"samantha-goes-on-cruz-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/samantha-goes-on-cruz-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Goes on Cruz Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Samantha Bee is rapidly becoming one of my favorite people, and I\u2019m increasingly happy to share her work with you.&#160; She presents Republicans in a manner that is both thoroughly accurate, and hilarious.&#160;&#160; In her most recent offering she lambasted some of my least-favorite people: Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of authentic Christians), and the only Canadian export more toxic than the poison from the tar sands, Ted Cruz aka TRUSed Uranus.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0405samantha_bee\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0405samantha_bee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0405samantha_bee.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even when on vacation \u2013 as Samantha Bee currently is \u2013 the Full Frontal host still has some of the best material of the late night crowd. Monday evening, the show posted a new clip in which Bee takes a close look at some of the religious leaders supporting Ted Cruz, and finds that they are, in a word, awful.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s Colorado Pastor Kevin Swanson, who spends a lot of time talking about how scripture suggests &quot;homosexuals&quot; are \u201cworthy of death\u201d and sea-bottom suffocation resulting from \u201cthe Mafia treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in the gospel of Tony, wherein Jesus takes that whore Adriana unto the woods and wacketh her,\u201d says Bee. \u201cWhen Swanson is in doubt \u2013 which is never \u2013 he just checks his bracelet: Who would Jesus drown?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Flip Benham, a \u201cminister and convicted stalker\u201d who is also an ardent Islamophobe and proponent of the the idea that gay people are super violent\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/watch-samantha-bee-takes-hilarious-look-ted-cruzs-awful-supporters\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pXkEeTfdQeA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Behold what Republicans call love!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Bee is rapidly becoming one of my favorite people, and I\u2019m increasingly happy to share her work with you.&#160; She presents Republicans in a manner that is both thoroughly accurate, and hilarious.&#160;&#160; In her most recent offering she lambasted some of my least-favorite people: Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of authentic Christians), and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/samantha-goes-on-cruz-control\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}