Tag: CPAC
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Question of the day
After serving squid to the clapping seals at CPAC, Ted Cruz took questions from the biggest clapping seal of them all. Predictably, Sean Hannity went the fanboy route, asking Cruz how he managed to “bravely” survive criticism for helping to shut down the government in 2013? Hannity ended on a particularly obsequious note: “Why does Ted…
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The right’s alternate reality
Between stale quips — someone, probably herself, has convinced Sarah Palin she’s funny — the half-term former governor of Alaska endorsed an abject failure. Palin’s speech was a pretty typical collection of memes, alliterative insults, and sentence fragmentation, but the one thing that stuck with me was her endorsement of the theory that Ted Cruz’s…