Cruz isn't happy after his inane and procedurally pointless filibuster? Isn't that too damned bad!

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Political Coverage Isn’t Focused on the Issues, Whines Self-Made National Distraction Ted Cruz
By Juli Weiner, September 25, 2013



Senator Ted Cruz (R–Ted Cruz) is not happy with coverage of his 21-hour-long publicity stunt on the Senate floor. Shallow reporters only care about “personalities bickering back and forth,” he claims. Where’s the analysis of Important Matters of Substance like the plot of Green Eggs and Ham or whether Cruz’s Darth Vader impression is pretty solid or very solid?

Cruz has a theory on the root of the wretched state of political discourse in this country. “You know, the political reporters in Washington D.C., I think some of them may be frustrated because they really wanted to be Hollywood gossip reporters, because they cover these issues as a battle of personalities,” he said during the inane and procedurally pointless filibuster that served no purpose other than a day-long tryout for his future career in cable news.

Cruz’s hypothesis, like his Darth Vader impression, is pretty solid. Did you know that National Magazine Award–winning journalist Mark Leibovich only pursued the political beat after he was denied an interview with the cast of Dancing with the Stars? And Jason Horowitz was forced to take a job at The Washington Post after botching a detail of Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey’s wedding during an unpaid internship at People.com? (Guests like Lachey’s former 98 Degrees bandmate Jeff Timmons nibbled on mini cupcakes, not petit fours, Horowitz.) And were you aware that political historian Robert Caro originally began his five-volume study of Lyndon Johnson as something to do while he waited for a callback from Ashley Tisdale’s publicist’s assistant? Caro would gladly trade both his Pulitzers for a chance to ask Tisdale whether she and her High School Musical cast mates still keep in touch.
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