Ted Cruz As Lord Voldemort: He Who Must Not Be Named By 'Morning Joe'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Move over, Lord Voldemort. Ted Cruz has taken your place as the man so evil he must not be named . . .

Today's Morning Joe featured a strange trope in which Cruz was unmistakably being referred to by various members of the panel, but, at least in the first hour, never mentioned by name. Instead, Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle and Willie Geist variously alluded to Cruz as "one Republican senator specifically" or as one of "a couple of Republican senators" or "certain members of the Senate." Why the aversion to calling Ted Cruz by name? Were the Morning Joers trying to deprive Cruz of publicity?

View the video here.

[shego]

There is another name on the list of ‘who will not be named’ by Scarborough. (Lori Klausutis)

Ouch!

[uncitizen]

Hehe, followed in second place by people who are daily NPR listeners/MSNBC viewers.