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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,459 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 08:29 PM Mar 2015

Lewis Black: Not even taking LSD in my youth could prepare me for Ted Cruz

Last edited Wed Mar 25, 2015, 09:07 PM - Edit history (1)

Comedian Lewis Black seemed shocked that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) could be seriously considered as a presidential candidate during a panel discussion on The Nightly Show on Tuesday.

“I took LSD in my youth, and it didn’t prepare me for him,” Black said of Cruz, before seemingly comparing him to former Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy.

“We’ve lived through this before. This is 1956,” Black said. “If [Cruz] had appeared at Liberty University and it was shot in black and white, then I’d go, ‘I get it.’ This is someone who should never have made it to color television.”

Black clashed with Blaze TV anchor Amy Holmes, however, when he said that the Liberty students believed he would go to hell because he is Jewish.

“It’s not really a place for me to jump in and go, ‘Oh boy! What a great candidate!’” Black argued. “I cut out 90 percent of what he said. He believes I’m going to hell, so what are we talking about?”

“Many of them would say that it is not for them to decide, that they have accepted Jesus into their heart,” Holmes told him, before asking, “Are you saying that someone who is an open Christian, who wears their religion on their sleeve, shouldn’t be president of the United States? That doesn’t make sense.”

“That isn’t what I said,” Black replied. “You took the joke and drove down a bad highway.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/lewis-black-not-even-taking-lsd-in-my-youth-could-prepare-me-for-ted-cruz/

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Lewis Black: Not even taking LSD in my youth could prepare me for Ted Cruz (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2015 OP
Me, niether! marble falls Mar 2015 #1
Freaking perfect malaise Mar 2015 #2
Watched it last night. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #3
I don't think anything taken in our youths, or today, can actually prepare for turd cruz. niyad Mar 2015 #4
You mean Pastor Ted Cruz ... blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #6
Pastor RAFAEL ted cruz lastlib Mar 2015 #11
amy holmes is an idiot. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #5
"you took the joke and drove down a bad highway" Love, love, love LB! bbgrunt Mar 2015 #7
Amy Holmes = TheBlaze = Glenn Beck = (Where's Media Horse when you need it?) Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2015 #8
Lewis Black was great Lifelong Protester Mar 2015 #9
Nothing can prepare one for a Carnival Cruz Kalidurga Mar 2015 #10
I don't think Will Ferrell's Cam Brady could top Ted Cruz in terms of sheer absurdity. Initech Mar 2015 #12

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)
9. Lewis Black was great
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:03 PM
Mar 2015

I only stayed up to see him, and yes, I think he was going for a "Tailgunner Joe" comparison. I see it in Cruz all the time.... glad someone else does.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
10. Nothing can prepare one for a Carnival Cruz
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:24 PM
Mar 2015

just make sure you know where your life preserver is and try to stay close to the lifeboats.

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