Ted Cruz Blasts 'Misogynist and Profanity-Ridden' 'True Blood' Episode

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted HBO’s “misogynist and profanity-ridden” True Blood episode that demeaned “Republi-cu*nt” women and depicted a bloodbath at a Cruz fundraiser at the George W. Bush Presidential Library. 

“Of all the places I never thought to be mentioned, HBO’s True Blood vampire show would have to be near the top of the list,” Cruz wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday. “Sunday night, they aired a misogynist and profanity-ridden episode where Texas Republicans are murdered attending a ‘Ted Cruz fundraiser.'”

He continued, “Well, I’m sorry to have lost the vampire vote, but am astonished (and amused) that HBO is suggesting that hard-core leftists are blood-sucking fiends….”

In the same episode that aired Sunday evening, one of the lead characters dressed up as a Southern Republican in order to crash the “Cruz fundraiser” and said in horror while looking at herself in the mirror, “Oh My God, I’m a Republi-c*nt!”

And as Breitbart News reported, True Blood‘s producers may have tried to snooker former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for a role on the episode. Palin blasted the “brazen” producers after learning about Sunday’s episode.

“The brilliant minds of ‘True Blood’ were brazen enough to ask me to do a cameo on their show, apparently so they could insult a conservative woman in person instead of just all conservative women in general,” Palin told Breitbart News. “Their offer wasn’t presented in any negative way, perhaps to benefit from a surprise factor after the guest appearance. I turned them down anyway.”

Palin also blasted “producers who throw these deceitfully ‘flattering’ bones that sound fun on the surface.”

“Is it really any wonder I don’t accept your offers to participate in your shows?” she said. “Nice try HBO. I’d put any mama grizzly in America against a vampire any day; for only one of them actually exists. The left wants to talk about a ‘war on women’? Keep engaging in your misogynist attacks on women you disagree with and we’ll see who wins your self-inflicted war in the court of decent public opinion.”

Palin and Cruz are two of the most influential and important conservative voices in the nation, and they also make it more difficult for liberals to reflexively paint conservatives and Republicans as sexist or racist. And that is why Hollywood continues to take shots at both of them.