Journalism is truly in a sad state these days. Check out this hard-hitting exposé from New York Magazine. So desperate were they for dirt on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz that they turned to Twitter for grievances from an (alleged) old college roommate (h/t JWF):
Proud, pretentious American destroyer Ted Cruz has always been a bit difficult. Since elbowing his way into the national consciousness, the Texas Republican has been outed as a hater of "minor Ivies" like Penn and Brown, and is said to have come to Princeton as a 17-year-old with a book titled Was Karl Marx a Satanist? "I would end up fielding the [girls'] complaints: 'Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?'" his undergrad roommate at Princeton Craig Mazin told the Daily Beast over the summer. ("I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone," Mazin added. "I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.")Today, Mazin — who just so happens to be the screenwriter behind Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and The Hangover III — took to Twitter to share more stories about his fateful time in a crappy room with Cruz. It's about what you'd expect, but funnier.
What could Ted Cruz have possibly done 20 years ago that should preclude him from being taken seriously today?
When Ted Cruz was my roommate, he'd endlessly hit the snooze button. I asked him to stop. He wouldn't. So I Krazy-glued it. #learnfromthis
— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) October 11, 2013
The snooze button?! Quelle horreur!
