Just hours after being shouted down and cussed out by a group of protesters while joining “The View” on Monday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz dialed into SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” to download on it all.
“I can’t tell whether the person protesting you was upset with you or was just a left-wing loon,” Kelly said of the incident, setting Cruz up for a response.
The Republican senator correctly surmised that he was interrupted by a group of climate protesters, but incorrectly stated that “as far as I could tell they were not even directed at me. They were actually protesting ‘The View.’ But obviously my being there gave them a hook to show up.”
Extinction Rebellion NYC — an organization dedicated to “nonviolent direct action” – has since taken responsibility for the disruption online, revealing, “A rebel disrupted The View today, interrupting (dis)honorary, climate-denying guest Ted Cruz.” That activist called Cruz a “climate-dying piece of s—.” So turns out, he was more than just the flashy hook on “The View,” he was part of the reason for the protest altogether.
Shrugging the incident off, Cruz recalled that he was laughing about it in no time, even winking at the recent climate protesters who emptied a can of soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery.
“I joked afterwards, ‘I’m glad they didn’t have a Van Gogh painting hanging in the background, these nuts might’ve thrown soup on it!’”
As to why Cruz decided to sit with “The View” ladies in the first place – aside from promoting his new book, “Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System” – the senator explained that he wanted to talk “to the whole country,” not just the conservative right.
“I think conservatives spent too much time just preaching to the choir. I think it’s important to have a real a civil conversation and actually get to substance,” he told Kelly.
“You could turn from the choir to the congregation instead of going right into the pits of hell,” Kelly countered, but Cruz stood by his decision.
“I’ve gotta say, for some of the viewers of ‘The View,’ they’ve never heard another side,” he said, adding, “I think it was important for some of their viewers, at least, to hear something other than the straight party line.”
Watch the full segment from “The Megyn Kelly Show” in the video above.
