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Stephen King: Cruz Is ‘Creepy.’ Shapiro: Looked In The Mirror Lately?

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Author Stephen King, whose forays into political argumentation end as badly as his books, got another lesson in sallying forth without a political lance on Monday, after he attempted to target Senator Ted Cruz for being “creepy.”

Since King is the supposed expert on what constitutes “creepy,” it stands to reason he would use that epithet to describe Cruz, relying on his own reputation as the master of the macabre to disparage someone whose intellectuals boots he is barely qualified to lift.

But his launch of what he may have thought was a political missile was shot down by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro:

As far back as February 2016, King was targeting Cruz; speaking with The Daily Beast, he called Cruz, “scary,” saying to elect Cruz would be “the analog of an Imam — someone whose first guiding principle would be the scripture, rather than the Constitution … even if he was able to govern without blowing up the world, could we look at a guy who resembles a cable game show host for four years? He has that awful plastered-down hair and everything.” He added, “At this point, he’s said 40 different things that would have gotten him laughed out of the race if he wasn’t so outrageous.”

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