"This is the night that Ted Cruz became president."

[DetlefK]

Link to tweet

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/thanks-for-watching-ted-twitter-account-gleeful-after-sen-cruz-accidently-likes-clip/

The 1-minute-and-42-second clip ignited the Internet early Tuesday morning as users marveled at the “family values” poster child tipping his hat to some good, old fashioned porn. Cruz, a veritable finger-wagging conservative who once defended a ban on dildos, did not issue a statement after taking down the video. But Catherine Frazier, his senior communications adviser, took to Twitter shortly after to assure people the “like” was not triggered by her boss’s own hands.

[JI7]

1. i think it was Cruz himself that liked it and he forgot he was using his Senate Twitter

instead of his private account.

[Dorian Gray]

2. Probably

But it's so strange. If you're in his position... why hit like on anything? Just watch the porn/read the tweet and move on. Is it just so reflexive now?

[JI7]

3. i don't have twitter but i think based on likes he gets links to similar things

[brettdale]

5. 100% agree

Of course they will blame a staffer, but this is certainly what happened, he was logged into the wrong account.

[fleur-de-lisa]

25. Cruz forgot that he was NOT signed in as

the Zodiac Killer. Honest mistake!

[Solly Mack]

4. Not his own hands? Got comfy with his legs up and the heel of his foot hit like?

Perhaps he leaned into the monitor to get a closer look and his elbow hit the like button?

Could his tongue have triggered the like button while he was trying to lick the screen?

Not his own hands leaves other ways he could have done it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Which of us HASN'T "butt-recced" a post by Random Thoughts?

I hate when I sit on the mouse, or when my cat walks across the keyboard.

I'm sure it's easy to "like" by accident.

Under oath, of course, I'd plead the fifth. Of Jack Daniels.

[Achilleaze]

23. Oh oh - this is a "butt - reply"

I would never ever ever reply to a bozo, on the bus or off. My dandruff fell on the keyboard and spelled this out. really. Mea maxima culpa.

[Permanut]

28. Could happen to anybdy.

[Dustlawyer]

9. Ms. Frazier knows what he was doing this early in the morning?

Was she with him? Did they watch it together?

[Eyeball_Kid]

18. Cruz was salivating at the porn and his spit shorted out his keyboard. Oops! He liked.

[Neema]

31. His hand may have not hit the button, but what he was holding in his hand...

Maybe she wasn't lying.

[Pachamama]

7. I can't stop laughing at the comments on twitter....

[flygal]

20. someone called him "tuggin Ted"

[JHB]

8. "God works in mysterious ways", I belive the saying goes...

Hey, Ted, why was it showing up in your feed in the first place?

[TEB]

10. What a dildo

[Abu Pepe]

11. So what did he click it with

if not his hand

[llmart]

12. Completely unrelated to the story...

why are Republican men so darned creepy looking? If I saw him in a dark alley I'd run the other way. Same with Dump and Ryan and McConnell... I could list more. He looks like a perv.

[femmocrat]

14. Trey Gowdy.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Cruz looks like Evil Neil Sedaka.

[llmart]

24. LOL!

Never thought of that, but I actually think Neil Sedaka was better looking and at least he could sing.

[white_wolf]

30. Have you ever noticed Kushner?

He looks like he's waiting for the poison to kick in.

[llmart]

32. I try not to look at that ugly family.

[Omaha Steve]

13. The BUCK doesn't stop here???

[Bradical79]

16. Update!

Link to tweet

Hmm...

[Iwasthere]

26. At first glance her picture Jas an odd thingy poking up

[Loubee]

17. Falling in line with the new GOP image--from the White House on down.

[OnDoutside]

19. What was Teddie doing for the 40 minutes before he unliked the clip ???? There, I said it.

Oh Heidi !!!

[MiniMe]

21. I have seen too many things like that on Facebook where all of a sudden you see things that people

have "liked" . Nothing is secure on the internets. I don't know much about how twitter works, but I think things like that are similar to Facebook. I've gotten friend requests from people that I am already friends with because they have been hacked. I've gotten emails from people I am actually friends with wanting me to click on some obscure link. Don't know if twitter works the same way that facebook works, but I get in touch with that person and ask what's going on with the email or facebook post, or friend request.

[Achilleaze]

22. Shows you what republicans are really all about

They lie about having high moral standards, like they lie about everything.

Free clue for republicans: climate change is real. So is republican sexual kinkery.

[ProudLib72]

27. If the story is that an aide hit the 'like' button

Then the question is, Why in the hell is Ted handing his phone over to aides to watch porn? Don't they have a zillion desktops with big monitors?

Would you hand over your phone so someone could watch porn?

[JonLP24]

29. I knew this was Jon Favreau before clicking on this thread

I saw this post live last night (I kept browsing latest tweets after news spread to DU).