Cruz: Palin’s right, I ‘spanked’ the media

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday touted remarks from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that he “spanked” the media during this week’s GOP presidential debate.

Cruz’s campaign thanked Palin while posting a video of her interview with a conservative TV outlet earlier this week where she made the remark.

Thank you for the kind words, Gov. @SarahPalinUSA! https://t.co/lk7SAmoyaY #CNBCGOPDebate

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 30, 2015

“He schooled the media, and that’s what the American people are craving, too,” Palin, who has long bashed the mainstream media, said in the interview with Newsmax.

“The state of the media … has been so poor and so unfair,” the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said. 

“We have seen such a downfall of what the media has become, that when Ted Cruz spanked them, well we know they deserved to be spanked,” she added.

Cruz’s campaign tweeted the video as news emerged that the Republican National Committee was suspending its debate relationship with NBC over the way the CNBC face-off was handled.

During the debate, Cruz confronted the CNBC moderators for asking whether Donald Trump was running a “comic book” campaign or if Ben Carson understood math. 

Cruz said the questions posed in the first half-hour of the debate “illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media. This is not a cage match.”

He also addressed questions that involved rivals Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Several other candidates got in on knocking the network, too.

Cruz’s campaign raked in more than $1 million in the first day after the debate.