Internet Gets Duped By Fake Video Of Ted Cruz Eating A Bug On Live TV

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In an old clip from Fox News that resurfaced this week, Ted Cruz appears to eat a bug that was crawling on his chin and went straight into his mouth. The internet immediately pounced and got "Toad Cruz" trending on Twitter. There's only one problem with the video - it was completely fake. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

All right, this is redoing the Ted Cruz video three, two, one.

A video has been circulating on social media since Wednesday evening, apparently showing Republican Senator, Ted Cruz, eating a fly on live television. Now this is allegedly an older clip of a Ted Cruz on Sean Hannity. Um, it got the hashtag toad Cruz trending. So if you haven't seen the clip here it is. Go ahead and take a look at Ted Cruz and the bug. Now there's just one problem with that clip.

It's totally fake.

Ted Cruz, unfortunately did not eat a bug live TV. It is in fact, a doctor video it's fake news and it spread like wildfire

And people on the left were more than happy to share this. And one thing, you know, I

Was duped by it at first. I'm not going to lie. But one thing that I did start to think about is, wait, wait, wait. If this is an old clip, how can it be an old, how can a clip exist of Ted Cruz

Eating a bug from months ago? How could that

Even exist without anybody knowing it? Like it doesn't just suddenly appear. It's not like it's a video of him in college. It was a video of him on Sean Hannity's program. If Ted Cruz had eaten a bug, you better believe we would have done a segment the next day that Ted Cruz, ADA bug. So would everybody else in progressive media? You miss NBC probably would've done it too, but

It's fake.

We got faked out. And that is just one of the things like we have to be so careful as news consumers. We have to be careful as reporters,

You know, uh, news analysts, pundits, whatever

We are. We have to be so much more

Careful than we are. It's not just the right that consumes fake news.

Now it wouldn't surprise me to learn that. Yes, Ted Cruz is actually a bunch of bugs in a Ted Cruz suit. You know, some of the whole nightmare before Christmas

Scenario thing happened in there, but that video was fake. It got spread around to millions of people before anybody was able to say, wait a minute, that didn't actually happen. So yes, while most of the fake news

Being shared on social media does come from conservative studies have proven

That they're not the only ones guilty of it. And we need to make sure that we get better.

And if somebody says they have an old clip of Ted Cruz

Eating a bug, maybe ask yourself first, why didn't anybody report on this months ago? Because

Everybody hates Ted Cruz. And if the guy was eating bugs on live TV, had him crawling in and out of his orifices, trust me,

We would have covered it.