{"id":2696,"date":"2016-04-15T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/15\/ted-cruzs-most-controversial-position-yet-he-loves-godfather-iii\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T05:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:57:05","slug":"ted-cruzs-most-controversial-position-yet-he-loves-godfather-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/15\/ted-cruzs-most-controversial-position-yet-he-loves-godfather-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz&#039;s most controversial position yet: He loves &#039;Godfather III&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tedcruzcooper\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE0L2E4L3RlZGNydXpjb29wLjQ3ODM0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/350824eb\/ca9\/tedcruzcooper.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Ted+Cruz%27s+most+controversial+position+yet%3A+He+loves+%27Godfather+III%27&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F14%2Fted-cruz-godfather-iii%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F14%2Fted-cruz-godfather-iii%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ask yourself: Would you trust a president who listed <i>The Godfather III<\/i> as one of his favorite movies?<\/p>\n<p>Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz held nothing back during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night. Asked by Anderson Cooper to named one of his favorite movies, Ted Cruz went to his typical favorite, <i>The Princess Bride<\/i>, before making a radical pivot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cruz loves all the <i>Godfather<\/i> movies, including, yes, <i>Godfather III<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/31\/kasich-pizza-fork\/\">Potential leader of the free world eats pizza with a fork<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Viewers were thankfully spared from Cruz&#8217;s dramatic interpretations of <i>The Princess Bride<\/i>, a common and painful go-to for the senator. But the <i>Godfather III\u00a0<\/i>revelations came as a painful shock to viewers in the audience and Anderson Cooper, who worried that Cruz might lack the taste necessary to be president of the free world. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/14\/ted-cruz-godfather-iii\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cnn\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cnn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/election-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Election 2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ted-cruz\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ted Cruz<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/O2XimWA_nX4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask yourself: Would you trust a president who listed The Godfather III as one of his favorite movies? Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz held nothing back during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night. Asked by Anderson Cooper to named one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/15\/ted-cruzs-most-controversial-position-yet-he-loves-godfather-iii\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1918,835,1051,735],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-cnn","tag-election-2016","tag-ted-cruz","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}