Ted Cruz's thirteen-year-old daughter Caroline found herself in the sinister eyes of a blog LGBTQNation this week.
Cockburn is deeply disappointed with its author Bill Browning, apparently another graduate of the Jeffrey Epstein School of Journalism: a well-funded progressive institution whose students find it perfectly acceptable to treat teenagers as adults. Huh.
The reason for Browning's story is that Cruz's daughter "reportedly has come across as bisexual on social media" – and has denounced the Texas senator's "far-right political views".
A teenager rebelling against her parents? stop press!
LGBTQNation also describes a TikTok video in which Cruz's daughter discusses whether she has told her father about her sexuality.
"I haven't told him yet, I'm upset about it, but I don't think he'll be mad about it," replies the teen.
Cruz's daughter was apparently the subject of much discussion on TikTok and Twitter over the Christmas break. LGBTQNation tells us that her "TikTok account was made private" after the video went viral.
Cockburn recalls a quiet cultural moment when increasing information about a teenager's sexual preferences to millions of people would have been dubbed "cyberbullying" and not "news".
Sadly, Caroline Cruz is the latest teenager to fall victim to the creepy creeps tracking the children of public figures under the guise of "public interest journalism." Kellyanne and George's daughter Claudia Conway was fourteen years old when internet sleuths discovered her TikTok account and turned her into a (legal) minor celebrity. And Baron Trump was also the subject of inane speculation during his father's tenure as president.
Cockburn thinks Pink Floyd had it all right years ago: "Leave those kids alone!"