First, the media coverage of the interview itself seemed particularly polarized. For example, here's a tweet from Salon:
Seth Meyers -- Seth Meyers! -- absolutely skewers Ted Cruz in brilliant late-night interview http://t.co/49OwvdDbGo pic.twitter.com/5oW9xBULZs
— Salon.com (@Salon) March 18, 2015
And here's a tweet from CAP:
Seth Meyers confronts Ted Cruz on climate change: ‘I think the world’s on fire, literally’ http://t.co/N72EFPTVf6 pic.twitter.com/jvTKU0YM9S
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 18, 2015
Then, from the other side, Red Alert Politics sympathizes with Cruz:
Seth Meyers interviews Ted Cruz about global warming and gay marriage. That’s called an ‘away game.’ http://t.co/VnhGQycAC6
— Red Alert Politics (@RedAlert) March 17, 2015
But if you watch the actual interview, it seems Meyers and Cruz, though less than friendly, were not openly hostile, as the tweets or Think Progress' picture would lead one to believe:
In addition, Cruz highlights in the interview that media coverage of his recent stump speach while campaigning in New Hampshire was exceedingly unfair. Not to pick on Salon, but here's their coverage of that event:
Watch Ted Cruz scare the bejesus out of a little girl in his new stump speech http://t.co/GSf9PwD38u
— Salon Politics (@Salon_Politics) March 17, 2015
However, video from the event is not nearly as dramatic (starts @ 0:28):
While Cruz does damage control on exactly how much he scared the young New Hampshirite, the interview with Seth Meyers seems to have been a win-win. Meyers pressed Cruz on weighty issues and gained media attention. Meanwhile, Cruz proved to his base that he is a true conservative and even got a few shots in on the liberal media along the way.
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For what it's worth PolitiFact found Cruz's scientific claims on "Late Night" to be "mostly false":
Ted Cruz: Climate 'alarmists' have 'problem' bc 17 yrs of satellite data show 'zero warming." Mostly False http://t.co/CZrs10ZHJE
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) March 20, 2015
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