Heidi Cruz: “No one in our house will see the Barbie movie”

Heidi Cruz: “No one in our house will see the Barbie movie.”

Sen. Ted Cruz really doesn’t like the “Barbie” movie.

The Texas lawmaker this weekend ripped the movie and accused it of pandering to the Chinese censors and feeding young girls with “communist propaganda” with its depiction of a contested region in the South China Sea. “There’s a scene in ‘Barbie,’ where there is this map of the world, and it’s drawn like with crayon. I mean, it’s really a very simple cartoon. And so they have this blockish thing that is called ‘Asia.’ And then they’ve drawn what are called the nine-dashes,” Cruz said in an interview with The Daily Signal on Sunday.

This is not the first time the Texas Republican has weighed in on the “Barbie” movie. Cruz previously criticized the movie on his podcast and on Twitter.

“We’ve seen an ongoing pattern of Hollywood movies kowtowing to the Chinese communists,” Cruz said in his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” on July 7. But Tuberville’s colleague Cruz, and other Republicans, appear more focused on the “really important question” of whether Barbie is communist after a fake map in the film appeared to endorse China’s claims to parts of the South China Sea, said Psaki, a former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden.

“No military leader out there is going to tell you they’re more worried about a cartoon map in a movie about a doll than about having qualified members of the military in a position to lead their troops,” she argued.