Senator Ted Cruz opted to walk away from tough questions asked by British journalist Mark Stone regarding gun reform laws in America instead of confronting them head-on.

Cruz was attending a vigil for victims of the Robb Elementary School massacre when Stone approached him with a camera crew. The British Sky News reporter asked why American exceptionalism is “so awful,” in the context of mass shootings. And those questions resulted in Sen. Cruz walking away - storming off, as the report describes it.

The Daily Mail writes:

After repeatedly being asked ‘You can’t answer that’ by the British journalist, Cruz turned and said: ‘Why is it that people come from all over the world to America? Because it’s the freest, most prosperous, safest country on Earth. Stop being a propagandist.’

‘You know, it’s easy to go to politics,’ Cruz told Sky News. ‘Inevitably, when some violent psychopath murders people, if you want to stop violent crime, the proposals the Democrats have — none of them would have stopped this.’

Cruz then "stormed out of the interview at the vigil".

Stone's persistence in asking the question of Sen. Cruz led to that moment. But it wasn't belligerent or in a gotcha style. He pressed for answers to a question that people, as he put it "around the world" want to hear answers for.

It was well done and it went viral, which is also nice.

The cable news networks took a beating in a new poll that indicts each one for "the spread of extremist ideologies."

In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting and focus on so-called "Replacement Theory" — especially pertaining to Fox News host Tucker Carlson — Morning Consult asked respondents about cable networks spreading extremist views.

Fox was the only cable network to achieve a majority on the question, but CNN came very close to half and MSNBC was not far behind.

Respondents to the poll were asked “How responsible, if at all, do you believe each of the following are for the spread of extremist ideologies, such as white supremacy and anti-Semitism?”

Among all respondents, 53% said Fox News is either "very" or “somewhat responsible” for such spread. CNN was about 8 points behind at 45% saying they are "very' or "somewhat responsible." MSNBC came in at a somewhat surprising 40%.

Pluralities also blamed Tucker Carlson by a 40% to 21% margin, and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow by a slim 29% to 27%, with the rest responding “Don’t know/no opinion.”

The greatest share of blame in this poll was for “news media” and “social media companies,” at 67% and 64%, respectively.

This poll of registered voters put blame across all of media and social media on the question of spreading extremism, as the public has on a variety of issues, including disinformation, in recent polling. But the three networks each fared terribly and that's not good.