Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, who somehow managed to act like a bigger jerk than Ted Cruz CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Agostini Late last month, Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin conducted a cringe-worthy interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). The interview meandered from questions about how Cruz plans to appeal to Latino voters to what appeared to be a series of requests that Cruz, who is Cuban American, prove that he is really, truly, authentically Cuban.