Matt Drudge sent a rare communique on Twitter on Tuesday in order to make a tongue-in-cheek plea for the commentariat to take it easy on Ted Cruz, presumably for the good of pundit Glenn Beck.

“STOP THE SMITING!” Drudge wrote, linking to a story that prominently featured Beck, who has campaigned tirelessly for Cruz, with his face in a bowl of Cheetos. The founder and CEO of The Blaze media empire notoriously rubbed his face with Cheeto dust last week in a purported effort to look more like Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.