Story highlights Cruz's new spots makes a play on the 1999 comedy film

"Damn it feels good to be a Clinton," the parody lyrics say

(CNN) Ted Cruz takes a swing in a new ad at Hillary Clinton's email server controversy with a spoof of a famous scene from the cult classic comedy "Office Space."

In the 1999 movie, a group of software company workers drag a chronically malfunctioning printer into an open field to stomp on and pulverize it with a baseball bat.

Cruz's spot adjusts the frame a bit, substituting in a Clinton character, along with a couple of her aides, and exchanging the printer for a computer drive.

The musical backing will be familiar to the movie's fans -- a neat parody of the Geto Boys' 1992 single "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta."

Cruz's version begins, "Damn it feels good to be a Clinton. A shameless politician always plays her cards right." It goes on to call out the press for keeping "their their mouths tight" in defense of the "entitled" former secretary of state and former president.

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