Posted on 01/10/2019 5:57:35 PM PST by EdnaMode
Beto O’Rourke went to the dentist, and in the style of social media stars all over, he turned on his camera to broadcast the seemingly personal moment.
The former Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, whose unsuccessful 2018 campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz drew support and attention from across the country, has become known for the unscripted chats and live streams broadcast on his social media channels.
But the dentist videos, with a shot of his teeth getting worked on, represented perhaps a new level of intimacy. The story began with an image of his face stuffed with dental tools, the rubber-gloved hands of a dental hygienist nearby.
“So,” O’Rourke said, as the technician removed the tools from his mouth, “I’m here at the dentist."
The videos were the latest example of O’Rourke’s comfort with social media — a free way to generate attention, media headlines and an aura of authenticity in the social-media-driven news era. While Donald Trump catapulted to the presidency after redefining the way politicians use Twitter — a tactic now deployed with aplomb by freshmen Rep. Alexandria Cortez-Ocasio (D-N.Y.) — O’Rourke has gone further, giving the public a window into many seemingly mundane by intimate moments of his life on live stream on Facebook.
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Katie Couric shared her colonist, IIRC.
>>has become known for the unscripted chats and live streams broadcast on his social media channels.
mythmaking
“unscripted”
Any lawyer, debator, or politician will ALWAYS rehearse the talking points/arguments.
What a creep!
Stupid idiot is too stupid to know that poor folks don’t get to go to the dentist. What a goober show off.
yea, he is an everyday guy
Millionaire and billionaire Marxists in the Politburo who want you to believe that they are JUST like you and want “everyone” to pay more taxes.
Moron
This tops the Obama selfies.
>>The videos were the latest example of O’Rourke’s comfort with social media — a free way to generate attention,
Social media isn’t a free way to generate attention.
If you aren’t A-list, your posts don’t circulate very far at all for free. 1/1000th of your followers will see your posts.
Downthrottling is a thing. The illusion of presenting posters the opportunity to share a post with followers who’ve already opted in.
Only the Democrat Party could fall in love with a guy who drove drunk and got arrested. I guess he’s a step up from Ted Kennedy who killed a woman while driving drunk
I hope Biden doesn’t go for a rectal exam.
Only someone with too much time on their hands and too much empty space between their ears would even bother to waste time they could never get back.
“Katie Couric shared her colonist, IIRC.”
Now you’re taking! Let’s have him “share the video clip” of his Proctologist as he drives that ‘56 Buick of a camera up his wazooo!
Beto’s next trick will nude twerking in Barney Frank’s face...live on Cpan.
Katie Couric did that to encourage people to get colonoscopies. Her husband had died from colon cancer. Kind of a public service.
From the photo I couldn’t tell if it was a visit to the dentist or proctologist.
LOL
Don’t forget AOC.
She does ‘cute’ but awkward dancing in viral videos. So, she’s just as qualified to run for president as Butto and Lieawatha. The age thing? Well, she’ll just have the constitution changed by Nancy.
The new Jimmy Carter.
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