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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Drove drunk, hit a car, and tried to flee the scene.
You have to have an outrageously high opinion of yourself to think people want to see your dental visit.
You have to be extraordinarily starstruck to want to see someone else’s dental visit.
Ick.
Another white-privileged, cultural-appropriating Demagogic Party hack pretends to be fit for office in a cryptic manner. Thanks EdnaMode.
Most of those politicians are extreme narcissists I’d wager.
With those horse teeth, it was probably a long visit.
When does he go to the proctologist?
Dubya had a DWI arrest also. Just sayin’
Malignant narcissist.
I’m pretty sure you’re right.
I don’t understand the “Beto” fascination; maybe I’m just too old to find him interesting. I’ve got a feeling that I’d find a lot of politicians boring people because so many of them have never DONE anything!
I bet if you shake just about any of their hands, you’d get an icky feeling in your gut.
:)
An egoist buffoon, and a very rich one at that. You are less than normal, Beto clown, and no one cares to see your dental appointment in real time except for your lunatic and crazy sycophantic groupies. Get lost clown!
You have to have an outrageously high opinion of yourself to think people want to see your dental visit.
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Wait til he shares how he detoxes with a colonic.
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