Posted on 10/02/2018 10:55:36 AM PDT by Simon Green
Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke apologized Monday for once writing a critical review of a Broadway musical in his college newspaper that said the actresses' "only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks."
"I am ashamed of what I wrote and I apologize," O'Rourke, a Democrat, said in a statement of his 1991 review. "There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women."
In the review, which was first reported by Politico, O'Rourke -- then 19-- wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator that the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies" is "one of the most glaring examples of sickening excesses and moral degradations in our culture."
"One thing that should be taken into consideration, however, is that I was the youngest person in the crowd by about 60 years," O'Rourke continued. "Though I found it revolting, most people from that long-ago, faraway generation really enjoyed the show, and were very pleased with the performances."
"Keith Carradine in the lead role is surrounded by perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks," the review said.
O'Rourke, who has served in the US House of Representatives since 2013, is in the midst of a high profile Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. A September 2018 Quinnipiac poll shows Cruz holds a majority of likely voters -- 54% -- over 45% for O'Rourke.
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Robert O’Rourke wrote the review.
Sorry. (Not sorry!) *SPIT*
Cruz has GOT to take this guy OUT! Come On, Texas!
Probably the only remark of this guy that I’ll agree with.
He’s only apologizing because the internal polls see a massacre for the idiot. He didnt apologize to the VFW about the US flags in his face..
This will come up again at the next debate... Go Cruz!
“Old white Deplorables made me do it!”
Interesting, is it not that the dimbulbcrats have folks who have lied about Vietnam, lied about being part native American, lied about being top of their law class, lied about killing women and walking away from the underwater car, lied about raping women, lied about memories “seared into their one-celled brain’, etc, etc.
I think I’m beginning to detect a pattern here.
you know the country is ***ed up when red blooded american males have to apologize for having been fixated on boobs and butts when they were 19.
When will he apologize for his lack of human dignity for being a gringo larping as a Latinx?
Wait, I thought behavior in high school and college determined your Life?
Which is why it won the Best Musical Tony award in 1991.
It was written by the famed team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and choreographed by Tommy Tune.
So O'Rourke has no taste for the theater, it seems.
-PJ
Granted people want to beat up on Beto, but this was high school and college era and years ago. I don’t see the problem with it in any case. Heck, we write much the same sometimes here on FR. I think we set everyone up to impossible standards to delve into things like this. If we are not careful, a celibate priest without a life will be the only person qualifying for office. There most are homosexual, so it will be a very small pool to draw from.
Its the sort of snarky comment which one might read from a London West-end theater critic, and which makes them interesting.
Of course Beto, being the weakling cuck he is, and to contort himself into his tiny leftist PC box, had to deny even that.
He’s a delicate li’l flower.
Perfect!
Beto doesn’t like judging women’s bodies. The homo...
Well, well, well, Irish Bob, aka Robert Francis O’Rourke is at it again. And did the fact his dad was a judge have anything to do with him not getting jail time for his burglary and hit and run DUI arrests?
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