Posted on 10/19/2018 9:24:25 AM PDT by rktman
Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke was the only candidate present at the CNN Texas Senate Town Hall Thursday night since GOP Senator Ted Cruz reportedly declined the invitation. During their first debate at Southern Methodist University, O’Rourke drew criticism and four Pinocchios from The Washington Post for lying about not trying to flee the scene of a car accident he caused when he drove while intoxicated. Despite the lie, it was never brought up by moderator Dana Bash or asked in the preselected questions from the audience.
Besides not asking the liberal media heartthrob about lying about an aspect of his DWI, Bash didn’t call O’Rourke out on other bits of misinformation he peddled. This was important because during the 2016 presidential election (and since), there were calls from the liberal media to “fact check” President Trump as he was speaking.
Ironically, one of O’Rourke’s falsehoods came when he explaining why he called his opponent “Lyin’ Ted” at a debate earlier in the week.
“It changed this week. You've been saying that people are sick of the pettiness and the smallness in politics, yet during Tuesday's debate that you had with Senator Cruz, you took a page right out of President Trump's playbook and you called Senator Cruz “Lyin’ Ted”. Why did you do that,” Bash asked.
While he claimed he regretted using the nickname, he argued that it was needed. “To not answer to these attacks when your opponent says you want to legalize heroin or that you want to take everyone's guns away or that you want to open the border, it can invite, you know, confusion or questions by people,” he told Bash.
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Yeah, isn’t he just the coolest dude for riding a skate board.
Why on Earth would CNN do anything to harm their candidates?
He should enter his rallies riding it to show just how KEWL he really is. He could paint it with rainbows and unicorn stickers and some of those gold captains bars I see on Priuses around town. What a hit that would be huh?
“CNN fails”. No it did not fail. It does what it does. Its a leftist propaganda outlet and never ever should be confused with a true journalistic enterprise. Only a fool would take it seriously.
When he drunkenly fled the scene of the accident was there a young woman gasping for air in his car?
How CNN covers debates:
“Donald Trump said last night that there are 50 stars on the American flag. While technically correct, it is important to note that this has been true only since 1959. For much of US history, the number of stars was less than 50. We give Trump Three Pinocchios for this lie.”
“Beto O’Rourke aid last night that he invented beer. Since we don’t know who actually invented beer, we cannot really discount the fact that maybe Beto is the inventor of beer. Zero Pinocchios.”
Not this time. Of course someone could be injured due to an unsecured skateboard in the back seat.
What’s the big deal? O’Rourke’s DWI was probably caused by Global Warming. So it’s not his fault.
“Yeah, isn’t he just the coolest dude for riding a skate board.”
When I read abut Beto fleeing a car accident, the only thing I see is, ANOTHER TED KENNEDY.
Correct
Bump
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