MRC Can’t Stop Lashing Out At Beto O’Rourke

The Media Research Center got mad at Beto O’Rourke for calling out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (whom O’Rourke is running against for the seat) after the Uvalde massacre, and it continues to be triggered by him. Michael Ippolito whined in an Aug. 12 post:

Another day, another leftist politician acting like an unhinged lunatic. This time it’s everyone’s favorite non-Mexican furry, Beto O’Rourke. 

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The tweet shows that Beto took the time to go after an Abbott supporter who began laughing while the gubernatorial candidate was talking about the Uvalde Massacre. “It may be funny to you motherf*cker, but its not funny to me, OK?,” Beto says to the cheers of his supporters. Beto seems pretty upset over the man who interrupted his event. Did he forget about the time he interrupted a press conference on the Uvalde shooting? Does he deserve the title of motherf*cker too?

The video reveals that the Abbott supporter was not laughing at the Uvalde shooting, but at Beto’s inaccurate history of the AR-15. Beto claimed these guns were “originally designed for use on the battlefield in Vietnam to penetrate an enemy soldier’s helmet at 500 feet and knock him down dead.”

Actually, the Reason article Ippolito linked to in order to claim that the man was laughing at “Beto’s inaccurate history of the AR-15” offers no actual proof of that. And as we’ve previously noted, the AR-15 was, in fact, designed for war — a fact that Ippolito suggested was false. 

Ippolito somehow found his manhood threatened by this exchange: “Beto has once again displayed his lack of respect and lack of masculinity. Just another day in leftist fairytale land.” To drive that purported lack of masculinity home further, Ippolito headline his post “Beto Male.” But Ippolito didn’t explain what, exactly, is not “masculine” about O’Rourke defending the honor of children murdered in a gun massacre. 

An Aug. 22 item by P.J. Gladnick complained that a Washington Post profile of O’Rourke didn’t spend enough time on an issue Gladnick and his fellow Republicans think O’Rourke is vulnerable on:

On Sunday, The Washington Post published a long article online that, in reality, was a loving paean to far-left Democrat and perpetual (losing) candidate Beto O’Rourke.

Although O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas, The Post conveniently skipped any mention of perhaps the Lone Star State’s top issue in ” Beto O’Rourke’s risky quest for votes in deep-red Texas,” which would be the U.S.-Mexico border.

The article by Jade Yuan — which appeared in Monday’s print edition on page one of the Style section — mentioned the border only twice as geographic reference points:

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And that was it. A grand total of just two mentions of the border despite illegal border crossings and the massive illegal invasions being at the top of the concerns of the deep-red sections of the border state of Texas. Of course, bringing up an issue which O’Rourke would obviously want to avoid while campaigning in the deep red parts of Texas would interfere with what is essentially an Post  tribute to him.

Gladnick did not explain why he thinks a legitimate reporter should be taking journalism advice from a right-wing blogger.