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Beto Lets Loose On A Heckler, NPR Clutches At Pearls

By Jen Maravegias | Politics | August 12, 2022

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On Wednesday night Beto O’Rourke held a town hall meeting and spoke very frankly about the Uvalde tragedy. He’s angry. We’re all angry. But Beto is uniquely positioned to actually do something about it. Well, not yet. I guess a better way to put that would be to say that the voters of Texas are uniquely positioned to weaponize Beto’s righteous anger over Uvalde by electing him the next governor of Texas.

I know, I know, a Democrat winning the Texas gubernatorial race is about as likely as hell freezing over. But we all know how much Texas loves a “straight shooter” and someone who “speaks plain.” So maybe, just maybe, Beto dropping a Samuel-Jackson-worthy MF’er at a heckler is exactly what he needed to do.

That is the angry, Gen-X, energy the Democratic party needs right now. But if you ask NPR, Beto might have taken it too far.

One of the pearl-clutchers interviewed for this piece, Cal Jillson, is a pasty-faced Political Science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas:

“Light cursing can make you seem more authentic to your supporters, but there are shades of language that are dangerous..”

No, sir. What’s dangerous is allowing the continued purchase of weapons of war by untrained civilians. GTFO with this nonsense.

Also quoted in the article is Rice University Political Science professor Mark Jones. He’s got to be the whitest chair of Latin American Studies in the country:

“These are voters who are Democratic voters, Republican voters, who don’t have an issue with profanity in their private life but hold public officials and those making public pronouncements to a higher standard.

Sir, perhaps you slept through the four years of Trump’s White House, which makes this statement absolutely meaningless? You are also dismissed.

Twitter rightfully dragged NPR on this one. Take it away, Twitterverse!