As you know, Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke interrupted a news conference on the Robb Elementary School shooting to do some campaigning against Gov. Greg Abbott, who was leading the news conference along with Sen. Ted Cruz and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin. Keep in mind that this is the same O’Rourke who, while campaigning for president, was selling “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s” T-shirts, but during his more recent gubernatorial campaign said, “I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment” — so you know he’s a shameless opportunist. What does he want, then?
Kyle Clark, who as far as we can tell is a journalist with Denver NBC affiliate 9 News, notes that Republican Lauren Boebert did the same thing to Beto O’Rourke, and he let her have her say.
Colorado’s @laurenboebert launched her political career by confronting @BetoORourke over guns at a campaign stop in Aurora in 2019. O’Rourke begged the crowd not to interrupt Boebert as she had her say. #copolitics https://t.co/oqzMNiNi8w
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) May 25, 2022
What a gentleman.
This isn’t a campaign stop. It’s an official press conference to give information for the community and the parents. But you know that. https://t.co/rkWm2mXXpH
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 25, 2022
Imagine being an Uvalde community member there to watch leaders address the fresh atrocity that happened down the road from you and some dude on the losing end of an election shows up to make it about him in a desperate grab at attention. @BetoORourke is disgusting. https://t.co/gvOWe0iA2C
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 25, 2022
Go get that CNN gig.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 25, 2022
It’s sad that this has to be explained.
— Brian McKeon💧 (@Bbbmckeon) May 25, 2022
Kyle Clark is the NBC propagandist in Denver.
He just drips with self righteous judgment.🤣🤣— OzBodkins (@Oz_Bodkins) May 25, 2022
They are not the same Kyle and you know it. Today was NOT a campaign stop. It was a conference to update families and the community on the latest info regarding this tragedy. Beto was 1000% in the wrong here.
— Nina Bookout (@NDBook96) May 25, 2022
But this is a press conference the DAY AFTER A SHOOTING.
— Mack (@mackef1986) May 25, 2022
Oh this was a campaign stop?
— Kemba (@kembageorge) May 25, 2022
This was definitely a campaign stop, and 7 years after it happened, right?
— BJack (@Bruce_Jack06) May 25, 2022
beto is a candidate for governor.
He can call a press conference any time he wants.
Instead, he decides to crash this event and make himself the center of attention.
He’s a clown.
— Me (@Keefer1958) May 25, 2022
Totes the same my guy
— Nick 🐺 (@ILCorrespondent) May 25, 2022
Candidate O’Rourke could have called his own press conference to comment on the shooting, and that would have been a proper campaign stop. This wasn’t, and Clark knows it.
Related:
Joe Scarborough’s defense of Beto O’Rourke’s sick stunt doesn’t hold up to fact-checks from David Harsanyi and Charles Cooke https://t.co/kVHMn82F4W
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 25, 2022
