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This has been bothering me for awhile…
At first because I wasn’t sure which pronunciation of Beto O’Rourke‘s first name was correct. Because pretty much everybody in the news media was calling him “Bay Toe.”
But then I head one of campaign officials refer to his as “Bet Oh” in a news interview on Tucker Carlson‘s show. Despite which, Tucker continued to call him “Bay Toe.”
What gives, I wondered.
Guess what?
An online search resulted in yet a third – and supposedly more correct pronunciation – that being “Bee Toe.”
Yet despite O’Rourke’s dramatic newfound fame last year – based upon his media coronation, ability to raise ridiculous amounts of money and narrow loss in Texas to Ted Cruz – most media pundits continued to mispronounce his name.
Odd, right?
I mean, there’s almost no way Ted Cruz would not have known the correct way, yet he continued month-after-month to call O’Rourke “Bay Toe.”
Was it merely a diss?
One newsie wondered why, given that O’Rourke didn’t refer to Cruz as “Tad”
How can someone who many have speculated that could become the next president of the United States be so across the board misidentified?
Well, now it can be told…
After more than a year, national news anchors have thrown in the towel – or clued in – and started to pronounce O’Rouke’s name correctly.
So repeat after me:
“Bet Oh” – kinda like “ghetto” – not like “veto.”
Pretty weird, if you ask me, because overnight the correct pronunciation of O’Rourke’s has gone from zero to 100 percent.
Imagine that.
Snore. Beta is his real name. As in beta male. Couldn’t even beat Ted Cruz.
Well, he came out of nowhere and only lost to a presidential candidate / incumbent by 200,000 votes out of 8 million cast in the Republican state of Texas!
Beta-Male O’Rourke, the phony gutless puke, is self-flagellating himself with a “White Boy” shame whip.
He wishes he wasn’t white and is pandering to the Hispanic/minority voters he thinks will pull the lever (They won’t) for him in 2020.
He should man up and if he wants to change his name from “Robert” O’Rourke then go for it. Change it to Robert O’Rorkes Drift and go back to a time when white people were not cowering in the corner because 23 and Me couldn’t prove they had any Cherokee blood coursing through there veins.
I beto he loses. Just another phony screaming about the sky falling in 12 years if we don’t get cows to stop farting.
I like it, you “betio” he loses…nice touch.
FYI, listened to some news talk panelists this afternoon who continued to call him “Bay Toe”
really no different than J.E.B. Bush and his fake name only this time making allusions to Southern Generals that will fly well over heads of the blacks while satisfying the Redneck Riviera voters. Turtle J.E.B. is SAD!
Idioms (potayto/potahto, tomayto/tomahto) to idiots (CNN’s ‘La mon’/TDS Smollett), an AG wire pondered (styne/steen) to a thespian did conspire (Lock or Loff-lin, Lori’s last now ‘MUD’), aren’t you glad that, in an world full of uncertainty, there remains an undeniable truth: today, tomorrow and beyond ‘Teflon Don’ rides on/TRUMP MAGA!
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(speaking of myths, lies and local lore: ‘wait till next year’ part 2019 verse 50 impends)
My favorite . . . Beeto O’Dork. Accomplished amateur barista, nanny, and wild arm waver.