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Beto O'Rourke apologizes for 1991 college review discussing actresses' breasts and buttocks
The Hill ^ | 10/01/18 | MORGAN GSTALTER

Posted on 10/01/2018 6:38:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke (D) on Monday apologized for writing a review of a Broadway musical in 1991 that detailed the actresses’ “phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

Politico on Monday resurfaced the review O’Rourke wrote when he was 19 years old for the Columbia Daily Spectator, the university’s student newspaper.

The review from the Oct. 10, 1991 edition of the paper was written under the byline Robert O’Rourke and offers a sharp critique of the musical “The Will Rogers Follies.”

O’Rourke criticized the “perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

He wrote that the entire performance was “one of the most glaring examples of the sickening excesses and moral degradations of our culture.”

O'Rourke said the show was “produced and directed in such a showy, glitzy, and ultimately, tacky manner, that one cannot help feeling disgusted throughout the show.”

The musical went on to win six Tony Awards, Politico noted.

O’Rourke issued an apology to Politico on Monday after the story was published.

"I am ashamed of what I wrote and I apologize. There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women," he said after the story published.

Politico was first notified O’Rourke’s review by an opponent of his Senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz (R-Texas).


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: betoorourke; columbiadaily; morgangstalter; politico; pollutico; robertorourke; tedcruz; thehill; tonyawards; willrogersfollies
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1 posted on 10/01/2018 6:38:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women...”

I agree. That “perma-smile” thing is pretty snarky. But I would imagine that his compliments that follow would smooth over his snarky comment.


2 posted on 10/01/2018 6:41:21 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Good grief. He apologizes for his single best literary effort, the only thing that might garner an ounce of respect from the common man.


3 posted on 10/01/2018 6:42:48 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: yesthatjallen

That was before he assumed his Fake Mexican name. What a scam he is pulling on gullible Lefties who are giving him millions of dollars in a Fake Campaign, just as Wendy Davis did.


4 posted on 10/01/2018 6:43:13 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: yesthatjallen
He’s jealous.

Homo freak Fake Mexican.

5 posted on 10/01/2018 6:43:29 PM PDT by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: yesthatjallen

See, you mean-old conservatives, he apologized! Why can’t we continue to focus on things a juvenile Kavanaugh was doing?

(Napoleon Dynamite) “Gawd.”


6 posted on 10/01/2018 6:44:32 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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To: txrefugee

Does Beto have a Foley implant.


7 posted on 10/01/2018 6:44:35 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: yesthatjallen

Pics?


8 posted on 10/01/2018 6:44:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: LUV W; Jane Long

Bobby Frank the Fake ping.


9 posted on 10/01/2018 6:45:02 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: yesthatjallen

Irish Frank the Letch.


10 posted on 10/01/2018 6:45:42 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (GOP- 65 House and 12 Senate seat pickups in November IF they confirm Kavanaugh.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Stick a fork in the phony Hispanic. Maybe he can pal around with the the phony Irish Christian Bono.


11 posted on 10/01/2018 6:45:56 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: yesthatjallen

Ah, yes. Focus on the -important- disqualifiers about the socialist.


12 posted on 10/01/2018 6:46:40 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
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>>He wrote that the entire performance was “one of the most glaring examples of the sickening excesses and moral degradations of our culture.” (1991)

what did Betozos say about this year’s press corp roast of Trump’s staff?

what did Betojuice say about this year’s F-bomb tony award broadcast? MTV Awards?


13 posted on 10/01/2018 6:47:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen

Are we ALL now going to have to apologize for our occasional lapses into lewd and lascivious behavior in the ‘80s and ‘90s?

If so, I hope the members of Congress get the party started.


14 posted on 10/01/2018 6:47:48 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: yesthatjallen

These would be capital crimes, if he were conservative.


15 posted on 10/01/2018 6:47:51 PM PDT by lurk
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To: txrefugee

He had the fake Mexican name while in Foss El Paso Pussy cats

At least judging from the sleeve art I could find online before his Senate run.


16 posted on 10/01/2018 6:48:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen

So he’s a fag?


17 posted on 10/01/2018 6:49:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Are we going to scrutinize every high school and college comment or activity? What about those that went on beach weeks?


18 posted on 10/01/2018 6:50:29 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Psalm 144

they’ve got to find some “must’ve been” moment they can hang his loss on when he failed to turn Texas pinko.

Democrat NEVER admit it is their position that turns voters off.


19 posted on 10/01/2018 6:50:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hmmm.

Someone in the know is digging up a lot of old dirt on certain democrats.

I wonder who it is?....


20 posted on 10/01/2018 6:52:09 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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