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Three weeks until the midterm elections and it’s Beto or bust in the Texas Senate race for the liberal media. During Wednesday’s edition of ABC World News Tonight, sensationalist anchor David Muir and Congressional correspondent Mary Bruce gushed about Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke and how he called Republican Senator Ted Cruz by President Trump’s 2016 nickname for him: ‘lyin’ Ted’. The nickname was thrown around five times in just the one report.
If someone was trying to make a caricature or spoof of a biased report from the liberal media, this was the end result and they got an A+.
From the get-go, it was a joke. Muir’s lead into the report demonstrated that it was going to be anything but a serious discussion of the issues despite the fact the candidates were just in a debate. “Democrat Beto O’Rourke fighting to unseat Senator Ted Cruz. The two facing off in a heated debate overnight. O’Rourke using a nickname for Cruz first used by President Trump,” he touted.
“Democrat Congressman Beto O’Rourke taking on Republican Senator Ted Cruz, with the words of President Trump,” Bruce boasted before played back-to-back soundbites of Trump and O’Rourke slapping Cruz with the nickname:
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