AGAIN? ABC’s Paula Faris Beclowns Herself for Beto, CBS Now Too

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 14, 2019
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After getting dragged during the 2018 midterms for her schoolgirl-like fawning for “rock star” Democratic Senate candidate Robert O’Rourke, ABC’s Paula Faris was at it again during Thursday’s World News Tonight where she looked at O’Rourke with doe eyes and asked: “Can hope, change, and unity beat Trump?”

“Hope, change, and unity”? The liberal media really want this failed candidate to be another Barack Obama.

Faris’s gushing was obvious right from the start. “He's sat down with Oprah, posed for Vanity Fair. But today, for the first time ever, Beto O’Rourke came here to Iowa to talk to voters,” she boasted as if those were actual accomplishments.

After touting how O’Rourke was “swarmed by cameras”, she beamed about how he “burst on to the national scene last year with his vigorous challenge to Senator Ted Cruz. Electrifying massive crowds. Sharing his life on Instagram, at times, perhaps, oversharing.

With obvious enthusiasm, Faris opined about how “his supporters are confident his energy can lift him even higher” and his “vow” to “run a positive campaign.” That’s when she shared her gooey question: “Can hope, change, and unity beat Trump? Or do you have to be a street fighter?”

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