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Over the course of last week, the liberal media made utter fools of themselves as they appeared to compete with each other for who could concoct the most disgusting puff piece for former Congressman Robert O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. The award undoubtedly went to Vanity Fair, who all but proposed to him. But according to CBS political correspondent Ed O’Keefe, the media were not to blame for their shameful behavior it was the other Democratic candidates.
While O’Keefe was on Sunday’s Face the Nation, moderator Margaret Brennan posed this question to him: “It was such a rollout for Beto O’Rourke. I mean, people are acting like he is anointed. Is this going to backfire on him?”
Answering “to the charge that the media may have overdone it,” O’Keefe suggested the media didn’t help create the buzz around O’Rourke:
“… [W]e have to remember something, I made this point repeatedly in our reporting this past week. You talk to every other campaign that's involved in this right now, the one name that kept coming up in private conversations was always him. Is he going to do it? Do you think he can raise $80 million again?”
“So, this was them essentially goading us into saying, you know, they're scared of him. Very scared of him,” he argued.
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