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Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke was the only candidate present at the CNN Texas Senate Town Hall Thursday night since GOP Senator Ted Cruz declined the invitation. During their first debate at Southern Methodist University, O’Rourke drew criticism and four Pinocchios from the Washington Post for lying about not trying to flee the scene of a car accident he caused when he drove while intoxicated. Despite the lie, it was never brought up by moderator Dana Bash or asked in the preselected questions from the audience.
Besides not asking the liberal media heartthrob about lying about an aspect of his DWI, Bash didn’t call O’Rourke out on other bits of misinformation he peddled as he was pushing it. This was important because during the 2016 presidential election (and since) there were calls from the liberal media to “fact check” President Trump as he was speaking.
Ironically, one of O’Rourke’s falsehoods came when he explaining why he called his opponent “Lyin’ Ted” at a debate earlier in the week.
“It changed this week. You've been saying that people are sick of the pettiness and the smallness in politics, yet during Tuesday's debate that you had with Senator Cruz, you took a page right out of President Trump's playbook and you called Senator Cruz “Lyin’ Ted”. Why did you do that,” Bash asked.
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