{"id":1492177,"date":"2022-05-25T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492177"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:00:30","slug":"very-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Clearly Staged\u2019: CBS Reporter Says Beto Used \u2018Seat Holders\u2019 To Slip Into Abbott Presser Unnoticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvery-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CBS reporter Janet Shamlian said Wednesday that, from her vantage point in the third row of Governor Gregg Abbott\u2019s (R-TX) press conference, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Beto O\u2019Rourke appeared to have \u201cstaged\u201d his interruption of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Shamlian described the scene that played out, noting that O\u2019Rourke had apparently sent \u201cseat holders\u201d in to sit in seats near the front \u2014 which they vacated when he made his entrance to disrupt Abbott\u2019s address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@JanetShamlian reports on Beto O\u2019Rourke confronting Gov. Abbott during presser: \u201cThere were two people across the aisle from me and a moment before the press conference started, they got up from their seats when Beto walked in \u2026 This seems something very clearly staged,\u201d CBS News tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JanetShamlian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JanetShamlian<\/a> reports on Beto O\u2019Rourke confronting Gov. Abbott during presser: &#8220;There were two people across the aisle from me and a moment before the press conference started, they got up from their seats when Beto walked in \u2026 This seems something very clearly staged.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eaAxrZP6Gt\">pic.twitter.com\/eaAxrZP6Gt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1529536949370888194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon being asked whether she could make out what exactly O\u2019Rourke had said, Shamlian said that she had gotten a much better view of what had transpired before the press conference actually began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I did see what happened just before the press conference started,\u201d she said. \u201cI was in the third aisle \u2014 row \u2014 third row on the aisle, rather, and there were two people across the aisle from me and a moment before the press conference started, they got up from their seats when Beto walked in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they were seat holders for him,\u201d Shamlian continued. \u201cAnd then he sat down, so his presence wasn\u2019t really noticed in the 15 or 20 minutes that people were gathering inside because he was not in the room. So this seems something very clearly staged by Beto O\u2019Rourke and his campaign wanting to confront the governor at this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke walked up to the stage while Abbott was updating\u00a0grieving family members and reporters\u00a0on the situation following Tuesday\u2019s tragic mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/youre-a-sick-son-of-a-b-beto-orourke-crashes-greg-abbott-press-conference-on-uvalde-shooting\/\">confronted the governor<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are doing nothing,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201cYou said this was not predictable; this was totally predictable, and you choose not to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, you are out of line. Please leave this auditorium,\u201d Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin reprimanded O\u2019Rourke, adding, \u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re a sick son of a b**** who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who was on the stage alongside McLaughlin and Governor Abbott, could be heard telling O\u2019Rourke to \u201csit down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reporter Janet Shamlian said Wednesday that, from her vantage point in the third row of Governor Gregg Abbott\u2019s (R-TX) press conference, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Beto O\u2019Rourke appeared to have \u201cstaged\u201d his interruption of the event. Shamlian described the scene that played out, noting that O\u2019Rourke had apparently sent \u201cseat holders\u201d in to sit in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1492218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}