{"id":1493592,"date":"2022-05-26T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493592"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:15:57","slug":"speaking-truth-to-power-betos-heroism-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaking-truth-to-power-betos-heroism-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Truth to Power: Beto\u2019s Heroism, in Context"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fspeaking-truth-to-power-betos-heroism-in-context%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=1493592&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/\">Satire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Where do candidate&#8217;s disruptive antics rank among iconic moments of selfless courage?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 May 26, 2022 4:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke wrote himself into the history books on Wednesday when he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/beto-uvalde-heckler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made a scene<\/a> at Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s press conference in Uvalde, Texas, the site of the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. Uvalde mayor Don McLaughlin was not impressed, denouncing the heckler as a &#8220;sick son of a bitch&#8221; for attempting to politicize the tragedy. Many journalists and other liberals, however, applauded Beto for &#8220;speaking truth to power.&#8221; Some even likened his antics to some of history&#8217;s most iconic moments of civil disobedience and heroism in the face of authoritarian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Professional communicator Keith Edwards tweeted a photo of Beto disrupting the press conference along with the caption, &#8220;god this is powerful.&#8221; The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithedwards\/status\/1529538867853926401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> received more than 156,000 &#8220;likes.&#8221; Edwards, who has worked for the Lincoln Project and Michael Bloomberg, rode the pun train to comedy town in a follow-up tweet. &#8220;Texas has a choice for their next governor: a beta or a Beto,&#8221; he wrote, epically. Of course, the tweet was not nearly as epic as Beto&#8217;s poignant crusade for attention, which certainly must rank among the most iconic moments of selfless courage in the history of the human race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiananmen Square<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-tank-main-MAIN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-tank-main-MAIN.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-tank-main-MAIN-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-tank-main-MAIN-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-tank-main-MAIN-736x373.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>D-Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-dday-main.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-dday-main.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-dday-main-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-dday-main-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-dday-main-736x422.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iwo Jima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-jima-main.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-jima-main.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-jima-main-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-jima-main-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-jima-main-736x479.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Civil Rights Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-sit-main.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-sit-main.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-sit-main-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-sit-main-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/beto-sit-main-736x391.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Beto loses to Abbott in November, it will be his second statewide defeat since 2018, when he lost to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), one of the most unlikable politicians in America. He attempted to fail upward by running for president in 2020, telling <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> he was &#8220;born to be in it.&#8221; Beto ended his campaign several months before the Iowa caucuses, denying Democratic primary voters the opportunity to not vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his preternatural talent for failure, Beto is widely recognized for being the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/beto-sweat-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sweatiest politician<\/a>\u00a0in America.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire Where do candidate&#8217;s disruptive antics rank among iconic moments of selfless courage?  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 26, 2022 4:00 pm Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke wrote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1891429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/beto-resistance-gun-hero-uvalde\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493592","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}