Sorry, everybody, but even thought Beto O’Rourke’s poll numbers are circling the drain, it seems we’re still not quite out of the woods when it comes to cringeworthy attempts by the media to make him look super-cool.
Today, it’s The Hill’s turn:
O'Rourke: The Clash's 'London Calling' changed my life https://t.co/hnh5eTRkjP pic.twitter.com/hx85au1VSo
— The Hill (@thehill) June 12, 2019
More from The Hill:
O’Rourke, a former member of a punk rock band himself, said on a podcast that a friend first gave him the group’s 1979 double album “London Calling” in high school and that the album “absolutely changed my life.”
“The urgency in that music. Politics in a way I had never experienced it before,” O’Rourke said.
During a June 6 appearance on the San Francisco Chronicle’s “It’s All Political” podcast, O’Rourke praised the band’s call for rebellion and a more revolutionary kind of politics.
“Wearing their politics on their sleeve. Trying to be a voice for those who otherwise would not have a voice — but then making it popular. Bringing me in through the beat, the riffs, Mick Jones’s soaring vocals. They just absolutely changed my life,” O’Rourke continued.
If it’s possible to die of secondhand embarrassment, well, consider us dead.
I feel like he’s trying to be a fake hipster to get young people to like him..
— Kyle Mann (@kylemann333) June 12, 2019
You feel like that’s what he’s doing because that’s what he’s doing.
What you get when you mash together Matt Dillon's character in Singles with the most basic tryhard hipster in Des Moines, Iowa: https://t.co/rT8aT7FOqX
— The Motriarchy (@molratty) June 12, 2019
It’s just so painful. And totally ripe for mockery.
— Andy (@andypatton) June 12, 2019
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) June 12, 2019
He's so rad. pic.twitter.com/lNpya6JDiG
— Pearce ?? (@PearceRPB) June 12, 2019
You are so hip. And with it.
— Wisthoughts (@Wisthoughts) June 12, 2019
— The Surly Viking ?? ?? (@surly_viking) June 12, 2019
This is the most impossibly Beto thing to say
— A (@Aposter1228) June 12, 2019
So very Beto.
"And now I…I live by the river." https://t.co/TNNiPGMPaw
— Crotchety Old Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) June 12, 2019
hahahaha.
'We are the World' changed mine.
— C.J. ? (@next4exits) June 12, 2019
Hanson’s ‘MmmBop’ changed MY life. ??? https://t.co/Q4x235GijC
— Andrea Ruth (@AndreaNRuth) June 12, 2019
All the eyerolls.? https://t.co/uGjcLUMrTS
— Ge?rge Wept (@GeorgeWept) June 12, 2019
All of them.
Beto is a cautionary tale of the horrors of peaking at the age of 21. Like a college version of Al Bundy.
— The Motriarchy (@molratty) June 12, 2019
Accurate.
Phony Beto-mania has bitten the dust. https://t.co/Q1itIt82eP
— Christopher J. Scalia (@cjscalia) June 12, 2019
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