TL : DR - Someone started laughing when he started talking about the Uvalde shooting, and he called that person the MF word.
One of my FBFs posted a tweet that said, “Profanity is using the word ‘motherfucker.’ Obscenity is joking about a weapon that liquefies children.” I totally get it now.
It can’t really generate that much outrage, simply because they’ll play it, yet beep it. And print such as : “motherf******”, which will defang it.
Here’s an uncut version. I have not yet grown tired of watching it.
Beto fans will love him for it, Beto haters will hate him for it, and most everyone else will probably be pretty meh about it.
I think anyone who is so puritanical as to not vote for him based on this, is probably bothered more by his homosexuality.
Are you confusing Beto with Pete Buttigieg?
it’s about time.
Does his wife of seventeen years know he’s gay?
…presumably also disagreed with conservative commentators’ 2018 dismissal and downplaying of Trump’s using swearwords such as “shithole”?
Do I personally like public figures using direct insults and swearwords when speaking in their professional capacity? I don’t really, tbh, I prefer political speech to be more GD/P&E than BBQ Pit as a general rule.
Do I think it would be hypocritical for anybody who didn’t mind Trump’s saying “shithole” to go all pearl-clutchy about O’Rourke’s saying “motherfucker”? Why yes, I do.
You’re being snarky about the homosexuality thing, I’m guessing?
I think he probably mistook him for Pete Buttigieg.
Sometimes, a good curse word is just the thing you need. In my opinion, Die Hard is the only time I’ve heard “Motherfucker” put to better use.
This quote from an NPR story I read is so ridiculous:
“According Cal Jillson, professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University, O’Rourke’s kneejerk reaction shows he’s passionate, which is good, but dropping an f-bomb in a room with elderly attendees and kids, not so much.”
Why would you equate kids and elderly about a curse word?
Worse than laughing about a bunch of murdered children?
Let’s not ruin a good pearl-clutching with logic and reason.
I saw plenty of older people applaud Beto when he cursed the MAGAt. I’ll bet many of them would have liked to call that miscreant a lot worse.
Yup. 
We all know profanity was only created in the last five or ten years. Older generations got by on “Cornsarn it!” and “Jehoshaphat!” That’s why you didn’t see it in tv or movies until recently.
I can’t help but be reminded of this.
Also, the “elderly” of 20 years ago were generations who grew up wirh pretty strong opinions about cussing in mixed company. But today’s “elderly” were closer to Boomers than the Greatest Generation, and Boomers don’t faint at cussing in quite the same way.
Beto is in San Antonio today. I, of course, made a custom sign…
Cool! What kind of reactions did you get? Any from Beto himself?