Beto O: apologizes for sexist pig remarks, but it's ok, he's a Democrat

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A one-time Broadway musical reviewer, now a Texas Senate candidate for the Democratic Party, Beto O'Rourke is having his past come back and bite him on the buns. He is apologizing for a criticism he made about the musical "The Will Rogers Follies," for the Columbia Daily Spector, the university's student newspaper.

He wrote his comments in 1991, as a young, carefree, 19-year-old misogynist at Columbia University.

Writing under the byline Robert O'Rourke, he described the performance as "one of the most glaring examples of the sickening excesses and moral degradations of our culture."

That wasn't so bad. But then he went on to complain about the "perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks."

O'Rourke is running against the incumbent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and because Beto is such a slimeball, he is loved by the left and all is forgiven for his sexist remarks. After all, it was in 1991 when he was merely 19--it wasn't as if he was a high school student.

Here's what he wrote:

"Basically, the show document the life of Will Rogers, the 'lassoing fool,' who rose from being an insignificant side show attraction to one of the more prominent political pundits and cultural statesmen in our history. Yet it is produced and directed in such a showy, glitzy, and ultimately, tacky manner, that one cannot help feeling disgusted throughout the show. Keith Carradine in the lead role is surrounded by perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks."

But who's looking?

O'Rourke sent a statement to POLITICO soon after this story was published and he offered a Democratic apology, which is always accepted by his party if you belong.

"I am ashamed of what I wrote and I apologize. There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women," he said insincerely.

"The Will Rogers Follies" ran for more than two years at the Palace Theater and won six Tony Awards, in spite of O'Rourke's keen sense of talent.

O'Rourke admitted to his DUI and trespassing arrests in the mid 1990s but failed to acknowledge that he ran from the scene when pursued by police.

He's a Bernie Sanders type of leftist, so no harm, no foul.

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