The “Beetlejuice” incident continues to haunt the once-unrepentant congresswoman from Colorado. The state’s old guard is lining up behind a primary challenger.

At a casino bingo hall in southwestern Colorado, Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, bounced her 6-month-old grandson on her knee.

“The election’s still a ways away,” she said as the guests arriving for the Montezuma County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner trickled into the room. “And in talking with people at events like this, you know, it seems like there’s a lot of mercy and a lot of grace.”

The month before, Boebert, then in the midst of finalizing a divorce, was caught on a security camera vaping and groping her date shortly before being ejected from a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” at the Buell Theater in Denver for causing a disturbance. The footage contradicted her own initial claims about the incident, and the venue’s statement that Boebert had demanded preferential treatment added to the outrage.

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    54·
    8 months ago

    This coming from someone who took the time to complain about a… checks notes… phrase used on every social media and even in news articles, not just on reddit.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      No, that’s not a thing in hard news. Maybe in opinion pieces or columns, but it’s definitely not in the AP Style Guide, which in the US is still the industry standard.

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        27·
        8 months ago

        Perhaps outside the AP or whatever, but I have seen it used recently as such in sources that could be considered mainstream news by today’s audiences.

        edit: not that the absence of such would make this guy’s complaint any less ridiculous

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        46·
        8 months ago

        Ok, first of all, for someone who complains that the phrase should be used appropriately, you don’t use it appropriately at all, in either this case or in that other “unimaginative” reply under this post, while the person you’re trying to call out about it actually did use it appropriately.

        Meanwhile, don’t act stupid and pretend that articles from major news sources haven’t started using that phrase as a narrative device in regards to Republican nonsense in general. I don’t have to point you to it, it’s out there.