QUOTE OF THE DAY: Even the Media Is Calling Him ‘Beta’ O’Rourke Now

TIME magazine issued a correction Wednesday saying that Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke is not “Beta.”

WHAT THEY SAID

TIME deleted and reposted a tweet of a video showing O’Rourke interrupting a press conference where Texas officials were providing updates on the Uvalde elementary school shooting.

  • “The original version of this tweet misspelled Beto O’Rourke’s name. It is Beto, not Beta,” TIME wrote in the corrected post.

Conservative commentators were amused that TIME had adopted their emasculating nickname for the former congressman and presidential candidate from Texas, even if it was an accident.