The media has mostly ignored O'Rourke's crony capitalism

Becket Adams:

Beto O’Rourke’s 1998 drunken driving accident isn’t the only thing his media profilers have ignored.

The New York Times did a fine job this week detailing the Democratic Senate candidate’s shady history in political backscratching, including a real-estate deal he championed even though it would’ve directly benefited his billionaire father-in-law.

William D. Sanders’ plan to turn a historically Mexican-American neighborhood into a shopping epicenter ultimately failed, sparing the Latino residents the pain of being displaced and/or losing their homes to eminent domain. But not for Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s lack of trying. One of the chief takeaways from the Times report is that it is becoming increasingly clear O’Rourke has more in common with gentrifying Brooklyn hipsters than he does with truly grassroots populists, as my Washington Examiner colleague Siraj Hashmi noted earlier this week.

But two more takeaways occurred to me.

First, I’ve read nearly a dozen media profiles on O’Rourke, and only one mentioned his involvement in his father-in-law’s attempt to steamroll a traditionally Mexican-American neighborhood. Second, only one profile even mentioned that the Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is married into a billionaire family.

For a guy who is supposedly heading a populist blue wave, you’d think the fact that he’s a suspected crony capitalist who married into big money would be worth mentioning in these long and rambling profiles. But you’d be wrong.
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Adams provides several examples of lengthy pieces that ignored the facts about the crony capitalism even though it had been raised as an issue by the Cruz campaign.  O'Rourke has been mostly a media darling with liberals who hate Cruz more than they love the truth.