Borowitz: Beto O'Rourke Rocked by Scandal as High-School Mixtape Appears to Include REO Speedwagon

[brooklynite]

IOWA CITY, IOWA (The Borowitz Report)—The nascent Presidential campaign of Beto O’Rourke took a serious hit on Friday with the leak of a high-school-era mixtape by the candidate that included a song by REO Speedwagon.

The mixtape, which prominently featured the song “Keep on Loving You,” sent shockwaves through the O’Rourke campaign, forcing the candidate to address the controversy on the hustings.

“In my youth, I put a song on a mixtape that I deeply regret adding,” O’Rourke told a stunned crowd at an Iowa City diner. “REO Speedwagon does not represent who I am.”

The Democratic strategist Tracy Klugian cautioned that O’Rourke’s apology might not have put the mixtape scandal to rest.

“If that’s the only tape out there, then Beto moves on from this,” he said. “But if a mixtape comes out with Air Supply on it, he’s done.”

[dalton99a]

1. He's done for

[notdarkyet]

2. REO represents me and always has. I have lots of reo. That my chosen candidate

Would disavow a group from the past that I greatly admire, disappoints me .

[awesomerwb1]

3. The horror!

[crazytown]

4. Killing in the Name of (O'Rourke)

Rumour- Beto listened to Rage Against The Machine.

[radius777]

18. That would be no surprise

since Rage Against the Machine is an iconic Gen-X band.

[Tetrachloride]

5. no mention of Phil Collins yet

[TrogL]

13. Well I remember

[Shrek]

6. He'll ride the storm out

[Kurt V.]

14. winner.

[itsrobert]

7. No Devo?

[George II]

8. ...

[NCDawg]

9. WHEW......It could be worse,....

Beto could have been rocking out to REO's "In your letter"!!!!

[Kensan]

10. He's all out of love..

He's so lost without REO
He knows he was right taping that love song
He's all out of love
What is he without REO
He can't be too late
To say that he was so wrong.


Um, I don't know where the inspiration for those lines came from. And stay away from my old mixed tapes. haha

[pdsimdars]

11. More Borowitz genius!

[geardaddy]

12. We used to call it REO (pronounced "Rio") Chuckwagon...

when I was in high school, which was during their heyday. We were the punkers in our school.

[rickyhall]

15. I'm sorry, I don't understand, what the controversy with the song?

[Demsrule86]

16. Borowitz is satire...no controversy.

[radius777]

17. Beto is a Gen-X punk rocker,

thus the inclusion of a mainstream rock song in his playlist would seem dorky/sellout.

It's satire.

[Gothmog]

19. I love good satire

[MineralMan]

20. Did someone say REO Speedwagon?

[McCamy Taylor]

21. LMAO! Good one!