Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke was the only candidate present at the CNN Texas Senate Town Hall Thursday night since GOP Senator Ted Cruz reportedly declined the invitation. During their first debate at Southern Methodist University, O’Rourke drew criticism and four Pinocchios from The Washington Post for lying about not trying to flee the scene of a car accident he caused when he drove while intoxicated. Despite the lie, it was never brought up by moderator Dana Bash or asked in the preselected questions from the audience.

Besides not asking the liberal media heartthrob about lying about an aspect of his DWI, Bash didn’t call O’Rourke out on other bits of misinformation he peddled. This was important because during the 2016 presidential election (and since), there were calls from the liberal media to “fact check” President Trump as he was speaking.

Ironically, one of O’Rourke’s falsehoods came when he explaining why he called his opponent “Lyin’ Ted” at a debate earlier in the week.

“It changed this week. You've been saying that people are sick of the pettiness and the smallness in politics, yet during Tuesday's debate that you had with Senator Cruz, you took a page right out of President Trump's playbook and you called Senator Cruz “Lyin’ Ted”. Why did you do that,” Bash asked.

While he claimed he regretted using the nickname, he argued that it was needed. “To not answer to these attacks when your opponent says you want to legalize heroin or that you want to take everyone's guns away or that you want to open the border, it can invite, you know, confusion or questions by people,” he told Bash.

The key part in O’Rourke’s statement there was that he claimed Senator Cruz was lying about him wanting to legalize heroin.

Bash didn’t raise a concern at the time but brought it up roughly six minutes later:

Congressman, to follow up, there's a question about legalization of drugs, and I want to read what you said in 2009 at an El Paso city council meeting. You brought up ending the prohibition on narcotics in the U.S., and you said, "I think we need to have a serious discussion about doing that, and that may, in the end, be the right course of action." How do you explain to a mom like Angie why there should be a serious discussion about legalizing narcotics, which includes heroin?

Bash didn’t note how that contradicted O’Rourke’s claims from just a few minutes earlier.

O’Rourke then seemed to admit that legalizing heroine was an effect of his policy proposal back then, considering the violence just over the border in Mexico. “I thought we owed ourselves, as a country, our sister city of Ciudad Juarez, a conversation on the best way forward,” he said. “Now, that resolution or that amendment that I offered was inartful at best. What I was trying to get to was marijuana, the cornerstone of the drug trade economy.”

“So, to be clear, I don't want to legalize narcotics. I do think we should end the prohibition on marijuana and effectively control and regulate its sale and make sure those who need it for medicinal purposes are able to obtain it through a prescription from their doctor,” he added.

This inaction by Bash demonstrated the liberal media’s double standard for grilling GOP candidates and Trump, but overlooking the misinformation from Democrats. This is CNN.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: