Posted on 07/06/2015 5:00:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, soon after the New York Times slammed Florida senator Marco Rubio as Cuba's “least favorite son,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate fired back, accusing reporter Jason Horowitz of using the “Castro regime's propaganda” in his article, which was entitled “Marco Rubio Is Hardly a Hero in Cuba. He Likes That.”
In a Twitter message, Rubio asserted that the newspaper was following up its “scoops” attacking him for getting 17 speeding tickets -- most of which were actually received by his wife – and its article accusing him of owning “a luxury speedboat” that is only one-third as long as secretary of state John Kerry's $7 million yacht.
“For the record,” the Republican official added, “I'm proud that the Castro regime feels threatened by us. They fear freedom and democracy.”
The Times article, which was originally entitled “Little Affinity for Marco Rubio in Cuba Despite Family Roots,” began:
In the lush countryside and teeming city neighborhoods where Senator Marco Rubio's family cut sugar cane, toiled in tobacco mills and scraped by to make a better life for their children, the first Cuban-American to have a plausible chance to become president of the United States is the island’s least favorite son.
“If Marco Rubio becomes president, we’re done for,” said Héctor Montiel, 66, offering a vigorous thumbs-down as he sat on the Havana street where Mr. Rubio’s father grew up. “He’s against Cuba in every possible way. Hillary Clinton understands much more the case of Cuba. Rubio and these Republicans, they are still stuck in 1959.”
Horowitz then noted: “Resistance to Fidel Castro's Communist government has served as the foundation of Mr. Rubio’s personal and political identity.”
“A Florida Republican who has been identified” in the island nation as a “representative in the Senate of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia,” the reporter continued, “'he has argued for years that normalized relations with the United States would only strengthen an oppressive Cuban government that impoverishes its people, limits access to information and violates human rights.”
“That did not change in the months leading up to Wednesday’s announcement that the United States and Cuba will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals,” Horowitz stated, “a critical step in ending a devastating half-century embargo. Signs on the road here read “Blockade: The Worst Genocide in History,” punctuated with a noose.”
As the Florida senator intensified his opposition, Cubans have begun to view him as “the most prominent of American hangmen.”
“'He wants to kill us!' Alain Marcelo, 46, said as he sat on a porch next to a grazing horse and a shack scrawled with yellow “Viva Fidel y Raúl” graffiti in Jicotea, “the no-streetlight town where Rubio’s great-grandparents arrived from Spain to farm sugar cane in the late 19th century.”
“He’s our enemy!” Marcelo also declared.
On the other hand, Rubio said it's “sad” that the island's government depicts him as someone who would “starve the Cuban people.” But for him, the demonizing is just further proof of the “information blockade the people in Cuba are facing.”
“I’m glad they see us as a threat,” Rubio said. “They should.”
Interestingly, the senator was born in Miami, Florida, the second son and third child of Mario and Oria (Garcia) Rubio. His parents had immigrated to the United States in 1956, prior to the advent of Fidel Castro in January 1959.
Ultimately, his parents applied for U.S. citizenship and were naturalized in 1975, and curiously, Rubio himself has never actually been to Cuba.
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Go NY Times! Whoo-hoo! Maybe I’ll finally get a subscription!
Apparently the NYT couldn’t find anyone in Miami that hates Rubio’s guts... maybe they expect that Obama will be allowing the population of Havana to vote in 2016... which wouldn’t terribly surprise me.
What a disgusting excuse for a newspaper.
Bringing Cuba into this..., bottom feeders.
I don’t like Rubio for a candidate, but look at how the paper covers Republicans vs Democrats. It’s shameful.
“If Marco Rubio becomes president, we’re done for,” said Héctor Montiel, 66, offering a vigorous thumbs-down as he sat on the Havana street where Mr. Rubio’s father grew up. “He’s against Cuba in every possible way. Hillary Clinton understands much more the case of Cuba. Rubio and these Republicans, they are still stuck in 1959.”
Isn’t Cuba stuck in 1959?
Good to see Communists and Democrats have the exact same talking points! The Communists even sound like Democrats when they accuse Republicans of wanting to kill them!!!
Rubio is a fraud and a total sell-out. The Slimes realizes that he’s done, they have to circle the wagons around Bush and Christie. So all they’re doing is cutting bait.
Why would you want a subscription to the New York Slimes, unless its for the bottom of your birdcage?
He is not a fraud, but you are a lunatic
So let’s see if I get all of this straight: the talking classes have called out Bobby Jindal for not being a real Indian, Rubio is Cuba’s least favourite son and, if my memory serves me properly, Ted Cruz has been questioned about his Hispanic ancestry/qualities. It is probably only a matter of time before Nikki Haley is also questioned or commented on about her Indian ancestry in a manner similar to the above examples. Being divisive and ultimately self-contradictory, that really seems to be the Tourette’s syndrome of modern liberals, forgive me.
How could he be Cuba’s least favorite Son, he was born in the United Sates of America.
The NY Slimes dearly wishes they could propagandize the US like Castro propagandizes Cuba.
He is a fraud. He ran for office opposing amnesty and then joined Schumer’s Gang of Eight to try to “Comprehensively Screw American Out Of Their Country”.
He still thinks we must surrender the country and the rule of law.
He’s a fraud.
If Marco Rubio becomes president, we’re done for,” said Héctor Montiel, 66,
I feel the same, for different reasons
I feel the same, for different reasons >>>>
Wrong. If Hillary becomes president we are done for and that is factual
There are idiots in here who are doing the lefts bidding without realizing it
Well he wants the illegals to be able to vote, because that means more rat voters
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