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.
Exactly
You got that right
And that is factual
By comparison, Cruz mother was a citizen.
With Obama, if I recall correctly, there was discussion if he was natural born because only one parent was citizen and under 18 at the time; further he was adopted by step-father in Indonesia, which required mom to renounce his US citizenship.
Rubio should not qualify, Cruz is questionable.
If they bring down that POS Rubio, Hell I’d even subscribe to the online edition as well.
And you are a troll and it’s time for you to crawl back under your rock from where you crawled out from
You've been on this board as long as I have to know what's going to happen when yet another liberal Republican gets the nomination.
You are full of it, noobie. He was born in Miami, FL which make him a natural born citizen.
Yeah you would be that stupid to subscribe to that rag.
You know darn well that I am correct but you are in denial because you are one of those who does the bidding of the left. Without realizing it. You did the same thing in the 2012 election cycle. Don’t think that I don’t remember. I do
Well he wants the illegals to be able to vote, because that means more rat voters
Rubio wants illegals to be able to vote and you think that’s a good thing how?
You know what, he may be those things, but he’s our guy and we should out the jackass.
The idea the New York Times is doing this on law and order issues or some sense of loyalty to the nation is just obnoxiously insulting.
Can’t say one bad word about Obama, and the man is an out and out traitor.
Were you asleep while he was scheming with Schumer and his Gang of Eight against the citizens?
Rubio has said as recently as last week we should give illegal aliens a path to citizenship.
Seems like another signal proving the Democrats/NYT are very worried about Rubio. Rubio is the most electable by Democrat standards.
...”Communists and Democrats have the exact same talking points!”
I have a very liberal friend who traveled with George McGovern in his final years. They visited and dined with Fidel Castro a few times.
I asked her how it felt to be snuggling up to the biggest slave owner/jailer in the western hemisphere. She just rolled her eyes, wouldn’t respond.
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