Posted on 04/19/2015 5:45:17 PM PDT by Perdogg
Breitbart News caused a stink when it reported on presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s alleged comments on Obama’s unilateral executive immigration programs.
The headline inaccurately suggested that Rubio supported President Obama’s executive immigration overreach. As we will discuss, this was only one of numerous mistranslations.
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Like with the pope?
Who cares? I’m not voting for Pretty Boy. We all know his true RINO nature.
Should a candidate for the presidency of the United States need a friggen translation to English?
Rubio’s campaign teams says both translations were accurate.
I didn’t have any problem understanding Rubio’s intent here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3280886/posts
Or here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3280857/posts
Or here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3280555/posts
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You are correct! And fast(er)!
How did the Mexicans understand it?
This is what is being reported by LI:
Rumpf reached out to Sen. Rubio’s staff who indicated the original Breitbart News interpretation was inaccurate.
As Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told Breitbart News, “Marco went on Spanish media this week and rejected a comprehensive immigration reform approach, said that the immigration executive orders won’t be permanent policy under his administration, and that he would oppose legalization today because we first need to prevent a future illegal immigration crisis by enforcing our laws.”
“Marco also said it’s important not to end DACA immediately since it would be disruptive given all the people that have it,” continued Conant, “but that at a certain point it would have to end since it cannot be the permanent policy of the land.”
“In case anything was lost in translation, he believes we have to fix our broken immigration system in a series of smaller bills, starting with border security and enforcement, then modernizing our legal immigration system, and then eventually dealing with the illegal immigrants living here,” said Conant.
Native Spanish speakers verify the Rubio camp’s claims:
A source close to Rubio who is a native speaker of Spanish told Breitbart News that the word “important” is being taken out of context, and that Rubio was not saying that DACA was important, but that his approach not to cancel the program immediately was an important concept. In other words, the word “important” belongs to the phrase that follows it, not the word “DACA” immediately preceding. This interpretation makes sense, since in the very next sentence and then repeatedly throughout the interview, Rubio says that the program must end.
In contrast, the translation relied upon by the original Breitbart News article from the media service Grabien flips this around, saying, “I believe DACA is important. It can’t be terminated from one moment to the next, because there are already people benefiting from it.”
According to our source, even the Univision translation was a little imprecise, and said that a more word-for-word translation of Rubio’s words would be “But DACA, I think it’s important not to cancel it from one moment to the next because you already have people benefiting from it.”
Anyone got one of those old stage hooks used to pull performers off the stage?
Rubio Team Confirms Both Translations of his Spanish Language Interview with Jorge Ramos Accurate
LOL, I got fast all those years ago in the AOL political chats. Good times!
The fact that it needed translation should tell you all you need to know.
Marco Rineo...
Then did Rubio say he would reverse Obama’s executive actions if elected. That is the test.
My thoughts exactly
I stand with Ted
Nothing Rubio says is worth anything, in Spanish or English
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