Marco Rubio Accuses NYT of Attacking Him With ‘Castro Regime’s Propaganda’

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Marco Rubio Accuses NYT of Attacking Him With ‘Castro Regime’s Propaganda’

Rubio calls for a ‘free Cuba’

BY: Morgan Chalfant
July 6, 2015 4:47 pm


Marco Rubio on Monday accused the New York Times of reporting the “Castro regime’s propaganda” on him by publishing a story highlighting negative opinions of the GOP presidential candidate held by some Cubans.

“NYT follows up traffic tix & ‘luxury speedboat’ stories with expose of Castro regime’s propaganda on me. #nicetry,” Rubio wrote on Twitter Monday morning, referencing a Times piece published Sunday that cast the Cuban-American senator as “hardly a hero in Cuba.”

Rubio’s tweet also referred to two separate stories published in the Times last month, one of which broke news of the Florida senator’s four traffic tickets accumulated since 1997, a report that was subsequently discovered by the Washington Free Beacon to have been written after the traffic citations were pulled by liberal opposition research firm American Bridge.

The other story spotlighted Rubio’s student debt, mortgages, and purchase of a fishing boat, which the publication characterized as the Republican presidential candidate’s “financial struggles.”

Read more: http://freebeacon.com/politics/marco-rubio-accuses-nyt-of-attacking-him-with-castro-regimes-propaganda/

[hobbit709]

1. Time for a psych. eval.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Yup

My first thoughts when I read the headline.

Paranoia and persecution, perhaps delusions.

[Botany]

2. Important point is that Rubio did not say the stories about him were false .....

..... instead he tried to change the subject to Castro.

[Mika]

7. That is exactly how to discuss all things regarding Cuba.

Castro did this. Castro did that.

Its more than enough reasoning to win any discussion.

[tularetom]

3. He's toast, not that he was really ever anything else

Being dumb and a liar hardly distinguishes him among the republican clown car occupants, but this guy is really dumb and a very bad liar.

[George II]

4. What do the two stories have to do with each other? Was there anything false in either?

How is that the "Castro regime's propaganda"?

Paranoid, Marco?

[Mika]

5. Rubio is low hanging fruit. Castro has a long reach ...

[SoapBox]

8. Boo Hoo...I'm being picked on.

Call the Whaaaaambulance.

[Iliyah]

9. NYT will write negatives on every single candidate running

Running for political office you must have tough resolve. Lord knows the negatives against the President and certain female running with a "D".

[MisterP]

10. this is typical Bircherspeak (paralleled by most Southern Cone-trained officers): every church,

newspaper, TV station, party, schoolhouse, military unit, university, and drug dealer is just another KGB tentacle, totally paid-for

every human-rights org is a nest of terrorists and every strike or peasant rising is Moscow advancing and Washington falling behind

they even made their unmedicated screaming into a thriller

[jtuck004]

11. Is ok. I trust Castro a thousand times more than you, clown boy. n/t

[BlueStater]

12. I suppose whining is an effective way of reminding people he exists. n/t

[lordsummerisle]

13. LOL

[DJ13]

14. This just in

Rubio feels Castroated by NYT.

[fbc]

15. lol what a lunatic

[Daniel537]

16. Poor Marquito. He wishes he could run for Mayor of Central Havana.

But oh well, he'll just have to settle for GOP backbencher.