Alleged Blackmail of Sen. Rubio Leads Five GOP Candidates to Boycott Univision Debate
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Five GOP presidential contenders said they will boycott a planned debate hosted by Univision following allegations the network tried to blackmail Florida Sen. Marco Rubio by offering to soften a story in return for him appearing on one of its programs. (AP)
Five Republican presidential candidates said they will boycott a proposed Univision-sponsored debate in January after allegations emerged that the Spanish-language network tried to blackmail Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio over a story about his brother-in-law.
GOP contenders Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman and Michele Bachmann all said Tuesday they will not participate in the planned debate until the alleged ethical breach involving Rubio — widely thought to be on the short list for the vice presidential nomination — is resolved, the Miami Herald reported.
According to the newspaper, which first posted a story on the allegations Saturday, Rubio repeatedly refused to appear on Univision’s liberal-leaning “Al Punto” show to discuss the Dream Act, which he staunchly opposes. Frustrated, the network dispatched its investigations unit during the summer to dig up a story on the 1987 cocaine arrest of Orlando Cicilia, Rubio’s brother-in-law. Both Rubio staffers and Univision insiders alleged the news director tried to make a deal with the senator: Appear on Al Punto and the network would kill or soften the story. Rubio declined, and the story ran on July 11, amid much hype.
Following the report, three Florida congressman sent open letters to Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus on Monday, calling the revelations “offensive, unacceptable and demonstrat[ing] a lack of journalistic integrity” and urging all GOP hopefuls to boycott the debate, which has not been officially announced.
In a statement to the Associated Press on Tuesday, the network denied it tried to coerce Rubio into appearing on one of its programs in exchange for minimizing the decades-old story. On Monday, Univision had called the allegations “patently absurd” and said it would “respectfully decline” to apologize.
“With respect to Senator Rubio, Univision covered the [cocaine] story in the same objective, fair manner we cover every significant story,” the network said in a statement. “Univision did not offer to soften or spike a story about a major drug bust involving Senator Rubio’s relatives. We would not make such an offer to any other subject of a news story and did not offer it in this case.”
Still, Univision’s denial did not stop the five candidates from saying they would not participate in the debate.
“Governor Perry will not consider participating in the January 29, 2012, Univision debate until your network addresses this ethical breach and takes action to correct it,” a Perry campaign spokesman wrote Univision. “With NBC and Telemundo also hosting a debate the same weekend in January 2012, we will have ample opportunity to engage with Spanish-speaking Americans.”
In a statement, a Romney spokesman stood equally firm “We have not received any invitation from Univision for a debate, but we are troubled by these allegations and would not participate in any such debate unless and until Univision satisfactorily addresses this situation.”
Cain’s campaign issued a statement through Florida state Rep. Scott Plakon, who said the recent straw-poll winner is “out. Until Univision resolves this, he won’t participate in the debate like the other candidates.”
“Unless Univision resolves this issue in a timely and satisfactory manner, Governor Huntsman will not give consideration to your network’s debate currently proposed for January, 2012,” Huntsman’s campaign manager wrote Univision. “We ask the other Republican candidates to join us in this decision and will work with them to identify another forum to debate issues that are important to Americans of Hispanic descent in Florida and across our nation.”
Bachmann’s spokeswoman left the door open to the Minnesota congresswoman participating in the debate pending a satisfactory outcome: “This issue was brought to Michele’s attention and she has a great deal of respect for Senator Rubio,” she said. “We reserve our right to participate in the Univision debate pending a positive resolution of this matter by Univision.”
Rick Santorum’s campaign is reportedly reviewing the matter, according to the Associated Press, but has not announced whether he will boycott. None of the remaining candidates have yet declared their intentions.
Rubio‘s office has said only that the Herald’s story is “accurate” and refused to comment further.
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Comments (161)
Pallamus
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:26pmIt is no wonder why 55% of the American people polled do not trust and/or believe the media these days. Journalistic integrity has gone down the tubes. The presidential candidates are in their right to boycott Univision!
NHwinter
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:53pmIf only the MSM had put Obama through the hell the are putting the Republicans through now and will continue to do so in a very vicious way. Just think, Oblahblah would never have been president if they had done their job. Its time for us to dig into our pockets and financially support the candidate of our choice. If Obama brings in a billion, he will win, just like the race in W Va. for the Governorship. Money won that race.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:03pmYou have to wonder about the other 45 percent .. Democrats? Those who don’t pay any taxes?
TEA!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:34pmFooey on Vice President – how about for President!
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:42pmAmericans in general do not trust the major news outlets but Univision is not even trusted by Hispanics or Latinos.
Most of the anchors on this station are from Central/South America or the Caribbean where political corruption is a way of life.
Unfortunately, these backward brigands are given a platform to promote all the ideas that have kept their own countries in the dark ages, here in the United States.
No one should watch Univision – especially Hispanics and Latinos.
Report Post »SECUREOURBORDERSNOW
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:48pmNHWINTER: What is wrong with the people in West Virginia? Haven’t they noticed that Obama wants to shut down all the coal mines, even the ones in West Virginia. What happens to that state then? Hate to say it but elections have consequences. When voters just pull the D or the R and have no clue what that party represents, the country is in trouble. Wake up, people. Anybody but Obama and the D’s, 2012.
Report Post »obfuscatenot
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:40pmUnivision……pointing out that almost every single person has their own “jimmy carter”- Rubio’s bro-in-law? Really, can you control your brother in law? I can’t. Big whoop. It’s not Rubio, he’s the one elected. He’s the one making a dent in the liberal agenda, so I suspect his conservatism is more important than his bro-in-law’s cocaine use. Didn’t Obama write a book in which he talked openly about his cocaine use? Anybody ask questions to him?
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:44pm@DNC TALIBAN
Do you realize you degraded the man you were defending with your comment? Tonto cabron cuello rojo…….
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:13pmIn the words of our Maxine Waters, The MSM can go to H3LL
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:24pmOkay, this is how you get to the TOP if you want to be a corrupted politican. Bury you’re past, be perfect to all people, give the people what they think they are getting, & lie, lie lie, just like Berry.
Report Post »1947
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:18pmThey all belong to Obama
Report Post »Al Gator
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:33pmMr. Rubio is a Prince.
If what your brother did meant anything, then Bubba Clintoon‘s brother would have sunk Billy’s ship. Peanut Carter’s brother would have ended his pathetic presidency. BEEHOE’s brother lives in a MUD HUT with banana thatched roof. And BEEHOE won’t spot him the $20 a year to make ends meet!!
You wanna talk family a**wipes?
No, what we have here is a failure to communicate.
Belly crawling, sniveling commie pigs trying desperately to besmirch a good man is what the commie pigs are all about. They are demented, brain damaged union thugs who just can’t stand to see a good man win.
Mr. Rubio, take the baton and run with it. You may just have more support than you know.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:57pmUnivision? Right. Who cares.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:09pm@turkey13
Report Post »Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:34pm
Fooey on Vice President – how about for President!
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I’ve read that Sen Rubio would not consider a run because he does not fit the Constitutional definition of American Born Citizen because of his families Cuban Roots.
Would love to see some other research on this point. If he doesn‘t fit for POTUS he couldn’t run for VP either. Personally I‘d love to see it’s not true, I love his insights into our form of government. He’d make a great VP or POTUS.
ginger100
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 2:19amYeah, I‘ve unplugged myself from TV altogether and just get news and movies off the internet and I’m doing just fine. No withdrawal symptoms or anything. Nothing but lies on the plasma anyways.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 3:35amI agree. I do not understand what anything that his brother-inklaw is involved has to do with him i the first place. As long as Rubio’s record is clean, so what?
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:19am@ Mil Mom
I was having this same discussion with my wife the other day. She was gushing about Rubio for VP. I mean c’mon, he’s dark and handsome. ( I don’t know about tall though). Anyway I told her I couldn‘t support him for the same reason I think Obama’s inelligiable..He’s not a natural born American citizen.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:54amUnivision = liberal, liberal = biased reporting! Blackmail is blackmail, no matter how you serve it up or package it.
Report Post »ONE PIECE
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:25pmThis is the kind of principle that I would give my life to protect!! Mr.Rubio is AMAZING!!!
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:55pmLatin countries are run by pure corruption. Look at the police in Puerto Rico. Mexico has a ton of oil and two prestine coastlines but still can’t prospure. I block all latino stations from my TV. Assimilate to American culture and speak english.
Report Post »Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:24pmWhy do we cater to the damn ILLEGAL ALIENS! UNIVISION SUPPORTS ILLEGAL ALIENS!!
Report Post »KOCHLEFFEL
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:55pmBUSH HATING…
Report Post »I live in California and many times on weekends I drive down the valley, guess who I am seeing in the fields? Mexican Farm workers. I don’t know if they are legal or not, but one thing is sure there are no fat ass Americans in the fields to do this work.
sodacrackers2
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:34pmIf they wouldn’t be illegally crossing our border daily to work there, there would be Americans working there. Let‘s just use Mexico’s laws and we will be just fine. Get these one world, socialist loving, George Soros open society fools out of Washington and get the UN out of New York and we can begin to fundamentally change America back to what our founders intended.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:21pm@sodacrackers2
Report Post »Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:34pm
If they wouldn’t be illegally crossing our border daily to work there, there would be Americans working there. Let‘s just use Mexico’s laws and we will be just fine. Get these one world, socialist loving, George Soros open society fools out of Washington and get the UN out of New York and we can begin to fundamentally change America back to what our founders intended
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I read that soros is “Persona Non Grata” in Honduras because he’s considered a “Domestic Terrorist there and in 5 other countries for crashing their currencies. America didn’t have that kind of sense, and now he and all his “useful idiot” students are intent on doing it to the $. We’d be better off to buy some Island somewhere and spot them 1/2 $trillion to start their utopia while barring any of them from ever coming back to the US. We’d have to revoke all their US citizenship, but “Hey! They hate our way of life anyway!”
CactusDweller
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:24pmBRAVO!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!! We have detected a spine…..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:37pmAnd a brain…. And….. a heart! Oh, my!!!!
Proud of these folks and glad to see them standing up together to defeat the enemy/enemies of our country.
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:23pmBy George, I do think our Candidates are all starting to get it – As a group it looks like they are all starting to take a stand and defend one another. If you think it’s bad now – just wait. Sen Rubio has the Nations ear, not because he wants it – but because God has called him to have it.
Thank you, to all Candidates that supported Sen Rubio in this instants – now it will be back in the hands of the lair’s to prove it.
Maybe the candidate that recently just rolled Perry under the bus for some stupid rock on some hunting lease will get the message that – ALL of the Candidates would be a better choice than Obama and that means that All the Candidates will soon be demonized and scrutinized in some way or another by the Progressive left.
It had taken a while, but I think our Candidates are all starting to get it. Next time – don’t thank about it for one moment – take a stand and throw it back.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:02pmThank the TEA Party. They are what is waking Americans up about run away government and progressives in both parties.
Report Post »nocalifornia
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:22pmThis is just the beginning of the dirty tricks, false accusations, and smear campaigns we can expect from all of the liberal lame stream media in their march to further their progressive agenda and have their beloved communist president reelected.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:18pmGood for these candidates to stand up for the truth! Refreshing. These tactics are nothing new to the left. They released Alan West and his wife’s personal information in a piece of mail. EVEN his SS number! That was NO mistake.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:18pmand how about obama’s criminal relatives. dui’s and illegal immigration status. obama has as much control over how his people behave as rubio does. don’t see univision, or any media, covering obama’s bad seed relatives.
Report Post »flik221
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:16pm“With NBC and Telemundo also hosting a debate the same weekend in January 2012, we will have ample opportunity to engage with Spanish-speaking Americans.” My question is this, why do we separately have to engage with ‘Spanish-speaking Americans’? Shouldn’t all Americans be speaking English? If you’re in America, stop trying to make this country into two different countries. Speak English, is that too much to ask?
Report Post »code green
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:21pmPoint well made
Report Post »nettiefaye
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:23pmSi Si, hombre!
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 4:41pmI was thinking the same thing. When we lived in Kuwait, they had elections there and for some reason, none of the candidates bothered to reach out to us Westerners. No one translated their debates into English. It could be just me, but perhaps it was because we were not voting that none of the candidates engaged us. We weren’t voting because we were not citizens of that country.
If you are a citizen of this country and you don’t know English, what makes you think you deserve to vote anyway? If you don’t want to assimilate (and that means speaking the language) then you should not be here- period.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:13pmGREAT… Sticking Together
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:10pmIt’s about time for Rupert to start a Foxivision. Judging by the increasingly common lack of integrity among the two major networks, the market is ripe.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:53pmABC, NBC,CNN, Reuters, PMSNBC,BBC,Al-Jazerra, AP, Most of CBS.NY Slimes, Wash Compost, Chicago Tripe, Atlanta Urinal & Constipation
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:12pmI have a real good friend named BECK that has his own station. I’ll ask him if he will host a debate in English. There is an opening in January.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:10pmUnivision?? Right up there with TLC and the cartoon network.
Report Post »bigfatslob
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:10pmAmen to all the candidates ! I believe they should all stand together against any and all smears by the media, boycotting ANY that try anything like this. Hopefully FOX and talk radio will expose UNIVISION to the public at large.
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:09pmRubio should be running for President… That young man has got character and courage. West / Rubio or Rubio / West would be a great ticket for Freedom Loving Americans.
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:40pmRubio is not Constitutionally eligible.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:59pm@TEAPARTYCONSERVATISM
Report Post »You are correct, sir/madam. As is Jindal NOT eligible. If the true Constitutionalists believe BHO is not eligible (and he is NOT), neither are these two republicans. This is the reason the RNC and staunch machine republican are not pursuing. I’d love to have either of those two in the WH, but, like BHO, they are not qualified by birth status.
Cat
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:44pmTPC, you are mistaken
Report Post »Marco Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, USA, on May 28, 1971.
The facility he was born in was known as Cedars of Lebanon, and is now part of the University of Miami.
Reduce.Our.Govt.Footprint
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:55pmYet, BHO is there, let them run, let them win, and lets get behind a real president.
Rubio/West
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:00pm@ Cat
Rubio, nor Jindal as Leader1776 stated, are Constitutionally eligible to serve as President. Like Obama, neither are natural born citizens. Eligibility requires not just citizenship, but citizenship having the quality of being a natural born citizen.
Constitution, Art. 2, Sec. 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible … .”
Exempting a “citizen” from being a “natural born citizen” proves they aren’t equal, or no exemption was needed. Being not less than nor equal, a NBC must be more than the minimum requisite for citizenship then, which was US birth to a US citizen parent. Only US birth to US citizen parents (plural) is greater, thus defining a natural born citizen.[1]
The Supreme Court agreed in Minor v. Happersett, 1874. “The Court held that Minor was a member of the “class” of persons who were natural born citizens. They defined this class as those born in the US to “parents” (plural) who were citizens.” – Leo Donofrio, JD.
A natural born citizen while encompassing citizenship now granted by US birth, which wasn’t possible prior to the 1965 Immigration Act considered by many to be a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment, is a higher quality of citizenship also requiring both birth parents to be a US citizen.
“Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com
Report Post »BigFoot
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 7:52pmIn all due respect, after Obama’s election……Rubio and Jindal are both elgible. I don’t think the (D)s want to go down that road.
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:53pm@ BigFoot
Good point regarding Obama setting precedent. However even if violations go unchallenged, the Constitution, though sadly ignored, irrefutably remains intact.
Given the delay, perhaps it’s fortunate the courts due to lack of standing, declined to consider Obama’s ineligibility. By their inaction, they have not reinterpreted the existing meaning of Article 2, Section 1. Inaction doesn’t modify the Supreme Court case of Minor v. Happersett, 1874, wherein, “The Court held that Minor was a member of the “class” of persons who were natural born citizens. They defined this class as those born in the US to “parents” (plural) who were citizens.” – Leo Donofrio, JD.
Obama is not the first to usurp the Constitution.
Every president prior to the usurper Obama who was not a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, has been a natural born citizen except Chester Arthur. Well ahead of eventually realizing his greatest political ambition by assuming the presidency on September 19, 1881, Chester Arthur purposefully perpetrated an elaborate fraud to hide the fact that his emigrated Irish father had not become a naturalized US citizen until August 1843, fourteen years after our 21st president was born in 1829 at Fairfield, Vermont.[1]
1. Naturalization certificate, http://www.free-books.us/Others/837170/William-Arthur-father-of-President-Chester-Arthur-Naturalization-certificate-1843-Congress (1843, Congress) .
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 11:31pm@Cat
Report Post »Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:44pm
TPC, you are mistaken
Marco Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, USA, on May 28, 1971.
The facility he was born in was known as Cedars of Lebanon, and is now part of the University of Miami
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But, what they are speaking of is the requirement for American Born Citizen to be constitutionally recognized as being the child of 2 American born Citizens, so that the POTUS’ loyalties are to the US and not a foreign country.
Cat
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:12am@TPC
Minor vs Happersett was a case revolving around the State of Virginia’s law declaring that every male shall be entitled to vote and a woman wanted to vote. Woman’s suffrage was the case, not citizenship. Beside the 19th Amendment overruled the results of the Minor vs Happersett case.
The Hart Cellar Act of 1965 is about immigration quotas, not citizenship.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:18am@MIL MOM
Understand this discussion is about the citizenship of both parents, but that is not how Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution reads.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:05pmTeapartyConman, knows perfectly well that in Minor v Happersett the Supreme Court specifically stated that the full definition of a natural born citizen was not a settled issue and that they were not ruling on it because it had nothing to do with the case at hand.
“Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.”
And he also knows that they did finally rule on it in US v Wong Kim Ark (1898). That’s the binding precedent that has been the law of our land ever since, and it says you just have to be born here, it doesn’t matter who your parents were. The Court cited dozens of previous court cases and legal texts in their decisions, but the only reference to Minor v Happersett was to the part I have quoted, saying that it is not a decision on the meaning of natural born citizen. The bottom line is Obama and Rubio are both fully eligible to run.
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:52pm@ CAT
Eligibility requires not just citizenship, but citizenship having the quality of being a natural born citizen. A natural born citizen while encompassing citizenship (now granted by US birth, which wasn’t possible prior to the 1965 Immigration Act considered by many to be a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment) is a higher quality of citizenship also requiring both birth parents to be a US citizen.
Please note that the parents are not required to be US born; either or both parents may be a naturalized citizen, providing that naturalization was completed prior to the child’s birth.
Constitution, Art. 2, Sec. 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible … .”
Constitution, 19th Amendment, Section 1, “The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
Article 2, Section 1, was not modified by the 19th amendment.
The Supreme Court in Minor vs Happersett, 1874, while considering the variables affecting Minor’s vote, took Minor’s citizenship into account and in so doing determined that she was a natural born citizenship. The issues are directly related rather than mutually exclusive, nor is it prohibited but in fact, perfectly acceptable for the court to provide an opinion on both.
“Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen” http://teapar
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
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Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:56pm@ Chet Hemphead
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly justify such lies? Begone, foul Obot. Your very name screams treason and ignorance.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:54pmBegone yourself, lying jackanapes. I justify my statements in the real world where encyplopedias, dictionaries, law books and the actual text of relevant court decisions are viewed as reliable sources compared to ostensible information that comes only from crackpot websites written by other internet kooks. I live in the real world where no responsible conservative spokesman has ever endorsed any of these fraudulent legal theories that so easily ensnare the weak minds of the ignorant like yourself.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:08pmThese debates are shams anyway. What kind of fool bases a decision on who to vote for after watching the candidates dance around questions that in all actuality don’t mean diddly poo anyway?
Did anybody actually get any more informed after watching Mutt-n-Jeff beat each other up(perry/obomney)?
Buying into this nonsense is basically admitting you have no problem being led around by the nose.
Report Post »NOMOBIGDRAMANOBAMA
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:08pmCorruption in the “Spanish” media! Who’d a thunk it? duh. . .
There is no limit to what progressives will do to keep corruption alive and well in the White House!
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:08pmThe political games gotten so riddiculous that no would qualify to run for any office! Your brother-in-law is a jerk and somehow you are responsible? You are not even related, maybe your sister has lousy taste in men, but come on already!
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:07pmGood for Sen. Rubio; the leftists will stoop at nothing to demonize a Conservative
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:07pmUNIVISION:
please stick to the foreign garbage you are good at = brightly colored and noisy gameshows, badly overacted melodrama, and women wearing tight clothing.
Stay away from things that matter: news, politics, and AMERICA.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:07pmThis happened in 1987 to his brother-in-law .. and this is the BEST they can find on him? That is 24 years ago and Marco was 16 years old. He was blackmailed for not holding the hispanic line on illegals .. GOOD FOR MARCO … He is a good man … I have seen him speak in person 3 times and his message never changes .. he knows who he is and what he believes and I am PROUD to say that this is my Congressman and I helped get him elected!
TEA!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:21pmI‘m proud to say that he’s my senator, too, and I voted to get him into office. I’ll vote for him every time his name is on the ballot. Rubio is awesome!!! Too bad, so sad for the Great Tanned One, Charlie Crist. He will never even be half the man that Rubio is.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:56pmLOL .. I was at the rally in Ft Myers (one of Rubio’s first official) to “celebrate” Charlie and Obama’s HUG …. it was the first time I heard him speak in person .. and I was hooked. He is the future.
TEA!
Report Post »machgun
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:06pmIts Senator Rubio and I am over joyed he is mine as well. I hope he holds the line against liberalism from both parties
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:06pmI haven’t had the pleasure of hearing him speak in person, but he still impresses me. He is just an incredible man! His story is amazing and he’s everything a public servant SHOULD BE. Plus, he would NEVER be caught dead getting a hug from Obumbler. Crist should have known that that would be the final nail in his political coffin. But hey, Rubio would have won on his own with or without the unintentional help from the Tanned One. Having said that, though, we can‘t thank ol’ Charlie enough for being such a pinhead!! :)
Now, if only we could convince those folks in South FL to stop voting for What’s-her-name Schultz and Frederica Wilson……
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:04pmFrom the same ethical journalists who couldn‘t find a thing in Obama’s past worth investigating before the election. Making a decades old arrest while Rubio was a teenager has no news relevance.
It was a politically motivated hit piece, plain and simple. Maybe Dan Rather is doing some consulting work there.
Report Post »keaton
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:13pmNice try! It wasn’t Rubio that was arrested!
Report Post »seanscythe
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:03pmShouldn’t go on this anyway, this is one of the biggest supports of La Raza and Illegal Immigration. Why would you go on a network that supports what your voters don’t like?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:12pmI agree .. they should boycott this and other “entertainment” that will not give them a fair shake anyway.
Report Post »kraphtsman
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:20pmWhat Rubio should now do is stage his OWN town-hall meeting (offering the TV coverage rights to ALL local Spanish-speaking TV station, but SPECIFICALLY barring Univision) and invite these candidates to an ACTUAL debate. I’m sure he could find enough INTELLECTUALLY HONEST and qualified Spanish speaking (Latinos AND non-Latinos) moderators from across the U.S.
The Latino vote is too important for ANY candidate to ignore, and is NOT by ANY means fully in the bag for Obama and his socialist Democrat Party (which, sadly, appears to be the case for the Black vote).
Report Post »poster
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:02pmAgenda journalism. Typical Progressives.
A 1987 cocaine arrest of Rubio’s brother-in-law?? Very weak, Univision. Very, very weak. How about an investigation of his aunt‘s friend’s brother jaywalking in 1960?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:15pmHow about Obama’s relatives in the country illegally and getting special treatment when caught.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:24pmWhich side of his family are you talking about? The thieves or the cannibals?
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:01pmNo Liberal Media should be recognized by Conservative candidates. Give them nothing.
Report Post »poster
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:03pmAmen. Tell them all to go to hell.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:10pmAbsolutely agree!
Report Post »GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 2:01pmal Jazerra, Univision, NY Times, MSNBC, the list goes on and on and continues to grow. Oh yeah, then there is whitehouse.gov.
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