Rubio specifies journalists for 'glee' in virus deaths

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:29 pm CDT, Tuesday, March 31, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, pressed to identify media figures that he said expressed “glee” at Americans getting coronavirus, has cited an editorial cartoonist, a magazine writer, an online tech publication and an online editor.

The Republican senator took heat for a tweet over the weekend that said some media members “can't contain their delight” at reports that the United States had surpassed China in the number of coronavirus cases.

He was criticized for using the vague term “some in the media,” and ABC News' Jonathan Karl, president of the White House Correspondents Association, called on Rubio to apologize. He didn't, but late Monday pointed to examples of what he was talking about.

One came from the Twitter account of the tech publication The Verge that had tweeted a picture of President Donald Trump hugging the American flag with the message, “The coronavirus is now the American virus.”


Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Rubio-specifies-journalists-for-glee-in-virus-15169708.php

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. One idiot speaks. nt

[GeorgiaPeanut]

2. They are going to blame the media

for the whole coronavirus/trump incompetence saga.

They have no shame and their supporters have no brains.

[Paladin]

3. Little Marco is getting smaller by the minute.

And I'm hereby expressing glee about it.

[House of Roberts]

4. Marco lacks empathy.

He also likely lacks the ability to sense irony and sarcasm. To him, it appears to be glee.

[Igel]

10. That's how it works.

Heard this one long sermon years ago, and I had trouble believing that what he was quoting some op/ed writer as saying was actually said.

Asked to see the thing afterwards. Every quote was word for word, and he worked through the entire piece. Except, oddly, the last four words.

"This is writ sarcastic."

Yes, the guy missed the sarcasm--because he was predisposed to see only the bad in others and assume that however bad may be what the other side said, it had to be the truth. And denials, protestations to the contrary were just a facade.

[patphil]

5. What he's really saying is that reporting the gravity of the situation and...

our government's lack of response is not allowed.

How dare we recognize Trump's nakedness!

Hey Rubio, you had your chance to dump this guy, and you didn't.
Now he's yours;own up to it.

His failure is your failure. Florida is on the verge of a coronavirus explosion.
And, you are part of the problem.

Quite your whining and do something to help.

[flibbitygiblets]

6. So. Shooting the messenger is all has to say or do? No calls to lock down Florida?

No strong message about the need for social distancing so as not to overwhelm the healthcare workers who are literally putting their lives on the line?

No helping the obtain more test?

No helping to obtain more PPE?

Just whining about the news coverage. That's all he has to offer.

Can Floridians get a clue and vote this useless whiner out PLEASE?

[aggiesal]

7. I don't believe they're gleeful, they're pi$$ed off ...

But I also remember how gleeful Marco Rubio was when he had the Risk Corridor Provision
removed from the Affordable Care Act.
This caused premiums to increase drastically 1 month before the November 2016 election.

His selfish gleeful act removal, cost people their lives because they could not afford the premium increase.

A$$

[yaesu]

8. little marco is such a spoiled little brat. nt

[keithbvadu2]

9. Lttle Marco should stick to his area of expertise; Trump's genitals.

[gab13by13]

11. Yep, that's the test that Republicans give,

to get into Congress, who is the best "fluffer."

[Maribelle]

12. Its sad to see how far down the rabbit hole Rubio has fallen.

His journey grows darker.