Last week U.S. Senator Marco Rubio dropped a proverbial media smackdown on the Miami Herald for reporting “fake news” when the south Florida newspaper printed that he “threw his support” behind the controversial peace deal between the Colombian government and the FARC, the drug-trafficking and murderous communist guerrilla organization.
Several months back, Rubio and Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R) attending a press conference with Miami’s Colombia/FARC peace deal oppositions shortly after the Colombian people voted to rejectthe first attempt their government’s effort to strike an initial peace accord with the communist rebels.“It’s the Colombian people who will decide what an acceptable end to decades of conflict with the FARC should look like and, according to them, this agreement was not it. In the coming days, weeks and months ahead, it is my hope the lessons learned from the Colombian people through this process can be applied to eventually bring this conflict to a formal end,” said Rubio, who added,”people in the Western Hemisphere want freedom and democracy. They don’t want terrorism, they don’t want left wing ideologies coming out of Havana, and the people of Colombia made that very clear yesterday.”-Shark Tank
Rubio took a page out of the Donald Trump Twitter playbook and went to the social media platform to deliver a 1-2 punch, coupled with a spinning elbow to the Miami Herald’s obviously inaccurate reporting.
Grateful that I have more twitter followers than @miamiherald has readers, so I can set the record straight on false reporting. MR
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I didn't support "peace deal". I supported "Peace Colombia". That is the US funding plan which prohibits money for the FARC 2/3
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 12, 2017
140 characters not enough to detail all the falsehoods in article but here are 2. 1/3 https://t.co/tvvA7l1u8R
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 12, 2017
1st they write a story that is wrong, then when you point it out they write a 2nd one to say you are "backtracking" https://t.co/tvvA7l1u8R
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 12, 2017
Puzzled by this article. Speech never said I "backed" the #Colombia peace deal.Said continued aid with conditions https://t.co/DEWx3Hr3jD
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 11, 2017