The past “familia feud” between Senator Marco Rubio and the pro-Mexico, amnesty for illegal alien-supporting Spanish language TV network, Univision, has just been rekindled.
My amigo in political reporting, Marc “Frisbee” Caputo over at the POLITICO post this about a recent Univision slight against Rubio:After he left the Florida House in 2008, Marco Rubio was briefly a Univision network commentator but his relationship with Univision soured once he became a U.S. Senator. The hugely influential Spanish-language network has faced legitimate claims of Democratic-leaning bias leveled against it — owner Haim Saban once pledged his “full might” to get Hillary Clinton elected and on May 7 he’s fundraising for her. So it came as little surprise to Rubio supporters that, on the Tuesday morning “Despierta America” show, Rubio’s opposition to judges legalizing gay marriage was described as a “radical posture” (“postura radical”). A Rubio backer snapped a pic.
Morning news show on Univision (owned by big Hillary-backer) calls Rubio’s gay-marriage views a “radical posture.” pic.twitter.com/De4yRRVprX
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The feuding began back in 2011, when Univision ran a ridiculous story (hit piece) about Rubio’s Brother-in-law’s arrest for cocaine trafficking. To give you a better idea about how dumb this story was, Rubio was 16 years old at the time of the arrest, and even his 2010 Senate opponent, Charlie Crist, who knew about the incident, refused to use it in the campaign.
Here is what I wrote in the book about the hit piece on Rubio:
I remember receiving a phone call early on a Sunday morning from a source who told me to give Marco the heads-up on a story that was going to air in the early evening of that very day, That source told me that Univision was very tight-lipped about the story, and all this person could disclose was that the story was related to some past issue with his family.
I then called Rubio and alerted him about the imminent hit piece. He pressed me for more details, but I couldn’t offer him anything more than what I was told. – The Hispanic Media Bias, BROWN PEOPLE (Page 78)
Univision’s hit piece against Rubio aired after 5pm that day.
Here is Rubio going on Univision to smack down the network over their 2011 hit piece against him:But when Ramos addressed Cicilia’s criminal history later in the interview, and asked Rubio if he believed someone related to a former drug trafficker could be selected as vice president, Rubio strongly criticized Univision’s handling of the issue and said that the network had not contacted him for the story:
RUBIO: “Number one, I believe that, and I’m going to explain it because what happened with Univision in that case was very unfortunate. I believe it will still remain as a black mark in the history of the Univision Network and of Univision News, and I’m going to explain to you why. If you had questions, and I say you meaning Univision, about what impact that had on me, then should have called me directly. Unfortunately, that is not what Univision did. Univision called people related to the case, Univision called my sister directly, Univision showed up in front of the house.”
RAMOS: “We looked for an answer from your office.”
RUBIO: “No, that is not correct. Univision first called my sister, it stationed a team of cameras in front of my mother’s house trying to capture the cameras, that is, if the story was really about me, they would have contacted me first.”
RAMOS: You were 16 years old.RUBIO: “Let me finish, excuse me Jorge… later in the headline news of the national news of Univision, I understand that you were not on the air that night, but in the headlines of Univision national news they had the story that it was not about me. It was the personal story of two private citizens who had absolutely nothing to do…”
RAMOS: “But linked to you.”
RUBIO: “Well, then, I should have been asked about those links. I would have been pleased to tell you that I had nothing to do with it, I was 16 years old; it had a very negative impact on my family. It was a very sad moment, but you did not do that; you persecuted first my sister and my family directly. What’s more, it was me who called Univision, Univision did not call me because I thought it was a joke that someone was kidding, or that someone was trying to hurt me…”
RAMOS: “Now the story is true, you write it, it is there written on page 60.”
RUBIO: “Correct, but that is not the problem. You did not call me, you called my family, it went beyond that, on the following day on Twitter, a well-known character, they put things like “Marco Rubio has links to drug trafficking” without explaining on Twitter, and later a Univision reporter asked the governor of Florida if I should resign for something that happened over 20 years ago…That is ridiculous.”RAMOS: “I understand that, but if you are going to get to the vice presidency, even the presidency of the United States, this type of connection had to be talked about…”
RUBIO: “But, Jorge, this is public record and if Univision calls me and asks me, look, we understand that it happened in your family, how did it affect you, what do you think, I would have been pleased to have answered all that.”