Yep. WaPo fact-checking Rubio too.
Good.
“Yep. WaPo fact-checking Rubio too. Good.”
Not really, in this case. He had just been elected to the Senate and was considered a potential conservative superstar. Playing a central role in the Amnesty push was not being given much thought, and certainly running for President in 2016 was way off the radar. So as far as the media was concerned, this was a good time to knock him down a few rungs.
Thankfully they kept the article around, as they sure as hell will not run it again in the Primary season - but they WILL RUN IT when Rubio is facing Biden next November.
You know, come to think of it, why would the Washington Post be so interested in Rubio’s past when he has 5 years left in his term in the Senate? Why run it now?
Perhaps it was Rubio’s people trying to get the lie ‘behind them’ prior to his run for president, when the story would have certainly come out? That would explain why his staff was so quick to confirm the lie, rather than trying to ‘explain it away’.