So basically the upshoot of the story is that Rubio walks through a hotel lobby, sees Cruz’s dad and a staffer, walks up to them and says something nice, including something positive about the Bible one has on the table.
Then Cruz’s people run with an unbelievable story that says Rubio said something negative about the Bible.
Video shows it’s a lie.
Cruz apologizes.
But the real story got lost in it - Rubio shows the dignity to walk up to Cruz’s father and a staffer and say something nice. That’s a touch of class that seems missing in this race. Trump-bots can hate it, but it seems like a class move from Rubio.
Marco Rubio has awkward confrontation with Rafael Cruz, Cruz staffer in hotel lobby
Note from the Editor: We have been receiving lots of questions about the contents of this video, and some have disagreed with our transcript. We stand by our original transcript, but the video is here for you to see for yourself and make your own judgement.
COLUMBIA, S.C. Let's dispel the notion that Marco Rubio did not know who he was talking to.
When Rubio walked into the lobby of the Columbia Hampton Inn this morning - conveniently the same one where the Daily Pennsylvanian staffers are posting up in South Carolina and were eating breakfast around 10:30 a.m. - he was presumably not expecting to run into Rafael Cruz, father of presidential candidate Ted Cruz, and Cruz campaign staffer Christian Collins.
Maybe it is, I won’t argue the point. At this point, I firmly Rubio as part of the Go8 would implement total amnesty of untold millions of illegals and this outweighs any other considerations by me for him.
I have two choices I’ll take, Trump or Cruz and it looks like I’m not going to change that.
I’m a “Trump-bot” - I guess, at least I support Trump - and I don’t hate that. I admire that. Good for Rubio if that’s what he actually did.
There, now where are you going to pigeon-hole me?
>>Video shows it’s a lie.
The “lie” evidently originated in the caption that appears to have been video taken and captioned by a journalism student “Video Producer”...
[Rubio confronts Cruz staffer]
https://youtu.be/V4s6CU-88l8?t=9s
And Mr. Video Producer has some explaining to do.
“Rubio walks through a hotel lobby, sees Cruz’s dad and a staffer, walks up to them and says something nice, including something positive about the Bible...
Then Cruz’s people run with an unbelievable story that says Rubio said something negative about the Bible.”
No, this is the real story. Rick Tyler was trying to spread some gobbledegook about the transcript was wrong, when Rubio’s comment was made TO PEOPLE IN THE CRUZ CAMPAIGN !
That’s disgusting! Holy man daddy and some staffer knew that it was a lie from the start, but they let the campaign go with it anyway.
What Republicans do not need is another Nixon.
(actually a lot of parallels there, both academically brilliant but unusually awkward for politicians. dirty tricksters as campaign advisers...)