CNN Plays Up 'Bizarre' Rubio's Mocking of WashPost on Twitter

Matthew Balan | May 17, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The 17 May 2016 edition of CNN's At This Hour spotlighted Senator Marco Rubio's attack on the Washington Post on Twitter. An on-screen graphic hyped how "Rubio Launches Bizarre Tweetstorm Against Media." The Florida Republican mocked the "genius line" in the liberal newspaper that "claims that I'm a bit at sea in terms of [my] next step politically." Rubio added, "Ummmm, not really. I have only said like 10,000 times I will be a private citizen in January."

Kate Bolduan remarked, "Yes, that happened," and asked former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty for his take on Rubio's Tweets. John Berman underlined, "He went through a whole campaign, with Donald Trump calling him 'little Marco'... And, all of a sudden, he explodes last night. It just — it seems strange to me."