Bozell Blasts Media for Attacking Rubio on Missed Votes, Ignoring Obama’s in 2008

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CAVUTO: “Maybe I said too much over this media fairness thing, but it comes up every day in some way, shape or form. This is an article. Look at the picture, look at the sentence about Marco Rubio. The argument here is that Marco Rubio can be aloof, says he doesn’t spend enough time doing retail politicking. Nevertheless, he has an obsession over the town hall meetings, they say he isn’t personal enough. Did they write anything like that about Hillary Clinton? Some have but not nearly in the same vein. Seemingly to be focused on stuff that seems silly? So all you women saying men are not getting the same treatment, I don’t think even Hillary Clinton got that kind of treatment. Brent, this is the same paper along with the ‘New York Times’ that is upset over traffic tickets or debt issues or whether he paid too much for a boat and had to sell a boat, take out equity loans. They had a fixation on this guy, but this went into another area more, I don’t know, psychological, quoting — at least they quoted some people here about how he doesn’t get engaged enough in the retail campaigning process, but to me it all seems kind of crazy. What do you think?”
BOZELL: “Well, you know, he doesn’t help his case very much when he does things like miss last week’s hugely important vote. But that said, even if the story is 100 percent accurate really makes no difference when you look at the double standard. If Marco Rubio’s performance along these lines is worthy of a front-page story, how about his predecessor? How about Barack Obama and his voting record? We looked at it, in 2008, when Obama was running for president, he missed 64 percent of the votes in the Senate. Do you recall any stories about that? We just saw a story a couple of weeks ago. Do you know that Barack Obama has now played over 250 rounds of golf since being president? Now, we are in a state of war with ISIS, the economy is in the tank.”
CAVUTO: “Plenty of presidential candidates play golf. I’m not going to get into that. But one of the things that does annoy me a little bit is the perspective that Marco Rubio is personal enough or that he’s too cool for words. I think they’ve even used words like icy to describe him. Now, they never even paid attention to that or him when he was loafer inwer in the polls. Now he’s emerging as the biggest threat to Hillary Clinton. Now he gets the press on all the silliest things. That’s what strikes me.”
BOZELL: “And it is silly. But to finish my rambling thought here, they used the word aloof to characterize him. I can’t think of anyone more aloof than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton when it comes to people skills. But this is the second attack. Look at the mere times of attacking him on this little tiny boat he bought for his kids, as if he’s buying yachts with his book sales. The guy is worth, what, $100,000? This is a snaky little attack, and why? Because he’s gone up in the polls. It’s happened to Ted Cruz, it will happen with any Republican. We talked about this throughout the campaign. Anyone who makes any kind of move, they’re looking for a way to chop. If this is all they can do against Marko Rubio, they don’t have much.”
CAVUTO: “It’s when they get to the personal attacks that it doesn’t seem very fair. I would stress that some in the media have found some inconsistencies with Hillary Clinton, but not to the degree we have with a lot of these Republican candidates that are still being compared to a clown car.”
BOZELL: “Here’s the double standard. Let’s reverse it. Let’s pretend Marco Rubio was a Democrat. You would have liberals on your show right now accusing the ‘Washington Post’ of bigotry and racism and profiling. After all, they just called a Hispanic lazy. In a mere second, they would do that, which goes to show the stupidity on the left. By the way, don’t get me started on you Italians.”
CAVUTO: “Another Democratic Party, he would be a john f. Kennedy. I understand there are inconsistencies here, I’m just saying if you want to go after the silly stuff, you should do it it. Distraction stuff or that she appears in front of reporters, I don’t see enough of that. I think there is a deal here to portray the Republicans as common fodder.”
BOZELL: “When they swoon all over chipotle, they should swoon every time Marco Rubio goes to McDonald’s.”
CAVUTO: “I would just do that on the basis of McDonald’s and that some foods that have some preservatives are to be valued and revered. But that’s another subject matter. Do you think — we’re seeing it already happen right now with Senator Cruz, that we will see more of it and they will frame Cruz in the same crazy categories they have trump? They’ll try to find something in the inconsistencies of Rubio and Cruz and anyone who is rising as just silly. We’re already seeing that with Chris Christie.”
BOZELL: “With the Cruz thing it’s going to be interesting, because the ones who are going to be feeding as much poison as possible, it’s going to be the Republican establishment in Washington that despises them. They’re going to do whatever they can to get the media to do what they do for them.”