July 28, 2008
Rubio's remarks on Cuba revisited
On Saturday July 12th Ziva posted a video of Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio addressing the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) at the same luncheon where the main attraction was Barack Obama.
In the short video, Rubio explains why it is important that the future of Cuba never be negotiated with the castro brothers. He explains that there is "no statute of limitations on freedom" and takes the media to task for belittling our parents and grandparents, the historical Cuban exile community.
I re-posted that video on Monday July 14th because I thought it was wonderful and deserved to be seen during the week when readership is much higher. At lunch last week Val confessed to me that watches that speech every day because it inspires him. I have to admit that I've seen it at least ten times.
Then something happened shortly after I re-posted it. Our weekday readership which was averaging between 2,000 and 2,500 per day jumped up over 4,000 for several days. People were landing on the Marco Rubio post because a link to the video was being emailed around the Cuban-American community.
I bring this up because I noticed something interesting. The video of Obama's actual speech, the main event of that luncheon, which was posted by his campaign on May 23rd, the same day of the speech, has been viewed 28,944 times as of 2:00 PM today.
Meanwhile, Rubio's speech, which was a direct contradiction to the course of action Obama is advocating and which was posted by CANF on June 3rd, has been viewed 24,623 times. A lot of those views (about 19,000) came through Babalu.
Here's a presidential candidate that the news media is enamored of giving a speech that was widely hyped and the video which has been linked directly from his campaign web site barely gets more traction than a speech nobody even knew took place by a politician that is barely known outside of South Florida. I mean if you ask most Floridians who the Speaker of the Florida House is they will look at you like a cow stares at a passing train.
The media continues to play-up the fictional generational shift among Cuban-Americans like its going out of style. But what do you expect from them, they are after all the same media that belittles our parents and grandparents?
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at July 28, 2008 01:49 PM
Comments
That is one advantage of living in Tally: you know who these guys are, particularly if you're like Rubio and you turn up on the local morning talk show. I certainly like what he had to say, and I believe that he's someone I'd support in future state-wide campaigns.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 28, 2008 02:25 PM
it's simple....Obama is the perception of the reality... and Marcos is the reality...
saludos
Posted by: tony44 at July 28, 2008 02:43 PM
This was a vidio I made sure my family members in Kentucky, Virginia and Puerto Rico saw.
Thank you for posting it.
Posted by: Henry Agueros at July 28, 2008 04:26 PM
This guy is like Alex Penelas with a backbone.
Posted by: asombra at July 29, 2008 09:28 AM
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