Rubio and Cruz oddly silent on Trump treatment on Jorge Ramos

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Thursday August 27, 2015 · 6:36 AM PDT

2015/08/27 · 06:36

Did you see the whupping Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz gave Donald Trump over his blatantly race-baiting treatment of two Univision reporters - one of whom, Jorge Ramos, is the Walter Cronkite of Latino news?

You didn't? There's a good reason for that: Namely, neither of these two gents have said Word One against Trump's racist behavior towards Univision. (And it's not as if Rubio in particular is normally afraid to call people racistsif it suits his political exigencies.)

This is very, very strange.

More past the fold.

The conservatives and Republicans have a standard reply ready when questioned about their contemptuous treatment of North amd South America's biggest Spanish-language TV network, a network that until a few years ago had been co-owned and run for many years by a very conservative man, Jerry Perenchio: They claim that one of Univision's current owners, Haim Saban, is a Hillary fan who steers the network's coverage to be Democrat-friendly - a claim thatprobably sounds humorous to Obama Administration members, who have had their own run-ins with the fiercely independent network.

But even if Univision really was the lefty Latino version of FOX (stop snickering, Kos and Armando), does it make sense to continually bash it if your goal is to attract the huge and varied audience it draws? Most Democrats don't constantly bash FOX (even though they arguably should) precisely because FOX draws a huge audience, not all of which is composed of hardcore Republicans.

Furthermore, Democrats and lefties have no problem with criticizing Trump when he unfairly attacks FOX employees like Megyn Kelly. Why can't Rubio and Cruz come to the defense of people treated horribly by their biggest primary rival?

It wouldn't be because they're scared to death of their party's base voters, now would it?

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