Why Arianna Huffington Played The Race Card (Por qué Arianna Huffington Jugó La Tarjeta de Raza)

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The left is afraid of the election of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Senator of Florida in the exact same way as they were afraid of Sarah Palin when she was chosen as the Vice Presidential nominee by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). It has been clear from the beginning that both are ascendant as potential game-changing political stars and need to be destroyed. So it’s no surprise that Arianna Huffington tweeted the following:

The reason why so few Senators are chosen as Presidential nominees is that the job is not an executive position; Governors tend to be preferable because they have executive experience. Rubio was just elected to to vote “yes” or “no” on things, which is why Arianna’s analogy of “dictator” is incomprehensible and utterly unrelated to his leadership position. There is nothing dictator-like about a Senator. So what exactly was the Queen of social news media’s tweet really about?

Once the “dictator” part of Arianna’s insults is stripped away, what’s left is “Central American,” and that’s the crux of her tweet. She is playing the race card with Marco Rubio. Of course the mainstream media will fail to notice that this is a racist comment, which is no less racist than if a Republican compared Obama to Idi Amin. Is there any doubt that Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post empire would not be leading the charge to destroy the person who uttered that unfortunate analogy? Her intent was to inject race, to play off of racial fears and ignorance, and in this hyper-sensitive era where the left demands blood and media silence at the slightest trace of intolerance, Arianna should, in the least, be forced to apologize to the Latin American community.

Let me remind you why Arianna took the low road:

You thought that the left was scared on Nov. 1, 2010, now imagine an America with a successful Marco Rubio and his beautiful family in the White House.

Even though I strongly disagree with the implications of her Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)-esque inflammatory racial statement, it would never dawn on me to try and push my readers to attempt to ban her from the nation’s television airwaves. So please, do not make phone calls or create an astroturf anti-free speech intimidation campaign against my former boss.

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UPDATE: Arianna Huffington blames HuffPost blogger Dowd for racial Rubio quote: