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Rubio Roasted for Attacking Capital Gazette Reporter’s F Bomb After 5 of Her Colleagues Were Shot Dead

At 6:43 AM Friday morning Sen. Marco Rubio took to Twitter to blast a Capital Gazette reporter’s use of the “F” word on CNN the night before.
Sign of our times… the F word is now routinely used in news stories, tweets etc It’s not even F*** anymore. Who made that decision???
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 29, 2018
Selene San Felice was speaking live on-air to Anderson Cooper when she said: “I don’t know what I want right now but I’m gonna need more than a couple days of news coverage and thoughts and prayers…thanks for your prayers but I couldn’t give a f*ck about them if there’s nothing else.”
Those remarks didn’t sit well with the two-term U.S. Senator and failed GOP presidential candidate who is perhaps best known for suggesting on the campaign trail that his Republican opponent, now President Donald Trump, was not well-endowed.
Rubio, after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting also took to Twitter to express his frustration, with those calling for bans on assault weapons.
And Rubio didn’t even respond to the news that five people had been shot to death Thursday. Not a press release. Not a statement. Not a tweet. Not a word.
HuffPost notes that Sen. Rubio “has an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association for supporting gun-friendly legislation and has received $3.3 million from the group as of March.”
Many on social media blasted or mocked the Florida Senator for being more upset that the word “fuck” was used live on-air than that five people, including four dedicated journalists, were shot dead in their newsroom.
Worry about so-called bad words in a time when Congressmen can’t bring themselves to care about children ripped from parents and instead hold an emergency hearing on the world’s most investigated emails of a person who has been out of government for 5 years? That’s fucking crazy.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 29, 2018
“And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
— IT’S MY COUNTRY AND I’LL CRY IF I WANT TO (@Litzz11) June 29, 2018
You doing anything to stop putting kids in fucking cages?
— Ezra 🌊 Levin (@ezralevin) June 29, 2018
A message from your base. pic.twitter.com/ygAPFMl11Z
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 29, 2018
This is unquestionably the major issue of today.
— Prof. Garrett Epps (@Profepps) June 29, 2018
When you care enough to tweet about the media using the word fuck more than the deaths of victims and the survivors you are showing your true colors.
— Beth Bryson (@maddezmom) June 29, 2018
have families been reunited? who made that decision? #civilitydisobedience
— Doris (@starr_d) June 29, 2018
See the thing about that is, you haven’t passed meaningful gun reform yet, Senator. Also, where are the children?
— Patrick DiGiovanni (@Arch_Raider) June 29, 2018
We use the F word because all you offer after a mass shooting is “Thoughts and prayers” & a Bible quote. So stop taking money from the NRA and do your F-en job to enforce stricter gun control! That’s why we use the F word because we are FED up and FRUSTRATED that you do nothing!
— James (@JamesSNYC) June 29, 2018
There are nearly 2000 fucking kids who were taken from their fucking parents by the fucking government that you fucking work for, most of whom haven’t been fucking returned. And you’re going to make a fucking word the fucking thing you make noise about? Are you fucking serious?
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) June 29, 2018
Get the fuck over it. The F-word is far, far less offensive than your capitulating, mealy-mouthed obeisance to Trump.
— Boy Culture Blog (@mattrett) June 29, 2018
Your president, the guy you defend everyday uses it publicly. “You can tell them to go f… themselves” remember?
— romario de souza (@kkdesouza11) June 29, 2018
Sign of the times. Scotus Justice resigns amid scandal that his son loaned $ 1 Bil dollars to the presidents son and the GOP thinks it’s proper for this president to nominate a replacement while under investigation.
Please don’t tweet about swearing.— Natalie (@Natgcoh) June 29, 2018
Who made the decision that shootings were commonplace and therefore acceptable? Might be your party.
— Sandy Tomich 🌊🌊 (@SandyTomich) June 29, 2018
Hmm… how do you feel about it Senator? I mean… “F*** your feelings, amiright?”
— OutOfContextClues (@OutOfCntxtClues) June 29, 2018

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