Marco Rubio Robot Defends Malfunctioning On Campaign Trail

Marco Rubio took a beating at the hands of Chris Christie at the last Republican debate. Chris Christie's attacks on Rubio involved the candidates robotic delivery of talking points. Rubio went on the Sunday shows and attempted to defend himself. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola of The Young Turks break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"Not long after the conclusion of the GOP debate in New Hampshire, Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican Party, was sitting in a booth at JD's Tavern in Manchester, a favorite watering hole for journalists, pundits, and political tourists, and he was shaking his head. A reporter had told him that she had just heard from Marco Rubio's camp. The once-surging presidential candidate had two hours earlier become the goat of the night, after he robotically repeated talking points in response to Chris Christie's fierce attack that the junior senator from Florida was nothing but an inexperienced empty-suit legislator whose best asset was his ability to deliver memorized rhetorical flourishes—that is, to robotically repeat talking points.

Responding to Christie—and proving his assailant's point—Rubio had multiple times recited a prepared line in which he slammed President Barack Obama for purposefully ruining the United States. This was Rubio's emperor-has-no-clothes moment. And after the debate, he dared not enter the spin room to explain his broken-record impersonation. But his advisers, up until now one of the most savvy teams on the GOP side, quickly developed their post-debate spin. They were telling reporters that the debate demonstrated that Rubio was so committed to criticizing Obama that he would seize every opportunity to do so. At the bar, when Steele heard this, he laughed sadly. "No, no, no," he said. "It was a major blunder."*

[nosuchthing]

Rubio, first human to fail the Turing test

[quintinjoseph]

Christie did to Rubio what Trunks did to Frieza

[HardcoreGamer]

Jeb Bush must be feeling good right now. He finally wasn't the obvious loser of a debate.

[ianyboo]

reminds me of the hologram at the beginning of iRobot that will Smith interacts with. "my responses are limited, you need to ask the right questions"

[ESmaniak]

Looking back, it’s absolutely hilarious this single debate DESTROYED his campaign😹

[kristenungstad]

Someone please make a Marko Rubio doll with a pull-string on its back. When you pull the string, it says any one of five pre-recorded 25-second canned speeches. 😂

[KesselRunner]

Have they tried switching him off then on again?

[williamcfox]

When I'm President, it's three myths I'm dispelling. 1, that Obama doesn't know exactly what hes doin. 2, that obama doesn't know what he's up to. And 3, the 3rd one there? oops...

[mattiassollerman]

In his autobiography "I, Rubio" Marco explains the three laws of republicanism:
1: America is the greatest country in the history of the universe.
2: Everything Reagan has done is good.
3: Everything Obama has done is bad.

Sometimes these laws come in conflict, which can create erratic and nonsensical speaking patterns. If the specimen is self aware it can display harmful behavior towards individuals and countries in the middle east.

[rodluvan]

did anyone tell him he's not running against Obama?

[rjjacob]

I love how Christie completely wiped the floor with Rubio's nervous face! There is literally no reason to listen to Rubio again after you've heard him once.

[EGarrett]

The repeated statement is way funnier with Chris Christie staring at him in the split screen.

[smugbuddha]

And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction, that I dont know what i am typing. I know exactly what I am typing!!

[ancel]

Kamala Harris is the 2020 Democrat version of Robot Rubio

[microsoft]

to whoever is holding rubio's remote cntrol.... please don't over use the rewind, play, rewind... it's getting obvious

lmao

[Muscari]

Obama knows what he's doing, but Marco clearly doesn't.

[ImmaterialDigression]

How is it possible for a party to field so many candidates that are all terrible.

[NarminStaley]

Let's dispell the notion that Rubio knows what he's doing. He sounds like Alex Jones

[edwardrhoads]

OMG Rubio is trying to become the first mechanical life form in the oval office. Now it all makes sense.

That whole water thing a few years back was a clever way to make himself seem human.

[BramSLI]

You know, if my astromech droid started to malfunction like that, I'd have it replaced.