On the Media Matrix and the Rubio "Glitch"

Media attention is like a spotlight. It illuminates the present with a blinding light and then proceeds to view both past and future in the reflected glow of the current moment. Marco Rubio’s campaign fortunes are a particularly dramatic example of the reinterpretation of electoral reality based on the changing vicissitudes of the right now. Last week, based on a third place finish in the Iowa caucus, Rubio was seen as a world-beater, capable of uniting the anti-Trump, anti-Cruz, majority of the Republican Party. Today, after a fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, Rubio is all but written off as a dead man running. The moment that the commentators have seized on to explain the turn-about is Rubio’s performance in the last GOP debate, specifically the hilariously nicknamed Rubio “glitch” ... Here is my take:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2016/02/11/opinion-marco-rubio-could-shine-again-everybody-loves-comeback-kid/

Accepting Syrian Refugees Will Make the US Safer

The very idea that U.S. governors would refuse to accept Syrian refugees, out of overblown fear and demagogic politics, fills me with despair at the complete eclipse of both reason and compassion. What has it come to? Do we turn away the victims of violence, because they frighten us so?

I am at a loss for words ... oh, wait...strike that... here are a few...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/11/19/opinion-accepting-syrian-refugees-makes-us-safer-from-terror/

Separated at Birth: Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi

I wrote this piece a week or so ago on the weird similarities between The Donald and Il Silvio. I see that WaPo just published a piece yesterday riffing on the same idea. Great minds...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/09/16/opinion-donald-trump-and-silvio-berlusconi-politicians-separated-at-birth/