Rubio's four traffic tickets aren't news, unless you're publishing political hit pieces.
So Friday's New York Times contained an enormous scoop — one so important that it was bylined by two reporters, Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder, and a researcher, Kitty Bennett.
That Marco Rubio had some traffic tickets.
Well, actually, only four in 18 years.
But the story combined Rubio's driving record with that of his wife so that it could maintain that the couple "had a combined 17 citations.
In other words, Rubio had four, and his wife had 13.
Worse yet, we're told, the Rubios had to attend driving school on four occasions.
..Folks on Twitter mocked the Times with the #RubioCrimeSpree hashtag, featuring such other alleged crimes as "Drank milk after the expiration," "Red wine with fish," and my favorite, "Called Chris Matthews, asked him if his refrigerator was running."
...Er, except that maybe the Times didn't do the digging.
The Washington Free Beacon's Brent Scher reported that the Times likely got the records from a Democratic opposition research firm, American Bridge.
"Records show that each of the citations mentioned by the New York Times were pulled in person by American Bridge operatives on May 26, 2015. ...
Neither of the reporters, Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder, appeared on the docket records for any of the traffic citations for Rubio and his wife.
An additional researcher credited in the New York Times, Kitty Bennett, also does not appear on any of the court records..."
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