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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What Guantanamo means to the American public and for jihadists; vigilante groups on both sides of the US-Mexico border; and the GOP front-runner in second or third place.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:06.1	Brooke Gladstone is away this week.
0:08.3	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:09.9	With Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and now Nevada behind us, the media have been a buzz
0:16.0	this week with coverage of the GOP frontrunner.
0:19.3	Senator Marco Rubio, now the favorite of the Republican establishment.
0:22.9	This political horse race is in the final stretch and headed to the finish line.
0:27.9	And the Rubio campaign is reaching for the whip.
0:30.9	It's really a two-person race and ultimately Rubio will still win.
0:35.7	Yeah, that's right. Marco Rubio. Granted, he isn't technically the front
0:40.8	runner in the very narrow sense that he hasn't run in front, but he's placed third, fifth, and second
0:47.4	place twice. So why quibble? Second place is exactly like first place. If you look at it a certain way, and the media certainly do.
0:57.4	Saturday night, while Marco Rubio was celebrating a second place win in South Carolina.
1:01.8	Comes back, turns it all around, comes in second in South Carolina.
1:04.9	Rubio has been racking up endorsements ever since he came out of South Carolina with that big second place win.
1:09.5	Not just a second place win.
1:11.7	If you just ignore Donald Trump's 73,970 more votes,
1:17.3	Rubio was second in a landslide.
1:20.9	Hell, when you're willing to airbrush out an entire candidate,
1:24.1	even third place is first place.
1:26.1	Donors rallied around Rubio after his third place victory in the Iowa caucuses.
1:30.3	Stick that third place in your eye.
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