Time Mag Responds To Rubio’s “I Am Not the Savior” Humblebrag: Umm, We Never Said You Were.
As we mentioned yesterday, Time and Newsweek are both running some vaguely religious-sounding cover stories this month, with Time declaring Marco Rubio “The Republican Savior” and Newsweek discussing President Obama’s “Second Coming.” (We tried to weigh out which politician was more Jesus-y but failed to reach a definitive conclusion.)
On Thursday, Sen. Rubio (R-FL) responded to the “Republican Savior” cover story on Twitter, helpfully clarifying to his 243,000 Twitter followers that he is not, in fact, the Son of God. (That would be #Jesus, in case you weren’t clear on where he was going with this.)
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There is only one savior, and it is not me. #Jesus
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 7, 2013
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Sen. Rubio’s followers appreciated this response, because they were concerned that people might see the cover of Time and then mistakenly think he was actually Jesus, which is a reasonable thing to assume of adult human beings. Therefore, it was very humble of Rubio to clear up the confusion, rather than capitalizing on the incident to his political advantage.
(Meanwhile, Pres. Obama has failed to clarify that he is not Jesus, because he is an egomaniacal monster.)
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[Sidenote: Obviously, it would take you about 3 seconds to look these people up if you really wanted to, but we blocked their surnames because we're not comfortable with this trend of calling out random, non-famous individuals by name and hyperlinking to their Twitter feeds so everyone can mock and harrass them.]
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Of course, the term “savior” has more than one meaning, so it’s possible that Time was not giving Rubio the “title of God, especially of Christ.” It’s possible that when they called him the “Republican Savior,” they simply meant he was a “person who saves [or] rescues” something — something like the Republican Party, for instance.
Eventualy, Time decided to stop being so confusing and delivered a definitive answer: Marco Rubio is not Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
@marcorubio Point taken, but we just said you’re the ‘Republican savior.’
— TIME.com (@TIME) February 7, 2013
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Which is probably the most satisfying Tweet response we’ve seen since the Deadspin affair.
But the real winner here is still Marco Rubio, who successfully revived the ”savior” story for one more round in the news cycle and stirred his Christian fanbase into a circle-jerk over his temendous modesty. In addition to the traditional news coverage, his epic humble-brag has been retweeted 2,549 times in the past day, compared to fifteen retweets for Time.
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Barjack
February 8, 2013 at 10:54 am
Hey! I voted for Obama! Has somebody been gerrymandering these results?
Tracey
February 8, 2013 at 12:06 pm
I think Rubio's followers merely had a kneejerk reaction to the fact that Rubio knows that Jesus is the one and only savior. Unlike Obama, who is clearly a Muslim.
Lelly
February 8, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Hahaha! What a dumbass that Marco guy. Obama is too busy being an awesome President to give a sh*t about some magazine's cover. Please.
gloria barton
February 16, 2013 at 5:08 am
How anyone can say Obummr is an awesome president is clearly out of touch with reality. He is the worst and the demos cant stand it because we have a good, honest, sensible, man. your not much when your put in office by lies and fraud.