WaPo does another hit piece, this time on Rubio

UPDATE: A little scrubbin's goin' on over at WaPo.  
  In another hit piece akin to the infamous Rick Perry racist rock hit piece, the Washington Post is after Marco Rubio today, probably because he's such a threat to establishment liberals and RINOs.
  Does the title give you a clue? 

Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show

  So what did the Post writer do? 

  Go back and examine carefully Barack Obama's family records, birth certificate, social security number, academic records and grades non presidential candidate Rubio's family's timeline of having left Cuba.

  Just when DID Rubio's parents leave Cuba? Did they leave BEFORE Castro arrived on the scene? Shouldn't Marco Rubio have known that they weren't actually LIVING on the island when Castro was there, even though he was born FIFTEEN years after they left?

But a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than 2¹ / ₂ years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year’s Day 1959.

  Instead of a fairy tale escape from Cuba to freedom and liberty of the States, the WaPo makes clear that Rubio's parents were just the usual immigrants pursuing the American Dream and success, just a "conventional immigrant narrative," which wouldn't be very conventional if YOU were the immigrant.

The real story of his parents’ migration appears to be a more conventional immigrant narrative, a couple who came to the United States seeking a better life. In the year they arrived in Florida, the future Marxist dictator was in Mexico plotting a quixotic return to Cuba.

  That Rubio's parents left the supposedly idyllic Cuba in 1956 or 7 shouldn't make much difference to the tale if one looks at the history of Cuba. Does the WaPo think nothing was going on prior to Castro's taking control?
  Nothing like the violent crimes committed by Che Guevara?
From Wikipedia, we see that Cuba was a place of turmoil and crime in the six years before Castro came to power:

The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s regime by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a newCuban government led by Fidel Castro in 1959. It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on February 1, 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively.

  In fact, the years in question when Rubio's parents left included the following, again from Wikipedia:

1956

• 1956 November 25 Fidel Castro, with some 80 insurgents including Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos set sail from Mexico for Cuba on the yachtGranma.

• 1956 December 2 Granma lands in Oriente Province.

[edit]1957

• 1957 January 17, Castro's guerrillas score their first success by sacking an army outpost on the south coast, and started gaining followers in both Cuba and abroad.

• 1957 March 13, University students mount an unsuccessful attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.

• 1957 May 28, Castro's 26 July movement overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.

• 1957 July 30 Cuban revolutionary Frank País is killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by police while campaigning for the overthrow of Batista government.

  How many people would want to stay on Cuba in circumstances like this?
  The WaPo uses this excuse for writing such a defamatory article with so little substance:

The parents’ naturalization papers have begun to circulate on the Internet as part of a “birther” controversy related to Rubio’s eligibility for future presidential tickets. The controversy, which was reported this week in the St. Petersburg Times, has been compared to the frenzy surrounding President Obama’s birthplace, but in reality it bears a closer resemblance to the fight over Sen. John McCain’s eligibility in the 2008 election. 

  The author quotes Rubio as declaring his love for this country and limited government and then concludes with this in a speech:

Then he pivoted to the theme that had served him so well. “And I think that the direction we’re going in Washington, D.C., would make us more like the rest of the world, and not like the exceptional nation that my parents found when they came here from Cuba in 1959, and the nation they worked in so hard so that I could inherit.”

  Apparently that shocking date of 1959 instead of 1956 is enough to write a 3 page "expose" in the WaPo these days.
  We should be accustomed to it by now but such blatantly intentionally partisan bigotry always takes the breath away. That the press is so eager to surrender its mantle of accuracy and its essential role as the fourth estate is disappointing and frightening. Thank God for the internet.
  It'd be nice if the press would have given AT ANY TIME Barack Obama the same anal exam they give people who believe differently than they do.
  The writer Manuel Roig-Franzia has a history of biased reporting.