Marco Rubio RESPONDS to media shaming after he confused photos of Elijah Cummings and John Lewis

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On Friday night, in the wake of the death of John Lewis, Marco Rubio mistakenly tweeted a photo of Elijah Cummings in his tribute to Lewis.

 
On Saturday, Rubio acknowledged his error and retweeted a photo of both he and John Lewis:

 
But that didn’t stop CNN’s Brian Stelter and the media from making a big deal about over the weekend:



 
Rubio responded this morning noting that the media themselves have done the same thing numerous times:

 
Rubio posted the following images in his tweet. He noted first that, after CNN’s Brian Stelter had criticized him over the weekend, that CNN had done the very same thing just last year:

 
He also tweeted images of CBS News making the same mistake and having to apologize for it:

 
Ted Cruz spoke up in defense Rubio this weekend, hitting back at Twitter for trying to shame him over the mistake:

That’s funny because he and Rubio look nothing alike. In the case of Cummings and Lewis, they looked quite similar and clearly others had made the same mistake.

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