Last week, the New York Times ran a curious exposé detailing Senator Marco Rubio’s “financial struggles.” For many, Rubio’s career is the embodiment of the American Dream. The son of a bartender and a maid, Rubio took on $150,000 in debt to attend college and law school, eventually becoming a U.S. Senator from Florida. Yet the Left’s paper of record felt compelled to highlight (not-so-subtly) that, unlike Mitt Romney, Rubio is not a member of the one percent — and that’s why he shouldn’t be president.

In a laughable episode of either journalistic negligence or hyperbole, the Times described how the senator purchased an $80,000 “luxury speedboat” after receiving an $800,000 advance for his book. A simple Google image search would have revealed that it was merely a fishing boat. A nice piece of machinery for sure, but nothing the Times staff would be seen on during their weekends in Montauk.