Marco Rubio Forced To Clarify That He Is Not Giving Away Free Cellphones

Lots going on up at Capitol Hill which is kind of not the ideal environment for a bunch of right-wing blogs to start dredging up nonsense over a sinister plan to give away free cellphones, mirroring the ancient election year grievance over "Obamaphones," but that's what's happened. And now, the office of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has had to take the time to clarify that this is not happening. Rubio's office has now had to put out a clarification responding directly to these stories, in which they make it clear that the point of the legislative language is to address infrastructural weaknesses that undermine border security efforts