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# Marco Rubio Slams Obama's Art History Apology
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/as-twitter-turns-marco-rubio-slams-obamas-art-history-apology/
- Published: 2014-02-19T19:48:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:52.000Z
- Description: There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what's popular, but what's Right, what's True.
- Author: Mostafa Heddaya
- Tags: Opinion, Barack Obama, Twitter, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![rubio_main](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/02/rubio_main.png)

(screenshot via Marco Rubio on Twitter)

There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what’s popular, but what’s Right, what’s True. Earlier today, Marco Rubio [posted](https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/436153864627429376?ref=hyperallergic.com) the above message on Twitter.com, a website where coastal elites make fun of America and abet their corrupt mainstream media cronies. Rubio, a Republican Senator from Florida, is among the few in a courageous homestead of truth-makers, the little [#TCOT](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tcot&src=hash&ref=hyperallergic.com) TweetDeck on the Prairie, who take to the platform to vent their righteous rage at President Barack Obama, a very bad man. And so this morning, after calling [Obama’s recent apology to an art historian ](https://hyperallergic.com/presidents-obama-pens-personal-apology-to-an-art-historian/)“pathetic,” Rubio bravely added: “We do need more degrees that lead to [#jobs](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jobs&src=hash&ref=hyperallergic.com) via [@POLITICO](https://twitter.com/politico?ref=hyperallergic.com) for iOS.”

Though Rubio, Esq. — having received his J.D. at the University of Miami — can [never earn the privilege](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/ted-cruz-minor-ivies-harvard-law-elitist.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) of Ted “Fancy” Cruz’s scholarly companionship, he clearly knows his Greek. In this remarkable moment of Twitterary analysis, Rubio identifies that Barack Obama’s conciliatory note to Professor Ann Collins Johns evinces a great deal of *pathos*, a soothing appeal to emotion that neatly occupies one third of the triad of persuasion identified by Aristotle in [*On Rhetoric*](http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.1.i.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.* 

Either that, or just another day in the political hype cycle, with the discipline of art history hanging in the balance.