Former Telemundo anchor María Celeste Arrarás openly lobbied to join Charlie Crist as his running mate in a cringe-inducing interview aired on Telemundo 51 Miami. But the interview fell flat when she infamously said that eating Cuban food embedded the suffering of the Cuban people into her DNA.
Watch Arrarás spew that cringe just days after First Lady Dr. Jill Biden compared Hispanics to tacos:
MARILYS LLANOS: Any Democratic candidate that emerges is associated with socialist policy
MARÍA CELESTE ARRARÁS: Yes- that is so unfortunate.
LLANOS: with left-wing politics
ARRARÁS: That is so- that is so unfortunate and is such an erroneous concept. Because I, on a personal level, have always been a Democrat. I don´t talk about this when I talk to journalists, but I´ve always been. I´ll say again – I´m very particular and very discreet with regard to that. But for someone to come up to me and say – Hey, you´re a Democrat, a socialist, a communist, I tell them: “Listen to me. How little you know me.” In other words, I´ve been married to a Cuban. I grew up with Cubans. I perfectly understand the Cuban idiosyncrasy. For years, I sat down at the table of my best friends´ homes so they could make for me the rice and beans with vaca frita, talking about what those people suffered in Cuba. I´ve got that ingrained into my DNA.
Most interesting, besides the cringe remarks over Cuban food, is Arrarás’ admission that she has always been a Democrat. This is no surprise to those of us who have had to cover Arrarás.
Prior to being fired from Telemundo, Arrarás was a frequent source of content for MRC Latino. Arrarás was best known for dropping editorials into random stories, lambasted Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in GOP presidential debates for not pandering to the Hispanic community on immigration, and throwing softballs to Hillary Clinton.
Now, Arrarás wants Floridians to forget she was elite liberal media, and gaslights them into thinking she’s one of them- albeit with tales of vaca frita that embedded the horrors of communism into her DNA.
But we remember.
Press on “Expand” to view the complete transcript of the interview as aired on Telemundo 51 Miami on Friday, July 15th, 2022:
MARILYS LLANOS: Her world has been full of cameras, lights, and action. And she describes herself as an objective journalist.
MARIA CELESTE ARRARÁS: I always try to be very objective. I always add fuel to whoever has a straw tail, as they say in Puerto Rico.
LLANOS: Now Maria Celeste Arrarás has seen her name included in a list of possible running mates if Democratic Congressman Charlie Crist wins the nomination this coming August.
ARRARÁS: I have good friends in common, they approached me to have breakfast with him, where he wanted to meet me as, no, we are not talking about any of this, simply how the Puerto Rican community is going, me as a journalist, how I see things. I mean, all those things, like you and I are talking now. Nothing to do with that, with a lieutenant governor, none of that. So, we talked and I think he was favorably impressed, number one with my passion, because you know that I am very direct and very passionate; and I say things as they are. Second, that I was very well versed in Florida issues, because obviously I'm a journalist, and I live here and I'm interested, uh, in what's going on in my state. So I think that happened, but he didn't tell me anything at the time. So, when the list came up, I was really surprised. They had subtly told me that that was something, that they were considering me, but I didn't care about it because it wasn't a formal conversation to the effect. So, when the list was shown, which I found out about it from you, I said, "Send it to me, send it to me," because that same day you saw it before I did. And, as I've said many times before, I have no agenda, I have nothing to hide. You are my friend, Telemundo has always been my home too.
LLANOS: The truth is that this does not surprise the journalist who revealed to me that she has previously been invited to enter the political arena.
ARRARÁS: Since I was on TV many years ago, I've been approached. They made me another very, very strong one a short time ago, which has nothing to do with this. And at that moment, um, I thought about it, but I didn't do it, I'm going to tell you why. Because sadly, our community, at least at that time, was still not active enough to register to vote, and then I, when I do my thing, whatever I do, whatever it is, in the industry, in the department, in whatever branch, I'm always going to do it to win. I'm not going to do it to hit the wall.
MARILYS LLANOS: Any Democratic candidate that emerges is associated with socialist policy
MARÍA CELESTE ARRARÁS: Yes- that is so unfortunate.
LLANOS: with left-wing politics
ARRARÁS: That is so- that is so unfortunate and is such an erroneous concept. Because I, on a personal level, have always been a Democrat. I don´t talk about this when I talk to journalists, but I´ve always been. I´ll say again – I´m very particular and very discreet with regard to that. But for someone to come up to me and say – Hey, you´re a Democrat, a socialist, a communist, I tell them: “Listen to me. How little you know me.” In other words, I´ve been married to a Cuban. I grew up with Cubans. I perfectly understand the Cuban idiosyncrasy. For years, I sat down at the table of my best friends´ homes so they could make for me the rice and beans with vaca frita, talking about what those people suffered in Cuba. I´ve got that ingrained into my DNA.
LLANOS: María Celeste Arrarás' next appearance could happen after August 23 and in case, if Democratic candidate Charlie Chris wins his party's nomination and chooses her as his running mate. But at this moment already, as a good journalist, María Celeste Arrarás has a political discourse. Back to you.
