Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

night follows day, the sun rises in the east, water is wet and Cuba’s leader tells another whopper:
As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever […]

It sure looks that way after finding out, via The Natural Truth, the “news” agency sent its on-air staffers an e-mail yesterday with the following talking points on the “Castro resigns” story (my comments in parentheses):
-Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education (you mean indoctrination) and universal(ly awful) […]

File this one in the “a half century late, a few billion dollars, thousands executed and imprisoned and millions of Cubans tormented short” category: Fidel Castro has resigned as dictator of Cuba:
An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term […]

So Spain made the grand announcement that Cuba is releasing seven political prisoners, and the MSM rejoices and makes Raul sound like the second coming of Ghandi:
Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said reflects a “climate of change” under his brother’s […]

…but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Cuba rejects “the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there (Guantanamo) without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees and in which they are convicted in advance,” (Castro’s Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque) told reporters, without directly referring to the case […]

Only in Castro’s Cuba would this kind of BS pass for normal:
A Cuban student who appeared in a video last week grilling a top Cuban official is denying reports that he was arrested afterward, and maintains that his questions were aimed only at bettering socialism.
In the video CNN obtained and aired last week, […]

Just when I thought I’d heard it all, comes this MSM fawnfest for Castro:
Fidel Castro looked frail but alert and even playful in a series of official photographs taken during a meeting with Brazil’s president on Tuesday, the first images of the ailing Cuban leader released in about three months.
Playful?!?!? Fidel Castro PLAYFUL?!?!? […]

against Luis Posada Carriles, Salon.com publishes a hit-piece that makes it sound as though Miami is awash in terrorists.
In Greater Miami, home to the majority of the nation’s 1.5 million Cuban-Americans, the presence of what could credibly be described as a terrorist training camp has become an accepted norm during the half-century of […]

It’s not enough that stupor-model-turned-useful-idiot Naomi Campbell interviewed Hugo Chavez. Now she wants to interview Fidel Castro:
Having interviewed Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for GQ magazine, supermodel-turned-journalist Naomi Campbell is now making her best efforts to land one-to-one talks with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Better hurry, Naomi. Fidel is […]

Well, in a hypothetical post by Henry Gomez of Babalu Blog, anyway, the Useless Nations and the media are called to account for their tacit–and in some cases, wide open–support of Castro’s regime. Here’s a choice snippet:
But this body is not just guilty of inaction when confronted with deplorable crimes. Sadly it’s much […]