Message to MSM on Cuba: Check the facts!
While reporting on Cuba has usually been misleading and favorable to the regime, ignoring easily obtainable, publicly known facts reaches a new level of sloppy reporting. Either that or these reporters’ loyalties unabashedly lie with the regime.
Recently, the Seattle Times erred in an editorial about the embargo, stating:
SEN. Maria Cantwell calls our attention to a law, signed by President Obama, allowing Cuba to buy U.S. farm produce and pay after the goods are shipped. The law reverses a Treasury ruling during the Bush years that Cuba had to pay in advance — a ruling that stopped the trade altogether.
Our own wonderful Humberto Fontova corrected the fools with his usual enthusiasm for truth:
$720 million just last year in U.S. exports to Cuba! We're Cuba's BIGGEST food supplier for almost a decade!...and YET..?! ...And YET the editorial staff of an eminently prestigious big-city newspaper was incapable of the ONE Google search that now makes COMPLETE JACKASSES of them ALL!!!
Now AP publishes the following groping statement in reference to Havana’s motives in an article about the American detained in Cuba:
“As the case has dragged on, speculation has grown that Cuba might want to use him as leverage to highlight the case of five Cuban intelligence agents who are serving long prison sentences in the United States for infiltrating anti-Castro groups Havana says were behind a 1990s bombing campaign against hotels on the island.”
It took less than a minute to access the following facts of the case:
In September 1998, 10 members of the Wasp Network, including the “Cuban Five,” were arrested and accused of crimes under U.S. law in connection with their covert activity in the United States in the service of Cuba’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI). Five of the accused pleaded guilty, while the “Cuban Five” fought the charges. Two of the three “illegal officers” and one U.S.-based agent (Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero and the man claiming to be Ramon Labaniño) were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage against the United States. One of the “illegal officers” (Gerardo Hernandez) was convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder based on his role in the February 24, 1996, shoot-down of two unarmed civilian aircraft in international airspace by Cuban Air Force jet fighters, which resulted in the deaths of four people, three of them U.S. citizens. All of the “Cuban Five” were convicted of conspiracy to act in the United States as agents of a foreign government without notification to the attorney general, and to defraud the United States.
Get that AP, the five were legally arrested, tried, and convicted in accordance with US law with all due process, not arbitrarily imprisoned by the US government for “infiltrating” anti-Castro groups, and while you’re at it how about investigating the horrific human rights abuses in Cuba, and the hundreds if not thousands of Cuban political prisoners illegally rotting in Cuba’s hellhole gulag.
Corre la bola | 
Si Martin-Perez and Posada-Carriles son "terroristas" me ponen en la lista!
Humberto Fontova
Humberto amigo, cómo se dice..yo también con gran orgullo?
Nice suggestion which presupposes the marxstream media respects the truth.
It doesn't. It never lets facts muddy up its late 19th century eastern euro-socialist fantasies which it pimps off as 'news'.
And cagasstro is one of the last living heroes of the 'Stuck-in-the-30s and 60s' marxstream media, so the pressniks will always suck up to this mass butcher.
Which in many ways isn't all bad in that those of us who want to read the truth logically presented read Humberto Fontova on babalublog, along with other fine sites such as KillCastro.com, TheRealCuba, AmericanThinker, and Newsbusters.
We don't flop on the couch and let The Ministry of Lies, ABC/CBS/NBC/Ted Fonda's Communist News Network & MS-LSD, dry clean our minds and dye them red.
As friend of President Reagan and hollywood actor from another era, Gary Cooper, told a horrified interviewer:
"I don't like communism because it's not on the level."
Simple. Succinct. Straightforward.
Communism's not on the level. Can't trust it or those who pimp it.
On the level. Something the marxstream press will never be even if it wanted to.
And it never wanted to be on the level as it's comprised of inter-generational congenital communists.
And at along last, many Americans seeing the media with increasingly clarity.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
10 January, 2010
Humberto, just out of curiosity, did you contact the jerks at the newspaper and point out the mistakes? If so, what was their reaction? That alone should be intersting reading.
[I hope George Moneo and Val don't start insulting me for just asking this question]
Regarding Gary Cooper, who was mentioned up above ...
"Two years later Cooper testified as a "friendly" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was investigating Communism in the film industry. He vaguely described Communist infiltration at social gatherings and story conferences while demonstrating his total ignorance of Karl Marx. "From what I hear, I don't like it [Communism] because it isn't on the level," he said."
It's ironic Cooper said what he did just where and when he did, because of course many good Americans had their lives and careers ruined because of the HUAC and associated red scare activities. Much of which was not 'on the level'.
Spygirl, that was an excellent question.
Buzz, I for one am glad there were some with enough integrity and balls to call the commies in Hollywood out. They'd been Stalin lovers since the thirties. Would that we did it today.
Sure, but you can't ignore the fact that a lot of non-commies were also falsely charged and ruined, and what went on then was ironically not at all 'on the level'.
More irony. Gary Cooper's next movie success came at the hands of one of the commies he was denouncing. So Cooper was willing enough to pal around with them when it was convenient for him to do so.
"Ironically, in the years after his HUAC testimony, Cooper's greatest critical success came with a film scripted by Carl Foreman, a writer accused of Communist biases. In High Noon (1952), a western, Cooper played Will Kane, a retiring town marshal. On his wedding day Kane has to defend himself against an old nemesis - arriving on the midday train - who intends to kill him. As noon approaches, both the townspeople he has served and his bride desert him. Cooper masterfully played the tortured marshal, whom he admiringly identified with his father. His physical maladies and weariness, which so hampered his later performances, worked to his advantage in High Noon. So did close editing, skillful direction, and an evocative musical score. The film brought Cooper a second Academy Award for best actor."
So what. We pal around with you on this blog and you're a pinko...