An excellent editorial by Mike Gonzalez from the Heritage Foundation.
Castro Drops a Bombshell — Journalist Drops the Ball
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg recently went to Cuba at the bidding of that island’s dictator. The results weren’t pretty. The tone of the first two articles by our man in Havana makes clear that he was intent on presenting Fidel Castro as a charming old rogue, a bit of a cute killer.
Then, suddenly, news happened. The octogenarian reprobate had five seconds of lucidity and uttered to his shocked interviewer: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”
The death-bed confession came in response to Goldberg’s question on whether the Castro brothers (Fidel’s little brother, the 79-year-old Raul, is now playing president to Fidel’s dowager dictator) want to export revolution anymore.
But Goldberg seems to have been so mesmerized by “the great man” (his own description) that he failed to follow through. What were Castro’s answers to the stream of Goldberg’s follow-up questions? We don’t know; either the stream didn’t come or Goldberg didn’t want to clue us in on the answers.
H/T Pototo
I am so fed up with reporters like Goldberg shilling for castro. [sigh]
This whole Goldberg business is getting a little ridiculous. First off, the Old Tyrant is clearly slipping mentally, but even if he were lucid, when has he EVER been a straight shooter? When has he ever said anything except what suited him, no matter how false, absurd, or outrageous it might be? Hell, this shit has been going on for decades. How could anybody who’s been around at all be even remotely surprised? Is the media stupid or does it just like to act that way?