“Castro has reason to be annoyed” by Republican candidates, says New York Times
Herbert Matthews rewarded for professional services
Fidel Castro, the retired Cuban leader whose 1959 takeover prompted the exodus of Cubans to South Florida:
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” he wrote in an opinion piece in state-owned news media.
Imagine folks whose education on the Cuban Revolution begins and ends with The Godfather II (95 per cent of Americans outside our ghetto) reading this..."Gosh the New york Times is right!...Why do those mean people in south Florida keep picking on that poor old man!....After all, he merely "prompted the exodus of Cubans to South Florida...and gosh, aren't people from those filthy countries down there ALWAYS trying to swarm into our country?...so what's the big deal?"
Hence, nary a hint by the New York Times regarding the policies that provoked that exodus.
Someone could write that Italian "leader" Benito Mussolini's takeover in Italy actually curtailed the exodus of Italian immigrants to the U.S. , that in fact one-third of the Italians who immigrated to the U.S. in the 20's and 30's voluntarily returned to (yes, Fascist) Italy and be technically correct....but something tells me it wouldn't go over well among the "enlightened."(i.e., those whose education of 20th century Italy relies on Federico Fellini.)
For the reason above, I've always claimed that denouncing Castro as a "Fascist" is terribly unfair to Mussolini.
Unreal
(Oye pero la verdad que a este Fontova le encanta JODER!!!...debe ser que esta de mal humor porque este fin de semana se acaban las hunting seasons
(H/T Media Research Center)
"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been." --- FIDEL CASTRO
... looks like he is auditioning to be the new MSNBC anchor
“He had reason to be annoyed.” Cubans, on the other hand, have no reason to be “annoyed” with the New York Times. None whatsoever. What would they know, anyhow, even if it is (or was) their own country? Just wayward, inferior third-world people who need a (very) firm hand and are much better off having everything decided for them. Needless to say, the New York Times would know far better than they possibly could as to what’s best for Cuba.
Well, Humberto, I think you’re wrong. At this stage, the NYT is so far beneath contempt that it is unseemly and undignified for any self-respecting Cuban to lower himself to acknowledging it as legitimate. It is simply a smug, arrogant, presumptuous and perverse entity with a particular agenda. It has neither shame nor credibility, especially concerning Cuba, and we should simply reject it and dismiss it out of hand. No matter what its delusions or pretensions might be, it is not Cuban or Cuba, and we ARE.
And by the way, the photo caption is inaccurate. Matthews was rewarded for services rendered, but they were hardly those of a truly professional journalist. He was far more of an infatuated, juvenile, credulous and adoring Castro groupie, a fan magazine version of the abominable Walter Duranty.