It’s so predictable, so utterly stupid, so puerile, and so, so infuriating.
The NYT’s condescending, snippy, and childish attempts to portray Cuban Americans as troglodytes are blatant displays of bigotry.
These vitriolic articles — as well as all of their biased pro-Castro pieces on Cuba — don’t qualify as “reporting.”
Lately, when they’re not publishing articles about the wonders of the “normalization” they advocated so persistently, Granma North has been taking pot shots at Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
Fortunately, their attempts to derail Rubio’s presidential campaign were so outrageously shameless that they were ridiculed, even by the likes of Jon Stewart.
Since writing about Marco Rubio’s life in the United States didn’t work too well for them, it seems that Granma North has now decided to denigrate Rube-ee-oh from a Cuban angle.
Their first offering is no different from the previous ones. In an article full of quotations from Cubans who love the Castro regime and fear any political change — the only kind of Cubans that exist, as far as the author is concerned — Marco Rubio is once again portrayed as a rube, and his parents as dumb, ungrateful Lateen-oh peasants and laborers who failed to appreciate the so-called Revolution.
In essence, the hit piece conflates the opinions expressed in Granma with those of the vast majority of the Cuban people.
The title of the article sums it all up: Cubans who live in Cuba really, really love their “Revolution” but Rubio the rube doesn’t know this and he’s actually very, very proud of his gross ignorance and his villainous role.
As fate — or Divine Providence — would have it, the responsorial psalm in this Sunday’s liturgy addressed the relationship between the New York Times and the Cuban exile community:
” Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt. We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.” (Psalm 123: 3-4)
Marco Rubio Is Hardly a Hero in Cuba. He Likes That.
by Jason Horowitz
In the lush countryside and teeming city neighborhoods where Senator Marco Rubio’s family cut sugar cane, toiled in tobacco mills and scraped by to make a better life for their children, the first Cuban-American to have a plausible chance to become president of the United States is the island’s least favorite son.
“If Marco Rubio becomes president, we’re done for,” said Héctor Montiel, 66, offering a vigorous thumbs-down as he sat on the Havana street where Mr. Rubio’s father grew up. “He’s against Cuba in every possible way. Hillary Clinton understands much more the case of Cuba. Rubio and these Republicans, they are still stuck in 1959.”
Resistance to Fidel Castro’s Communist government has served as the foundation of Mr. Rubio’s personal and political identity. A Florida Republican who has been identified in the state-controlled newspaper here as a “representative in the Senate of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia,” he has argued for years that normalized relations with the United States would only strengthen an oppressive Cuban government that impoverishes its people, limits access to information and violates human rights.
That did not change in the months leading up to Wednesday’s announcement that the United States and Cuba will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, a critical step in ending a devastating half-century embargo. Signs on the road here read “Blockade: The Worst Genocide in History,” punctuated with a noose.
As Mr. Rubio has intensified his opposition, Cubans have begun to view him as the most prominent of American hangmen.
“He wants to kill us!” Alain Marcelo, 46, said as he sat on a porch next to a grazing horse and a shack scrawled with yellow “Viva Fidel y Raúl” graffiti in Jicotea, the no-streetlight town where Mr. Rubio’s great-grandparents arrived from Spain to farm sugar cane in the late 19th century. “He’s our enemy!”
If you care to endure further ridicule from the ignorant, you can read the rest of this pile of ordure HERE. As an added bonus, you can also see many photos of the barbarous background of the Rubio clan.
Carlos, that psalm is too perfect to be a coincidence; thanks for sharing it. May God hear those Cubans who see themselves in it as if it had been written to describe their plight. As for the NYT, it is hardened in its iniquity and will not change its ways, let alone atone for it. It simply keeps churning out variants on the same theme, like a dog returning to its own vomit. Alas, it likes its vomit, and takes its stench for the finest perfume, or certainly expects the reading public to do so. It is perverse and malicious hubris, pure and simple, and ultimately it will be punished–not for our sake, but for the sake of righteousness.
Still, it remains astonishing how one Jason Horowitz, or any comparable “journalist,” could possibly generate (and flaunt) such presumptuousness and condescension as if it were the most normal, natural, reasonable thing in the world. It’s really a spectacular lack of self-awareness, assuming it’s even that “innocent.” If people who write this sort of thing are actually not conscious of what they’re doing, they might as well have been lobotomized. However, I expect this is not just about ignorance or cluelessness, but at least as much about hijeputez (SOB-ness). Lord have mercy.
So you think Cardinal Ortega, who called us “gusanera,” got the message when he heard that psalm at mass? I don’t.