Jon Stewart –scammed by Castro agents (or was he?)

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“All I know about Cuba in the 1950s I learned from the Godfather II!” (Jon Stewart, July 23, 2008)

“Raul Castro isn’t even Fidel Castro. He’s like Cuba’s Jim Belushi — he’s good, but he ain’t John.” (Jon Stewart, Dec 16, 2013)

(BTW, Jon Stewart is widely hailed as the TOP “news” source for Americans under 40.)

“I LOVE this book!” Jon Stewart gushed upon greeting author TJ English who a few years ago was publicizing his book titled, How the Mob Owned Cuba, and Lost it to the Revolution on The Daily Show.

“This is the TRUE story of Cuba!” continued the Peabody award winner (for meritorious public service), barely containing himself. “A fascinating book!” hailed Stewart.

Unknown to “The smartest guy in the Comedy Central room,” Stewart, the primary source for English’s book, cited no fewer than 72 times in quotes and footnotes, is an intelligence apparatchik of Castro’s totalitarian regime named Enrique Cirules.

In fact, Senor Cirules is an official of Cuba’s “La Casa de las Americas” agency that publishes and promotes the Castro regime’s propaganda in books and articles under the guise of “art.” In 1983, a high-ranking Cuban intelligence officer named Jesus Perez Mendez defected to the U.S. and spilled his guts to the FBI. Among his spillings we encounter the following: “The Cuban DGI (Directorio General de Inteligencia, Castro’s KGB-trained Secret service) controls Casa de las Americas.”

“We were hoping to have Senor Perez-Mendes on tonight to contribute his views on the veracity of your book’s claims, Mr. English,” would have been a properly snarky Stewart introduction to English. “But were thwarted upon discovering that he lives under FBI protection for fear of being assassinated by the KGB-trained folks who hosted you in Cuba and collaborated with you in writing the book!”

Instead, minutes into the interview and in response to another Godfather-ite cliché by the smug TJ English, Stewart– this winner of the Television Critics Association award for “Outstanding Achievement in News and Information,”– gushed: “WOW! So the Mob actually built Cuba’s economy! So it was actually worse than shown in Godfather II!”

I know, I know, “the Mob-run pre-Castro Cuba” meme is so entrenched into the worldwide media/Hollywood/academia Cuba narrative that perhaps we shouldn’t single-out Jon Stewart as a Castro dupe when so many other Castro dupes parrot the same propaganda every time Cuba hits the news cycle.

In fact, gambling made up a tiny portion of pre-Castro Cuba’s GDP. In fact, in 1955 ONE gambling casino in Las Vegas featured more gambling action than ALL of Cuba.

Also interesting: In 1953, more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. than Americans vacationed in Cuba. How could the wretched and brutalized residents of that plundered and impoverished nation (as the Boston Globe, New York Times, Hollywood, NPR, Jon Stewart, etc. depict it), have possibly pulled that off?

In fact, during that horrible period for Cubans (as depicted by Godfather II and Jon Stewart), not only did most Cubans voluntarily remain in Cuba despite open doors both from Cuba and into the U.S.—but the island’s standard of living attracted immigrants from both Europe and the U.S.

All “heresies” above are thoroughly documented here.

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