Somebody Wake Me Up

Last night on CNN I saw something that is rarely seen on mainstream TV: fidel castro and his regime getting smacked right in the face.
OK, so it was CNN Headline News…but it was on the Glenn Beck show which is one of the top rated news/current events shows on prime time. Beck opened the show by railing against Michael Moore and his upcoming movie “Sicko”, and pointed out the obvious hypocrisy, contradictions and falsehoods of Fat Mikey’s praise of Cuban healthcare.
You all know about Cuba’s vaunted healthcare, right? 😉
It got better. Beck followed his rant with an interview with conservative talk host Michael Medved. Medved proceeded to take Beck’s comments a step further, calling castro a “brutal dictator” and a “thug”, and saying that fidel personally killed 14,000 people (I don’t know where he got those numbers from, but we get the point). Medved didn’t let Hollywood off the hook, either. He blasted Hollywood’s fidel and che-worship cult and mentioned Steven Spielberg’s “the most important eight hours of my life” comment after visiting with fidel.
It was a thing of beauty. It took a conservative to bring it to light on mainstream prime time TV, but we’ve learned long ago not to rely on the major networks or conventional CNN programs to shed light on the real situation in Cuba. It also took Fat Boy to provide the impetus for the story to come out, but hey, as they say: “give them rope”.
I don’t know if our blogburst two days ago had a major impact on Beck’s show, but if it made it into the hands of the Schnitt Show, then why not Beck?