Castro has kicked the bucket...
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The day is coming when Cuba can finally rid themselves of the Castro's. Bout time he bit the dust. The man is almost single handedly responsible for destroying the Cuban middle class (which we graciously accepted and benefited from here in the US), creating an oppressive autocracy, and turning Cuba into a dump.
While every other country in the Western Hemisphere moved towards democracy, Cuba remained a one-party state under dictator Fidel Castro, who held power without free elections from 1959 until health problems forced him to step aside in 2006. Castro’s communist regime executed hundreds of political opponents and drove tens of thousands more into exile; hundreds of dissidents today languish in Cuban prisons. The U.S. State Department, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch all listed Castro’s Cuba as among the worst violators of human rights on the planet, while the Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the harassment and imprisonment of journalists.
Yet liberals in the U.S. media — who rightly condemned such abuses when perpetrated by dictators such as Chile’s Augusto Pinochet — inexplicably remain enchanted with Castro and his socialist revolution. For more than five decades, positive profiles of Castro have appeared in U.S. papers. Back on January 18, 1959, New York Timesreporter Herbert L. Matthews exulted in Castro’s seizure of Cuba: “Everybody here seems agreed that Dr. Castro is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to appear on the Latin-American scene. He is by any standards a man of destiny.”
For almost 30 years, the Media Research Center has documented the liberal media’s infatuation with Fidel Castro and Cuba’s communism. The most laudatory coverage of Castro and his communist revolution’s “achievements” have come when an American news network decides to visit Cuba for an in-depth examination. Invariably, the U.S. networks granted access to Cuba have rewarded the communist government with promotional coverage of both Fidel Castro and the supposed achievements of his revolution:
■ In February 1988, just weeks after the State Department named communist Cuba one of the worst human rights oppressors in the world, NBC’s Today program sent its cameras to the island to investigate. NBC’s conciliatory approach allowed Castro to spew lies about his drug connections and the wonderful achievements of the Cuban revolution. Anchor Maria Shriver gushed: “The level of public services was remarkable: free education, medicine and heavily subsidized housing,” while reporter Ed Rabel was equally promotional: “There is, in Cuba, government intrusion into everyone’s life, from the moment he is born until the day he dies. The reasoning is that the government wants to better the lives of its citizens and keep them from exploiting or hurting one another....On a sunny day in a park in the old city of Havana it is difficult to see anything that is sinister.”
■ In December 1988, CBS This Morning spent two days reporting from Cuba. CBS all but ignored the totalitarian nature of the Cuban regime, only alluding in passing to the human rights violations, the lack of civil liberties, and the disastrous economic condition brought on by the communist system. Co-host Kathleen Sullivan was enthusiastic about the benefits of Castro’s revolution: “Half of the Cuban population is under the age of 25, mostly Spanish speaking, and all have benefitted from Castro’s Cuba, where their health and their education are priorities.” In a second report, she touted Cuba’s socialized medicine: “Of all the promises made by Fidel Castro in 1959, perhaps the boldest was to provide quality health care free for every citizen. Did he deliver? In many ways the answer is yes!”
■ In April 1989, ABC anchor Peter Jennings went to Cuba and provided his own optimistic report card on Cuban communism: “Castro has delivered the most to those who had the least,” declared Jennings on the April 3 World News Tonight, “and for much of the Third World, Cuba is actually a model of development.” Jennings also fell for the state’s line on health care: “Medical care was once for the privileged few. Today it is available to every Cuban and it is free. Some of Cuba’s health care is world class. In heart disease, for example, in brain surgery. Health and education are the revolution’s great success stories.” Jennings concluded by repeating the words of a Cuban woman: “For me, he [Castro] is God. I love him very much.”
We could go on and on...
In the 36 hours and counting after Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s death, Democratic National Committee leaders and the DNC itself ignored Castro’s passing altogether.
Torn between its establishment wing — which cheered on Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign — and an increasingly frustrated socialist wing, the Democratic party took no official position on the death of a murderous tyrant who shamelessly trampled human rights in the name of socialism.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did offer a strong statement rebuking Castro. But the DNC, interim DNC chair Donna Brazile and the two men vying to replace her — Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison and former Gov. Howard Dean — all remained silent on the subject of Castro’s death. Socialist Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders initially stayed silent on Castro’s death, later saying would “not praise Fidel Castro” after being pressed by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz,
A DNC spokesperson did not return a request for statement on Castro’s death. The DNC’s silence stands in stark contrast to their RNC counterparts, who put out a statement showing support for “the millions of Cubans who have suffered under his repressive and murderous regime.”
Torn between its establishment wing — which cheered on Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign — and an increasingly frustrated socialist wing, the Democratic party took no official position on the death of a murderous tyrant who shamelessly trampled human rights in the name of socialism.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did offer a strong statement rebuking Castro. But the DNC, interim DNC chair Donna Brazile and the two men vying to replace her — Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison and former Gov. Howard Dean — all remained silent on the subject of Castro’s death. Socialist Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders initially stayed silent on Castro’s death, later saying would “not praise Fidel Castro” after being pressed by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz,
A DNC spokesperson did not return a request for statement on Castro’s death. The DNC’s silence stands in stark contrast to their RNC counterparts, who put out a statement showing support for “the millions of Cubans who have suffered under his repressive and murderous regime.”
This an excellent example of how both parties have gone to the extremes. You have the dem going extreme left and the GOP going extreme right with nobody looking after the more than 50 percent of the country that are moderate.
Nobody looking after?
Apparently the 50% is content to be apathetic and accept whatever shows up.
You said you were voting for $RC, right? So, you would be part of the ~50% as well, right?
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