Al Jazeera Enraged By Cuban-American Voters

Al Jazeera, eager for greater international coverage and cachet, recently launched an International Division.

To get things off right they recruited heavily from CNN and The BBC. CNN's former Havana Bureau chief Lucia Newman is noteworthy among these job-jumpers. "In Cuba we will be given total freedom to do what we want and to work without any censorship," she stressed upon accepting the CNN assignment in 1997.

Among her "scoops" from Havana: "No dubious campaign spending here. No mud slinging — a system President Castro boasts is the most democratic and cleanest in the world.” Newman reported all this without a hint of tongue in cheek.

To report on U.S. political matters this fresh Al Jazeera division recently launched a news magazine inventively titled, Frontline. Besides the familiar name it's obvious they did their homework on familiar mainstream media themes. So to keep things on track towards their coveted Mainstream Media status, this Al Jazeera division recently ran a show guaranteed to rocket them in this direction with all afterburners blazing: they bashed Cuban-Americans, especially their insufferable habit of voting overwhelmingly Republican.

Florida holds 27 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. New Jersey holds 15 electoral votes, and the largest Cuban-American community after Florida.

So 16 percent of the 270 electoral votes could depend on a candidates' professed policy towards Stalinist Cuba. Since an enormous percentage of Americans of Cuban heritage actually go to their precincts and vote, their normal voting habits greatly discomfit Democratic honchos and their MSM cronies. Any rumor of a Democratic shift in that pattern is eagerly pounced upon and trumpeted to high heavens by the same parties.

Al Jazeera has learned much since their days of basically handing over their cameras and mics to Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their bodyguards. The Frontline show was not clumsy and showed the influence of that recent infusion of "respectable" journalistic blood. With one eye on the American audience they were careful to append an "optimistic" theme to the show.

All is not lost, implied the Al Jazeera host, Avi Lewis (recently of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) from location in Miami. These Cuban-American blockheads are not completely beyond redemption, he hinted. Evidence is emerging that many of these boors are finally inching their way towards international and Beltway respectability, by shifting Democratic.

Al Jazeera even managed to scrounge up some Democratic Cuban-Americans, both as oracles for this splendid turn of electoral events and as poster-boys for this political marvel. Watching the show, you waited for Avi Lewis to pat them on the head and hand them a doggie treat.

What fun a proud and genuine spokesperson for the Cuban-American community might have had with Avi Lewis. "You Cubans have disproportionate influence . . . much more power than your numbers would indicate," baited Lewis. "How does such a small community get so much power. Is that democracy?" smirked Lewis.

It was painful for proud Cuban-Americans to watch these "spokesmen" whimpering platitudes and semi-apologizing that these voting patterns "were shifting more Democrat-wise. Blah, blah." A better reply comes to mind: Being lectured on democracy by an Al Jazeera employee amuses us, Mr Lewis. We all know the Emir of Qatar pays your salary, Lewis. Why not ask him this: "you mounted a coup against your father (the former unelected premier) while he was vacationing in Switzerland, jumped into his unelected throne, then banned presidential elections for the next 15 years. Yet, on top of acting as Al Jazeera's inexhaustible ATM machine, you rule as both Qatar's head of state and head of government. Is that democracy, your most Royal Eminence, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani?"

"The international community perceives a double standard," Avis Lewis also sneered at his docile democratic Cuban- American guests. "Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles are accused of terrorism yet these guys are heroes in this community?"

More apologetic platitudes mumbled forth, more whimpering about "most Cuba-Americans not supporting these men . . . blah, blah." A much better reply: Being lectured on terrorism by Al Jazeera convulses our midriff, Mr Lewis, so please excuse us for a minute till we regain our breath, sir. OK, OK(wiping tears and drool). I realize there's nothing at all amusing about terrorism, Mr Lewis, I'm merely reacting to this incongruous setting. OK. I've finally composed myself. Al Jazeera routinely refers to Palestinian suicide bombers, who have murdered multiple times the number of innocent women and children as (the twice acquitted) Posada Carriles is even accused of in Fidel Castro's most hysterical tirades, as "martyrs."

Also, Mr. Avi Lewis, a chap named Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, bills himself as "the spiritual leader and senior religious advisor of Al Jazeera." He also hosts one of your networks most popular shows, "Islamic Law and Life."

Among his ravings: "I support the resistance and the Jihad! I support Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah! Oh God, destroy the Zionist, the American, and the British aggressors! Oh God, shake the ground under them! On Judgement Day everything will be on our side and against Jews at that time, even the stones and the trees will speak, with or without words, and say: 'Oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there's a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'

"Furthermore, Mr. Avi Lewis, Accuracy In Media, has video of Al Jazeera's managing director, Mohammed Jassem Al-Ali, meeting with Saddam Hussein's son, (the mass-murdering/rapist Uday) while declaring: "My mission at Al Jazeera is to serve (Saddam's) Iraq, the country that has had so much to do with the success of the station.

"You mention the anti-Castro Cubans Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, Mr Avi Lewis. The Emir of Qatar, sees to it that Al Jazeera's financial coffers always overflow. It would not require a tremendous amount of expense or research on the part of your production staff to discover that both Bosch and Posada, though accused of crimes by a regime originally founded and mentored by Soviet KGB and GRU agents with heavy roles in Stalin's purges and showtrials, have been acquitted by courts of law in non-Stalinist nations. On the other hand, we note that Al Jazeera's former bureau chief in Kabul, Tyseer Alouni, is serving a ten year sentence for terrorism as an agent of Al Qaeda. He was recently found guilty by a Spanish court of complicity in subway bombings in Madrid that killed and injured thousands."

"Mr. Lewis? Mr Lewis? We came a long way and rescheduled our morning and had hoped this interview would be longer . . . Mr. Lewis?...."

And for the record: that "voting shift from Democratic to Republican" by Americans of Cuban heritage is an old and scratchy tune by now--and with no more veracity than the (admittedly soothing to Democratic ears) lyrics to The Age of Aquarius. Intrepid blogger Henry Gomez (at Babalu Blog) recently posted the figures, the polls, and the graphs on Cuban-American voting habits and party affiliation. (no more than 17 percent are registered Democrats and the pattern holds rigidly.) Babalu should put up a warning to Democratic campaign honchos and their Mainstream Media cronies: "Viewer discretion is advised; the following information, especially In view of the crucial voting districts represented, contains implications that may be shocking and gruesone — to Democrats."

Humberto Fontova is the author of "Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him." Visit www.hfontova.com

Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi

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I ALMOST thought that said sheik yourself al-quablewi.

I’ve always said that Cubans and white southerners (and I am neither) are the only people it is politically correct to bash. I remember some dumb radio show when I lived in SoFla used to incessently bash Cubans, but not a WORD about blacks and Jews (two other large ethnic groups in the area).

5 posted on 03/13/2008 9:37:38 AM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)

6 posted on 03/13/2008 9:37:40 AM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))

Like Cuban American’s care what Al Jazeera is enraged about today, tomorrow they will be enraged about something else.

7 posted on 03/13/2008 9:37:53 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Vote Obama! And we'll be picking shrapnel out of our butts for decades!)

I think majority of Cubans here in States have personal experience with enraged ideologues. It does not look like Al-Jazeera is adding anything fresh. The same totalitarian stench. Well, with islamic enhancer to it, but still...

I am a proud CubanAmerican born here in Miami.(SouthBeach)
And I was in total confusion on why my Local Republican Party was voting for McCain?(I went w/Romney)Then I Found out a little secret,McCain was Tortured for years by Cuban(Soviet Trained)Special Agents,and a Bright Lightbulb went off in my head.We have a large diverse Latin population,and we are constantly Debating (argentines,venezualans,etc.etc)Colombians are the only ones who agree with us.We were the First ones who warned 5yrs ago about HugoChavez nobody believed us.

10 posted on 03/13/2008 10:00:55 AM PDT by CarryingOn (Spread the message every day, like your life depended on it.)

"In Cuba we will be given total freedom to do what we want and to work without any censorship," she stressed upon accepting the CNN assignment in 1997.

Either she is incredibly stupid or dangerously being given a pulpit..

"I ALMOST thought that said sheik yourself al-quablewi."

Your very funny comment reminded me of this Japanese (Engrish) sign:

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