Cuban Stalinism at 50--the Media Lies Continue

The American Thinker ^ | 1/1/09 | Humberto Fontova

[slickeroo]

Cuban Stalinism at 50--and the Media Lies Continue

By Humberto Fontova

"Cuban mothers let me assure you that I will solve all Cuba's problems without spilling a drop of blood." Upon entering Havana on January 7, 1959, Cuba's new leader Fidel Castro broadcast that promise into a phalanx of microphones. As the jubilant crowd erupted with joy, Castro continued. “Cuban mothers let me assure you that because of me you will never have to cry."

The following day, just below San Juan Hill in eastern Cuba, a bulldozer rumbled to a start, clanked into position, and started pushing dirt into a huge pit with blood pooling at the bottom from the still-twitching bodies of more than a hundred men and boys who'd been machine-gunned without trial on the Castro brothers' orders. Their wives and mothers wept hysterically from a nearby road.

On that very day, the U.K. Observer ran the following headline: "Mr Castro's bearded, youthful figure has become a symbol of Latin America's rejection of brutality and lying. Every sign is that he will reject personal rule and violence."

These two events perfectly symbolize the Castro/Cuba phenomenon, even half a century later. The Castro regime oppresses and kills while issuing a smokescreen of lies not merely devious but downright psychopathic. The worldwide media abandons all pretense as "investigators" or "watchdogs" and adopts a role, not merely as sycophants, but as advertising agency. As Cuba's Stalinist nomenklatura celebrates fifty years of repression and high living this week --from Time magazine to USA Today, and from the BBC to Der Spiegel to the very U.K. Observer (now the Guardian) -- the usual idiocies on Cuba are spouting forth their usual sources, but in much greater profusion..

[slickeroo]

That UK Observer was certainly spot on!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Good news for cigar smokers - 2009 is the year you’ll be able to finally get your Cuban cigars legally.

[Bulldawg Fan]

The media will go to any length to protect its chosen tyrants. Conversely, it will go to any length to destroy those it sees as threats to the hard core left wing visions they have for our country. Examples: Barack Hussien Obama and Sarah Palin. Truth doesnt matter for one second. Only accomplishing their goals.

[marktwain]

“The media will go to any length to protect its chosen tyrants. Conversely, it will go to any length to destroy those it sees as threats to the hard core left wing visions they have for our country. Examples: Barack Hussien Obama and Sarah Palin. Truth doesnt matter for one second. Only accomplishing their goals.”

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Exactly so. The cartelization of the MSM and its amazing uniformity of leftist philosophy is proving to be the biggest weakness of our Republic. Who would have thought that the internal enemies of freedom could have become so organized and powerful? How did it happen? Roosevelt's censorship during WWII and the FCC? Conquest of the control of Journalism schools and Academia by committed leftists? The fairness doctrine? Funding of America's internal enemies by the Soviet Union and Communist China?

I really don't know what of the above are significant or objectively true. Most likely is is a combination.

[backhoe]

 

[Right Wing Assault]

I will solve all Cuba's problems without spilling a drop of blood.

That is right! I will have others do the killing for me.