Mainstream Media Distort Castro's Record

Newsmax ^ | 1/5/09 | Humberto Fontova

[slickeroo]

Mainstream Media Distort Castro's Record

Monday, January 5, 2009 3:12 PM

By: Humberto Fontova

The Castro revolution's “achievements” have been much in the mainstream news lately. You will search these stories in vain for any mention of mass murder and jailings or torture — on the part of the Castros, that is.

This type of "reporting" brings to mind a famous observation by Winston Churchill: "Truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people."

Yet mass-repression started on day one of the Castroite triumph and kicked into highest gear in the mid '60s, precisely at the apex of the Castro/Che popularity with Western politicians, celebrities, and “intellectuals.”

Throught the '60s and early '70s Castro firing squads were piling up thousands of corpses a year — it was at that very time that Western college kids like Christopher Hitchens, Bernardine Dohrn and the Venceremos Brigadistas made a fetish of flocking to Castroland to help with sugarcane harvests and worship at the altar of the maximum leader (among other activities in the case of Dohrn).

In similar fashion, Stalin and Mao got the loudest cheers and the most panties thrown on their stage precisely at the height of their butchery of millions.

The identical pattern characterized adulation for the Soviet Union and Red China by Western scoundrels.

[slickeroo]

And some claim the MSM is biased?????????????

[yarddog]

When I was ten years old, the only thing I knew about Castro was what I saw on the news. It was 1957 or 56 and I wanted to take my .22 rifle and join his revolution.

I did notice some extremist organization called “The John Birch Society” said he was a Communist. All the media said he wasn’t. I asked my Father about the organization and he said he didn’t know much about the JBS but the man it was named after was a great man.

As it turned out the mainstream media were wrong, either that or more likely were lying about Castro and that extremist group was right.

[yarddog]

I forgot to mention that my older Sister while between semesters at FSU, worked as a clerk typist at Hurlburt Field which at the time was part of Eglin Field. She was working with a large number of Cubans who were working to overthrow Castro. She even dated one until my Mother made her quit. Many of them had been severely tortured by Castro and all had lots or horror stories to tell.

Of course the main stream media told just the opposite for the most part. There were a few reports which were accurate but the vast majority were simply pro Castro propaganda.