Oops! Posted on 12/23/2009 5:35:42 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Oops!
It seems that the Seattle Times couldn't be bothered to do even a bit of simple research. If they had, they might have spared themselves from publishing an editorial that got the facts about American trade with Cuba completely wrong:
SEN. Maria Cantwell calls our attention to a law, signed by President Obama, allowing Cuba to buy U.S. farm produce and pay after the goods are shipped. The law reverses a Treasury ruling during the Bush years that Cuba had to pay in advance — a ruling that stopped the trade altogether.
As Humberto Fontova of the Babalu Blog colorfully pointed out:
$720 million just last year in U.S. exports to Cuba! We're Cuba's BIGGEST food supplier for almost a decade!...and YET..?!
...And YET the editorial staff of an eminently prestigious big-city newspaper was incapable of the ONE Google search that now makes COMPLETE JACKASSES of them ALL!!!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
Funny, but none of their readers’ responses points out this inaccuracy.
Oh the shock!
A leftist paper in a leftist state using leftish propaganda praising Cuba... Goes with the Russian made Statue of Lenin in the Freemont District of Seattle.
One step closer to giving the deadbeat CubComs access to the credit markets (which is the lefties goal). I thought imports were bad for the country (according to the lefties).
A major point to be made is if you allow Cuba to buy US farm products on credit who would be stupid enough to extend credit to Cuba?
Oh, sorry, I forgot; Obama that’s who.
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