Posted on 08/26/2017 5:31:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thursday night CNN (the first Fake News outlet bestowed a “press” bureau by Cuba’s totalitarian regime) ran a “documentary” on Elian Gonzalez.
You know that look on your pooch’s face when he promptly fetches a Frisbee, tail-waggingly returns it, and you’re massaging his face and neck while cooing: “GOOD-BOY!”
Well, please don’t take this personally, amigos: but (very briefly) picture your joy and gratification in the pooch-scene on the faces of Castroite apparatchiks-- and your quivering, slobbering, tail-wagging pooch as CNN.
CNN really outdid themselves this time. They satisfied every lust of their Cuban suitors, ignoring over 15 years of revelations that exposed the whole Elian drama as an elaborate (and yes, masterful) Castro/Fake News media production. No wonder Castro’s so popular in Hollywood. In tinseltown they recognize a skillful producer of yarns and fantasies.
Jack Benny had his Rochester. Louise Jefferson had her Florence. Scarlett had her Mammy. Marineland has its seals-- and Castro has his CNN.
Lest we forget: the entire Elian Gonzalez Fake News pageant was built atop the outrageous lie that Elian’s father Juan Miguel was a sincerely grief-stricken father who simply wanted his son back in Cuba. Any mention that this desire might have been “prompted” in any way by a Stalinist dictator who reigned as absolute ruler longer than Hitler and Stalin combined, who jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror and murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six—any mention of this totalitarian dictator’s possible intrusion into the matter was promptly denounced by liberals as typical: “RIGHT-WING CUBAN-AMERICAN REPUBLICAN HATE SPEECH!”<>Any mention that a totalitarian dictator that mandated (under penalty of prison or firing squad) what his subjects, read, said, earned, ate (both substance and amount) , where they lived, traveled or worked, who shattered — through mass-executions, mass-jailings, mass larceny and exile — virtually every family on the island of Cuba—any mention that such an absolute ruler might have somehow “persuaded” his subject to mime for the Fake News media of the time was promptly denounced by liberals as typical: “MIAMI CUBAN HARD-LINER PROPAGANDA!”
But in fact, the legs from this Fake News/Castro production were completely and conclusively kicked out by blockbuster revelations as early as 2005—and by an eye witness to the revolting backstage scenes. To wit:
On the April 6th 2000 edition of the historic Fake News vehicle 60 Minutes, America saw a bewildered and “heartsick” Juan Miguel Gonzalez “pleading” to be allowed to have his motherless son accompanies him back to Cuba, his cherished homeland. Fake News pioneer Dan Rather (who hailed Fidel Castro as “Cuba’s Elvis!”) was the one interviewing Elian’s “bereaved” father.
"Did you cry?" the pained and frowning Dan Rather asked the "bereaved" father during the 60 Minutes drama."A father never runs out of tears," Juan (actually, as we’ll see, the voice of Juan's drama school-trained translator) sniffled back to Dan. And the 60 Minutes prime-time audience could hardly contain their own sniffles.
Here's what America didn't see: "Juan Miguel Gonzalez was surrounded by Castro security agents the entire time he was in the studio with Rather." This is an eye-witness account from Pedro Porro, who served as Dan Rather's translator during the famous 60 Minutes interview. Dan Rather would ask the question in English into Porro's earpiece whereupon Porro would translate it into Spanish for Elian's heavily-guarded father.
"Juan Miguel was never completely alone," says Pedro Porro. "He never smiled. His eyes kept shifting back and forth. It was obvious to me that he was under heavy coercion. He was always surrounded by security agents from the Cuba Interest Section (i.e. Cuban embassy) in Washington D.C. When these agents left him alone for a few seconds, attorney Gregory Craig would hover over Juan Miguel.
"The questions Dan Rather was asking Elian's father during that 60 Minutes interview were being handed to him by attorney Gregory Craig," continues Pedro Porro. "It was obvious that Craig and Rather where on very friendly terms. They were joshing and bantering back and forth, as Juan Miguel sat there petrified. Craig was stage managing the whole thing - almost like a movie director. The taping would stop and he'd walk over to Dan, hand him a little slip of paper, say something into his ear. Then Rather would read the next question into my earpiece straight from the paper."
A reminder: officially (Bill Clinton and Dan Rather crony) Gregory Craig then served as attorney for Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who worked as a hotel doorman in a nation where the average monthly salary was $16. The high-rolling Gregory Craig worked for Washington D.C.'s elite firm, Williams & Connolly, one of America's highest-priced law firms.
Upon accepting the case at the Clinton administrations’ behest, Gregory Craig had flown to Cuba for a meeting with Fidel Castro. Craig's remuneration, we learned shortly after his return, came from a "voluntary fund" set up by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society and "administered" by the National Council of Churches. The same reporters and pundits, who routinely erupt with snide snorts midway through any statement by a Republican press secretary, reported this item with a straight face.
Gregory Craig had led the Juan Miguel/Cuban-Security entourage into the studio, then presided over the interview as a movie director. "At one point Craig stopped the taping almost like a movie director yelling, 'Cut!' I was confused for a moment, says Porro, "until Greg Craig complained that Juan Miguel's answers were not coming across from his translator with "sufficient emotion." "So Dan Rather shut everything down for a while and some of the crew drove to a drama school in New York. They hired a dramatic actor to act as a translator, and brought him back!"
Okay roll 'em!
"I probably should have walked out," says Porro. "But I'd been hired by CBS in good faith and I didn't know exactly how the interview would be edited -- how it would come across on the screen. I mighta known, but you never know how these things play out until you actually see it."
"Midway through watching that 60 minutes broadcast, I felt like throwing up," said Porro. "My stomach was in a knot." His worst fears were confirmed.
You will be astounded to hear that CNN –though they featured Gregory Craig at length in their “documentary”—somehow overlooked Pedro Porro.
(For the record: Pedro Porro’s blockbuster revelations were featured in Human Events, The Drudge Report, and the Rush Limbaugh Show upon the release of the book, Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant. AIM (Accuracy n Media) forwarded them to Gregory Craig, who denied them. AIM then set up an interview/debate with your humble servant and Craig. “Let’s RUMBLE!” I whooped while rubbing my hands… Alas, Gregory Craig stood us up--he wimped out. He was obviously afraid to face the music.)
actually, I was kind of glad they made that docu-lie. We can point to it when CNN complains next that families are being separated by deportation. Look CNN! The deportees are going back to their own relatives and their own president in their own country, isn’t that nice? Isn’t that very Elian? Deportations are humanitarian, right CNN?
Humberto Fontova is great on Cuba.
I had a long conversation with a Cuban Dr. in Haiti in about 2005. He told me lurid stories, one was about Elian Gonzalez who was brought into the clinic where he worked with two broken legs and severe cuts and bruises. The boy was devastated that he had been returned to Cuba and hated his vicious father, who had beaten him.
Obviously hearsay but it raises questions the MSM has never raised.
The “Communist News Network” never sleeps as they, like all liberal infested news outlets, seek to “educate” we Americans. I’m not buying any of their fake news crap, EVER!
Who can ever forget the photo of that brave America gestapo agent with his gun in the face of a small boy being ripped out of the arms of his Miami family to be returned to slavery. I hope that agent never closes his eyes that he doesnt see that screaming child.
The image that helped beat Gore in 2000.
We lost the boy, the battle and many good FReepers who I miss on this forum over this disaster.
The driver had his head covered. His face should be all over Trump’s twitter act.
"This is the moment I knew I'd be safe in Uncle Fidel's loving embrace" says Elian today.
And poor little Elian was made into a communist tool: sullen, angry, resentful, hopeless. He was robbed of the normal life his mother died to give him because we had a psychopath president who loves dictators.
I remember the way everything was carefully staged around Elian’s father. He was never out of sight of his handlers. The look on his face was bleak—he did not want to be in that situation.
An LA journolist threw a bottle at a police officer in Little Havana and tried to start a riot she could cover for the Times.
I am still sickened by the sad Elian saga.
I came to America, legally, when I was 5 and have been forever grateful.
I know Reagan would have saved Elian from Fidel’s clutches.
Bill Clinton and Janet Reno were as despotic as Fidel.
I read that Obama reversed the “dry land” policy for Cuban immigrants. Has that been “re-reversed” by Trump?
I am still sickened by the sad Elian saga.
I came to America, legally, when I was 5 and have been forever grateful.
I know Reagan would have saved Elian from Fidel’s clutches.
Bill Clinton and Janet Reno were as despotic as Fidel.
I read that Obama reversed the “dry land” policy for Cuban immigrants. Has that been “re-reversed” by Trump?
I couldn’t believe the idiocy of some so-called FReepers who defended returning this child to a gulag to be used as propaganda for Papa Fidel, who was charged under the new Cuban Constitution with being the OWNER of all children born in Cuba (and for that matter, all adults). Even when overwhelming evidence of this fact was presented, they still defended this horrible miscarriage of justice. Every one of them deserved to be ZOT’ted.
"On the April 6th 2000 edition of the historic Fake News vehicle 60 Minutes"
OK, it didn't copy, but noticed that "April 6th" got a Dan Rather "treatment". :)
Singlemost evil thing the Clinton regime did, even more so than Waco. At least Reno had the common courtesy to murder those children.
That picture of the Fedthug with the SMG pointed at the kid and uncle (?) is an enduring image of the Clinton administration.
And to think that the Witch almost became President...
(but... SHE LOST..........BWAHAHAHAHAH)
Maybe FNN can give Elian a show “The Atheist Prospective” their numbers couldn’t get worse and they’d have a clear field in recruiting in the atheist community.
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