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.)
I’d like to see Elian escape Cuba and make it back to Miami.
Then maybe we could compare documentaries - the one with the truth of what happened versus the one produced by the propaganda ministry/fake news.
No, that wasn’t the uncle, it was Donato Dalrymple, the fisherman who had helped rescue the boy in the first place.
I am sure that Elian has lived a very good life in Castro’s Cuba, relative to life in Cuba. He is the masterpiece of Cuban Propaganda and is very valuable to the Castro regime. If he had been sent back there without all the public excitement it would be very different for him. He would be just a Cuban.
He’s been so thoroughly indoctrinated and brainwashed under the watchful eye of Fidel. Sadly, he’s now no different than your average College campus Stalinist Social Justice Warrior. The Clintons and Janet Reno were responsible for this atrocity, they killed the boy’s soul. The mother died for nothing trying to get her son to freedom. Horrible.
Yes he is, but then he is Cuban-American
Hope the flames in hell are turned up even hotter for Janet Reno.
That heartless corrupt bitch. Killing 78 Americans in Waco was not enough.
And Clinton held a presser the following morning after Elian was forcibly removed. When he walked away, he had the biggest smirk on his face==like he had pulled off another one.
Bastid.
Got it.
Re #10. If the president at the time had been a Republican, that photo would be the defining moment of his/her presidency.
Some freepers supported the kidnapping? Cause of “father’s rights” myopia? Idiots, no one in Cuba has rights.
As my FR page states under the picture I still have there
“Thug with a badge kidnaps a boy in the name of Marxism on orders from his lesbian mistress. This happened in America.
A lesbian socialist was in charge of men with guns and had an ugly goon with no genitalia or brain cells kidnap a boy and give him to Fidel Castro, seriously. That’s pretty effed up right?
“
Those swine who did the deed should all be doxxed and shunned like the gestapo they are.
Yup, the father’s rights was the line they always used. No matter how many times you explained to them that the father had Castro’s goons on him the entire time when he would be filmed by the complicit Stalinist American media, that they threatened both him and his grandparents in Cuba if they didn’t repeat the regurgitated talking points on returning the kid, or the single greatest key point: there is no “parental rights” in Cuba, as all children are designated property of the state under the Cuban Constitution, and the state was Fidel, they still refused to acknowledge reality.
Some idiot Congressmen like the one who ran for Governor of Oklahoma, Steve Largent, supported the Nazi stormtrooper kidnapping and forcible return to Cuba of the boy. I refused to endorse him when he did so. If he couldn’t see the inherent evil in this action (not to mention that Clintoon/Reno DEFIED a court that was in the process of hearing the boy’s pleas on behalf of his family here before the judge ruled on his status), he did not deserve to be in any position of authority. Thankfully he lost.
I never watch CNN;it’s not on my channel programming. Every day I see more & more reasons to not add it to the lineup.
Largent? Really? How unfortunate.
The “winner”, Brad Henry, sheltered those Rat State Reps from Texas who fled the state to avoid the dismantling of their congressional gerrymander. Phuqqing terrorists.
What’s the deal with Gary Richardson, the R turned I whom helped elected Henry by measly plurality? Wikipedia says he’s returned (never truly left?) to the GOP and is running for Governor again next year, sounds like a good platform, anti-tax, outgoing Governor Failin not doing well on that front.
Why would anyone watch the Commie News Network?
I know, but was trying to look on the bright side of it all, with hoping the liars would get their long overdue comeuppance, while hoisted on their love-of-all-things-dictator petards.
I do have to agree with you. I’ve heard Elian speak, proclaiming allegiance to Cuba and all that.
Although, after being terrorized at the hands of the clinton/reno regime, even with the threats to himself and his family .. maybe Cuba has seemed safe in comparison.
Not that I wanted Henry elected, but Largent simply was unacceptable. Sadly, he was coronated in the primary, he had no viable opponent. I can’t recall the reason why Richardson ran as an Independent. He’ll be 78 in 2019 at the start of his term, so I’m thinking that’s going to be a big mark against him (and being accused of helping Henry in 2002).
IIRC Elian’s grandparents were imprisoned by Castro once it became known of his escape. Dad was forced to cooperate.
Prior to the escape the father called his family in Florida and let them know what was planned.
A nun involved in the case at first was for Elian’s return then flip-flopped.
I remember reading that Elian wasn’t returned to his father but to a communist work farm/school.
I wonder if Elian did escape back to the US, would our gestapo left make sure he said nothing. They have so much crap invested in this child.
We know they would try. I’m afraid poor Elian never stood a chance after his mother died trying to save them both.
If they would just do their jobs honestly they would not have to blame Trump.
“. MSDNC also claimed that since he called them “fake news” viewers wouldn’t believe their warnings about Harvey.”
These twerps are getting silly!
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