Useful idiots at CNN
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It is a bit late in the day to be surprised by the views of our betters at CNN and elsewhere on Communist butchers such as Fidel Castro. Nevertheless, publicatiion of the memo by CNN producer Allison Flexner instructing CNN anchors how to treat the subject of Fidel Castro is a helpful reminder of how little they know and how superior they feel to their audience:
<<< From: Flexner, Allison
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:46 AM
To: *CNN Superdesk (TBS)
Cc: Neill, Morgan; Darlington, Shasta
Subject: Castro guidance
Some points on Castro - for adding to our anchor reads/reporting:
* Please say in our reporting that Castro stepped down in a letter he wrote to Granma (the communist party daily), as opposed to in a letter attributed to Fidel Castro. We have no reason to doubt he wrote his resignation letter, he has penned numerous articles over the past year and a half.
* Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba - namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.
* Also the Cuban government blames a lot of Cuba's economic problems on the US embargo, and while that has caused some difficulties, (far less so than the collapse of the Soviet Union) the bulk of Cuba's economic problems are due to Cuba's failed economic polices. Some analysts would say the US embargo was a benefit to Castro politically - something to blame problems on, by what the Cubans call "the imperialist," meddling in their affairs.
* While despised by some, he is seen as a revolutionary hero, especially with leftist in Latin America, for standing up to the United States.
Any questions, please call the international desk.
Allison >>>
The 49 years of Castro's rule was insufficient for Flexner to pick up the connection between "free" goods and a slave state, or the primitive state of Cuban health care. Flexner seems to have missed the CNN story on Castro's destination of choice for his own medical treatment. It's difficult to find reliable data on the state of racial relations in Cuba, and Flexner cites none, but she apparently also missed Eldridge Cleaver's comments on the state of race in Cuba after his sojourn there as a fugitive:
The white racist Cuban dictatorship is more insidious and
dangerous for black people than is the white racist regime
of South Africa, because no black person has illusions
about the intentions of the Afrikaners, but many black
people consider Fidel Castro to be a right-on white
brother. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mona Charen wrote the book on the likes of Allison Flexner.
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JOHN adds: Liberals never seem to note the obvious fact that in a slave society, you can make nearly anything "free." In fact, you just about have to, since the slaves have little or no money ($19 a month in Cuba, it was reported a couple of days ago). This describes a primitive economy, not a progressive one.
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