“Dashing revolutionary” retires
The tyrant Fidel Castro, called by Diane Sawyer a “dashing revolutionary,” retired today. Here’s a bit of AP’s attempt at even handed treatment of the event:
Castro’s supporters admired his ability to provide a high level of health care and education for citizens while remaining fully independent of the United States. But his detractors called him a dictator whose totalitarian government systematically denied individual freedoms and civil liberties such as speech, movement and assembly.
“Provide a high level of health care.” That would be a laugh if it weren’t tragic. The average monthly salary in Cuba is $16 a month, according to the State Department. Cuba is a nation so poor that people keep the family pig in the bathroom so he won’t get stolen by the neighbors. The fools in the MSM are would also be a laugh, if they weren’t dangerous in their ignorance and smugness.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
We know what we’re supposed to think.
“his ability to provide”
“detractors called him…”
One’s a FACT about him.
The other is what his enemies said about him.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:32 am
What has having a average salary of $16 per month and (not) being able provide a high level of health care got to do with each other? Your juxtapositioning of the two is a complete non sequitur.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Castro’s domestic detractors continue to rot in prison. Castro’s domestic medicine is so successful that he brought in a foreign surgeon when he needed an operation.
If I were lobotomized, I would still be more intelligent than Diane Sawyer.