CBS publically endorsing the murderous, repressive, child abusing totalitarian state of Kuba. This is disgusting beyond words.

Oh yeah, I meant to add a thanks to bill & janet. Damn them to hell.

It's sad to see what they've done to that poor boy. The sooner fidel kicks the bucket, the better it'll be for everyone, especially Cuba.

I see CBS continues its slide into moral oblivion. "Useful idiots" indeed. To do such an interview is in itself saddening, but to know that by doing so they are acting as propaganda arms of a communist dictator boils my blood.

Dan Rather must be so proud.

Step 1: With the edge of your fingernal begin to pull scab off of the wound. Do it quickly so as to maximize the pain.

Step 2: Once the the scab is removed and the wound is bleeding again, pour a shitload of salt in it.

Step 3: Rub it in. Mix the salt with lemon juice, iodine, and isopropyl alcohol.

Step 4: Enjoy the pain.

Thank you CBS!

Down with the UN:

Cuba, Syria, Belarus Join IAEA Board, Boosting Iran

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20050929\ACQDJON200509291023DOWJONESDJONLINE000695.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na

I will not apologize either.

What really frosts me about all of this media blather is that after Sunday, many people will assume that the interview was given freely, that there was no duress, that the government sponsoring the interview is a freely elected, democratic government, that there was no undue influence on Elian on the part of his father or the government as to what to say, and on and on.

As the host of one of my favorite talk shows says every week, "their failure to be informed does not make me a wacko."

another dan
El mismo perro con diferente collar ...me cago en la madre de los dos

here the link from the AP that has picked up the story

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-929elian,0,2283770.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/28/60minutes/main888950.shtml

Here's the CBS link with a 3 minute video.
Breaks my heart what they've done to that young boy.

Val! You are one man with one voice, I thank YOU for that!! but like I said in another post...our voices seem to always fall into deaf ears!
YA NO MAS!!!!!!!!!!!! How much can we take?? now 60 minutes and CBS is going to give us a segment of the town of Cardenas?( only the side where the houses have been painted)the peaceful life of Elian in Cuba???
Elian in his "pionero" uniform talking through the indoctrinated voice of "fidel" like a zombie??
FUCK CBS!!! I am not going to watch their CRAP! and if I hear one person mentioning the program to me, I don't think I will be responsible for my actions!!

WOW! my comments were posted twice...I guess the blog did not like FUCK the first time, so I changed it to SCREW...and it went through anyway both ways...
I really meant to say FUCK CBS!! OK???
Thanks....
feel much better now...

Here are some historic Elian quotes. Why are these minions silent now?

"The privacy and the innocence of the child should be protected," said Cuba's Conference of Bishops. Miami Herald, Dec. 9, 1999.

"My hope is that people will look at this little boy and get him into a situation where he can live a normal life without television cameras and the world in his face." Janet Reno, CNN, Jan. 13, 2000.

"Although the Cuban government previously had referred to an unspecified period of 'transition'
for the boy, it has said repeatedly that it does not plan to turn Elian into a political "trophy" but that it will send him back to his hometown to live a normal life." Washington Post, April 18, 2000.

Like George said, watching this would be like re-opening a wound that has just started to heal.

We need to be strong in our convictions. We know we're on the right side of this. We don't have to apologize for anything, or to anybody.

The painful truth about Elian is out there for everyone to see. As the years go by, I think we'll see even more evidence and justification for our stance.

Carmen, I deleted your second comment with the verb "screw." You were correct the first time in the use of the verb "fuck" when followed by the noun "CBS." That is always the proper usage of that verb when followed by the name of an MSM entity. You erred, however, in that you should have used the noun "bullshit" instead of "crap" when referring to their work-product. ;-)

Gracias George!
So...do you mean that I can actually say FUCK CBS???? We should not watch their Bullshit propaganda on 60 minutes? and I don't give a FUCK about any comments made in reference to this interview!!
CBS..GO FUCK YOURSELF WITH YOUR BULLSHIT!!
Now, George...that felt good! and so much cheaper than a boring therapist!!
:)

Notice how the article says:

>>In what Miami Cuban exiles would say is propaganda, Castro attended the boy’s elementary school graduation and declared he was proud to have Gonzalez as his friend.

But don't you all know that -
CBS President Visits Castro

http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A905_0_2_0_C/

"Cuba is the most romantic, soulful and sexy country I've ever been to in my life."

This was said by the CBS president.

Carmen, that was perfection.

When I tried to post my message before, it was lopped off. Here is the rest of it.

Notice how the article says:

In what Miami Cuban exiles would say is propaganda, Castro attended the boy’s elementary school graduation and declared he was proud to have Gonzalez as his friend.

Implicit in this remark is the notion that Castro's use of Elian as a trophy boy and going to his elementary school graduation, etc.. is not propaganda, only in our deluded, "rightwinged" minds. Remember, "Miami Cuban exiles" has become a cue word for "rightwinger" and "fanatic".

What urks me the most about all of this is that the media, the very same media that is now going to Cuba to give Elian an interview [as if Cuba were a free country where people could speak their minds unincumbered] is the same media that became apoplexic when Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart visited Elian. They screamed that it was child abuse, they foamed at the mouth that we had turned Elian into a trophy boy, they became red in the face that we were denying him a normal life! Fast forward 4 years later, Fidel Castro has been to each and everyone of Elian's birthdays, whenever a VIP goes to Cuba, Castro takes him to Elian's home so that he can oggle the boy, Elian and his family has VIP seating at national events and gets to talk before assembled audiences, Castro has made a statue of Elian in el Malecon, and regularly visits him at school. Yet, there is nary a word, you can hear a pin drop, the silence is deafening from the same media that was formerly so concerned with Elian's mental health.

And to add insult to injury, CBS is interviewing Elian. I thought that he was going to go back to Cuba to lead a quiet life? Wasn't this the disingenous reason given for sending the boy back to Cuba?

CBS is having it both ways; they are having their cake and eating it to. Like one of the posters said: it's like removing a scab and rubbing salt on it. Have these people no principles? [rhetorical question]

George,
Your advise to Carmen makes you an aspiring semanticist.

Praise indeed coming from you Professor! Thank you!

George,
Somehow, the title "Snoring gonads" gets lost in translation.

LOL! I think Val has covered that Cubanism (and others) here. My favorite is "¡manda huevos! which I translated as "send testicles."

George,
My wife is a mulata americana cubanizada. She lovingly says that she "holds all my packages."
(Me aguanta todos los paquetes)

One must remember that Bob Simon was captured and held by the Iraquis for several days back during the first Gulf War in 1991. God knows what they did to his brain. Or God knows how poorly his brain was functioning in the first place, since he apparently walked right into their front lines and got captured.
The saddest thing of all is that Elian is probably a hundred times smarter than Bob Simon or anyone else at CBS news.

Elian saying "he would like to see his family in Miami someday" may be code language expressing his real feelings about living in the pederast barbudo's paradise. Children have the ability to cut through a lot of bullshit, specially when they have the opportunity - as Elian did - to see how the "other side" lives, so to speak. kaSStro woulda had a hell of a time trying to indoctrinate me, for example, as I knew my native country, even with its imperfections, before he became the landlord-from-hell and utterly ruined it.

When I see things like this, it sends chills down my spine. I can picture my 2 younger sisters, had we been stuck in that "paradise" in Pionera garb and scarf, glazed eyes, chanting "seremos como el che!" over and over. What a nightmare. I pray for that boy, that somehow there is still a little light in him that someday will be allowed to shine bright, lead him to God, truth, and freedom.

As for CBS...does it stand for Confused Broadcasting Suckers?

It's the year 2010, and a young man is standing in front of the US interests section in Havana. He is skinny, malnourished, with a sad look. But defiently he stands, with a sign reading: LIBERTA PARA ELIAN (Freedom for ELIAN). A confused citizen looks on and says "Compañero, tu no sabes que a Elian lo delvolvieron haces años" (dont you know they returned elian years back). SI, yo se. Yo soy Elian!! (yes , I know, I am Elian)