March 22, 2007
Anita Snow's tongue must taste like boot leather (Updated)
Via castro Death Watch, AP "reporter" Anita Snow opts to fluff piece the five convicted Cuban spies who probably live much better in a US prison - three hots and a cot, Cable TV, free healthcare, legal representation, etc... - than the 11 million "free" Cubans on the island. Given this past weekend's 4th anniversary of the Primavera Negra, one would think that Anita and the AP - members of the "we can make a difference and improve the world by looking out for the little guy and the oppressed" MSM - would use said anniversary to shed some light on the abysmal treatment of imprisoned Cuban journalists and librarians and dissidents.
But of course, expecting any actual reporting of the actual facts that prove the castro regime's complete and undeniable disregard for human and civil rights from Anita Snow and her MSM Havana bureau colleagues is naive at best. Given this month's ousting of three foreign journalists from the island, the remaining cadre of "journalists" must be walking on the proverbial egg shells, lest they lose their cushy jobs and their cushy homes in the island paradise that they enjoy like none of the natives are able to.
Do us all a favor, Anita, take a breath mint, boot leather breath smells like shit.
Update: For anyone that may be even contemplating defending Anita Snow, etal, all you need to do check the "On the web" links at the end of her "article" and then take a quick trip over to the Indepundit, where Smash describes this past weekend's Gathering of Eagles counter protest to ANSWER's anti-war protests:
The source of funding for many of these radical parties – whose national membership is pitifully small – is somewhat of a mystery. Do they get money from foreign governments? It’s almost impossible to say for certain. But one can take an educated guess, based on which dictator’s propaganda is most prominently displayed.This very expensive-looking multi-color banner urges the release of the “Cuban Five.” These men are members of Fidel Castro’s “Wasp” spy network, who were arrested in 1999 and convicted of 26 criminal counts including the use of false identification, espionage and conspiracy to commit murder.
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Realistically, nobody in America gives a damn about five convicted Cuban spies rotting away in prison. Yet support for the “Cuban Five” is a prominent part of every major ANSWER rally. Indeed, the web site for the Party of Socialism and Liberation (for which ANSWER is a front group), features an abundance of articles expressing support and admiration for the Castro regime.
Also, notice that the banner contains an address for a website, www.antiterroristas.cu. If the “cu” suffix doesn’t look familiar to you, that’s because you don’t normally visit propaganda websites that are hosted in Cuba.
Still wondering where groups like ANSWER get their funding? I’m not.
Here's a picture of the banner from Smash's post:
Man, somebody's boots must be mighty mighty shiny this week.
Posted by Val Prieto at March 22, 2007 08:32 AM
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The basic problem with prostitution, sexual and otherwise, is that it pays. It hasn't been around forever for nothing.
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at March 22, 2007 09:30 AM
I know better than to judge a person by their appearance, but after reading the story I can't help but wonder what Anita Snow looks like. Code Pink type perhaps?
Posted by: omar at March 22, 2007 09:49 AM
I believe what the left suffers from now is the sickening realization that we were always right. Now they are coming to grips with their support of a genocidal tyrant and his clan that even today murders Cubans at the drop of a hat. So the media elite know-it-alls want 3 or 4 more decades or so to go by so THEY can finish out their lives without having to look the fools or admit their folly.
Posted by: Tomas Estrada-Palma at March 22, 2007 10:29 AM
THEY ALL AGREE TO NOT TALK ABOUT CUBA.
Posted by: Tomas Estrada-Palma at March 22, 2007 10:32 AM
I wouldn't call them fools, exactly, though that may be apt in certain cases. For the most part, however, they've been biased, hypocritical accomplices of a regime they would never want for themselves (at least not as ordinary, everyday citizens). This thing has gone on FAR too long for anybody, especially media people, to claim they didn't know any better. They knew, all right; they just didn't give a damn.
Posted by: asombra at March 22, 2007 11:52 AM
Amen
Posted by: Tomas Estrada-Palma at March 22, 2007 01:25 PM
Hmmm, dare we hope for a wholesale rolling-up of the far Left in the United states in the wake of regime change in Havana?
Posted by: R S at March 22, 2007 05:52 PM
R S -No way. They will still have Hugo Chavez to love and President Bush to hate.
Posted by: omar at March 22, 2007 08:54 PM
Omar:
Maybe, maybe not. As of January 22, 2009, George W Bush will be splitting logs on his ranch in Crawford, TX.
Hugo seems to be one economic crisis away from the Mussolini treatment, especially once castro is dead, and various folks use the occasion to seize castro's foreign assets for the successor to the castroite government.
Posted by: R S at March 22, 2007 11:22 PM
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