December 20, 2008

Limey Newspaper Stupidity

From a story today in London's The Independent, (voted Britain's "National Newspaper of the Year!" at the 2004 British Press Awards) by a "reporter" who just visited Havana.

"In the room dedicated to the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 we find a list of 10 pilots who took on the US-backed force – 10 men against Goliath. ....the Hawker Sea Fury that Douglas Rudd flew on those three days in April 1961, playing his own insanely brave part in the survival of the revolution."

Lets' see:

Castro had T-33 Jets (top speed 550 mphs), and Hawker Sea Furies (almost as fast and perhaps more manueverable than the jets) armed to the teeth flying against the freedom fighters' lumbering B-26s (top speed 300 mph) with half their machine guns removed for extra fuel space , with only fuel for one hour over the battle site, and with no more than four flying over the battle at any one time. Knowing these odds, the Brigada's freedom-fighter flyers STILL went head to head against Castro's pilots! Charging them head on! Trying every desperate manuever attempting to even the odds.....to no avail.

Who was "insanely brave", you f***king IMBECILE??!!

Doesn't this Limey moron know that "Goliath" (on orders from the Best and Brightest) watched from the sidelines as the Cuban Freedom-fighter pilots and their four American hermanos were slaughtered?

As usual, The Independent "reporter" eagerly took the hand-out from Castro's propaganda ministry, wrote his story, and that was that.

Sorry for losing my cool, even to the point of resorting to ethnic slurs (perhaps the The Washington Post will suffer a fit of the vapors?) God knows we should all be well, well inured to such as The Independent's "journalism" by now.

My "crackpot" version here

Posted by Humberto at December 20, 2008 07:12 PM

Comments

What I find most disturbing about articles like these is that when it comes to Cuba, all common sense just flies out the window. Everyone knows that journalists are cynical, that they have resources and connections to get at the truth. Yet, when it comes to Cuba, they will publish the most outrageous lies, they become insanely naive and gullible and seem to believe everything the regime tells them. It's unbelievable.

Posted by: Rayarena [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 21, 2008 06:50 AM

He didn't have to get it from castro's propaganda ministry; he could have got it from the BBC.

Posted by: Lazaro [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 21, 2008 09:42 AM


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