Leave it to the MSM to confuse "riot" and "party".

A riot of joy, laughter, merriment, more joy, hilarity, gladness, relief, and still more joy, until we all fall down with exhaustion waiting for the other motherfucker to die. There. I said it. I'm such a hard-liner...

Paco,

I don't believe they are "confused." It's very intentional. It's no wonder Rush Limbaugh calls them "The Drive by Media." They throw the mud and hope some of it sticks.

LMAO! Any way to copy these pages for future references? I wouldn't be surprised if there's a switch-e-roo.

Of course we're supposed to riot. We're brown-skinned, third-world minorities remember? ;)

If you look at the end of the ABC story it says: Copyright 2009 by WPBF.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

MSNBC attributes the story to WPBF, but it violated the copyright by changing it.

There is no doubt that the ABC station wrote it and MSNBC changed it to make Cuban-Americans look bad.

As Robert says, it's part of the mainstream media's racism. We are supposed to be brown-skinned, third world minorities. And that's what we do: riot, live in ghettos, rob, etc... If you look at Hollywood, they do the same thing. Look at CSI: Miami, look at any program where Cuban Americans are depicted.

When Elian was kidnapped from his relative's home by Janet Reno's jack-booted stormtroopers, the media repeated the same lies and said that Cubans were rioting in Little Havana.

Meanwhile, when Afro-Americans in Louisiana-- after Katrina--- started looting left and right, the media had to take back their words and rephrase everything after black activists protested. Everything instantly became sanitized and controlled.

The analogy doesn't perfectly fit because in one case, Cubans are willfully SLANDERED--and in the other the media told the truth about Afro-Americans, however, I point it out to illustrate how they differently they treat the two groups.

With Cubans, they have a field day, they say whatever they feel like saying regardless of how much of a distortion and how slanderous it is, and with Afro-Americans, they walk around on eggshells.

Unfortunately, to all too many people, this is utterly insignificant and totally a non-issue. And in some cases, they may genuinely not even understand why we're offended. Of course, in most cases, they know perfectly well what's going on here, but they figure, so what? Screw "those people" (as Clinton called us).

Asombra,

You are absolutely right.

Henry, the only thing that I don't understand is why the ABC story that was posted at 12:21 AM on Thursday has the word "celebrations" and the one that was posted by MSNBC that says "updated" at 5:19 PM on Thursday, 17 hours later, is the one that has the word "riots."
Shouldn't it have been the other way around?

When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy (PR 11:10). I too will be hosting a DEAD CASTRO party and it will definitely be a riot!