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Journalists Hail Castro’s Achievements, ‘George Washington,’ ‘Folk Hero to Most of Us
Castro was no more a "Folk Hero" than these people are journalists...
------------- Journalists Hail Castro’s Achievements, ‘George Washington,’ ‘Folk Hero to Most of Us’ By Brent Baker | November 26, 2016 | 3:52 AM EST Journalists Hail Castro?s Achievements, ?George Washington,? ?Folk Hero to Most of Us? Fidel Castro, who died late Friday night, was a tyrant who oppressed Cubans and brought misery to many for several decades and while much of the breaking news coverage emphasized that reality, journalists on ABC, CNN and MSNBC – matching how too much of the media approached Castro for decades – couldn’t resist crediting him for supposed great advancements in education, literacy and health care. On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell insisted in a stock bio that Castro “gave his people better health care and education.” Appearing live by phone, she soon trumpted how Castro “will be revered” for “education and social services and medical care to all of his people.” Along a similar theme, in an ABC Special Report during Nightline, Jim Avila maintained that “even Castro’s critics praised his advances in health care and in education.” In a relatively tough report on Castro’s abuses, CNN’s Martin Savidge, in a pre-recorded bio piece, highlighted how “many saw positives, education and health care for all, racial integration.” A meandering Brian Williams popped up by phone on MSNBC to ruminate and recalled how in his last visit to Cuba, in 2015: “You see the medicine system they are very proud of.” ABC’s Avila went so far as to tout how Castro “was considered, even to this day, the George Washington of his country among those who remain in Cuba.” Reminiscing about his high school years, via phone on MSNBC, Chris Matthews asserted that Castro was “a romantic figure when he came into power” and, Matthews wasn’t embarrassed to relay, “we rooted like mad for the guy” who “was almost like a folk hero to most of us.” |
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Clearly all these Journalists weren't among the tens of thousands of people celebrating in the streets when it was announced Castro had died. People don't risk their lives trying to escape a country in makeshift rafts because the leader of that country is a "folk hero".
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Castro; kept a nation at poverty level... in order to protect his position as leader. And most of his people kept drinking the kool-aid.
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Yet more evidence the term "Liberal idiot" is redundant.
Also the liberals don;t really understand what's happened to Cuba's HC system. The Myth of Cuban Health Care | National Review |
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This is the most hilarious and probably true thing I've seen having to do with Castro.
Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's child. |
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He solved the problem of income inequality! Everybody be poor in Cuba! That's a Bernie Sanders wet dream, although, probably not in the new Sanders' beach house, because they don't want to stain the new carpet.
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Margaret Trudeau, ?flower child? turned prime minister’s mom, ends self-imposed exile from spotlight | National Post Hmmmm.... Excerpt: Quote:
Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban President Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel in Havana, Cuba, Jan.26, 1976. |
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I know, right!
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Cuban Dissidents Cancel Weekly March Following Castro's Death | abc13.com
Funny Obama didn't mention the Ladies in White when he spoke about Fidel and Fidel's legacy. Funnier still is, it took a president-elect to call Castro what he really was.....a brutal dictator, something the "Ladies in White" would agree with. |
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