A Note To The Media
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You are now entering that phase where you point out how Castro survived x Presidents -- ten is the number now.
If you feel tempted, perhaps you should remember that we are a democracy and our Presidents have all stepped down when their terms have ended. Castro, on the other hand, is a dictator and butcher of innocent people who have sought a democracy in Cuba.
Now sure, you guys tend to hang out with the likes of Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan more than the Ronald Reagans of the world. And sure, they tend to like absolute communist dictators who kill dissidents while screaming about American oppression in the United States. But just do yourselves a favor and take a reality check.
Fidel Castro is, hopefully, dying. He outlived ten American Presidents because all ten of the American Presidents were not as blood thirsty, ruthless, or tyrannical as Fidel Castro -- despite what the New York Times editorial page would have you believe.
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You should be doing this for a living.
Oh, wait... anyway, 5.
Here's an op-ed you won't read in WaPo or the NY Times.
A-Kissing of brother Fidel?
Jes curious. Ya know.
Factual question. Isn't it only nine?
- Eisenhower (59-61)
- Kennedy (61-63)
- Johnson (63-69)
- Nixon (69-74)
- Ford (74-77)
- Carter (77-81)
- Reagan (81-89)
- Bush (89-93)
- Clinton (93-01)
He hasn't survived our current President Bush (if he dies tomorrow, that would infer that he didn't survive him). So I think that makes it 9 unless I'm completely brain-farting on the order of presidents.
9 "Presidencies." He hasn't outlived the Presidents...some of them are still alive.
From Jeff Greenfield's article:
"As for Castro, his survival can be credited to a highly unusual mix of authoritarian rule -- no elections held, little if any dissent permitted -- and personal magnetism."
Me: You mean the kind of personal magnetism that "little if any dissent permitted" is usually credited to such charismatic leaders?
the many anti-Bush Hollywood celebrities depart from their mansions en masse to make a great show of going to Cuba to pay their respects when it is known that Castro no longer lives, led of course by Jimmy Carter, with Cindy Sheehan marching behind him in protest against American soldiers fighing terrorists - right along with Castro's military in his funeral procession.
It wouldn't seem the least bit ironic anymore.
but that's because George W. Bush was never legally elected President, so he doesn't count! According to the Lefties and the Op-Ed Page at the NY Times, anyways.
But seriously, I agree with the general sentiment in this thread that it's very amusing how the MSM (not to mention the media in Europe and Latin America) have seemed to believe for so long that the US Government has spent vast amounts of time, energy, and resources trying to depose Castro ever since the Bay of Pigs. It's as if Castro has somehow been doing the equivalent of defending Stalingrad (or Helm's Deep, depending on your frame of reference) for 40 years. That is so always the tone of these articles.
Brilliant idea! What a great broadcast special that would make: all those celebrities and "activist" dopes lining up to pay their respects. Fox News would have a field day. And how many elected US politicians would go?