Out of my sense of respect for those people suffering great loss, I didn’t comment on the Castro situation in Cuba a few days ago . I’m sure you will all noticed how upset the BBC was at the news that one of their (non) American idols had exited stage left. But now that the grieving process has started in full the BBC is now rushing out contrived articles of pure PR such as “Castro relishes chance to rest”
The night before, I slept better than ever,” he writes in Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, three days after announcing his retirement. My conscience was clear and I promised myself a vacation.”
If you force yourself to read the entire article, it smacks of pro-Castro propaganda, finishing with a flourish – an attack on the USA. Losing Fidel has been a mighty blow to the US-hating communist-thug worshipping element at the BBC and I think Castro will continue to get very positive media treatment from his dear fans at the Beeb.
re Hillhunt’s attempt at blogging.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWNN.
A seldom-visited, obscure part of the web, where he belongs.
Nondescript and lacking, like him.
Anyone mention that in 1997 Castro’s personal wealth was estimated to be $1.4bn?
It says a lot about people like Hillhunt that he is desperate to label B-BBC contributors as having negative motives (racist, fascist, homophobic, anti-Muslim…), just because they have views not in lockstep with his.
His sad blog and tedious interjections here show not only intellectual weakness but a deeply insecure, unhappy and lonely person. Bitterness radiates from his every sentence.
On the bright side, from his vitriolic attacks, you know his cage has been rattled.
Sean:
His sad blog and tedious interjections here show not only intellectual weakness but a deeply insecure, unhappy and lonely person. Bitterness radiates from his every sentence.
So true.
I just gain comfort from hanging out with like-minded people. Is that so wrong?
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PFJ
I can’t get the link to meaningless’s blog to work, perhaps its just as well.
Unless meaningless aka hillhunt you want to be honest and put the link in yourself.
Profound article on lefty Castro groupies (shall we call them Castratos?) by John Derbyshire on the National Review blog:-
….There are, of course, plenty of other Michael Moores and Douglas Monteros. Every time I turn on my TV, every time I pick up a newspaper, I see a new one. It’s like a Night of the Living Dead — lefties coming up out of the ground and lurching off across the landscape looking for a Maximum Leader, a Great Helmsman, a Little Father of the People to slobber over. With the centenary of Lenin’s revolution looming on the far horizon, and after all the horrors of our age — mountains of corpses, oceans of lies—these fools are still with us. Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. Won’t they ever learn? No, their stupidity is impenetrable. They will never learn.
http://www.nationalreview.com/01may00/derbyshireprint050100.html
The dreary, monotonous Alan Johnston has found a niche for himself presenting those shabby little propaganda pieces that go by the name From Our Own Correspondent. He’s done plenty of them himself, so he’s well qualified to inflict them on us.
However, Saturday’s programme on Cuba from a Miami perspective, by Kevin Connolly, was quite out of character – no cuddling up to communism, in fact quite the reverse:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7258794.stm
At the end of the programme, Johnston had this to say in his monotone:
Cuban exiles in Miami gripped by thoughts of home on a day of momentous news.
Funny, that seemed quite incongruous. Probably Johnston didn’t even listen to the programme, but just assumed it would be standard BBC pro-communist Cuba propaganda.
He didn’t reckon on there being some thinking journalists left at the BBC. Neither did I. I was pleasantly surprised.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7261204.stm
Here we go again – Raul’s election was ‘ seen as a formality ‘
I suppose that’s one way of putting it…
From HSLD’s above link. “But retirement, he added, would not stop him from carrying “on fighting like a soldier of ideas”, and he promised to continue writing essays entitled Reflections of Comrade Fidel.”
Maybe the BBC could get Fidel to write a column for them?
whathe:
The link to Hillhunt’s blog. It’s just a worship site to Punternet disguised at satire. But the chances are he was tugging on himself while writing it.
http://nothingtodowithhunting.blogspot.com/2006/08/rio-ferdinands-punternet-wind-ups.html