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If you have nothing else to do around 9:30 this evening, you may want to participate in a candlelight march, “Fidelity to Fidel,” along the gutter on the southern side of Culver Boulevard, starting at Overland Boulevard. The organizer is hoping for company.
The most amazing storyline of the past week has not been The New York Times’s botched journalistic assassination of Sen. McCain but rather the unbroken strand of blinding gossamer tributes to Fidel Castro, coast to coast.
The Los Angeles Times found him to be more appealing than any Republican since Warren Harding the day he died.
Wasn’t anyone else awake through the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the new century when the dictator Castro and his evil minions systematically wrecked the economy, destroyed the independent will of the people, enslaved or murdered resisters and plundered the island of Cuba?
Okay, Boys, the Snooze Is Over
Do the liberal lords of the Yankee press need to prove every day of the week how thinly thoughtful they truly are?
Their willful, abundant ignorance in matters regarding the operation of the United States is so comprehensive that they seem to be joking when they are actually deadly serious.
Somebody Who Needs a Tuck
There resides within the lovely city of Atlanta one of the most unattractive racist voices in North America, Cynthia Tucker, a radical black lady who specializes in cheap
outrage instead of in reasoning.
Journalists and entertainers — they really are separate callings — both learn early in their careers that ludicrous statements and ludicrous behavior grease an accelerated path to instant and much wider attention.
A columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ms. Tucker, as a result, is one of the most talked-about commentators in the country because she is far left.
A Timid Tool of the Left
A raggedy-ann toy for leftist dictators, she is a leading voice in the far-left choir that, amazingly, finds Castro blameless for his destruction of life and will across Cuba.
The fault for 49 years of starvation and human wreckage, she writes, lies not with the dictator but with the evil government of President Bush and his misguided predecessors in the White House who have refused to engage in trade with Castro.
What a beautiful Cuban century it could have been, fantasizes Ms. Tucker, if only it had not been for those dirty dogs, especially Republicans, in Washington.
She finds the Washington government shameful and the Havana government a tragic victim, pretty close to blameless, merely acted upon.
The Rule, Not the Exception
In spite of its extreme conclusions, Ms. Tucker’s “Fidelity to Fidel” tribute in last Sunday’s edition of the Journal-Constitution was typical of the bouquets that America’s primary left-led newspapers mailed to their pal Fidel.
Here is a flavor of what passes for thinking in the nutty woman’s clouded mind:
“The (American trade) embargo was a policy ready-made for demagogues — in Washington and Havana,” Ms. Tucker writes in her latest successful attempt to slither into the spotlight.
“It gave Castro an excuse for every political failing, every repressive policy, every economic disaster. And it gave American presidents a chance to grandstand against tyranny in a small island nation that could not push back.”
Liberals love Castro almost more than their own mothers. (Now you see why America has so much trouble taking leftists seriously.)
Ms. Tucker and other lightweight ladies and lads of the left have swooned over Castro since 1959 because, frankly, they are unable to distill the differences between the policies of the bloody dictator and those of the Democrat Party.
President Dean — or Not?
Except for character assassinations, the Democrats in America don’t kill anyone, although a few years ago the apparently late Howard Dean killed ‘em in Utica and Albany with the funny Presidential campaign he sort of ran.
To read Ms. Tucker is to shake your head in disbelief.
“President Bush pushed an illogical policy to its foolish extreme,” the witless little lady writes. “He clamped down on cultural exchanges, cut back on remittances and limited the trips that Cuban émigrés could make to visit relatives still on the island. If Bush aimed at making life harder for Castro, he didn’t succeed. The policy did make it harder for churches to dispense medical supplies, for colleges and universities to spread democratic ideals, and for Cuban exiles to extol the virtues of capitalism by handing over dollars to their relatives.”
Darn.
If Mr. Bush had not been elected President twice, Castro would have been viewed not only by the radical left but us sensible people as well as one sugar-sweet guy.
You remember what Flip Wilson and his cousin Flip Castro, used to say: “The devil made me do it.”
