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Left Wing Apologist Journalist Gets Right Wing Wrong Answers From Fidel
2010-09-14
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg recently went to Cuba at the bidding of that island's dictator. The results weren't pretty. The tone of the first two articles by our man in Havana makes clear that he was intent on presenting Fidel Castro as a charming old rogue, a bit of a cute killer.

Then, suddenly, news happened. The octogenarian reprobate had five seconds of lucidity and uttered to his shocked interviewer: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."
Tell that to Obama.

Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#4  He tried to retract his claim that the Cuban Model doesn't even work by saying he meant Capitalism doesn't even work for us anymore. I suspect he meant it the way Goldberg reported it and the second statements were backtracking but still.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2010-09-14 23:45  

#3  Wikipedia's article on Jeffrey Goldberg. He seems a complicated man.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-09-14 19:44  

#2  The Columnist:

Mike Gonzalez, Vice President of Communications for The Heritage Foundation, is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator and editor. He spent 15 years reporting from Europe and Asia before leaving journalism to join the administration of George W. Bush, where he helped explain financial and foreign policy.

As a boy of 12, Gonzalez left his native Cuba with his mother and sister, fleeing the Castro dictatorship. After two years in Madrid, Spain, the family settled in Queens, New York, in 1974.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2010-09-14 15:17  

#1  For the last &#!%! time, Jeffrey Goldberg isn't an apologist for communism, or even particularly liberal. He was an Israeli prison guard, for the love of Mike! Honest - he wrote a book about it. He's a foreign-policy neocon, who usually concentrates on the Middle East.

And one of the important points in the Goldberg articles was that Castro's surprisingly spry and active for someone on the brink of death four years ago. The Fox columnist is clearly so blinkered by his spinal-reflexive (and utterly justified, mind you) hatred of Castro that he's lost all sense of proportion.

Historically speaking, Jeffrey Goldberg hasn't even been my favorite writer named "Goldberg", but he's been on a roll the last month or two.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2010-09-14 14:54  

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