But who knew Fidel Castro wrote for Counterpunch? No doubt a subset of the small number of people who knew Counterpunch still existed.
Once you get over the shock, though, what is hilarious is how much Fidel Castro sounds like your typical contributor to the Huffington Post or perhaps a guest on Keith Olbermann’s show. No really:
It is known that the former US vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 elections and Tea Party leader, Sarah Palin, published on her website, as the aim for supporters of her party, a map of the congressional districts of 20 of the representatives who had backed President Obama’s proposed health reform bill and she had them marked with the viewfinder of a rifle….
In March 2010, Gabrielle’s district office was attacked. She stated that when people do that they were going to have to be aware of the consequences; political leaders should get together and set limits.
Not exactly a shock that Fidel thinks political leaders should get together and “set limits.”
It's also of no shock there are many Democratic Party leaders and Leftists in general agree with an old dictator like Fidel that there needs to be limits upon speech enacted by an encompassing government.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow often do dictators come out in support of right-wing talking points? Because if I was a liberal, I'd probably think twice about what I'm saying when these guys profess to the same things.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat a fantastic Web quiz this would be! A series of quotes under the heading "Fidel Castro or Huffington Post contributor?"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCounterpunch gave voice (albeit a small one, given to their circulation) to Commandante Castro's opposition to figurative gunsights. Perhaps they should ask the political opponents formerly housed at La Cabana prison about the Maximum Leader's use of actual gunsights.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGotta wonder if he has a ghost writer on the NYT staff. Is Krugman bi-lingual?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCan I draw a rifle sight reticle on Castro's forehead, or would that be inciting violence?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf you read the entire vile article in "Counterpunch," you'll learn that Fidel would fit in very easily with the Daily Kos/open-borders crowd on a variety of points. The rest of the article tends to focus more on how the US should let every Central American into this country, and provide them with an upper middle-class lifestyle courtesy of the taxpayer just for being so darn special. Main "arguments" include:
1) That the US allow itself to be taken over by Latin America, with free passage into this country for all Central Americans ... and presumably, an end to American civilization, culture and polity ('natch). Hey, this guy could be Dick Durbin, Jeb Bush, or Chuck Schumer!
2) That Arizona be "returned" to Mexico, as it was "unjustly taken" from Mexico by the United States
3) That the United States needs "civility" in its politics. To that end, the Generalissimo aims his superior wisdom and civility at that dangerous and radical Tea Party movement. And who'da thunk that this guy locks up dissidents?! Maybe he's just trying to use tough love to bring about civility, no, Senor?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's quite disturbing listening to all of the liberals foam at the mouth with desires of limiting freedom, speech, property rights, rights in general. We've fallen so far in just a couple years. In the 20's, 30's liberals salivated over the utopia in Stalin's Russia, sending their best and brightest thinkers to meet with Stalin. Now today we have the radical lefties at the NYT pining for the Chinese way, IE the ability to rule by decree. Or pining for totalitarianism, because man is too stupid for their destructive ideals.
I think the root of America's problems lies in our elite universities. I'm not sure how we as conservatives compete with incestuous liberalism at these universities, but they will unwind this country if we don't find a way to balance them out.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCounterpunch is still of the opinion that everything that is wrong on this planet can be traced to Jews and their pervasive world-dominating influence.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNot sure? Try using the "find" function on any page, any page at all for "Jew", "Jewish", Israel", etc.
I've invited them to discuss it with me, but they appear reluctant.
Well, if Sarah Palin targeted 20 congressmen, and it takes all of six months for just one of them to be wounded (not even killed), is she really Presidential material?
This ineffective reign of terror just highlights her impotence on the national stage.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow can you not love it when a dictatorial monster, world-famous for imprisoning and executing his political opponents (and those he just doesn't like) criticizes anyone for using a simple graphic on an election map?
Color me shocked that Counterpunks didn't ask el Hefe to tone down the rhetoric. After all, he did describe President Obama, our own el Hefe, as engaging in "criminal" and "inhuman" policies. That's just the sort of talk that leads to violence, as we all learned in Tuscon. ¿Si?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe Ayers is Castro's ghostwriter, too.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Counterpunch is still of the opinion that everything that is wrong on this planet can be traced to Jews and their pervasive world-dominating influence."
Like Jonah said, sounds like your typical contributor to the Huffington Post.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWell, the joos aparently get to dictate the meaning of English phrases such as "blood libel" and slam the intelligence of American politicians who use it. Perhaps they really are in charge of everything.
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