“Fidel Castro criticizes Canada’s environmental record.” That’s the breaking news? Gee thanks CTV. That’s some vital information right there.
At first I thought it was a joke of some sort. I mean I literally laughed when I saw it, and it wasn’t just because that image of Lisa LaFlamme once again getting set to jump down my throat, wearing that man’s suit jacket, leaning forward and declaring, “I’m Lisa LaFlamme!…” before breathlessly delivering her first story.
But if it was a joke, it was a bad joke, since I couldn’t think of any circumstance under which it should be excused as “fun with the news.” Not even on an “ironic” level. Not even if it happened on April 1st.
Under what circumstances or conditions would any sane Canadian give a communist crap about what Fidel Castro — that murderous socialist dictator —  thinks about… absolutely anything? And yet the reporter/clerk/whatever from what I call liberalvision, CTV, sent this out thinking it was “breaking news,” worthy of an urgent dispatch to all of its email list.
Here’s a guy, Castro, who came to power by murdering scores of his own people, and who has committed untold human rights atrocities and mired his country in conditions of abject squalor to the point where unknown hundreds of thousands have died trying to escape from Cuba by leaky boat with their the families in tow — and we should care what he thinks about our environment?
Apparently.
All I feel sure of is that the reporter (or whatever) was educated in a typical Canadian school, where students are routinely taught that socialist dictators like Fidel Castro are not, in fact, bad people, but rather they’re “world leaders” no different than, say, Stephen Harper. It’s all relative to these people. “They’ve just got a different system!” In fact Stephen Harper may be the bad guy. Show a photo of Che Guevara and one of Stephen Harper to some of these people, and they’ll point to Harper as the bad guy.
The fact is, there are people in Canada — in its liberal-left media — like the one who dispatched this “breaking news” — who honestly think Castro is a noble man, full of great ideas (like socialism!), and is the creator of the ideal, model, “free” healthcare system which should be emulated the world over; and who think that what Castro thinks is worthy of our serious contemplation even in judging our own political leadership.
These are the same people who routinely sneer and mock and laugh at and point at like she’s an insane monkey, the various and usually spot-on conservatives stances of Sarah Palin (for example), but hold up Fidel Castro as a bastion of clear, lucid thinking.
These are the same people who, like their brethren at the state-owned network CBC, broadcast and re-broadcast, over and over and over again, “documentaries” by the Cuba-loving socialist Michael Moore, and think that’s perfectly reasonable.
PS: Here’s how the Globe and Mail shows its respect rather than its disdain (reserved for Sarah Palin, et al) for Fidel Castro:
PPS: I’m reminded of my now ancient “Vacation Game” YouTube video. Watch it here! http://youtu.be/EJHe3VQUp4g
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