The Vast Liberal Media Conspiracy

“Castro is very Delightful!” Says the Congressional Black Caucus

"I think that what really surprised me, but also endeared me to him, was his keen sense of humour, his sense of history and his basic human qualities,"

Thus spoke current Congressional Black Caucus visitor to Cuba (and former Black Panther) Bobby Rush...

"WHAT??!!" You say. "Black Panther?!... wait a minute!..I didn't read that in the MSM??!!"

Right, and we all know that if La. Republican David Duke had visited South Africa in 1989 the MSM would not have been as scrupulously mum regarding his former affiliations.

Raul Castro, said CBC head, Barbara Lee, "was very delightful, very engaging, he's got a great sense of humour ... (He's) very smart and organised. He talked about diversity. ... He said we wants normal relations with America."

OK. And so did South African president Pik Botha (who never tried to nuke the U.S., and in fact helped hold the line against Soviet Imperialism in southern Africa). Yet in 1986 this same Congressional Black Caucus regarded relations with Botha's government as: "Unspeakably evil and anathema to everything America holds dear!"

BTW: According to UNICEF statistics, infant-mortality rates for South African blacks were much lower and life-expectancy rates much higher, during the apartheid regime than afterwards.

Yet I search the world's media, academic and political circles in utter vain for the same “objectivity” these circles employ when discussing Cuba. I simply cannot find anything like: "True, South African blacks could not vote and many were jailed for political offenses— but by golly, that segregationist regime sure achieved great gains in healthcare!

And that beleaguered but plucky regime somehow maintained those health achievements—the absolute best on the entire African continent!—while suffering a cruel embargo imposed upon them by most of the world!”