Why put Cuba’s propaganda ministers to work fashioning anti-Yankee diatribes and puff  pieces on himself when Fidel Castro can let America’s mainstream media do it for him?  Castro recently gave a speech that came mostly from the New York Times, Newsweek and the Washington Post.  As reported in Human Events Online:

This April in front of  “the Union of Young Communist Leaders, the Officers the Revolutionary Armed Forces and  Relatives and Surviving Victims of the Empire’s Terrorist Attacks on our Country,” Castro gave one of his famous “speeches.” This one blasted John Bolton’s nomination as U.N. ambassador.

Much applause erupted here (his honored guests knew they were being watched. They wanted their starvation rations that week.) “Mr. Bolton tried to have an intelligence analyst punished for stopping him from making false claims about a weapons program in another nation, notably Cuba! He’s a kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy and this intimidation had a lasting effect on his department!”

Castro was simply reading from a  (translated) New York Times article dated April 13th  titled “Questioning Mr Bolton.”  Castro spent three-fourths of  his time at the lectern reading from the article  verbatim, spicing it up with exclamation marks and a few quips of his own. “See what kind of man this Mr Bolton is?” He asked while poking his finger skyward and arching his eyebrows. “This is one of those people who can walk on his long tongue, (much laughter here, for the same reason I mentioned above) They’d better watch him! This Mr Bolton is a Liar! A Cynic!–a Gangster!”

The upside according to Human Events is that at least Castro has returned to quoting from the semi-respectable, though biased publications such as the NYT & Washington Post, and away from the propaganda-master Michael Moore (that “respectable American” as Castro calls him). For a few weeks last year, Castro showed Fahrenheit 9-11 pretty much every theatre in Cuba for free.

h/t: Elephant in my Coffee

technorati: new york times castro michael moore john bolton

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