They're all atwitter, those MSM types, over Bush's speech the other day. Time magazine has leapt into the fray with this entry: " Keeping Up the Hard Line on Cuba."
You don't need to ask which way the piece is skewed when the only "expert" quoted is president of "USA Engage." Catch my drift? Speaking of "the same old bromides," he thinks lifting the travel ban will advance the cause of democracy. I guess the Brits, the Spaniards, the Canadians, the Mexicans, and the Chinese- just to name a few- aren't up to the task.
And fear not, the article includes not one but two swipes at Miami Cubans:
Bush may also be alienating the very people he is reaching out to by suggesting Washington will be Cuba's post-Castro arbiter. In the eyes of ordinary Cuban citizens, that is perceived as surrogacy for the Miami Cuban exile community — whose anti-Castro hardliners, with their dreams of resurrecting a pre-Castro Cuba, are as disliked by many Cubans on the island as the Castros themselves are.
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What's more, by attaching his Administration to Cuba's dissidents so publicly, Bush may actually compromise the position of the Castro critics who remain on the island, whose credibility often rests on being seen as a movement independent of the Miami exiles.
I guess in the MSM, geography is destiny. Read it here.
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Third try's the charm. Sometimes I hate blogger.
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