CNN Head Honcho--Be Kind To Castro

Allison Flexner of CNN sent an email out to staff employees today, urging them when reporting on Castro's retirement, to be kind to the lovable dictator:

From: Flexner, Allison
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:46 AM
To: *CNN Superdesk (TBS)
Cc: Neill, Morgan; Darlington, Shasta
Subject: Castro guidance

Some points on Castro – for adding to our anchor reads/reporting:

* Please say in our reporting that Castro stepped down in a letter he wrote to Granma (the communist party daily), as opposed to in a letter attributed to Fidel Castro. We have no reason to doubt he wrote his resignation letter, he has penned numerous articles over the past year and a half.

* Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.

* Also the Cuban government blames a lot of Cuba’s economic problems on the US embargo, and while that has caused some difficulties, (far less so than the collapse of the Soviet Union) the bulk of Cuba’s economic problems are due to Cuba’s failed economic polices. Some analysts would say the US embargo was a benefit to Castro politically – something to blame problems on, by what the Cubans call “the imperialist,” meddling in their affairs.

* While despised by some, he is seen as a revolutionary hero, especially with leftist in Latin America, for standing up to the United States.

Any questions, please call the international desk.

Allison

See, Castro wasn't such a bad guy after all.

I'm sure this email will come as no surprise to anyone who watches the Castro News Network. It's all par for the course. Sure, he imprisoned people without trials, but he introduced socialized medicine to his country. Although he did have people kidnapped and murdered, he gave his citizens FREE education. See, not so bad.

I can picture CNN writing up a story on Hitler, had he resigned: He committed genocide, but he was a vegetarian. He brought on WWII, but he loved dogs. He had Jews killed and their bodies harvested, but he loved to paint.

CNN...all your bias are belong to us

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