“I swear that if this current bunch of supposed White House reporters were covering Adolf Hitler back in the early days of his administration, they’d be writing glowing accounts of how successful the German chancellor was in achieving his goals. “There was some concern that he’d have a difficult time convincing the country that it needed to do away with the Jews,” they’d write. “But it’s apparent that he has been able to control the agenda. It’s a crowning accomplishment of his first days in office.” – Dave Zweifel, The Capital Times, Wisconsin. Zweifel concedes his reference might be hyperbolic. He doesn’t seem to grasp that it’s obscene.
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS: Predictably, this wonderful movie about a gay man persecuted by Communist thugs has now run afoul of the European left. A simply astonishing piece in Monday’s Guardian in London includes this quote from a leftist pro-Castro academic, Steve Williamson of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign: “If Arenas even did one third of what he claims to have done in his book, he would have been locked up for life in any other country. The man was outrageous. His prison sentence was basically for having sex with young boys.” So having all-but excused the Castro regime for putting gays in concentration camps (yes, he has the obligatory caveats but now says – absurdly – that Cuba has one of the best gay rights records in Latin America), the man throws in the smear that Arenas was a pedophile. Who said that bigotry was only found on the right?
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