{"id":1217,"date":"2008-02-21T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2008-02-21T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T20:44:26","slug":"the-memo-cnn-should-have-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"The memo CNN should have written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Babalu Blog, Henry &#8220;Conductor&#8221; Gomez writes the memo that CNN would have written to their producers (as opposed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babalublog.com\/archives\/007467.html\" target=\"_blank\">memo that CNN did write)<\/a> if they&#8217;d been a legitimate news organization instead of a group of cheerleaders for every tinpot dictator with an axe to grind with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.babalublog.com\/archives\/007494.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bias, we don&#8217;t need no stinking bias<\/a>&#8220;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> * Although the Castro regime blames a lot of Cuba\u2019s economic problems on the US embargo, that argument is countered by the argument that Cuba trades openly with almost every other country in the world including western industrialized democracies like Canada, the UK, France, and Spain and that the bulk of Cuba\u2019s economic problems are due to CASTRO&#8217;s failed MARXIST economic polices. While some analysts say the US embargo was a benefit to Castro politically, something to blame problems on, most serious observers recognize that it is a weak excuse for Castro&#8217;s own failures. Note that despite the embargo, the United States is currently Cuba&#8217;s largest food supplier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Babalu Blog, Henry &#8220;Conductor&#8221; Gomez writes the memo that CNN would have written to &hellip; <a title=\"The memo CNN should have written\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1217\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The memo CNN should have written<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}