The American media have been an indispensible ally to Fidel Castro throughout his dictatorship.  That love affair continues into his death, as famous talking heads rushed on air to pay tribute to his supposed triumph over poverty, illiteracy, ill health, and capitalist oppression. Do these people not know the reality of life in Cuba?  Are they witting or unwitting propagandists for a monstrously evil tyranny?  This compilation from Grabien is a hall of shame: Forget about the murders of opponents by the thousands.  Forget about imprisoning people with AIDS, and about the persecution of homosexuals.  (Can anyone point out where the enormously powerful gay lobby has spoken out against Castro in the wake of his death?)  Forget about the millions who fled for their lives, derided as “worms” (los gusanos), and especially forget about those who were drowned, attacked by sharks, or perished by thirst during the hazardous journey to these...(Read Full Post)