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February 18, 2007
Useful Idiot Herbert Matthews Honored in Cuba
Posted by Dave Blount at February 18, 2007 1:24 PM
It's nice to see people given the recognition they deserve — even when they are left-wing fools like New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews. Yesterday a marble plaque was unveiled in Havana, commemorating a laudatory interview that provided crucial propaganda support to Fidel Castro in his quest for power.
Here's a sample of the adulation Matthews and the Slimes gushed at the thug who went on to impose a half century of poverty and totalitarianism on Cuba:
It was easy to see that his men adored him and also to see why he has caught the imagination of the youth of Cuba all over the island. Here was an educated, dedicated fanatic, a man of ideals, of courage and of remarkable qualities of leadership.
The interview helped the demonic Castro not only by portraying him as an angel, but by exaggerating the size of his force. Castro later admitted he had only 18 goons in his gang at the time, but he easily fooled the useful idiot Matthews by having them pass in front of him repeatedly.
Helping out Castro as much as fellow NY Times reporter Walter Duranty did Joseph Stalin, Matthews has been called the "man who invented Fidel" — though even Castro despised him:
I am sick and tired of that old man who thinks he is my father.
Let's hope that when our terrorist enemies take over Iraq and use its oil wealth to finance attacks on the USA, they are equally thoughtful, and put up a plaque in Baghdad thanking the Democrat Party for its comparably valuable propaganda support.
