The local radio wingnut’s guide to the Sony hack and Cuba: Wingnuts really, actually hate us/Libs

The local radio wingnut talkshow wingnut has been in a double (Sony & Cuba) tizzy, yesterday featuring a combination pity party and exhortation rally to rise against OBAMA’s Cuba decision. (By the bye as a DUer remarked, this has been quite a high flying month for the purportedly lame duck OBAMA since the supposed “WAVE” election where nobody voted except the Repukes.)

But in the early days of the Sony story, the radio wingnut seized on the e-mails with what he interpreted as racism against OBAMA and their hypocrisy (his repeated word) for the Hollywood Libs’ being big donors to him and all Dems while being closet racists (his repeated word). In those early days I took this as the usual wingnut surface lashing out at Libs, and missed his real meaning, which only became blatant yesterday during his Cuban Exiles’ pity party.

In his fit of pique over Cuba he threw a zinger smearing any and all Libs/Dems/Progressives as being tool fools for love of CASTRO, “the beloved-by-the-left Castro brothers stealing while posing as selfless revolutionaries. you haven't talked to the people who see no wrong in their fascist state. I've always wondered how lefties could be so blind about Cuba or think so little of themselves that they would flack for them. But Hitler and Stalin had their apologists, too.”

I know some history and know that wingnuts have a black and white/for-us-or-against-us outlook and that they tend to name-call us traitors and Communists, but despite knowing that as their *tendency*, it really hadn’t sunk in for me that [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]they (he) really, truly *profoundly* see us Dems/Libs/Progressives as actual traitors and Communists[/FONT].

So yesterday’s Cuban 1stGen Exile radio guests consisted of a couple of downtown Cuban business owners who spat their contempt for the OBAMA decision, same as how they hated JFK for not bombing the Bay of Pigs.

Here are their points:

* That the OBAMA decision is, of course, flat wrong, appeasement, devoid of inflicting any pain or reform on the CASTRO regime.
* that Cuba has been a welfare client state since CASTRO took over, first of the USSR, now Russia and Venezuela, but that both of these are in deep financial doo-doo now and the CASTROs are cunningly duping OBAMA into financing them without their giving anything up.
* that the newest refugees from Cuba hate it in the U.S., because here they have to WORK, that they and all the generations in Cuba since CASTRO took over got used to being “given” the barest subsistence of food, shelter, and “work” where they sit in government non-jobs for a few hours a day and get paid next to nothing. And that these two radio guests personally have known these newest refugees to have gone back to Cuba rather than WORK here.
* that, of course, OBAMA’s decision won’t change anything for these radio guests because if they returned to Cuba they would be promptly arrested and imprisoned because of their irrepressible expressions of freedom.

What was missing (there’s ALWAYS something missing in the local wingnut’s spiel) was that that Generation1 of Cuban exiles were the WINGNUT, rich landowners, sugar plantation owners, who had themselves been bleeding the destitute Cuban portion of the population before CASTRO did it. To the wingnuts, GENESIS is all about CASTRO. They omit that the pre-CASTRO history was of the U.S. colonial period of supporting wingnut tinpot dictators:


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
[font size=5]Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar[/font]

.... January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.[1]

Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 "Revolt of the Sergeants" that overthrew the authoritarian rule of Gerardo Machado. Batista then appointed himself chief of the armed forces, with the rank of colonel, and effectively controlled the five-member Presidency. He maintained this control through a string of puppet presidents until 1940, when he was himself elected President of Cuba on a populist platform.[2][3] He then instated the 1940 Constitution of Cuba, considered progressive for its time,[4] and served until 1944. After finishing his term [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]he lived in the United States, returning[/FONT] to Cuba to run for president in [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]1952[/FONT]. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]a military coup[/FONT] that preempted the election.

Back in power, Batista [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]suspended the 1940 Constitution[/FONT] and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]revoked most political liberties[/FONT], including the right to strike. He then [font size=5]aligned with [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar[/FONT] plantations[/font], and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[5] Batista's increasingly [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]corrupt and repressive[/FONT] government then began to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]systematically profit from the exploitation[/FONT] of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]lucrative relationships with the American mafia[/FONT], who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]large multinational American corporations[/FONT] that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba.[5][6] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]censorship of the media[/FONT], while also utilizing his [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]anti-Communist secret police[/FONT] to carry out wide-scale [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]violence, torture and public executions[/FONT]; ultimately [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people[/FONT].[7][8] For several years until 1959, [font size=5]the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United [/FONT]States[/font].[9]

Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's government, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Batista[/FONT] immediately fled the island [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]with an amassed personal fortune[/FONT] to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally Rafael Trujillo held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in Oliveira Salazar's Portugal, where he lived until dying of a heart attack on August 6, 1973, near Marbella, Spain.

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