I could use the "work". (About as productive as me sitting in my living room typing this; actually less so, since someone somewhere will at least read this. And yet I do it for free. Silly me...)

It must be a cold day in hell, apparently!

You may recall how unsurprised we all were learning the US Gov't was paying writers at the Miami Herald back during the _Bush occupation of the White House:

U.S. Paid 10 Journalists for Anti-Castro Reports

By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: September 9, 2006

MIAMI, Sept. 8 — The Bush administration’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting paid 10 journalists here to provide commentary on Radio and TV Martí, which transmit to Cuba government broadcasts critical of Fidel Castro, a spokesman for the office said Friday.

The group included three journalists at El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister newspaper of The Miami Herald, which fired them Thursday after learning of the relationship. Pablo Alfonso, who reports on Cuba for El Nuevo Herald, received the largest payment, almost $175,000 since 2001.

Other journalists have been found to accept money from the Bush administration, including Armstrong Williams, a commentator and talk-show host who received $240,000 to promote its education initiatives. But while the Castro regime has long alleged that some Cuban-American reporters in Miami were paid by the government, the revelation on Friday, reported in The Miami Herald, was the first evidence of that.

In addition to Mr. Alfonso, the journalists who received payment include Wilfredo Cancio Isla, who writes for El Nuevo Herald and received about $15,000 since 2001; Olga Connor, a freelance reporter for the newspaper who received about $71,000; and Juan Manuel Cao, a reporter for Channel 41 who got $11,000 this year from TV Martí, according to The Miami Herald, which learned of the payments through a Freedom of Information Request.

When Mr. Cao followed Mr. Castro to Argentina this summer and asked him why Cuba was not letting one of its political dissidents leave, Mr. Castro called him a “mercenary” and asked who was paying him.

This is an unexpected act, allowing an anti-TV Marti article to be published. No doubt we'll see a long, excessive rant about it in Sunday's paper by Miguel Saavedra, the Mouth of Miami.

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Thank you for the news, Mika! There's bound to be a follow-up to that article. Nothing goes unanswered!

Also, learned through the court testimony of employee/foot soldier of Cubana airliner bombers Luis Posada Carilles and Orlando Bosch, Ricardo "Monkey" Morales, that Morales' wife was a member of the Herald staff.

of that Black Hole, the great Pork Barrel of the CANF'ers of Miami, the original "exiles" who "blessed" this country by infesting South Florida.

It's so easy to see why the Cuban people wanted them out of power. Violent, greedy, vicious, racist scums.

They took great delight when Colorado Democratic Congressman David Skaggs tried to remove funding from TV Marti, thereby enraging Cuban "exile" rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart who told Skaggs if he didn't give up the effort he would make sure Skaggs would lose support at home for every thing near and dear to his heart.

Diaz-Balart got the CANF to supply the funding for advertising in newspapers throughout his Colorado area smearing Skaggs so badly he could not win his next election. Pure filth, pure greed, pure viciousness.

By the time they all have moved to greener pastures, it won't be nearly soon enough. They have grifted the US taxpayers far, far too long, just as they did in Cuba.