Posted on 06/25/2008 5:53:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
On Tuesday’s CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric reported on Zimbabwe’s opposition leader dropping out of an election against the nation’s socialist dictator, Robert Mugabe, and lamented how: "The fear and danger that now pervades the streets of Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe is a tragic departure from the hope and promise that began with his landslide victory nearly 30 years ago." File footage of an unidentified reporter covering Mugabe’s 1980 election followed: "A self-described Marxist has won the right to form the first government of the new state of Zimbabwe."
Couric continued to describe Mugabe’s promising rise to power:
When Robert Mugabe was first elected in 1980, he was a hero. He was seen as one of Africa's most promising black leaders...The son of a carpenter, the revolutionary and former school teacher said he had, quote, "inherited the jewel of Africa." A country rich in resources, Zimbabwe claimed independence from Britain in 1965 when it was known as Rhodesia. During the '80s, Zimbabwe's government received international support...at a time its neighbor, South Africa, practiced apartheid. The country's economic condition and public health improved. But in the '90s, Mugabe became more authoritarian. This one-time revolutionary squashed all opposition and faced charges of cronyism and corruption.
Despite seeming to be surprised that Mugabe’s Marxist policies didn’t work out, Couric did highlight the regime’s brutality: "The country has been in economic free fall since 2000. Six years ago Mugabe ordered all white commercial farmers to abandon their farms with no compensation. Once Africa's bread basket, the country now relies on outside food programs, and half the population is undernourished..."
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Fear not. She’ll be right up there with the rest of the MSM to kiss BO’s A$$!
Is that anything like "Hope and Change?"
I’m certain all the slain white farmers who fed that region - who’s farms were confiscated by Mugabe’s thugs and slaughtered like animals would be right proud of Mugabe.
Problem is after the farmers were slaughtered the natives had no idea how to farm and the land went fallow.
Couric apparently is about as deep as a paper plate.
What a surprise, another leftist totalitarian dictatorship is falling and killing its citizens as it goes down.
The only ones not seeing this coming was Katie and her hard leftist fellow journalists and friends.
socialism, and therefore marxism, requires a dictator to work properly. Mugabe is just fulfilling the destiny of a peoples stupid enough to embrace socialism.
Katie Couric: “Gee whiz, the Marxist Mugabe and his followers aren’t as nice as they used to be. They are getting as mean as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.”
There’s nothing particuarly unique about Mugabe’s reign in Zimbabwe. Communist governments collapse and claim millions of victims along the way, some more permanently than others. Lenin’s Soviet Union, Ceausescu’s Romania, Castro, North Korea, etc etc—all stories of impoverishment, repression, despair, abject corruption, Hell on earth... We’ll be able to add Chavez’s Venezuela and Obama’s USA in due time. Couric is just a pathetic apparatchik, a paid Marxist stooge.
Is this the same election Hussein O-bam-bam wants us to take over “by force” and change the outcome?
Does this not just scream "Bush's fault."
At least we can see our future.
For many Marxists Zimbabwe is the model to be desired. They have achieved equality, yes they are all starving but they are more or less equal. They view prosperity as a bourgeois artifact and fixation. Socialists have no use for prosperity, they are fixated on equality.
The only ones not seeing this coming was Katie and her hard leftist fellow journalists and friends.
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The only ones not seeing this coming were Katie and her USEFUL IDIOT fellow journalists and friends!
Those who did see it coming were her COMMUNIST fellow journalists and friends. They knew this was the plan from the beginning!
Yes, I am shouting! It is time we called the enemy by its true name: COMMUNISTS and USEFUL IDIOTS.
Bingo!
It is time we use the word the fit: MARXIST!
Also,...It is time that we demand that our talk radio Pumpkin Heads use words that fit as well! Those words are:
Marxist!
Communist!
Stalinist!
Bolsevic!
Communism has **always** been the enemy. There is no such thing as a “liberal”. It is like a train line. Every socialist program is merely one more station train stop. The final destination **is** and always **has been** COMMUNISM!
I've measured that at 9 Courics.
Gee, a Marxist, once elected, becomes a tyrannical dictator.
Color me surprised.
Preview of an Obama Administration, especially the second term when all-out Marxist exists in the government and Supreme Court dominated by pro-communists.
In the 70’s, these regimes were all the rage among leftists worldwide, esp. in the US. Carter embraced many of them. They were all hailed as the “future of Africa” and a potential “third way” between Soviet control and true democratic capitalisim.
Most of issues on that continent can be traced directly back to those leaders, and the near universal state failure of each of them following the withdrawal of their colonial governments.
Someone really watches Katie to even learn she said this?
Katie you ignorant slut! It really isn't funny. As long as I have hated CBS they always find new lows! Anyone who genuinely thought Robert Mugabe was other than a murdering terrorist animal in 1980 or any other time is an imbecile.
The reign of Robert Mugabe is entirely the result of Western Collective White Guilt expressed in the delusional foreign policy of the involved Western Governments against Rhodesia and white rule at ANY cost to the people at large.
I have little doubt that the people old enough to remember, outside Mugabe's thugs, would prefer conditions under Ian Smith to those under Mugabe. There aren't that many old people in Zimbabwe because one thing Mugabe has achieved for his country is the lowest Life Expectancy in the world.
"..Life expectancy at birth for males in Zimbabwe has dramatically declined since 1990 from 60 to 37, the lowest in the world. Life expectancy for females is even lower at 34 years.[26] Concurrently, the infant mortality rate has climbed from 53 to 81 deaths per 1,000 live births in the same period..."
Hey PERKY.....30 YEARS AGO means he's NOW A DICTATOR!!! One doesn't stay in office for THIRTY YEARS WITHOUT being a DICTATOR!
Katie somehow dug up the idea she was a newsperson working on the Today show when they gave her plum assignments which were actually interviewing heads of state but lobbing soft ‘housewify’ questions directed at what NBC determines is the less than knowledgeable demographics watching their show (hello - anyone home at NBC?).
I mean they peaked out on gutsy stuff like: “Where in the world is Matt Lauer?”
She is so pathetic she really believed she is a newsperson and will go anywhere. believe anything, and report idiocy asked of her for a tidy price.
You think the second Obama term is gonna be bad, wait for the seventh.
btt
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