The Justice Department, led by then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, was criticized after the Pulitzer Prize-winning image was published nationally.
Posted on 04/22/2010 10:43:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
The Justice Department, led by then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, was criticized after the Pulitzer Prize-winning image was published nationally.
Now he’s a brownshirt for the Dear Leader of Cuba. Way to go there, Slick.
The hell you say. Elian was waiting at that house peacefully, completely at the beck and call of the courts.
And then YOUR ARMED GOONS showed up.
For this statement alone, I hope that Elian returns to the US as an adult someday, and relieves himself on Clinton's final resting place.
Democrats are the enemy of freedom.
Never forget, an agitator on the Left who wrote for the LA Times tried to start a riot that she could then "document".
Undercover Photographer - L.A. Times staffer Carolyn Cole crosses a line, again. (By Andrew Breitbart, National Review May 14, 2002)
Little critical attention has been given to the recent antics of Los Angeles Times staff photographer Carolyn Cole, who on May 2 joined a group of "peace activists" who had clandestinely entered Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, in solidarity with the Palestinian militants holding dozens of civilians and clergymen hostage.Upon her arrival inside the holy site, Cole took on the dual role of photographer and reporter for the Times, offering first-person accounts from within the church.
The Times, often accused of carrying an anti-Israeli grudge, confirmed many of its critics' suspicions by printing Cole's blatantly pro-Palestinian church dispatches. Cole even noted that she felt safer with the Palestinian militants than she did with the Israelis. (A collection of her like-minded photos from inside the church appear in this week's Time.)
...But this isn't the first time Cole has stepped over a professional line in her career. In April 2000 — at the height of the Elián Gonzalez affair — Cole was arrested on felony charges of "throwing deadly missiles" at police during protests in Little Havana, apparently in an effort to stir up her subjects and thereby generate "better" news.
Miami detective Delrish Moss said Cole "was seen throwing two or three rocks and then picked up her camera and proceeded to take photographs."
Michael Parks, her boss at the Times, said in a statement that her arrest was "an abridgment of the people's right to know."
"Carolyn Cole was covering the protests in Miami as a news photographer, not participating in them, and her photographs published in the Times make that clear," Parks insisted.
Of course, Ms. Cole would never overstep the law nor defy journalistic principles to get a story. And there's no way that she held the anti-Castro crowd in contempt and wanted to create shots that would portray them in the most frenzied and violent light.
That was on EASTER SUNDAY, lest people forget.
I wish someone would identify that storm trooper some day. I don’t care what training they had or what erroneous information they were given, you don’t point an automatic weapon at anyone, trigger or no trigger, and especially not an unarmed man holding a child.
B*st*rds. No matter how many times I see it, this image always gets my blood pressure up.
Odd isn’t it, that in 10 years there hasn’t been a name connected with that face in the MSM?
The media had classified info on Joe The Plumber’s child support payments within a matter of days because he told the President he didn’t like Marxist redistribution.
"Do I care about it?," Morales said. "No, not really."
That must be the most inconsequential piece of reporting this year. Who is Rene Morales? Answer - the guy who lives across the street. Does he otherwise have anything to do with the story? No.
A good artist could create a decent sketch of the guy. If I knew what kind of lens the photog was using I could estimate his height taking into account that high-riding helmet.
CNN actually had a segment on that infamous day. It was chilling and heartbreaking at the same time.
Bubba’s legacy.
Of course the pervert-in-chief has no regrets. He wasn't sent back to live in a repressive communist regime.
That was on EASTER SUNDAY, lest people forget.
That is incorrect. I believe it was Easter weekend, but it was not Easter Sunday (not that that would have made any difference to Clinton/Reno).
Wonder if they will also note the 10th anniversary of the USS Cole (October 12, 2000) bombing and the 15th anniversary of the Khobar Towers bombing (June 25, 1996).
Ronaldus Magnus would have told Castro to STUFF it. I don’t doubt either of the Presidents Bush would have also thumbed their nose at the Cuban government.
Barry Sotero would have delivered the boy back to his buddy Castro on Air Force One.
"In the pre-dawn hours of April 22"
I never knew it was Saturday morning. It took 24 hours to make the news cycle?
Clinton said, “Believe me, I hated what happened because I thought we would be able to do it in a different way.”
You could have done a lot of things different, Slick. George W. would have done a lot of things different. For one, he would’ve told the Cuban gov’t what Cheney told Pat Leahy. For another, he never would have made arrangements for Cuban school children to be brought to the United States and allowed them to be taught indoctrination lessons in Communism on American soil.
Remember the ridiculous female agent bouncing around the backyard, with a pistol in her hands?
If anyone ever writes a book titled “Clinton’s America,” I hope that photo is on the cover.
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