Sleazy or inept?
The Bee editorial today endorses Hillary Clinton OK . But,
it uses out of context, edited sound
bites as if they were evidence which leads to bad history. That is too bad.
Yes, Sanders said positive things about the Sandinistas in
Nicaragua in their first period when they overthrew the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship.
They then established a mixed economy (not socialist) and U.S. citizens joined them to teach poor children to read and to write.
So did I.
Later the Sandinistas were defeated after a brutal war with
the U.S. financed Contra rebels with arms and training acquired illegally from
Iran. They lost an election and left
power.
To use the out of context phrases selected to imply a
conspiracy is the kind of phony reporting
found in the Republican media machine, or the National Enquirer, not in responsible
news papers.
The Bee editorial uses a similar out of context about Sanders support for Cuba.
Here is what he actually said,
“What
that was about was saying that the United States was wrong to try to invade
Cuba, that the United States was wrong trying to support people to overthrow
the Nicaraguan government, that the United States was wrong trying to overthrow
in 1954 the democratically elected government of Guatemala," Sanders said.
There is video
of him speaking highly of both Castro and
Daniel Ortega's Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, where Sanders traveled in
1985.
BuzzFeed
News posted the video, which originally aired on Channel 17/Town Meeting
Television, in June 2015. Sanders remarked that people "forgot that
[Castro] educated their kids, gave their kids healthcare, totally transformed
the society.”
