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Cuba

• September 14 -- Cuban Dictator as "Ever-Charismatic President"
The "ever-charismatic" Fidel Castro.

• May 27 -- More Left-Wing Che Clichés
Larry Rohter on Argentina's tiresome Che chic: "Che Guevara is widely remembered today as a revolutionary figure; to some a heroic, Christ-like martyr, to others the embodiment of a failed ideology….for Latin Americans just now coming of age, yet another image of Che is starting to emerge: the romantic and tragic young adventurer who has as much in common with Jack Kerouac or James Dean as with Fidel Castro." Rohter leaves out one group: Those who consider Guevara a bloodthirsty Communist militant.

• November 13 -- Bush, Panderer to the Panhandle
Could Bush actually favor the travel ban on U.S. travel to Cuba on principle? The thought doesn't occur to Christopher Marquis, who portrays Bush as pandering to Cuban-Americans: "[His] allies in Congress quietly eliminated a widely supported provision easing restrictions on American travel to Cuba from a major appropriations bill to save him from embarrassment over his political designs in Florida…."

• June 25 -- A Distorted Headline On “Distorted” Intelligence
James Risen and Douglas Jehl’s story on military intelligence-gathering sports the distressing headline: “Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence.” But the expert admits he never altered his intelligence reports –plus, he’s discussing Cuba, not Iraq.

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org