Bitter Mary

Jay Nordlinger has this to say about our old favorite, Mary McGrory:

One more Cuban item: Mary McGrory, longtime columnist for the Washington Post, ended her recent column this way: �George Bush would rather keep Cubans hungry than take any chances for himself and his brother with the folks who thought Elian Gonzalez would be better off dead than red.�

Cubans are hungry because of Fidel Castro�s political-economic system, not because of the American embargo. (It was nice, by the way, that a famous American liberal acknowledged that Cubans are hungry � often the Left doesn�t like to do that.) And it�s not like there�s a world embargo against Cuba. In fact, no other nation besides the United States has an embargo on. Cuba �trades� � but only in quotation marks, because the regime controls everything, not private citizens � with well over 100 countries. But still the people starve � and that�s because of �socialism.�

I�ve said it before, and it�s stupid to say it again, but: It�s positively mind-boggling that a woman such as Mary McGrory could be given a political column in one of the most important newspapers in the world. Yes, that�s our George Bush: going to bed, stuffed with tacos, determined to �keep Cubans hungry.� Absolutely mind-boggling. And they say the web � as represented by NRO, for example � is unpoliced, irresponsible, and outrageous?

Like Nordlinger's, our mind has been similarly boggled about Bitter Mary's regular column for a while now.

Incidentally, Nordlinger's comments in the same column on the peanut farmer are compelling as well.

[Posted at 22:11 CST on 05/17/02] [Link]