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Title: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: TheSarge on March 09, 2009, 07:56:27 PM
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The presidential candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the communist revolutionaries in El Salvador the Reagan administration battled in the 1980s, is, a Monday Washington Post story noted, “a former correspondent for CNN en Espanol.” In the March 9 article, “In El Salvador Vote, Big Opportunity for Leftists,” reporter William Booth relayed from San Salvador that the journalist-turned-politician “considers himself to be El Salvador's Barack Obama.” Booth relayed:

After a 12-year civil war and a peace undermined by soaring crime, leftists in El Salvador are on the verge of completing a remarkable journey from armed struggle to the presidential palace.

Their candidate is a veteran TV broadcaster and morning talk show host, Mauricio Funes, whose Facebook page lists his political views as “other.” Funes, 49, a former correspondent for CNN en Español, was recently recruited by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the revolutionary group-turned-mainstream political party that is favored by polls to win the presidency in a vote scheduled for March 15....

Funes considers himself to be El Salvador's Barack Obama -- an agent of change in a country beset by the highest murder rate in Latin America and an economy in free fall.

The comparison is overt: Funes and the FMLN use images of Obama in their ads (despite objections by the U.S. State Department), saying both candidates were smeared by their opponents as allies of extremists. The FMLN television spots complete the link by employing the Obama slogan in English and Spanish, vowing "Yes, we can!"...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/03/09/cnn-correspondent-now-communist-candidate-el-salvador
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: NHSparky on March 09, 2009, 08:36:37 PM
Of course, they're only objecting because then the sheeple will know what the Democrats and MSM have been in bed with for the past 40 years.
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 09, 2009, 08:57:22 PM
well, he did work for the Commie News Network
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: Wretched Excess on March 09, 2009, 10:27:41 PM
Quote from: FGL on March 09, 2009, 08:57:22 PM
well, he did work for the Commie News Network

exactly.  it just doesn't seem to be that big a jump to me.
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: Strider on March 09, 2009, 10:57:25 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on March 09, 2009, 10:27:41 PM
exactly.  it just doesn't seem to be that big a jump to me.
I was thinking the same thing....
Maybe he will get Kieth Olberman to be his running mate......
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: Wretched Excess on March 09, 2009, 10:58:52 PM
Quote from: Strider on March 09, 2009, 10:57:25 PM
I was thinking the same thing....
Maybe he will get Kieth Olberman to be his running mate......

great idea.  putting a chick on the ticket will give it balance.  snark. :-)
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 10, 2009, 05:41:00 AM
I fail to see how anyone is surprised. ::) :whatever:
Title: Re: CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador
Post by: Hawkgirl on March 10, 2009, 04:27:00 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on March 09, 2009, 10:58:52 PM
great idea.  putting a chick on the ticket will give it balance.  snark. :-)

or that dude, Maddow