You be nice to the gentlemen, CNN, and they'll be nice to you

CNN's pro-Castro talking points that will be added to their anchor feeds. "Subject: Castro Guidance". Must read. Go. As soon as you've finished here.

Where have I heard this before? Ah, yes, Eason Jordan. The name had actually slipped my mind, even though we were just talking about him last year. Here's his wea culpa for CNN's smoochification of the Baath party and the Saddam regime.

"The News We Kept To Ourselves", Jordan called it. It's the price of access: if you want to bring the big exclusives from inside Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, you have to play the game. And the Castro News Network proves time and again that it doesn't just play the game of kissing dictators' butts--it dominates the league.

It sounded like somebody else that was talkin',
Asking "Mama, what do I do?"
She said Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy,
And they'll be nice to you.

She said here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out,
Well, its up to you
Now don't let me down, you better start movin' uptown.
...
It wasn't very long after a benevolent man
Took me off the street
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite

I charmed a king, a congressman,
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done bad