Reuters on Fidel Castro: He's a Sports Nut!

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By Pam Meister (Bio | Archive)
July 18, 2007 - 11:11 ET

Cuba's president-for-life Fidel Castro is a huge sports fan. Betcha didn't know that! But thanks to Reuters, we know that Castro has been unable to tear himself away from the television set, watching the Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro:

Fidel Castro has become so glued to the television set watching the Pan-American Games unfolding in Brazil that he is forgetting to take his pills.

In a column published on Wednesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper Granma, the convalescing Cuban leader said he was so engrossed with the sports that he was even forgetting to eat.

"I don't miss a single event on television: weights, taekwondo, rowing, cycling, beach volleyball," he wrote.

"I hardly take my eyes off the television set. Sometimes I forget when it is time to eat or take a pill," Castro said in the column he has written since March, called "Reflections of the Comandante."

The rest of the Reuter's article touches lightly on Castro's illness that caused him to allow his brother, Raul, to take over the day-to-day running of the Communist paradise, widely known for its stellar education opportunities and gold-standard health care. Ahem.

Castro has been writing such columns for Granma for some time now, and apparently they are read over and over on state-sponsored media outlets. Of course, it must be noted that:

Many of his columns are virulent attacks on his longtime ideological nemesis, the U.S. government.

I wonder what he thinks of the fact that our athletes are outperforming the Cubans in Rio?


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More Soccer, quick!!

July 18, 2007 - 11:26 ET by BeanMan

Well let's get some more soccer tournements going quickly.  Let's include some baseball and such too. 

Since government is coercion, politics is largely the exercise of deception regarding the intended use of coercion - George Orwell

I'll bet Castro can still

July 18, 2007 - 11:28 ET by dervish

I'll bet Castro can still pitch, too. Just ask him!

A regular guy

July 18, 2007 - 11:49 ET by Mica the Magnificent

And the liberals reaction to this story?

Hey! Fidel is a sports guy, just like me. How sweet!

"Ha ha. I forgot to eat, take my pills . . because I watch sports. So if you see a picture of me and I look bad it's because of these things, not because I'm f***ing dying!" - - -Fidel's handlers press release

 

Let's see if Castro can break away from the tv on July 26

July 18, 2007 - 11:56 ET by Carl Kolchak

I wonder if Castro will be able to break away from the tv to make a speech to the people of Cuba on July 26 marking the Revolution anniversary.  If he doesn't make that speech, then you know something is seriously wrong with his health.

"I'm a man of means, by no means, King of the Road"  'King of the Road'

 

Stalin was into needle point?

July 18, 2007 - 12:25 ET by Dave R

So, what can we expect from these murderous-dictator apologists next? Chavez is into basket-weaving, Ahmadinejad crochetes in his spare time? That Nork gargoyle likes to go bowling (when he isn't busy watching American movies?) What?

Good grief.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

 Castro is a sports

July 18, 2007 - 12:30 ET by Airforce_5_O

 Castro is a sports nut.

You got that half right.

The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.

 

Thanks to Reuters, the

July 18, 2007 - 12:55 ET by stratman

Thanks to Reuters, the world will never miss the propaganda that Castro will never miss a sporting event. 

I feel so informed and safer now.

Thanks Pinkos, um, Reuters.

Castro is a torturing,

July 18, 2007 - 17:10 ET by jdhawk

Castro is a torturing, murdering tyrant.  He has caused the Cuban people nothing but poverty, hunger, and misery for over forty years. 

He is a cockroach to be squashed with one's heel like he has done to so many of his countrymen.  When he dies, and that can't come soon enough, he will spend eternity in hell. 

Play that cabron!