Now we have Fredo Cuomo and CNN actually defending socialism. The mask has slipped off and it’s not going back on. Fredo Cuomo interviewed Elizabeth Heng, who narrated that power anti-socialism ad that ran during the Democrat debates last week. Fredo Cuomo credit to claim that what happened with Pol Pot and socialism in Cambodia really wasn’t about socialism. Instead Cuomo tried to claim it was just because Pol Pot was an evil person. Well duh, Fredo. Of course Pol Pot was a horrible person! He used socialism to force Cambodians to endure “forced obedience” and “starvation” through socialism. Pol Pot wasn’t a capitalist you know.
Fredo Cuomo then went on to pimp socialism in Scandinavia or Denmark, because “they aren’t killing people” or something. This is CNN. Elizabeth Heng then proceeded to destroy Fredo Cuomo.
| Fredo Cuomo defends Pol Pot socialism – claims he was just bad person in Cambodia |
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CHRIS CUOMO: You are so well-educated. You know that, you know, you can talk about socialism any way you want. Pol Pot was a brutal autocrat and dictator. That wasn’t about socialism. That was about him being an evil human being. You know, you can go to Scandinavia or Denmark, and see socialism. They’re not killing people. Why paint with that kind of brush against a set of ideas coming from a Democrat in your own country?
Heng proceeded to school Cuomo on the role of socialist ideology in brutal dictatorships, also reminding him that “Pol Pot learned socialist ideologies in France, and wanted to create this utopia. And…and quickly, that evolved into the murderous regime in which it became….Canada and Denmark and some of those other places…they have become capitalist nations.”
Media figures downplaying the threat of socialism and/or communism is not unique. Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, once claimed that during a trip to North Korea, “I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but…I didn’t see any brutality.” Longtime NBC journalist John Chancellor once declared that the problem with Russia was not communism, it was “shortages,” apparently failing to realize that communism caused the shortages in the first place.
Later, Cuomo told Heng “people like your family and what you represent…your fight is with the President that you support. He’s the one who talks about your parents like they’re ‘some other’ that shouldn’t be in this country.” Cuomo also accused President Trump of “embracing dictators everywhere he finds them.”