Rumors surrounding the “believable liar”
There was an interesting mention yesterday in Radio Miami’s Max Lesnik’s section where he becomes El Duende (translated as something of an unruly ghost). During the minutes long report from beyond the tomb (as he likes to say), El Duende reports of rumors regarding writer and Miami Herald columnist Carlos Alberto Montaner. If you will remember, not too long ago in this same blog space, I called Montaner a “believable liar.” As I wrote then, “I have yet to see him in a media appearance where he doesn’t make up something along the way. He quotes statistics and studies that were never conducted — and people believe him. He has more information from inside Cuba than most anyone I know. Yet, he’s not been inside the island in years and from the BS he handles I doubt he really knows anybody inside Cuba. He must make it up along the way…”
It turns out, and again I must emphasize this is rumor and I am simply citing a report from El Duende, the Obama administration is busy checking out all monies being spent by the U.S. government directly related to propaganda against Cuba. You’ve heard of these folks — from Radio and TV Marti to the many (right here in Miami) who ended up with Godiva chocolates, leather jackets and who knows what else, all bought with money that was supposed to go to Cuban dissidents. This happened a few years back.
Apparently, from what El Duende tells us, and he insists it’s rumor, one of the persons who has received bad news from the U.S. government is Carlos Alberto Montaner… like I said not too long ago, “A believable liar.”
Alvaro F. Fernandez
4-8-2009
This is all an insurmountable amount of … fertilizer. How do you know and why should anyone believe you? Max Lesnik a creditable source? Come one Dude, he , Lesnik is a puppet , a mouth piece on payroll from the Cuban goverment. If Montaner , according to you is a “believable liar” then , you are an unfathomed moron.
To R… who does not reveal himself. We agree that Montaner is a ‘believable liar’ and I might disagree with you on the ‘unfathomed moron’, but hey, I’m a big boy, I’ll take it for now. What should we call you?
alvaro
PS; It’s herself.
Why do you keep on deleting my responses? You can dish it , but you can’t take it !
I AM POSTING MY RESPONSE TO YOUR ARTICLE FOR THE THIRD TIME. You’ll probably deleate it again. So typical of those he have no answer when faced with the truth. Come on Alvaro.. I anxiously await your answer. R
A believable liar is waste of a cleaver oxymoron. In fact, I find your
> article, in its entirety, a contradiction. You question Mr. Montaner’s (
> you refer to him condescendingly as CA, I will refer to him respectfully as
> Mr. Montaner ) character on the basis that you have not found any proof to
> what he states, yet, you present no proof of the accusations you make
> against him. You article is based on assumptions, and yet, you assert, but
> worst of all, you accuse. You accuse him of possible personal and political
> payoffs and you blatantly accuse him of being a liar. Because I cherish
> democracy, I believe in the right to disagree but, you call a man a liar, a
> political mercenary and you’re just not merely disagreeing with him, you’re
> disparaging his character. All of your assumptions are utterly vacuous and
> your accusations baseless and baseless accusations are cowardly insidious
> and can rightfully be called, slander. But, I can almost understand why a
> man like Mr. Montaner would, for lack of a better word, “bother” you and
> those on the side of the political spectrum you seem to be on. I have met
> Mr. Montaner, only once or twice, and briefly spoken to him, yet, I find him
> to be man who cuts a commanding figure, a man of distinguishable
> attributes. A man of extraordinary resilience who has fought many wars and
> slayed many dragons. A man of inherent noble qualities who is unequivocally
> unruffled, undisturbed, unscathed by vile slander and outlandish charges and
> intrigues. You state that you have “kept pace with him”, well, others have
> hunted him like birds of prey. Again, not because they disagree with him,
> but because he has always been and is, a threat. A threat to those who have
> had the insolence of passing down tyranny as if it were a hereditary right,
> as if it were a kingship. A threat to their courtiers, their buffoons,
> their servants, men and women who have held themselves accountable to no
> one that have embodied a regime that for the past fifty years has tyrannized
> its population to the point of ripping them of their self worth, making them
> null and void, devoid of all hope to the point of a deplorable sate of
> desperation, something inconceivably repugnant to human capacity and beneath
> human society. Now, the times are changing, the fog is clearing. The time
> of reckoning is at hand. Inevitably Mr. Montaner will be unmercilessly
> slandered again and again, more so than ever, because every word he utters
> or writes is a nail on the coffin of the waning, ailing, tyrant who awaits
> his imminent demise and that of his reign of terror. Quoting George
> Orwell; in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
> act. I find this to be much befitting, call him as such, a revolutionary,
> and a true one, not so like the treasonous ones who called themselves as
> such 50 years ago. R.
>
Come on Alvaro, be a “big boy” as you yourself claim to be. Leave my response posted, don’t delete it and please, do answer me. R