Oh, NPR and journalistic excellence go hand-in-hand, don’t you know? A journalist is taught to be neutral, unbiased and to not take sides, right? I know you’re laughing right about now because despite many top journalists who are churned out of our elite universities, “unbiased” would not be a way to define them.

Take this lovely example of Communist adoration from Georgetown grad, award-winning journalist and NPR South America correspondent, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro who told the epic tale of meeting the late Ramon Castro at a party in Havana for American business people:

“I walk into this lush, beautiful villa, and I am introduced to Ramon Castro, and it’s kind of jarring because even though he was Fidel’s older brother, he looks a lot like him. As he’s presented to me, he leans over and gives me a kiss on one cheek and says, this is from Raul, kisses me on the other cheek and says, this is from me, and then he kisses me on the forehead and says, this is from Fidel.”

Then comes the icing on the cake. I’m going to apologize to my Roman Catholic friends right now:

“It was kind of like getting the blessing of the Holy Trinity.”

Yes, she did just call the Castro brothers “The Holy Trinity”. Kissed by God? Or by “socialist saints”? In the name of Ramon, Raul and Fidel, Amen? Here we have the American who enters (despite the embargo) a lush, beautiful villa in Cuba. How many poverty-ridden streets did she drive past to get there? Meh. That doesn’t matter. The great reward was on the other side of that, folks- a few smoochies from a cute little old man-communist-grandpa. Harmless, right? I can see Garcia-Navarro at the Castro villa now:

Garcia-Navarro may have gushed about Ramon Castro and his charms, but had nothing nice to say about George W. Bush’s departure from The White House in 2009. In an interview on NPR’s Talk of the Nation in February of ’09, Garcia-Navarro, then NPR Baghdad Bureau Chief, gave her professional “journalistic” assessment: