Chi Trib’s Gary Marx and two other reporters have to leave the island paradise, but why are others still there? asks Investor’s Business Daily. 

Earlier this week, unexpelled Reuters correspondent Marc Frank wrote about Cuba’s latest failed sugar harvest, making no effort to look up why government price-setting creates the same disastrous result over and over. Like the Soviets of old, he blamed the weather.

Not everything Frank [an ex-People’s Daily World staffer] does is bad, but [he] states in many of his reports that Cuba’s economic problems are a byproduct of the U.S. embargo rather than the failures of socialism.

Not to be outdone, Anita Snow of the Associated Press is the go-to person for every Western fringe leftist visiting Cuba and parroting Castro’s priorities.

I’d say any time one is expelled by a government, the others are to be examined.  Remember: CNN hung on in Iraq by reporting Sadaam’s election victories with a straight face and ignoring atrocities, later claiming they could not report them without endangering sources.

This $70G chauffeur story has legs, let me tell you.  Correction on State of Blago posted a few days ago: It’s the Dept. of HS, not HR: that’s [In]Human Services, which apparently supplies In-service training for apparent liars and (female) sexual predators:

Legislators say state official lying on drivers

SPRINGFIELD — The head of state government’s largest [!] agency denied Wednesday that she and her top aide hired taxpayer-funded chauffeurs, but that’s not what her chief of staff said under oath last year in a federal sex harassment lawsuit.

While we’re at it, kudos (singular of Greek word for hearty congratulations, not plural of kudo) to Dave McKinney, Chris Fusco, Whitney Woodward (what, no email address?), and their editors for a good, hard lede.

It’s still the state of Blago, by the way, but he’s not in the story.

Later: Oops, he’s there:

[Pajama Lady] Wertz also testified that she and Estes [the chauffeur], who didn’t have a high-school diploma, were hired after working on Gov. Blagojevich’s campaign. She said both knew Louanner Peters, who is now one of Blagojevich’s two deputy governors.

Blago, we can’t say we hardly knew ye.