[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 19 December 2014 edition of CNN Newsroom, liberal Rep. Charlie Rangel completely downplayed how the communist regime in Cuba has harbored a fugitive cop-killer for decades. Anchor Carol Costello raised how Joanne Chesimard, who was named to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List in 2013, was "granted asylum by Fidel Castro." Rangel replied that "I haven't heard her name come up in decades," and asserted that on the "radar screen" of "what's in the best interest of the people of the United States from a foreign policy point of view...her name doesn't even come up."
To her credit, Costello hounded the New York City congressman on the Chesimard issue: "There are people who will look at this and say, look, Fidel Castro and Cuba harbored a cop killer, who should be in prison in the United States. Why are we gifting them with more normalized relations?"