Michelle Malkin is an honorary cubana

I am not a big fan of syndicated columnist/blogger Michelle Malkin, largely over questions of style — at times, she strikes me as more than a bit shrill — but also of substance — she is rarely as shrill as she is on immigration matters.

But when Malkin gets it right, as she did this morning on Cuba and Michael Moore when she quoted an Associated Press story quoting the official Cuban defense of Moore, she is perfect, and not just because she included a link to this humble site.

Those of us who write about Cuba sometimes struggle with knowing that our words are largely ignored or worse, dismissed as the rants of "those crazy Cubans in Miami." (Sorry to disappoint, but Miami is more than 3 hours of way from where I am writing this right now. And if adovocating for liberty, including freedom of the press, is crazy, call me nuts.)

The stories I tell about Cuba's imprisoned journalists and other dissidents deserve to be told and to be read and acted on. I appreciate every reader who comes here to learn about Juan Herrera, Omar Ruiz , Ivan Hernandez and the other journalists, but I know I don't have a mass audience. And sometimes, that frustrates me.

But this morning, Malkin gave me, and more importantly, the cause of Cuban liberty of big lift. She exposed the hypocrisy of the Cuban defense of Moore — that he is the victim of an "imperial philosophy of censorship" — by reminding her readers of the more than two dozen Cuban journalists locked away because they stood up to tyranny and told the truth.

Now that is something about which I hope Malkin always is shrill.