Scott Pelley is all over the news after getting fired from 60 Minutes, casting himself as a martyr for journalistic integrity and denying any bias on his part or on the part of the program.

But the Cuban-American community has been watching 60 Minutes cover Cuba for over 50 years, and the view from here looks a very different.

Dan Rather interviewed Fidel Castro multiple times — 1979, 1985, 1995 — each time giving the dictator a platform he exploited shrewdly. The 1985 interview included Castro personally escorting Rather and the crew on a guided tour of Havana. Political theater presented as journalism.

But the low point came during the Elián González saga.  Humberto Fontova — journalist, author, and longtime Babalú contributor — reminds us that Rather’s 60 Minutes interview with Elián’s father Juan Miguel was essentially staged. The questions were fed to Rather by Gregory Craig, a Clinton lawyer who was running the pro-Castro side of the custody battle. Rather’s own translator, Pedro Porro, was an eyewitness and confirmed that Juan Miguel was surrounded by Castro security agents throughout the interview and was visibly under duress. None of that made the broadcast.

Then in 2005, 60 Minutes sent correspondent Bob Simon to Cuba to interview an 11-year-old Elián, who dutifully told the cameras that Fidel Castro was like a father to him. The exile community called it what it was: regime propaganda with a CBS logo on it.

So yes, Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes has a bias problem. We’ve known that for a long time.