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Ugly American? Melissa Harris-Perry Worries US Tourists Would be 'Plague' on Cuba
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/11/2015 11:56:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Imagine you're a Cuban who has somehow managed to catch the cablecast of Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show today. The topic is President Obama's opening toward Cuba. You're scraping by on the average Cuban monthly salary of $20/month and are thrilled at the prospect of getting a better-paying job if and when American tourists start coming in numbers.

Then suddenly you hear Harris-Perry fretting that there could be a "downside" for Cuba in letting in those American tourists. They could be a "plague" for Cuba. Impose their cultural "hegemony." !Ay caramba!

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitalism; communism; cuba; melissaharrisperry
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She’s talking about Obama supporters , right


41 posted on 04/11/2015 1:05:21 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve heard that there is prostitution in Cuba aimed at foreign men, who bring hard currency to the equation. The average Cuban is so poor that there are women who want to be with foreign men so as to have hard currency and not Cuban pesos.


42 posted on 04/11/2015 1:09:13 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Cuba aimed at foreign men, who bring hard currency to the equation.

Yeah and they bring money too. LOL!

43 posted on 04/11/2015 1:10:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I see what you are saying, LOL.

On further review I could have chosen my words differently.......


44 posted on 04/11/2015 1:11:30 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And you can bet the gays will go there for all the “cute” boys.


45 posted on 04/11/2015 1:12:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nice thing about getting rid of your cable...I never see this commie skank on the tube, and I sure as hell don’t pay her salary.


46 posted on 04/11/2015 1:16:23 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
...or it could be more sinister in motive.


47 posted on 04/11/2015 1:18:31 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Imagine you’re a Cuban who has somehow managed to catch the cablecast of Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC show today.”

If this were to somehow happen her ratings would go up by 25% or so.

No one watches this crap. I tend to agree with Rush Limbaugh’s strategy of not helping promote MSNBC by paying any attention to it.


48 posted on 04/11/2015 1:20:30 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: the_individual2014

Yeah, but Castro will die. We shouldn’t have given him and his supporters (including American liberals) the satisfaction of outlasting us. We should have claimed total victory by 1) waiting until Fidel was room temperature to normalize relations, and then 2) burying Raoul in such a tsunami of capitalism that his deathbed is one of those sleep number mattresses that Rush is always talking up.


49 posted on 04/11/2015 1:25:58 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: dfwgator

Plenty Cubans will become prostitutes with all of the new potential customers coming in.

Especially once the Secret Service starts visiting regularly.


50 posted on 04/11/2015 1:26:18 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: dfwgator

Plenty Cubans will become prostitutes with all of the new potential customers coming in.

Especially when the Secret Service starts visiting regularly.


51 posted on 04/11/2015 1:26:18 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

This.


52 posted on 04/11/2015 1:26:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Yardstick

Oh I know he will die and he can go to hell as far as I concerned, what I meant was by force from us mostly ergo an invasion force, but you make a point I’ll give you that.


53 posted on 04/11/2015 1:34:07 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: dfwgator

She want it worth ways. A quaint, but impoverished, communist country, and a country getting American dollars.

You are right....it’s the leftist elitists who are the snobbery. Imagine Maria Harf.


54 posted on 04/11/2015 1:48:00 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: the_individual2014

Well yeah, but we were never going to invade Cuba again. And of course in the long run we will win because communism inevitably fails. But it still sucks that Obama has managed to snatch the moral victory of outlasting Fidel from us. Also, he now gets to manage the reestablishment of relations with Cuba. He gets to determine the new footing. He’s going to set a trajectory that’s much better for the communist regime than if it had been set by say, a Ted Cruz administration.


55 posted on 04/11/2015 1:49:47 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: PhiloBedo

They believe under socialism they will be the elite. They are in for a rude surprise when the revolution really comes.


56 posted on 04/11/2015 2:00:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The truly ugly Americans are those wearing tampons for earrings.


57 posted on 04/11/2015 2:09:58 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A real “news” network would have fired this stupid woman after her tampon-earrings stunt. If she loves communist poverty so much, why isn’t she there? She is obviously compensating for her upbringing in a middle class white family and trying to prove her black radical credentials. No doubt she’s a Mumia groupie.


58 posted on 04/11/2015 2:37:15 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shut your whore mouth.


59 posted on 04/11/2015 4:24:39 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So much stupid in that little head.


60 posted on 04/12/2015 1:35:58 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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