CNN Uses Pro-Communist American to Tout Cuban Health Care

NewsBusters.org ^ | August 8, 2009 | Rich Noyes

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There’s something deeply wrong with journalism that scrutinizes and criticizes the institutions of free and successful nations, but produces puff pieces on the supposed achievements of totalitarian dictatorships. On Thursday, CNN aired a piece of Communist Party propaganda about how Cuba could serve as “a model for health care reform” in the United States, complete with an authoritative sound bite from an American medical expert, identified only as someone “who’s lived and worked in Cuba for decades.”

But the expert, Gail Reed, is a longtime admirer of the Cuban revolution, married to the Cuban official who served as ambassador to Grenada in the early 1980s when U.S. troops liberated the island from hardline communists who had executed the leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. She's also worked at Granma, Cuba’s official communist party newspaper.

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Also see:

Gail A. Reed: CNN’s “Pro-Communist American” Expert on Cuban Health Care
August 8, 2009, by Procrustes

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/gail-a-reed-cnns-pro-communist-american-expert-on-cuban-health-care/

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Gail Reed

As for Reed, she was profiled in the Miami Herald back in 1983 after she and her husband returned to Cuba after American forces liberated Grenada. She talked about the fear she felt at seeing U.S. Marines surrounding the Cuban embassy, and told the newspaper, “I feel I have a very strong identification with the Cuban revolution.”

“When I first came to Cuba in the ’70s, I was very impressed with their efforts in building a new kind of society,” Reed explained.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/08/08/cnn-uses-pro-communist-american-tout-cuban-health-care

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Thanks for alerting me to this.

[Vaquero]

Communist News Network

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

They just ran it again this morning on cnn (which I can watch free on blinkotv.com, don’t want anyone thinking I’m crazy enough to pay for that).
Yes, they made it sound pretty wonderful, Cuban universal health care.

[jersey117]

They sure do sink low on CNN.

[SandRat]

[DFG]

If Cuban health care is so wonderful Ms Reed, why did Castro send for doctors from Spain?

[jersey117]

Yes, they made it sound pretty wonderful, Cuban universal health care.

Maybe CNN can enroll Rick Sanchez and the rest of it's employees in the Cuban plan.

[oh8eleven]

"When I first came to Cuba in the ’70s, I was very impressed with their
efforts in building a new kind of society,” Reed explained.

[darkwing104]

A typical Aparatchnik...

[Dallas59]

Lol...could CNN be anything else?

[Fresh Wind]

Health care in Cuba:

http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm

[Dinah Lord]

I hope that CNN reporter brought his own Toilet Paper with him when he visited the worker’s paradise.

[trisham]

Ick. He’s repulsive.

[DAC21]

Yep, whatever you say Gail. Apparently she has never left the Cuban Presidential compound. What say you to this site Gail?

http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm

[Gay State Conservative]

The next time this whore needs serious health care let her go to the same hospital in La Habana that Castro went to for his.and have her take Teddy and Mr Sphincter with her.

What's that you say? Castro went to *SPAIN* for his recent operations?

Never mind!

[Dallas59]

The Real Cuba

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Ex prez jimmy carter with michael
moore at 2004 demonRat convention
July 2004 ...3 months *after* Moore made
the following comments on the war in Iraq
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Michael Moore (quote), from his website, April 14, 2004...

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?"
[actual quote from Michael Moore (2004). It still appears on his website]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14
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The Communist Party USA (CPUSA):
"We are a party of unity in action. We are an integral part of every struggle and movement for change to eliminate poverty and joblessness, against racism and for full equality. We are participants, initiators and leaders of every movement to make life better now and much better in a socialist future." Yeah, so they supported an oppressive dictator, like the Repubs and Democrats haven't? The CP is still around, has apologized for that whole Stalin thing, and has a quickly growing youth section.
[see: MichaelMoore.com-->Links-->PoliticalAction (bottom of the page--CPUSA promo)]
http://www.michaelmoore.com/links/index.php?linkType=Political%20Action
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From the Revolutionary Communist Party website
"A Viewer's Guide to Fahrenheit 911"

Revolutionary Worker #1246, July 18, 2004, posted at http://rwor.org

"People have been lied to. And many can see it. Invasion, occupation, police spying, round-ups, even torture camps--plus far-reaching changes in law, treaty and doctrine --they have all come wrapped in deceit. The President lies. His whole clique lies."

http://rwor.org/a/1246/fahrenheit_911_guide.htm
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From Monday, April 21st, 2008...

My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore

Friends,

I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2008-04-21

[David1]

This is the real Cuban healthcare:

http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm