Gail A. Reed: CNN’s “Pro-Communist American” Expert on Cuban Health Care
August 8, 2009, by Procrustes
Posted on 08/11/2009 9:49:33 AM PDT by ETL
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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Gail A. Reed: CNN’s “Pro-Communist American” Expert on Cuban Health Care
August 8, 2009, by Procrustes
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.
Ping for later...
Ask her why Fidel had to go to non-Cuban doctors when he got very sick a couple of years ago.
My daughter and husband adopted a child from China, and noticed that CNN was the ONLY American news allowed on Chinese TV. CNN = Communist News Network. FACT!
This is all very good news and gives us another option to reduce health care costs. Simply provide anyone believing the Cuban model to be ideal with a one way ticket to Cuba.
Useful idiot for the Castro regime.
Of course if she were a Cuban citizen she wouldn't be allowed to leave.
ML/NJ
Wish all the leftys would emigrate to Cuba.
‘Ask her why Fidel had to go to non-Cuban doctors when he got very sick a couple of years ago.’
Exactly. A nation that runs out of toilet paper isn’t the best model for healthcare...
The St. Pete Times ran an article on Sunday about Cuba’s shanty towns.
China doesn’t even allow CNN Asia, unless it is edited.
I believe you! CNN used to be called the “Clinton News Network”. But now, it’s just plain ol Communist News Network.
The Communists are out of the closet in America now. The war is on. We shall prevail!!!
Do you reckon that Gail Reed would argue that the many thousands of Cubans who have been tortured, imprisoned and even murdered by Castro and his revolutionaries over the decades were just malcontents who deserved what they got? Or does Reed even give a thought to such folks? I suspect not.
bump
From the website of the Communist Party, USA
(prior to the election)
"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA
(after the election)
A Landslide Mandate For Change
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA
July 1, 2009...
Change is Here, Change is Coming
Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:
Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.
In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.
We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.
Isn’t it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?
Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism – no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
All these things are within reach now!
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/1054/1/27/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
Which one of their anchors would that be?
BUT,they ain’t got no toilet paper!!!
Pretty soon folks, pretty soon
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