Posted on 12/18/2010 5:36:52 PM PST by nuconvert
No foolin’. So fulsomely slavish to the cause have our progressive icons become that their propaganda now makes even the Castros blush. Keep on rocking, “reality-based community.”
Incidentally, this story comes from a Wikileaks document. Second look at Assange?
[T]he memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so “disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room”.
Castro’s government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it “knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them.”… The cable describes a visit made by the FSHP to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital in October 2007. Built in 1982, the newly renovated hospital was used in Michael Moore’s film as evidence of the high-quality of healthcare available to all Cubans.
But according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. “Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is ‘off-limits’ to them,” the memo reveals.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Even the Communists can't stand these lib-retards.
Also see “WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting ‘mythical’ healthcare system” HERE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2644709/posts?page=41
Might have gotten by with it here with the complicit media, but in Cuba they would have laughed it out of the theatre.
This is very good. It is right out of “1984”.
it “knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them.”… The cable describes a visit made by the FSHP to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital in October 2007. Built in 1982, the newly renovated hospital was used in Michael Moore’s film as evidence of the high-quality of healthcare available to all Cubans.Coming to a town near you...soon.But according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. “Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is ‘off-limits’ to them,” the memo reveals.
They were afraid their people would see it as a comedy and you can’t allow happiness in a communist dictatrship
I have to wonder how many times those Cuban doctors referred to Moore as that crazy, fat white boy during the screening of his commie propaganda piece.
Castro had to go to Spain for health care a few years ago.
And Goebbels learned propaganda from American Progressives.
Moore is a douche.
Just wait until the mainstream media hears this! Man, they’ll expose Moore for the fraud he is...
Wow, this story is awesome. Cuba is less prone to propaganda than the USA? Beam me up!
Actually this is not true. The Guardian newspaper which originally ran the story has since ran a story counter to it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/18/wikileaks-us-diplomats-story-cuba-banned-sicko-film
Maybe, though that’s according to Moore.
This is true though...
“The memo noted that even the Cuban ruling elite leave Cuba when they need medical care. Fidel Castro, for example, brought in a Spanish doctor during his health crisis in 2006. The vice minister of health, Abelardo Ramírez, went to France for gastric cancer surgery. The neurosurgeon who heads CIMEQ [Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Quirúrgicas] hospital – widely regarded as one of the best in Cuba – came to England for eye surgery, returning periodically for checkups.”
I want to report a sad event in relation to this: a young NY woman named Alison, a dancer, went to Cuba - against my advice - to take dance courses. She became ill while staying in the home of a well-known doctor. When she got worse, they sent her to a hospital (a hospital for Cubans, not the deluxe elite hospital system for foreigners). She contined to decline over the past week and she died today. I heard this directly from tje doctot’s family.
Sad. It’s too bad she couldn’t be sent back to the U.S. for care.
My condolences to you & her family.
But the American Left continues to lap up the gutter-dumb propaganda and insane lies from the likes of fatboy Moore as if its gourmet stuff. The absolute dumbest people who have ever lived, the useful idiots in the USA. Dumber than barnyard animals.
Oh this is too good. Someone needs to make sure Michael Moore is aware of this, stat.
Of course, this (the Guardian article at your link) is Michael Moore defending his film.
If we could find independent verification of Moore's contention that it was shown on Cuban TV, that would demonstrate that the movie was not banned. Does anyone have proof, other than Moore's claim, that this is true?
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