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Great news: Cuba banned Michael Moore documentary for being too rosy about Cuban health care
Hot Air ^ | Dec. 17, 2010 | Allahpundit

Posted on 12/18/2010 5:36:52 PM PST by nuconvert

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1 posted on 12/18/2010 5:36:57 PM PST by nuconvert
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HA!

Even the Communists can't stand these lib-retards.

2 posted on 12/18/2010 5:40:22 PM PST by Jim W N
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Also see “WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting ‘mythical’ healthcare system” HERE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2644709/posts?page=41


3 posted on 12/18/2010 5:41:22 PM PST by FreeKeys ("I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program"BHO http://bit.ly/2DdN4u)
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Might have gotten by with it here with the complicit media, but in Cuba they would have laughed it out of the theatre.


4 posted on 12/18/2010 5:42:53 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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This is very good. It is right out of “1984”.


5 posted on 12/18/2010 5:44:24 PM PST by marktwain
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To: nuconvert
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.

Coming to a town near you...soon.
6 posted on 12/18/2010 5:44:35 PM PST by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairatx movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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7 posted on 12/18/2010 5:46:42 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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They were afraid their people would see it as a comedy and you can’t allow happiness in a communist dictatrship


8 posted on 12/18/2010 5:59:17 PM PST by Mr. K ('Profiling' you is worse than grabbing your balls)
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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.


9 posted on 12/18/2010 5:59:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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Castro had to go to Spain for health care a few years ago.


10 posted on 12/18/2010 6:03:59 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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And Goebbels learned propaganda from American Progressives.


11 posted on 12/18/2010 6:08:52 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Standing by the walls of Minas Tirith as Sauron's forces pound the gates...)
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Moore is a douche.


12 posted on 12/18/2010 6:27:03 PM PST by Mich Patriot
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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!


13 posted on 12/18/2010 6:42:20 PM PST by Professional
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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


14 posted on 12/18/2010 6:51:40 PM PST by Tempest (I put money ahead of people)
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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.”


15 posted on 12/18/2010 7:00:55 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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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.


16 posted on 12/18/2010 7:03:46 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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Sad. It’s too bad she couldn’t be sent back to the U.S. for care.

My condolences to you & her family.


17 posted on 12/18/2010 7:27:14 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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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.


18 posted on 12/18/2010 7:30:14 PM PST by PaleoBob
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Oh this is too good. Someone needs to make sure Michael Moore is aware of this, stat.


19 posted on 12/18/2010 7:33:01 PM PST by Yardstick
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Actually this is not true. The Guardian newspaper which originally ran the story has since ran a story counter to it.

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?

20 posted on 12/18/2010 8:00:14 PM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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