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WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting 'mythical' healthcare system
guardian.co.uk ^ | Friday 17 December 2010 21.30 GMT | Amelia Hill

Posted on 12/19/2010 6:42:08 AM PST by TheRevolution1776

Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a "mythically" favourable picture of Cuba's healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a "popular backlash", according to US diplomats in Havana.

The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.

But the 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cuba; lies; michaelmoore; michealmoore; obamacare; sicko
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Some good things are coming out of those Wikileaks huh ? The liberals are pissed off at it because it is exposing their bullsh*t hypocrisy.
1 posted on 12/19/2010 6:42:14 AM PST by TheRevolution1776
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To: TheRevolution1776

Michael Moore is a big mouth and a liar ... WHO knew >sarc<


2 posted on 12/19/2010 6:44:50 AM PST by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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Michael Moore lied???

What is the 9th wonder going to be? /s

3 posted on 12/19/2010 6:45:39 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: TheRevolution1776

Interesting. Propaganda banned for being too propagandistic (is that a word?).


4 posted on 12/19/2010 6:45:58 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: TheRevolution1776
Fred Thompson's response to Michael Moore
5 posted on 12/19/2010 6:48:52 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: TheRevolution1776
Rumor has it; Julian Assange could be Bill Maher's twin brother..
They appear to be from the same Hive..
6 posted on 12/19/2010 6:49:10 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: TheRevolution1776

So Michael Moron offering to bail out Assange was hush-money? What say you fatboy?


7 posted on 12/19/2010 6:50:18 AM PST by PGalt
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To: TheRevolution1776

When I read the title...Cuba banned Sicko...I thought they were talking about Moore...I thought they had banned HIM (the Sicko).


8 posted on 12/19/2010 6:50:23 AM PST by NELSON111
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To: hosepipe

Cuba did NOT ban Sicko: [who knows]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/18/wikileaks-us-diplomats-story-cuba-banned-sicko-film


9 posted on 12/19/2010 6:50:55 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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It’s not that he lied, he just showed the facilities that the elite leaders get to use and the ones that the rest get are like the stories my grandmother told me of. Cuba isn’t the “happiest liberal place on earth” and maybe Wikileaks is a good thing because it is going to expose all of the liberals in the world. I kind of like the hackers who attacked Mastercard in response to Julian’s imprisonment.


10 posted on 12/19/2010 6:51:21 AM PST by TheRevolution1776 (2nd Amendment applies also to religous threats. I don't call 911 even after your down.)
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Kind of like what inevitably will happen here when the government elites get health care and the rest of us serfs get “free for all” medic service after single payer kicks in to high gear here in the USA.


11 posted on 12/19/2010 6:58:52 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: TheRevolution1776

Perhaps Michael Moore can do a documentary about getting all of his healthcare in Cuba.


12 posted on 12/19/2010 6:59:56 AM PST by Silentgypsy
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To: TheRevolution1776

And Michael Moore put up bail money for Assange...LOL

Beginning to think that we are helping liberals if we execute Assange


13 posted on 12/19/2010 7:06:18 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Whenever something is "Global"...it means its bad for America)
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"Interesting. Propaganda banned for being too propagandistic "

Yeah, the bullsh*t was too deep even for master bullsh*tters.

14 posted on 12/19/2010 7:07:49 AM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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What say you fatboy?

FatBastard has no shame.

He's looking at his checkbook balance and laughing at the millions of gullible Liberals that put money in there for him.

15 posted on 12/19/2010 7:15:56 AM PST by digger48
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To: TheRevolution1776

This is a Wikileaks leak to enjoy.


16 posted on 12/19/2010 7:16:56 AM PST by demkicker (Helping Democrats Become Extinct)
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To: BunnySlippers

I read that article. I tend to believe the diplomat’s version over Moore’s.


17 posted on 12/19/2010 7:22:10 AM PST by susannah59
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To: BunnySlippers

Right. In order to discredit Michael Moore in the public eye, somebody sent a top secret memo which the public was never going to see. Uh huh. Propaganda only works if you actually distribute it.


18 posted on 12/19/2010 7:23:23 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: TheRevolution1776

If Cuba has such great medical care - why do bleeding heart liberal groups go there on medical missions and take our American expired supplies with them?


19 posted on 12/19/2010 7:36:32 AM PST by austingirl
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To: DannyTN

Too bas Fred Thomson was not the same as we see him on scripted TV or Video

He has a way of expressing things

Obammy is very stupid withouth his teleprompter too


20 posted on 12/19/2010 8:06:25 AM PST by Mr. K ('Profiling' you is worse than grabbing your balls)
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