Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

President Trump Suggests Senate Investigate Fake News Media—Great! Start Here
Townhall.com ^ | October 7, 2017 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 10/08/2017 6:43:04 AM PDT by Kaslin

“Why isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!”  (President Donald Trump, 10/5.)

Among many others, The Washington Post is all over Trump for his tweet, denouncing it as a manifestation of “autocratic desperation.”  So let’s start with them.

And yes, let’s also mention “autocrats.” You see, amigos: The Washington Post’s Latin American correspondent Nick Miroff is married to an apparatchik of the Castro regime named Camila Harnecker. She is the daughter of the founder of the Castro regime’s military intelligence (G-2) apparatus. This notorious KGB-protégé, Che Guevara-chum and Stalinist torturer was named Manuel “Barbarroja” (Red Beard) Pineiro.

Significantly, at the time of its founding in 1959, Castro’s G-2 was under the close tutelage of Soviet GRU torturers who had interned with the masters themselves, Stalin and Beria.

“Barbarroja’s” wife (the WaPo reporter’s mother-in-law) is Maria Marta Harnecker Cerda, a Chilean Communist who worked for Salvador Allende and scurried to Stalinist Cuba upon Augusto Pinochet’s (just-in-time!) liberation of Chile.

For years Manuel “Barbarroja” Pineiro served for the Castros exactly as Yezhov, Yagoda and Beria served for Stalin–as director of mass-murder and torture.

And wouldn’t you know? Like so many others in such “sensitive” positions within Stalinist regimes (Yezhov, Yagoda, Beria– indeed, like Che Guevara himself), Manuel Pineiro’s usefulness to his employers finally expired. In 1998 the infamous “Barbarroja” himself got a taste of his own medicine and was “disappeared.” For the brain-dead his Stalinist “comrades” concocted a story of a “car-accident.”

Moving along now to CNN, which was all over President Trump for his “conflict of interest” in attempting to “turn back the clock” on U.S. relations with Cuba—in other words, for upholding U.S. law as codified by Congress.

Rather than any upholding of any U.S. law, CNN hints that Trump’s Cuba policy is a simple ploy by hotel mogul Donald Trump to sandbag other hotel companies–so that Trump’s company can later fill Cuba with Trump hotels.

“…the decision to prohibit business with GAESA (Cuba’s military-controlled business empire) ….is an example of Trump's ability to impact his business' competitors while in the White House. Trump's prohibition, in effect, puts other hotel companies on equal footing with his personal company -- not allowed to pursue future business in Cuba.”

In brief, according to CNN, Trump’s Cuba policy constitutes a blatant “conflict of interest.”

While we’re on that topic, how many of y’all knew that CNN’s Cuba reporter Patrick Oppmann—who constantly rails against Trump’s Cuba policy of restricting tourism to Cuba—has an American wife who owns a shop in Havana that caters primarily to tourists?

Needless to add, permission to open a shop in Havana isn’t doled out randomly by the Stalinist regime—especially to a foreigner. In fact, recently several Cubans who had opened up small restaurants in Havana were arrested and had their restaurants confiscated by Stalinist authorities.mSeems they weren’t sufficiently greasing the right regime palms.

Apparently no such “irregularities” hamper the operation of the shop owned by the CNN reporter’s American wife.

But it gets even “better.” CNN’s Cuba reporter Patrick Oppmann also specializes in denouncing Trump’s policy (again, as codified by Congress years ago) of preventing American businessmen from partnering with the Castro regime. You’ll be amazed to learn that CNN’s Cuba reporter Patrick Oppman’s wife is a high-rolling consultant for a firm that specializes in helping foreign businessman partner with the Castro regime. 

Trump’s recent Tweets denouncing fake news mention NBC by name. Well MSNBC’s veritable “go-to-person” on Cuban healthcare (besides Michael Moore) is Gail Reed.  Andrea Mitchell often introduces Reed on location in Havana as “international director of the nonprofit group Medical Education Cooperation.” 

During the 1990s Reed also functioned as executive producer for NBC News Havana bureau--a pretty plum position for a communist intelligence apparatchik, no? Not that NBC revealed Gail Reed’s genuine “credentials.”

CNN, another media fan of Gail Reed’s “impartial expertise”, calls her “a Medical Expert.”

Here’s a few items NBC and CNN serially “forget” to mention: for the past 36 years Havana resident Gail Reed has been married to an officer of Cuba’s Directorio General de Intelligencia (spy service) named Julian Torres Rizo. This KGB-trained apparatchik recruited Reed back in 1969 when she visited Cuba as a member of the (DGI-created) Venceremos Brigades of “starry-eyed” U.S. college kids. Obama’s future “neighbors” Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, by the way, served as recruiters for these Venceremos Brigades. This was an important function as leaders of the terrorist group Weather Underground.

“Your society must be destroyed!” the KGB-trained Rizo coached his eager hippie recruits in Cuba. “It is now your duty to help destroy your society!” Reed was so enchanted with Stalinist, terror-sponsoring Cuba that she moved there and became a top writer for Cuba’s Communist party press.

Not that any American viewers imbibing her reports on the marvels of Cuba’s healthcare and the wickedness of the U.S. “Blockade” of her adopted country in those “mainstream” media organs might have guessed any of Gail Reed’s background.

Castro’s DGI had further goals in mind with their Venceremos Brigades. “The ultimate objective of the DGI’s participation in the setting up of the Venceremos Brigades,” reveals an FBI report declassified in 1976 “was the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic and military intelligence.”

Everything above thoroughly documented here.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cnn; corruptnewsnetwork; cuba; media; msm; washingtoncompost

1 posted on 10/08/2017 6:43:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Like throwing a rock into a pack of dogs. The one that yelps is the one that got hit.


2 posted on 10/08/2017 6:54:15 AM PDT by savedbygrace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

It is a little known fact that the Soviets planted moles in various places where they could exert a lot of influence: higher education, the news media, and the entertainment industry.

I used to listen to Radio Moscow on shortwave. It is more than a little concerning to me when I hear the exact same flavor of propaganda parroted by modern “news” organizations, college students, and so forth, who have no real understanding of the propaganda that they parrot or the strategy behind teaching them to be little useful idiots. There is some irony in the fact that while the USSR is gone, its propaganda machine rolls on.


3 posted on 10/08/2017 6:55:25 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Trump’s Cuba policy is to undo the Obama policy. The Obama policy was to empty the prison at Guantanamo and then turn it all back to cube. The Cubans would then contract with an American (read Democrat) developer to convert the Guantanamo facility into a fantastic tropical resort.


4 posted on 10/08/2017 7:08:10 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

????????????????

Trying to recall the old saying bout the fox and the...? chicken coop???
Gunny G @ Planet WTF!
****
Jimmy Swaggart always insisted things would get like this...and then....

G
*


5 posted on 10/08/2017 7:12:45 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bert

Exactly


6 posted on 10/08/2017 7:16:44 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Evidence and motive are easy to find. Should be a slam-dunk.


7 posted on 10/08/2017 7:21:29 AM PDT by umgud
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Sounds like President Trump should have DCHQ/NSA monitor the Cubans Compost employees, former Cuban Compost employees and anyone working for the Compost with Cuban connections.

No wonder they hate Trump and come out 24/7 with Fabricated News lying about Trump and/or his people.


8 posted on 10/08/2017 7:29:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, that Trump is kicking their asses, they, ___________, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: exDemMom

“There is some irony in the fact that while the USSR is gone, its propaganda machine rolls on.”

Romans defeated the Greeks, yet adopted all their gods.


9 posted on 10/08/2017 7:52:27 AM PDT by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
Dang!
I knew the media are super biased and are nothing less than the propaganda, disinformation and dirty tricks department of the Democratic Party and the far left, but I didn't realize they actually brazenly employed KGB trained,Stalinist agents of the brutal Castro regime. CNN is beyond despicable.
10 posted on 10/08/2017 7:58:07 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: exDemMom; LS

Sobering comparison.


11 posted on 10/08/2017 8:06:19 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
I found out about liberal news media in the late '80s. They had ben studiously ignoring Rush Limbaugh until he challenged them that there not three million homeless - they were lying. They responded and the fight was on. But the '90 census proved Limbaugh right and liberal news media wrong. There it was, absolute proof they were liars!

Then in the mid-90s as the internet became popular I thought the end of liberal news media would soon be here. With the truth constantly out there people would know! Our newspaper was one of the first to have comments. We soon discovered that conservatives who put their real name were harassed and sometimes physically stalked by the left so anonymous was the only way to go.

I was shocked that the newspaper actually allowed comments disproving their fake stories. But they did. Then when Al Gore was in danger from people posting Tennessee Mafia stories they stopped the comments with a flimsy excuse of non-civility. But it was actually better than it had been. They put comments back later with full names only. Nobody cared. They put back anonymous in early 2000s and comments soared, again often proving the story false. Then they went to facebook only but told us beforehand. In the last day of real comments I said the newspaper would delete all former comments so debunked stories would suddenly become true again. The reader advocate came to comments and said no. But two days later they were gone. I emailed the advocate who said it was a mistake. Riiiiiiiiight. Lately they even took facebook comments off because some few conservatives would brave the liberal hate storm and still disprove the story.

I don't think Government can do anything about liberal news media but the people can do a lot more. Every liberal news media fighter must be "hardened," however. They must have jobs that aren't fragile enough to be ended by false smears and all family members must be ready to be smeared as well.

Media Research Center has been doing this for years. We just need about 20 more groups to join them but doing different things, like handing out fliers disproving liberal news media. A day of protests with signs at newspaper offices would devastate them. We also need to reform the IRS and other federal agencies to prevent them from attacking conservative dissenters. That still hasn't been done yet.
12 posted on 10/08/2017 8:23:13 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson