Part of Bush speech broadcast in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald (from it's Spanish version)

Part of Bush speech broadcast in Cuba
Posted on Thu, Oct. 25, 2007
BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
El Nuevo Herald

In an unprecedented event for Cuba's government-run media, Cuban television broadcast a long fragment of President Bush's speech about the island -- without interruptions.

The news program Mesa Redonda opened at 6:30 p.m. with the last 15 minutes of Bush's speech Wednesday at the State Department, taken from CNN en Español. The president's speech lasted more than 30 minutes.

In the portion of the speech broadcast in Cuba, Bush speaks to those who could be listening or watching him ''with great risk'' inside the island.

The broadcast took the Cuban public by surprise, among them some members of the internal opposition parties. A group of 20 dissidents had viewed the broadcast from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.

''Without a doubt this is an unexpected, novel and unusual event'' said René Gomez Manzano, a dissident lawyer from Havana. ``What we always see here is the refutation . . . but not a speech made by the same people who are refuted, in their own voice.''

No U.S. president is known to have been shown on Cuban television for so long and without editing since 1960.


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/284020.html

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The bolded claim must be a fantastic lie. You may recall a few years ago Jimmy Carter made a trip to Cuba, and he gave a speech which was carried live on both Cuban television and radio all over the island:

Wednesday, 15 May, 2002, 07:51 GMT 08:51 UK
Lift Cuba embargo, Carter tells US

~snip~
Mr Carter's speech - which he made in Spanish at Havana University on Tuesday - was broadcast live and uncensored on Cuban TV and radio.

It came on the third day of his landmark visit to the island, which has been dominated by a row over US claims that Cuba is involved in the development of biological weapons.
(snip)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1988192.stm

[dipsydoodle]

1. "an unexpected, novel and unusual event''

to help convey Dimson's ability to shoot himself quite satisfactorily in the foot. You couldn't even start to invent a tv cartoon character to match him.

I inadvertantly missed the s out of Dimson's name and used a p in the middle instead , used spell check for something else amd first alt. choice for Dimpon was tampon...

No comment :rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

2. It figures!

:eyes: :silly:

[flordehinojos]

3. and on WSVN channel 7, Raul Martínez, former mayor of the City of Hialeah

told the newsreporter ... (paraphrasing somewhat): "have cubans here been asleep all this time? Do they not know what conditions are in Cuba? do they need bush to tell them? i think people are able to see through Bush. I think they are able to see that he is lying. Bush lies all the time."

And woah, i said to myself, is the media beginning to loosen its muzzle on the reality of the bushman and actually all the bushes? they are putting martinez on without a bleep - without a censure? yippe ay ey, yippe ay oh (or however it is written).

And, it is like Keith Olberman said last night, you (meaning bush) mention "terror" "terror" "terror" so many times that people instead of being frightened begin to laugh at it.

I think the same is true with bush's "democracy" "democracy" "democracy" the fact that he even has the chutzpah to utter the words is laughable .

[Judi Lynn]

4. Refreshing to hear that from a Hialeah Cuban, isn't it? n/t

[Mika]

5. Cuba shows Bush speech on TV

Source: Miami Herald

Bush gave a 30-minute address Wednesday about Cuba, his first in four years. He attacked the Castro administration and outlined ways that Washington could help in the event that communism collapsed and freedom took its place.

Using a feed from CNN en Español, hours later the Cuban TV news program Mesa Redonda (Round Table) aired the second half of Bush's speech.

Although the Bush administration recalls Cuba also broadcast a part of a Bush speech last year -- and ran critical comments by former President Jimmy Carter -- it was the first time that any sitting U.S. president appeared for that length of time and unedited in decades.

Thursday's Communist Party daily Granma printed about half of Bush's address in a full page under the headline ``Essential Parts of Bush's Speech.''

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/285051.html

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FWIW, I've watched Mesa Redonda plenty of times, and it is as close to DU TV as it can get (without the freeper disruptors).


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[MADem]

6. Oh Kay Claaassss, lee-sen very carefully now. Thees is BAD English.

Pleees do NOT speak this way when you are talking to other Eeenglish speakers, because they will theeenk you are eh-stupid!

[asjr]

7. On the Cuban comedy channel?

[peacetalksforall]

8. This is what the pnacer neo-cons are going to do:

1. Blackwater is going in - with a Chilean accent.

2. Cuba will become a U.S. state BUT not a State like Iowa - a state where Cheney and friend dictate. With plenty of signing statements (by George).

3. The CIA and Mafia occupation will make Cuba rock more than during the Batista era. There is the possibility that the CIA will be out and the DIA or the State Dept army (Blackwater) will partner with the Mafia and corporations to rule in place of the current rulers.

Any ideas of what it would be like under the regime of Ileana is probably a farce - they might toss her aside along with their other loyalists in the House and Miami.

[Vogon_Glory]

9. Love It Or Hate It, The Cuban Gov't Isn't Dumb

Love it or hate it, the Cuban government isn't dumb. Showing Buckaroo Bush's speech is a good way to buck up support for the current Cuban regime among the folk actually living there.

Moreover, I suspect that the island Cubans may not know who Ahmad Chalabi is, but they have the concept down pretty well, and want nothing to do with a similar version from south Florida.

[robcon]

10. Remarkable.

A terrific opening of the state press in Cuba. This is great.

[Mika]

11. Only remarkable if you don't know much about Cuba.

There is plenty of media access and venues for news in Cuba. Cubans are not isolated nor ignorant of world events at all. But most Americans have their blinders firmly in place when it comes to anything about Cuba now.


Been there. Seen it.


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