Andrea Mitchell Agrees With Bernie: 'There's a Lot of Great Things to Say' About Cuba
By Alex Christy | February 26, 2020 10:37 AM EST
Toward the end of her Tuesday show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell decided to echo Bernie Sanders and praise the state of communist Cuba. After that, she questioned Michael Bloomberg's "really snarky tweets jumping on Sanders" for his fondness for Fidel Castro. She was more offended by that than Bernie's actual embrace of the dictator.
Mitchell began by telling Margaret Carlson of The Daily Beast, "I covered Cuba for years, there's a lot of great things to say about their social services, their education, their health system." Great things include Potemkin clinics for foreigners, high abortion rates to help the government fudge statistics, and the sending of doctors to work in slave-like conditions in foreign countries for propaganda purposes. As for education, how "great" can it when the government heavily censors material?
She seemed much more concerned about the political ramifications of being "controversial", asking "has Sanders stepped into something in that it is controversial with voters in Florida, a lot of people."
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