Monday, 17 January 2011 Cliff Kincaid
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” host David Gregory tried to use the Arizona tragedy to browbeat Republicans into stopping their tough criticism of President Obama’s agenda. Speaking to Republican Senator Tom Coburn, Gregory said, “you know as well as I do that there are people—and it is true that it’s very often on the right—who describe President Obama as somehow an outsider who’s trying to usher in a system that will do two things, that will injure America and deny them of their liberty. Do you condemn that belief…?”
Gregory failed to note that, two days earlier, late on Friday afternoon, Obama bolstered the communist dictatorship in Cuba.
The New York Times noted that the White House lifted restrictions on travel and payments to communist Cuba “when most Republican members of Congress were away on retreat and Democrats had left their offices for the long holiday weekend,” and that the timing “indicated that the administration hoped to enact the changes with as little fanfare—and backlash—as possible.” The changes were posted at 5:42 p.m. EST.
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