Bush echoed Miamians' words in Cuba speech

Source: Miami Herald

Bush echoed Miamians' words in Cuba speech
President Bush's Cuba speech this week was a pleasant surprise for a small group of prominent Cuban Americans. The themes the president hit were among those they urged him to publicize.
Posted on Fri, Oct. 26, 2007

BY ALFONSO CHARDY
achardy@MiamiHerald.com

President Bush's Cuba speech Wednesday had been in the works for months -- possibly since July when Raúl Castro offered an ''olive branch'' to the next U.S. president -- but a recent meeting with Miami exiles may have helped hone Bush's tough message to Cuba's communist government.

''He didn't say that he was going to give a speech,'' Ninoska Pérez Castellón, who was among the select group of 10 who met with Bush in Miami on Oct. 12, said Thursday. ``But he said he wanted to know more about the families of political prisoners, and he heard us talk about their plight.''

The group of 10 exiles, including members of Congress, urged Bush to stand firm on Cuba, publicize the plight of political prisoners and pressure nations to follow the lead of the United States and allies like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in welcoming dissidents at their Havana embassies.
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Bush's speech came as Democrats are buoyed by reports that suggest South Florida's once solidly Republican Cuban-American voting block is no longer monolithically GOP. The Miami Herald reported in August that less than half of Miami-Dade county's Hispanic voters are registered Republicans, down from 59 percent less than a decade ago.





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Well known Miami Cuban "exile" personality, Ninoska Pérez Castellón

Bill O'Reilly Claims Cindy Sheehan Thinks Anything That Hurts America Is Good
Reported by Deborah - January 11, 2007

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Ninoska Perez-Castellon's group, Cuban Liberty Council, has very strong ties to Jeb Bush and the White House. The New Yorker magazine ran an article about to rise of this organization mentioning a speech Jeb gave at their annual dinner . Jeb Bush made an interesting comment about Guantanamo in that speech.

"Those who complained about the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo, he said, would be better off fighting for Cuba’s political prisoners. He also said, “Now is the time to stop talking.” It was time “to create an action plan, so that the freedom of your beloved homeland, the freedom of our neighbor, will happen sooner rather than later. . . . And if anybody doesn’t believe that George W. Bush is a man of action, then they’ve been asleep for the last two years.” In his brother, he went on, “the Cuban people have a true ally in the fight for a free Cuba.”

A New York Times article, 9/06, reports that Perez-Castellon was one of 10 journalists paid by the Bush Administration to speak out against Cuba. The case is under investigation now. So it's no surprise for anyone that Bill O'Reilly and Ninoska Perez -Castellon found each other.
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http://www.newshounds.us/2007/01/11/bill_oreilly_claims_cindy_sheehan_thinks_anything_that_hurts_america_is_good.php

Man of Action

as i remember things, she was JORGE MAS-CANOSA'S right arm in his Cuban-American National Foundation.
She was either ousted from it (or ousted herself from it) after his death and her bucking of heads with the foundation's "new direction?" under the leadership of Mas-Canosa's son. Then, because she was (had been) Mas-Canosa Sr.'s right arm and was thought to be "influential", "powerful", or just simply "an emotional button pusher" against fidel castro by some in the miami community, she was given an hour in one of the radio stations. In my book, she is as "valid" a "journalist" as Jeff Gagnon ... but given the bushes' track record ... hey, anybody who is unqualified for any job but who can lie or spill their regime's propaganda is qualified enough for the job of doing their bidding. please excuse me for using this word if it is offensive to anyone, but in my book perez-castellón is nothing more than an old F*rt!

Her new exile group is as whacked as they get.

Y'know how hearing Rush Limpballs make your stomach churn in 3 seconds? Ninoska's show makes me want to hurl in two seconds. You can switch to her show at any moment and hear sheer head spinning lunacy, live.

time served as a hostage to the Miami Mafia!

They dragged her out every single night on Larry King, national news shows, as a "spokesperson" for the Miami C.A.N.F. community. One reporter mentioned the "Miami Mafia," and she turned and snarled at the camera like a huge, raging pig. It was alarming!

I've seen a snarl almost identical to hers on this photo of the son of Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet Hiriart:



They truly should have given a warning on the tv screen before they exposed us all to that vision!

Can't imagine what it would be like to listen to her radio program. It just can't be too good, even though she considers herself the very voice of the Cuban community.

First she had as a guest a lawyer whose name i recognized as one of the neighborhood kids in santiago de cuba--although, i don't know if it was her, a daughter of hers' or someone who happens to have the same name. i wasn't paying too much attention. she may have been talking about immigration issues. then, the segment changed and her new guest turned to out to be the miami woman whose boy has been (?) adopted by the Cubas ($$$$$$$$) family in Coral Gables. The same family who had custody of the woman's daughter. The same family who is trying to repeat an Elian like situation with the little girl and prevent her from being returned to her biological father. How on earth Ninoska changed the questioning from the parenting of the little girl by the biological father to his somehow being a fidel castro spy who, i think ninoska was trying to make the case, was using his kid to spy for castro, or some weird notion like that, i don't know. i couldn't listen to any of that Sh*t and I had to just change channels. Actually, she, ninoska is really a fruitcake obsessed with cuba and the subject of fidel castro, and someone who probably felt spurned by the young mas-canosa as he took over the leadership of the CANF.

be his friends. Just when you think he can't get any more pathetic.

October 26, 2007

Is Anyone Still Listening?
A Castro Behind Every Bush
By ALAN FARAGO

People won't get as many colds, is how White House spokesperson Dana Perino put it yesterday when asked about global warming and criticism that the Senate testimony of one of the nation's top scientists, CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding, had been "eviscerated."

While Perino was giving blondes a bad name, elsewhere President Bush was attacking Castro, in "what aides called a defining speech for his U.S. position on post-Fidel Castro Cuba".

According to The Miami Herald, President Bush was applauded by Cuban Americans in the audience 20 times while invited foreign diplomats "mostly held their applause until the end."

Get the picture? Who is listening any more, except the people already in the echo chamber?

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/farago10262007.html