{"id":600580,"date":"2021-07-22T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600580"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T21:21:01","slug":"surprise-msnbc-host-flip-flops-on-cuban-sanctions-now-that-biden-supports-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/surprise-msnbc-host-flip-flops-on-cuban-sanctions-now-that-biden-supports-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise: MSNBC Host Flip-Flops On Cuban Sanctions Now That Biden Supports Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurprise-msnbc-host-flip-flops-on-cuban-sanctions-now-that-biden-supports-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-01-at-12.16.43-PM.png?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-set-to-unveil-sanctions-against-cuban-officials-pledges-to-help-cubans-gain-access-to-internet\">announces<\/a> new sanctions against Cuba for its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, at least one MSNBC host seemingly changed her longstanding position to align with the administration.<\/p>\n<p>While interviewing a Cuban human rights advocate, MSNBC host Joy Reid apparently reversed her long-held support for lifting U.S. sanctions against the Communist dictatorship. Reid once mocked the Clinton administration for hesitating to seize and deport six-year-old Eli\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez back to Cuba. But Reid now appears to support a boycott of the regime similar to the one the U.S. enacted against South Africa in the 1980s to oppose apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Treasury Department is looking at Cuban officials responsible for violence against the protesters, which could mean increased sanctions,\u201d Reid noted on the one-year anniversary of the debut of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/joy-reid-rating\/\">low-rated<\/a> show \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then interviewed Rosa Mar\u00eda Pay\u00e1 Acevedo, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/cubadecide.org\/?lang=en\">Cuba Decide<\/a>, which is calling for a binding national referendum to transition the island nation from a socialist dictatorship to a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Few MSNBC guests can say, as Pay\u00e1 can, that they came to MSNBC shortly after sitting with Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1294-foreigners-who-love-the-american-flag-vs-americans-who-hate-it-bonus-hour-2\">episode of his podcast<\/a> and holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-warns-on-cuba-cubans-dont-want-to-just-rearrange-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic\">pro-freedom rally<\/a> alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many companies, many enterprises still doing business with that criminal regime,\u201d Acevedo said. \u201cThe Biden administration should take a similar approach to the approach taken towards South Africa, to end apartheid and put consequences on [those] companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid replied, \u201cI\u2019m glad that you mentioned South Africa. Joe Biden was one of the most vocal, you know, senators at that time against the South African apartheid regime and also has been pushing on this for freedom in Russia as well. Very good point.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.2427184466019\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Los pasos que la administraci\u00f3n puede tomar para apoyar al pueblo cubano.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SOSCuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SOSCuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AbajoLaDictadura?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AbajoLaDictadura<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PatriaYVida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PatriaYVida<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CubaLibre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CubaLibre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fi7hqTo4t6\">pic.twitter.com\/fi7hqTo4t6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rosa Mar\u00eda Pay\u00e1 A. (@RosaMariaPaya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RosaMariaPaya\/status\/1417911146925920256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a radically different position than Reid\u2019s hardline opposition to U.S. sanctions and soft-peddling of Havana\u2019s Marxist regime.<\/p>\n<p>Reid once criticized President Bill Clinton for not immediately capturing six-year-old Eli\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez and returning him to Cuba. Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s mother drowned in the Atlantic Ocean as she and her son embarked on a journey from Cuba to the United States on an inner tube in late 1999. Ultimately, Clinton dispatched elite, paramilitary Border Patrol agents brandishing assault rifles to deport the child.<\/p>\n<p>As Daily Wire\u2019s Ryan Saavedra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joy-reid-mocked-us-gov-not-wanting-rip-immigrant-ryan-saavedra\">reported<\/a>, just days before the raid, Joy Reid wrote a sarcastic article for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2000\/04\/21\/renopoem\/\">Salon<\/a>, lampooning then-Attorney General Janet Reno as an inept Dr. Seuss character:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>I am Jan,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jan I am.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will not pick up Elian. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will not pick him up, you see,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The exiles would be mad at me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will not take him to his dad,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you make Gloria Estefan mad?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will not send him to Fidel,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cause [Elian\u2019s cousin] Marisleysis [Gonzalez] says it\u2019s hell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will not go and do my job,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m too scared of that angry mob.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reid has long clamored to lift U.S. sanctions against Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Reid used the death of Fidel Castro in 2016 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/am-joy\/watch\/controversial-legacy-of-fidel-castro-818120259799\">promote<\/a> the end of America\u2019s \u201cembargo of one.\u201d She t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amjoyshow\/status\/802544837140484096\">weeted<\/a> enthusiastically: \u201cCuban expatriate Pat tells #AMJoy U.S. should lift #Cuba embargo in wake of Fidel Castro\u2019s death. RETWEET 2 AGREE.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6934673366834\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cuban expatriate Pat tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMJoy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMJoy<\/a> U.S. should lift <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> embargo in wake of Fidel Castro&#8217;s death. RETWEET 2 AGREE <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ITbIGG4Df\">https:\/\/t.co\/4ITbIGG4Df<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formerly &#8216;AM JOY&#8217; on @MSNBC (@amjoyshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amjoyshow\/status\/802544837140484096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To our knowledge, Reid has not said this tweet is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/busted-internet-archive-responds-joy-reids-claim-ryan-saavedra\">the work of hackers<\/a> bent on discrediting her.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2016, Reid\u2019s guest Mark Thompson bizarrely <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ministter\/status\/805465810043076608\">linked<\/a> protests against an oil pipeline in South Dakota to Fidel Castro, saying the demonstrations \u201cgo in the pro column\u201d of the dictator\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.1497326203209\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let&#8217;s follow Fidel Castro&#8217;s example on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StandingRock?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StandingRock<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoDAPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoDAPL<\/a> | via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amjoyshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amjoyshow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzswgYXm7r\">pic.twitter.com\/nzswgYXm7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2625 \u2020 The Rev. Mark Thompson, Host @MakeItPlain (@ministter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ministter\/status\/805465810043076608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The same day, Reid asked staunch anti-Communist Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), \u201cDo you think now that you have that Fidel Castro\u201d is dead and \u201cthat psychological weight lifted \u2026 that there might be a chance that Congress would be willing to rethink\u201d Cuban sanctions and allow \u201cmore social interaction, more cultural interaction, and sort of go with the argument that many make that isolating Cuba hasn\u2019t worked, that engagement \u2014 including economic engagement \u2014 might work better?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Curbelo replied that he opposed \u201cunilateral concessions\u201d such as those made by then-President Barack Obama, because they \u201creward the conduct of a brutal regime\u201d and put \u201cstability in Cuba over the goal of democracy, of human dignity, of respect for human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Reid noted her opposition to U.S. sanctions even while Fidel Castro was still alive. In 2014, on her MSNBC show \u201cThe Reid Report,\u201d Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-reid-report\/watch\/a-new-era-of-diplomacy-for-us-and-cuba-374122563828\">interviewed<\/a> Ric Herrero, executive director of #CubaNow, to discuss the normalization of U.S.\/Cuba relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you see this as an opening the fact that we could see the restoring of normal diplomatic relations between the two countries, as an opening that could actually change Cuba?\u201d Reid asked.<\/p>\n<p>Herrero said ending sanctions would be \u201ca lot more efficient than just screaming from Miami, hoping they\u2019ll eventually do what we think is right.\u201d Economic engagement could \u201cempower the Cuban people in ways that 50 years of blanket sanctions, frankly, weren\u2019t able to achieve,\u201d Herrero claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe polls show that the American people do seem to, by and large, agree with you,\u201d Reid agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever may lay behind Reid\u2019s opposition to the Cuban exile community, it\u2019s not lack of familiarity. Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/entertainment\/tv\/article244253597.html\">spent years<\/a> in southern Florida as a Miami Herald columnist and writer at WSVN-TV. \u201cSouth Florida influenced my career in every way,\u201d she told the Miami Herald last year.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently being a host on the Democratic Party\u2019s favorite cable news network influenced her views even more.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Joe Biden announces new sanctions against Cuba for its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, at least one MSNBC host seemingly changed her longstanding position to align with the administration.While &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}