Posted on 05/25/2020 3:49:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump opened his April 13 coronavirus news briefing with a video compilation of media clips touted his pandemic-fighting achievements. Team Trump had selectively cut and edited quotes from journalists and governors, who had regularly cited the dangerous lack of White House support during the pandemic, so they appeared to praise his leadership.
I hadn’t seen anything like this sort of propaganda display since the 1980s Soviet Union. I was suddenly transported back 40 years to my childhood, watching on TV as the aging Soviet patriarch Leonid Brezhnev endlessly pinned medals to his own chest.
Today’s COVID-19 reality has, in similar fashion, exposed many of America’s sores of inequality as the virus ravages communities of color and deepens the economic divide between the wealthy and everyone else. The United States could likely learn a great deal from the Soviet Union’s attempted program of serious reconstruction - which exposed the Kremlin’s decades of lies and sought to address them.
Even so, the pandemic has ripped away America’s delusion of eternally winning - perfected to absurdity by Trump - and exposed staggering economic inequality and racial discrimination across the nation.
This coronavirus experience could lead to an American version of Perestroika. The United States has a better chance than the Soviet Union to pull through. The world misses Washington’s leadership, which had won over so many people around the globe during the Cold War. This leadership will become even more convincing if it comes from the renewed United States - one that values social wellbeing of the public before the profits of the few.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Nina Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the author of “The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind. [and is the granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, not mentioned by NBC "News".]
I hadn’t seen anything like this sort of propaganda display since the 1980s Soviet Union.
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Yeah, sure there. Like NBC would ever, ever, ever engage in propaganda.
MSNBC- enemy of the American people
needs to restructured, fined, and taken down.
You can take the Marxist out of the Soviet Union, but you can’t take Marxism from a Russian.
Usually; when one is in a coma THIS long....
When I saw the last name, I knew she was related to Nikita...
Translation: “We Will Bury You...”
Looks like a nino to me
Clickbait made up fake news. All the Leftist have left....made up lies.
Born: 1964 (age 56 years), Moscow, Russia
Education: Princeton University, Moscow State University
GO HOME, YOU COMMIE.
Where’s the BARF alert?
I see she is as beautiful as all the other liberal Karens who tell us what to think.
Nina has a friend in Blair...on NBC too:
25 May: Breitbart: Tony Blair Dismisses Trump’s Coronavirus Leadership in Call for More Global Government
by Simon Kent
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has airily dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, instead harking back to his work alongside Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as examples of how global inter-governmental cooperation can win the day.
His remarks in an interview with NBC News last Friday followed an earlier intervention in the crisis when his own globalist think tank claimed it is “embedded in governments around the world,” as Breitbart News reported (LINK)...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/25/tony-blair-dismisses-trumps-coronavirus-leadership-in-call-for-more-global-government/
Blair featuring on more FakeNews:
24 Apr: BBC: Coronavirus: State surveillance ‘a price worth paying’
A major increase in state surveillance is a “price worth paying” to beat Covid-19, a UK think tank says.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), founded by the former prime minister, says it could offer an “escape route” from the crisis.
In a report, the Institute argues the public must accept a level of intrusion that would normally “be out of the question in liberal democracies”.
liberal democracies”.
The rollout of contact-tracing apps has provoked a global debate...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52401763
in the following, Blair hoping multilateral global cooperation will prevail post covid. contact tracing.
AUDIO: 26m29s: 23 May: BBC: Global Questions: Coronavirus - Lifting Lockdown
As the Coronavirus continues to take hold, Global Questions invites its international audience to put their questions to a panel of experts. Around the world lockdowns are being eased, with some businesses reopening, and children going back to school. But Covid 19 remains massively contagious, and while getting economies back on their feet is important, it’s also crucial to avoid a second spike in infections. So how should politicians balance lives against livelihoods? And if they lift lockdowns too quickly, could they do even more damage to the economy and people’s well-being, having to shut them down all over again? How is the world emerging from life under lockdown? Join Zeinab Badawi and her panel.
PANEL
Tony Blair Former British Prime Minister and Chair Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Paolo Gentiloni Former Italian Prime Minister and European Commissioner for Economy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct0tzz
In proper Queen's English, that's pronounced: "Blah"
Actually Trump could have played a lot more clips showing the media saying this was not a bad virus and people could go on cruises etc.
Nina......nah,it couldn’t be! Or could it?
“ I hadn’t seen anything like this sort of propaganda display since the 1980s Soviet Union.“
I used to listen to Radio Moscow and Radio Peking in the 70’s which your employer sounds like now.
what video clips is she referring to?
The singular example she provides of Trump’s Soviet-style propaganda:
“Team Trump had selectively cut and edited quotes from journalists and governors, who had regularly cited the dangerous lack of White House support during the pandemic, so they appeared to praise his leadership.”
Summary: He doctored the videos!!! Yes, he had to be “selective” because the examples were too numerous.
perestroika was against central planning and for promoting free markets
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