Reply #2: Outlandish, stupid, and laughable!

[Judi Lynn]

Everything Otto Reich can possibly EVER say must be taken in consideration of the bizarre reputation he has built for himself as a top Reagan/Bush professional LIAR.

He told malicious whoppers about reporters covering Nicaragua during Reagan's terms, going as far as to impugn their sexual proclivities and demeanor by claiming they pursued male and female prostitutes in that country while being assigned to cover the Contras. Yeah, right.

He also accused Minnesota's Governor Ventura of going with his state's contingent to Cuba for the Agricultural and Trade Fair as an actual leap into "sexual adventurism" in Havana. Yeah, right, Reich.

From an article concerning the Venezuelan coup, some Reich info. which applies to his history of lying about Cuba:

(snip) Reich is a right-wing Cuban-American obsessed with overthrowing Fidel Castro's regime and is also a big political supporter of President Bush's brother and Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who needs strong support from Cubans in Florida in his re-election bid this year. Reich, along with fellow Reagan administration cohorts, Elliott Abrams and John Negroponte, were discredited for their covert activities and false assertions when the United States intervened in Central America in the 1980's and '90s, but have been re-instated in prominent positions in the second Bush administration. They abhor Latin-American governments that are elected by the poor and working class people, like the Chavez government in Venezuela and the deposed Sandinista government in Nicaragua. (snip)

(snip) On the night of Reagan's re-election in 1984, Reich's office put out the news that "intelligence sources"revealed that Soviet MIG fighter jets were arriving in Nicaragua and Andrea Mitchell interrupted election night coverage on NBC to give the phony report. This resembles the Joseph Goebbel's fabrication that Polish troops had attacked German soldiers to give the Third Reich an excuse to launch the Nazi blitzkrieg into Poland to begin World War II in 1939. Other Reich prevarications given to media sources included: Nicaragua had been given chemical weapons by the Soviets, according to the Miami Herald; and leaders of the Sandinistas were involved in drug trafficking, according to Newsweek magazine.

In Latin American countries the United States has a history of doing business and siding with wealthy oligarchies of business, professional and military elites who tend to be lighter skinned people of European descent against the poor and working class composed mainly of darker skinned, indigenous people and those of African descent. The second Bush administration appears to be adhering to this tradition with gusto. With Otto Reich churning out the hate and fear, it is a safe bet to predict that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela will be increasingly presented as the devil incarnate and his government as evil, anti-American terrorists. Mr. Reich will dish out the poisonous propaganda to every news source that covers the Bush administration's Latin American policy. Joseph Goebbels would be proud. (snip/)

http://www.counterpunch.org/turnip0418.html