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RUSH: Grab the Brian Williams bites talking to a Cuban woman in Havana. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams despaired last night over what an influx of American tourists would mean to the revolution in Cuba. You know, he\u2019s not the first. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, also expressed concern, remember? Very, very worried what\u2019s gonna happen to the beautiful Cuban countryside and the beautiful Cuban skyline in Havana once these evil American tourists and their evil American dollars show up. Oh, my God, it\u2019s gonna destroy the revolution. <\/p>\n

I know Brian Williams. I remember running into Brian Williams back in the old days when MSNBC had some integrity and quality, back when I used to appear on it. I\u2019d go over there when it was in Fort Lee. Brian Williams was the lead news guy at MSNBC, seven o\u2019clock news hour, the anchor, he did the hourly newscast, they took breaks between the shows. This was back when Chris Matthews was still sane. I\u2019d go into Brian Williams\u2019 office and I\u2019d talk to him.<\/p>\n

He was one of the funniest guys that you\u2019d ever run into. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened. I don\u2019t know whether this is all an act just to fit in with the bosses at NBC, but this is just incredible. Brian Williams worrying that US dollars and US tourists are going to destroy Cuba because they\u2019re gonna get rid of the \u201957 Chevies. The revolution\u2019s logo is a \u201957 Chevy or a \u201958 Ford, and American tourists are gonna destroy that. <\/line><\/p>\n

Williams was talking with a 26-year-old Cuban woman, said to have a biology degree, and works as a freelance producer. Let\u2019s just go to the sound bites. Brian Williams talking to Laura Mendi about the new, more open relations between the US and Cuba. We have two sound bites. This is the second one first.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: When Americans are here and planes and hotels and — and the cars are 2015 cars and not 1958 cars, what happens to the revolution?<\/p>\n

MENDI: When you talk about Cuba, you don\u2019t have to talk about the revolution. People have been driving it for years and years, but the revolution are something is a moment, then it\u2019s done. Now we\u2019re having a new revolution. Americans coming to Cuba is really a revolution for the country.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: So that billboard I just passed on the way from the airport with young Fidel Castro saying, “The revolution lives on,” that\u2019s what you mean, we\u2019re living in it now?<\/p>\n

MENDI: We\u2019re living in it now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The revolution has been over for 50 years. The revolution happened, and then the decline of the country began. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Seriously folks, what does it say about people who go to a Third World country where the average monthly income is a couple of dollars, maybe daily income is a couple of bucks, I\u2019m talking about Cuba. It is a destitute Third World country. What does it say about the media who go down there and worry what American commerce is gonna do to this place? <\/p>\n