Ed Schultz: Cuba Move Is Obama’s ‘Tear Down this Wall, Mr. Castro’ Moment

‘If change can take place with the Soviet Union, why can’t it take place with the Cuban people here?’

Ed Schultz: Cuba Move Is Obama’s ‘Tear Down this Wall, Mr. Castro’ Moment (NewsBusters)

Ed Schultz one-upped colleague Chuck Todd on his MSNBC program on Wednesday. Hours after Todd likened President Obama's policy announcement on Cuba to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schultz compared the Democrat's address to a famous 1987 speech given at the Wall by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan: "Isn't this Barack Obama's 'tear down this wall, Mr. Castro' – that kind of a moment? I mean, if change can take place with the Soviet Union, why can't it take place with the Cuban people here?

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