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NBC's Todd Likens Obama's Change in Cuba Policy to Fall of Berlin Wall

By Matthew Balan | December 17, 2014 | 3:05 PM EST
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In a Wednesday post on Twitter, NBC's Chuck Todd bizarrely compared President Obama's announcement changing the U.S. government's stance towards the communist regime in Cuba to the liberation of Eastern Europe in 1989:

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Less than ten minutes later, Sean Davis of The Federalist blog replied to Todd and pointed out the obvious difference between the two events:

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The NBC journalist replied to Davis (as well as TownHall.com's Conn Carroll, who had re-Tweeted Davis's reply) and acknowledged the conservative writer's point:

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Another conservative on Twitter also spotlighted that Todd forgot about another "relic of the Cold War wall" that has been in the news lately, due to the hacking of Sony Pictures Studios:

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