So for many, the questions remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?
The answer is that this psychotic and thoroughly unimposing vagrant named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch had the magnificent fortune of linking up with modern history's top press agent, Fidel Castro, who -- from the New York Times' Herbert Matthews in 1957, through CBS' Ed Murrow in 1959 to CBS' Dan Rather, to ABC's Barbara Walters, to NBC's Andrea Mitchell more recently -- always had the mainstream media anxiously scurrying to his every beck and call and eating out of his hand like trained pigeons.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Happy anniversary, Che!
Tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of Che Guevara's execution. Humberto Fontova recalls some of the, er, highlights of the communist revolutionary's career. A sample:
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Hmm. Support from the mainstream media, coupled with obfuscation of his background. No one really knew what he was or had done (or hadn't done). Thrust on the populace as a righter of wrongs, no matter what the truth. But the press made sure we didn't know ANYTHING about him. sounds like some president of the US I've heard of.
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Good point. Our lamestream press is remarkably incurious about the facts when it comes to celebrity leftists.
ReplyDeleteWell, obviously they never read the real Che Diaries, as translated by Paco.
ReplyDeleteDeborah Leigh said...It was the Stalinist organization International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), that sold the t-shirts and stickers to the stream of perennial "victims" who see Che as "Zorro". They ignorant (and wish to stay so) that Che, unlike Zorro, was a cowardly, sadistic, narcissitic bully possessing no redeeming qualities. Interestingly, these Che devotees are usually illegal immigrants and college students, who benefit from the greatness of the country that Che fought...the US. The ignorant are the prey of the Left, from which they will fill their ranks to advance their agenda.
ReplyDeleteRebecca: Obviously so! But they'll be able to read them soon, when the book comes out.
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