Che Guevara? Well, we knew he was a Stalinist who got his jollies executing the bourgeoisie, once they’d been neatly bound and gagged. But we didn’t know he was also a racist and a homophobe, at least according to Humberto Fontova, author of “Exposing Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots who Idolize Him” as quoted in Muckraked.
Pity, you know? I mean, there is a certain strain of old school, head-knocking socialist that could forgive a man a few several, OK, seven hundred murdered middle class working stiffs wreckers, stoppers, splitists and other assorted counter-revolutionaries - even if you do know you’ve got issues when Fidel himself labels you “excessively aggressive*.”
But hey, you’re going to make an omelet? Gotta break a few eggs. Don’t worry, the kind of folks who get weak-kneed over well-intentioned skull cracking will give you a pass, even wear your image on their t-shirts. Especially if you’ve got those dreamy eyes, that wild hair, the counter-cultural beard, oooh!
But a gay-hating bigot?
That’s crossing the line.
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Casca
// Jun 11, 2007 at 6:05 pm
LOL, it’s a wicked world. I watched The Lost City the other night. Good movie, a bit long, but well worth it if you’re the sort who has a taste for something to think about, and wish to remember the revolution appropriately.
I like to remember Che’s end, whenever I see one of those T-shirts.
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Liz
// Jun 11, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Well, sorry but he was indeed exceptionally hot. Military men go TDY and get the clap in droves from unsightly foreign lady-parts…and you are throwing barbs at women and homosexuals who simply like to oggle Che?
Tend to your own glass house. (hee hee)
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DM
// Jun 11, 2007 at 6:44 pm
I found this site a while ago. The caption always makes me laugh:
http://www.thoseshirts.com/checap.html
Enjoy,
-DM
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Liz
// Jun 11, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Sorry for the double post…but thought I’d add that you should thank your lucky stars that Al Qaeda seems to require that its members are all hideous.
Imagine the Che equivalent in Al Qaeda, and the subsequent hollywood and press reaction. Good grief! Che Laden would have had a lifetime channel miniseries by now…
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Marianne Matthews
// Jun 11, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Lex … speaking of Che Guevara, a friend of ours has written a thriller called Killing Che. It’s by Chuck Pfarrer, a former SEAL and successful screenwriter [Darkman, Red Planet, Navy SEALS etc.] and it’s extremely well-written, if you ever do have time to curl up with a book between flights and fights. Random House is the publisher, and they brought it out in April of this year. Chuck did an intensive study of the background of Guevara’s Bolivian campaign, helped by his own mission there. It’s a good one.
Marianne Matthews
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Kristen
// Jun 11, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Marianne,
I read Chuck Pfarrer’s account of his SEAL days and enjoyed it very much. I was going to order the book Killing Che from Amazon until I read the reviews indicating that Che is the hero of the story. I’m most definitely not interested in reading anything that glorifies that foul murderer. Are the reviews wrong?
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Marianne Matthews
// Jun 11, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Kristen … my husband and I helped Chuck in proofing the novel so we both read it thoroughly. Che is not the hero of the story. A ‘contract agent’ for our government is. But Chuck did deep research, so Che emerges as a human being, albeit a deeply mistaken and confused one [as the PC-ers would say]. Frankly, I think the contract agent is a lot cooler.
Marianne Matthews
Voluminous diaries and correspondence by Che reveal that from an idealist he morphed into a bloody-minded killer and fanatic who lost his humanity and soul to fevered dreams of conquest. Downs Matthews
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Kristen
// Jun 12, 2007 at 8:26 am
Thanks! That’s good information to have.
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JPS
// Jun 12, 2007 at 9:01 am
Captain Lex:
And yet, Castro himself enjoys immunity on this one, with people like Jack Nicholson and Steven Spielberg gushing over what an honor it was to meet him.
The subject of Hollywood and Castro reminds me of an offhand line from the excellent Robert Duvall, who commented on the subject of Barbara Streisand and her boycott of Colorado back in the late-mid-90s:
“Oh, sure, she won’t go to Colorado because they’re unfair to the gays. But I bet she’d go to Cuba, where they quarantine them!”
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P-3W
// Jun 12, 2007 at 9:20 am
JPS, who said they have to be consistent?
Just have to be for the underdog, which is whoever is in the doghouse by America.
Because, America is ALWAYS the bully and must be WRONG.
Feh on them all.
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EJ Smith
// Jun 12, 2007 at 9:23 am
I always wondered with shaking head and a tsk from my lips, whenever I saw someone wearing his likeness, or sporting a bumper sticker with his image.
Do these idiots really know whom they support with such reverence?
My guess is likely not, but still, head shaking, and a tsk to go with it, I can merely mutter to myself: “self, that person is an idiot.”
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John G
// Jun 12, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Actually, this one wears better…
http://www.thoseshirts.com/muerto.html
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Bookworm
// Jun 12, 2007 at 3:37 pm
In today’s impromptus, Jay Nordlinger pointed out that, when Prince Harry, not one of the brighter lights in the royal family, dressed like a Nazi, all hell predictably broke loose. There was, however, utter silence when he waltzed around in a Che t-shirt. If only they’d known what you just revealed today!
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Justthisguy
// Jun 12, 2007 at 5:48 pm
And virtuous ugly people can’t *buy* a break!
No, I’m not talking about myself. I’m kinda fiftieth-percentile on both dimensions.
What I think this shows, is that cool, pretty people who are also evil can have much more influence than they ought to have.
Wait! We knew that already! Two and a half thousand years ago!
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