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Hollywood’s Benicio Del Toro Eulogizes Che Guevara in Havana but Denounces President(T)
townhall.com ^ | 12/22/2018 | Humberto Fontava

Posted on 12/22/2018 10:05:13 AM PST by rktman

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To: rktman

You are an anti-Hollywood?

I mean a media society with a vision of the godly.


21 posted on 12/22/2018 10:43:18 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: rktman

Did you get repelled by Doris Day or inspired? I’m not certain what’s meant here.


22 posted on 12/22/2018 10:44:18 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: rktman
Here is the entire ob-ed by Humberto Fontova as it appears on Townhall.com

“The film’s (“Che,” directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by Benicio Del Toro in partnership with Stalinist Cuba’s propaganda ministry) production crew spent six years in Cuba  investigating everything about Che Guevara." (NOT Miami, please note, where people who knew Che can talk truthfully about him without fear of firing squads and torture chambers!) “I remember sitting with Che’s wife Aleida who told me “it’s not important if you resemble Che physically, the important thing is to understand the person. ... And Che Guevara’s person educated me about my roots of being a Latin-American and a Puerto-Rican.” (Benicio Del Toro in an interview with Vladimir Putin’s propaganda organ RT during the Havana Film Festival last week.) 

Nothing new here, amigos. In fact:

“I’d like to dedicate this award to the man himself, Che Guevara!  I wouldn't be here without Che Guevara, and through all the awards the movie gets you'll have to pay your respects to the man!...Ideologically I feel very close to Che." Thus gushed Benicio Del Toro (made a multi-millionaire mostly by American audiences) while accepting the ‘best actor’ award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role glorifying Che Guevara (who denounced Americans as “hyenas fit only for extermination!”)

But on the other hand:

”I don’t understand what’s going on with the United States government… It’s cruel. What’s the morality inside this monster (Donald Trump) for separating children from their parents? I don’t know. The bottom line: this has to stop.” (Benicio del Toro earlier this year.) 

To be fair, who can blame Benicio Del Toro for being a trifle biased in favor of a movie he co-produced? So let’s look for more “objective” sources.   

“Learn some history! The movie is Che. Go!..Learn!” (Stephen Colbert while hosting Benicio Del Toro.)

“A great piece of work. This movie is based on history. It went to the source. If you own the poster and t-shirt you owe it to yourself to go learn about the man.” (MSNBC’s Willie Geist while hosting Benicio Del Toro.”) 

“I still have my Che Guevara poster. Che Guevara was a freedom fighter.” (Bob Beckel, former FoxNews commentator.)

“Dammit This Guy Is Cool!” was the title of an interview the BBC conducted with Benicio Del Toro upon the celebrated his movies release. “I hear of this guy, and he’s got a cool name, Che Guevara!” Del Toro told the BBC. “Groovy name, groovy man, groovy politics! So I came across a picture of Che, smiling, in fatigues, I thought, ‘Dammit, this guy is cool-looking!’”
 
 Right here Benicio Del Toro, who fulfilled an obvious fantasy by starring as Che Guevara in the four-and-a-half-hour movie he also co-produced, probably revealed the inspiration (and daunting intellectual exertion) of most Che fans worldwide, including Beckel and Colbert.

In addition, upon the communist hagiography’s screening by the American Film Institute at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in 2008, the families of the thousands of Che Guevara’s murder victim’s where gratuitously and cheekily insulted: 

“Che Guevara is a hugely controversial figure,” laughed Lou Diamond Phillips who played the role of Bolivian Communist party leader Mario Monje. The cameras in front of Grauman’s then turned to “Che” himself, Benicio Del Toro (oh so sensitive to separation of children from parents on the U.S. border, remember?) who snickered along with Phillips. “I don’t know how this film is gonna go over in Miami” then smirked their co-star Joaquim de Almeida while cackles from the ultra-hipster, ultra-sensitive Hollywood cast erupted in the background.  

And all this in Hollywood, the world capitol of ultra-sensitivity, where an off-handed quip about a black or a gay, about slavery or lynching can end a career. Where “bullying” can take the form of prolonged eye-contact or a sneer. But where, apparently, public laughter and open ridicule of the grief of thousands of Cuban-Americans whose loved-ones were tortured and murdered passes for humor. 

Miami, as you might guess, is home to most of the wives, mothers, daughters, sons and brothers of the thousands of defenseless men (and boys and even some women) murdered by the regime Che Guevara co-founded. 

 “The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!” raved the terrorist who Soderbergh and Del Toro glorified and who got a standing ovation in Hollywood with both Robert Redford’s “The Motorcycle Diaries” and Soderberg’s “Che.”  “Against those hyenas (Americans) there is no option but extermination! The imperialist enemy (Americans) must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! We must keep our hatred (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City.”

As usual, most of the people Che Guevara craved to incinerate viewed protests against the Che movie (mostly in Miami) as a quaint and silly obsession by hyper-sensitive, loudmouthed and even ungrateful Cuban-Americans. The film’s reception in Castro’s Cuba was vastly different from the one in Miami –but quite similar to the one in Hollywood. 

"Che" film gets thumbs up in Cuba," ran the headline from CNN's Havana Bureau upon an earlier Del Toro’s red-carpet visits to the totalitarian Castro-Family-Fiefdom. Benicio Del Toro, who stars as Che, was in the Cuban capital at the Havana Film Festival that week presenting the movie he co-produced. The lengthy biopic of the Argentinean revolutionary won acclaim from among those who know his story best."


 Indeed, but the acclaim came because those "who knew his story best" (Castro and his Stalinist henchmen, the film's chief mentors and veritable co-producers) saw that their directives had been followed slavishly, that Che's (genuine) story was completely absent from the movie. This, of course, “seemed lost” on CNN, the first network to be bestowed a Havana Bureau by the film’s Stalinist, terror-sponsoring co-producers.

23 posted on 12/22/2018 10:46:22 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: rktman
It must take a lot of "Method" training to be able to realistically portray a cowardly, sadistic nihilist like Che Guevara. But Benicio would be the man to pull it off.

Then again, maybe he wouldn't be acting ...

24 posted on 12/22/2018 10:52:01 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

It sure doesn’t sound like any of that kind of stuff was in any screenplay he witnessed or acted in. That would be too candid a camera.


25 posted on 12/22/2018 10:53:07 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: rktman

Check out “The Lost City” from Andy Garcia. Shows the real Che.


26 posted on 12/22/2018 10:56:22 AM PST by Raymann
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To: rktman

SHUT UP and act!


27 posted on 12/22/2018 10:59:38 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

As a second grader living in Carmel in the mid 50’s, ‘they’ were filming a movie and I attempted to get an autograph from her and was rudely rebuffed. I understand now, you know shooting schedules, costs etc. But for a kid.......BOOM! Never held “celebrities” in high regard ever again no matter what format they were in. Theater, music, sports. politics etc. I may respect their abilities but other than that, meh.


28 posted on 12/22/2018 11:01:41 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Raymann

Thanks.


29 posted on 12/22/2018 11:02:15 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Dick Bachert

Is this actually Che? Or has this picture been debunked as fake.


30 posted on 12/22/2018 11:31:30 AM PST by princeofdarkness (Leftists. Their only response to failure is to double down.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Shows you either they know about history and they refuse to believe it, know about it and support it, or as dumb as they look and believe what everyone else is telling them. Either way we have to deal with their mental illness


31 posted on 12/22/2018 11:55:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip pod cast)
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To: rktman

Are you sure it wasn’t Antonio Banderas?


32 posted on 12/22/2018 12:22:03 PM PST by x
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To: x

Only in tv commercials.


33 posted on 12/22/2018 12:23:09 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; Clemenza; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; AuH2ORepublican; ExTexasRedhead; ...

A lot of sick Stalinist f***s in Hollyweird. Just like their bloodthirsty, mass-murdering, psychotic hero, Che, they serve Satan, too. Remember that every time they open their mouths to opine about politics.


34 posted on 12/22/2018 1:02:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Dick Bachert

Looks like there’s a couple dead already.

Any angle that shows his face better? Would like to have that with this one. TIA


35 posted on 12/22/2018 1:18:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Dick Bachert

I’m saving your post for future beat downs.


36 posted on 12/22/2018 1:32:00 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: rktman

Leftists love their pet murderers


37 posted on 12/22/2018 1:48:58 PM PST by elbook
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To: rktman
I just saw a documentary on Venezuela and they couldn't bring themselves to utter the word "Socialism" - they blamed populism and at the end said that Trump was doing the same thing.

The left is truly delusional and insane.

38 posted on 12/22/2018 1:58:10 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots
That Sean Penn is some kind of political genius and prognosticator!


39 posted on 12/22/2018 2:03:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: neverevergiveup; gundog

neverevergiveup wrote:

Time to boycott Heineken, and let them know why.

I started my boycott against Heineken when they withdrew their sponsorship [NYC & Boston] of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parades because of Catholic ‘intolerance’ of queers.

The queers were welcomed to march, with the only stipulation being that they would NOT carry banners advocating ‘”gay rights”.

The AOH had the Constitutional right to disqualify any group who mocked the Saint’s Parade by getting radically queer; which in turn, disrespected the Church honoring a holy Saint

Hmmm.


40 posted on 12/22/2018 2:36:38 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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