Posted on 07/11/2007 6:59:49 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Cuba's late Marxist revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, is experiencing something of a revival these days. His fiery-eyed visage and rock-star good looks, immortalized in an iconic snapshot by photographer Alberto Korda in 1961, seem to epitomize the youthful idealism of revolution, rebellion and free-spiritedness.
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Bump, and I loved this exchange:
IBD: The media missed all this. Will it ever change?
Fontova: The mainstream media monopoly is being broken. Alan Colmes of “Hannity and Colmes” once asked me, “Why are these stories coming out now as opposed to 20 years ago? All of a sudden, you discover all this horrible information on Che.”
I said, “No, Alan, people have been talking about this since 1959, but it never made it past the mainstream media filter.” That monopoly is over, so our side can tell its story to middle America. I like to think this book is an example of that.
BSG!
Definitely a great book title!
OK....that’s the first Che shirt takeoff I’ve seen that’s actually funny.
This is my favorite picture of Che. My first Spanish teacher in 1961, Sr. Portilla alumna of University of Havana, told me, "Ah, Felipe, Fidel es muy malo, muy malo, es veddy veddy bad man." Had our cinc and cia had the will, we would have a similar photo of Moqtada al-Sadr and Ayman al-Zawahari. To the days of old when you captured your enemy by the sat phone in his hands--then took the hands. Hey, Che, we do executions right.
Angelina Jolie reportedly sports a Che tattoo.
So does Mike Tyson. So I guess IQ's tend to stick together.
Fat drunken coke head soccer idiot, Diego Maradona is another pinhead kind enough
to brand his low IQ on his skin, so nobody accidently mistakes him for a thinker.
Who’s Baltar? I don’t get it.
99.9% of the kids wearing the t-shirt have no idea who the guy was or what he did. There is just a vague idea that he was some kind of “rebel.” However, the t-shirt’s iconography is appealing for its semi-Warhol style, the fact that copyright can’t be enforced, and that it is incredibly easy to produce via silk-screen.
I had the same experience in NYC when I was wearing my Reagan shirt. He was going to say something to me until I told him his good health depended on him keeping his mouth shut.
He certainly was. It doesn’t help when Hollywood puts out romantic crap like the The Motorcycle Diaries.
CHE The adventurer and an altruistic man of the people!
A very interesting character - played by a very good actor - in the new Battlestar Galactica series.
Why can’t FReepers excerpt more than 2 sentences anymore?
Wasn’t supposedly the main protagonist in the play “Evita” based on Che Guevara?
For my 50th birthday I treated myself to a recomended colonoscopy. My buddy the GI guy let me watch on the tv screen. As the scope got close to insertion he focused the scope on the outside and lo and behold I saw an excellent picture of Che, beard and all!
Made him take a picture but I can’t find it anywhere.
I’ve never seen it but I think he is used as the narrator even though I don’t believe the two ever met.
You mean the "Fairness Doctrine" didn't work???
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