Revenge of Che - No amount of Hollywood puffery will change the fact that commies aren’t cool.

National Review Online ^ | December 19, 2008 | Mark Goldblatt

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December 19, 2008, 0:30 p.m.

Revenge of Che
No amount of Hollywood puffery will change the fact that commies aren’t cool.

By Mark Goldblatt

Hollywood’s latest round of “Che-mania” kicked off last Friday in New York with a one week preview of Steven Soderbergh’s epic four hour biopic on the life and times of Ernesto Che Guevara. The film opens nationwide, edited into two halves, in January.

When asked why the movie needed to be so long, co-producer and star Benecio Del Toro replied, “That is a question for Che. Why such a fulfilled life? We believe that this is the shortest film about Che Guevara’s revolutionary life that could be made.”

Well, no.

The shortest film about Che’s revolutionary life has already been made. In it, a couple of scruffy, paramilitary-looking, motorcycle-riding cartoon cockroaches decide to “take over” a kitchen, running amok until a giant muscle-bound can of Raid appears and “kills them dead.”

Guevara, in reality, belongs to that species of human vermin who attach themselves to a charismatic villain — in Che’s case, Fidel Castro; in Heinrich Himmler’s case, Adolf Hitler; in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s case, Osama bin Laden — and enact their murderous agendas until the countervailing forces of history end their pathetic existences. Granted, Che is more photogenic than either the thin-lipped Poindexter Himmler or the hairy-backed Super Mario Brother Sheikh. It’s hard to imagine either of them ever moving a gross of tee shirts the way Che does. But the fact that Che continues to sell is a testament to the historical ignorance of every consumer of his visage.

Indeed, one of the ongoing mysteries of American popular culture is why Communism is merchandised more often and more effectively than Nazism or Islamism. Is it just a matter of public relations? Why does an obsessive Nazi-hunter like Simon Wiesenthal get positive press while an obssessive Communist-hunter like Joe McCarthy is vilified? Why is Marxist Theory, with its alternative view of individual versus collective rights, an accepted academic discipline — but Sharia Theory, with its alternative view of female empowerment, an insult to women?

The truth of the matter is that Nazism, Islamism, and Communism are all totalitarian movements. All three stand in direct opposition to Enlightenment values of religious tolerance and rational inquiry. All three seek to exterminate whoever stands in their way. Nazism justifies its genocide in the name of racial purity. Islamism, in the name of spiritual purity. Communism, in the name of socio-economic purity.

One way or another, the shallow graves get filled.

So as you sit in the darkened theater, listening to Soderbergh’s Che murmur dreamily that the true revolutionary is guided by “love,” you might want to consider how that love was manifested in a man who used to lay on his side on top of a wall, chomping a cigar even as he urged on the firing squads he commanded.

Or you might consider Che in his own words.

Here is Che, for example, recounting the execution of Eutimio Guerra for betraying the Cuban revolution: “I fired a .32 caliber bullet into the right hemisphere of his brain which came out through his left temple. He moaned for a few moments, then died.”

And here’s Che philosophizing on the rule of law: “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”

Oh, and here’s Che lamenting the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis: “If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America including New York. We must never establish peaceful coexistence. In this struggle to the death between two systems we must gain the ultimate victory. We must walk the path of liberation even if it costs millions of atomic victims.”

Finally, here’s Che on his commitment to his cause: “In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.”

Which raises an intriguing entomological question: Can a cockroach squish a worm?

— Mark Goldblatt writes from New York.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Hollywood self indulgence is unlimited.

[Bon mots]

Someone should make a movie glorifying a real Latin American hero:

[xcamel]

Especially mass-murdering-commie-bastards like Che-poo-poo

[HondaCRF450]

O, those kind, tolerant, and intelligent liberals. Cool was just giving the bad finger to “the man”. The details are irrelevent.

[Kackikat]

“isms” orchestrated and carried out by the devil’s servants, and with the help of his demons.

[Eric Blair 2084]

You drastically underestimate the power of aging hippie liberals in Hollywood.

They can convince the sheeple that it is cool.

[narses]

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[freekitty]

Commies aren’t cool is right.

[BossLady]

Che comparing himself to Nietzsche....HAHAHAHA!

[muir_redwoods]

Che was a sociopathic child killer. The world is well rid of him and would have been better off if the garbage had been taken out sooner.

[JudgemAll]

In lessons for cynicism, prefer “the Revenge of Borat”.

Pot smokers and their pond sighted revolutions while it is being filled with additional scums.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

It is appalling to me that while those hippies can be forgiven for being stupid in their youth, that when they mature and have great paying jobs with benefits and live in luxury homes in the suburbs...all a gift from the country they hate...they still have these ignorant minds!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

It is appalling to me that while those hippies can be forgiven for being stupid in their youth, that when they mature and have great paying jobs with benefits and live in luxury homes in the suburbs...all a gift from the country they hate...they still have these ignorant minds!

[Electric Graffiti]

“Che was a sociopathic child killer”

....and a coward to boot. He hid amongst the indians in Bolivia threatening their lives if they gave him up.
Crapping himself as the US special forces helped the Bolivian army capture the pusillanimous POS as he begged for his life.

All the revisionist crap you hear that he stood up to the Bolivians/Americans is total bovine scatology. He died begging on his knees soiling himself like the good COMMIE COWARD that he was.

[Bon mots]

Obligatory Che Image
Almost forgot!

[FreedomForce]

Wonder if 4 hours is long enough to include Che’s habit of genuflecting to his photo of Stalin.

[Seven plus One]

Cuber could have been made the 58th state in 1961. 47 more years of Castro, that’s what pusillanimity instead of a plan will get you.

[Impy]

[Electric Graffiti]

Nietzsche would have nothing to do with a Che like scumbag.