Posted on 04/07/2010 9:47:16 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Some cynics feel young people today are petulant ingrates, reclining in cushy bubbles of ignorance inherited through their grandparent’s blood, sweat, and tears. But, luckily, Apple Computer’s new Che Guevara iPhone app is proof that we needn’t worry about that anymore.
Guevara would be gratified to see how many insight-challenged Americans impose his slimy mug all over the land of the free and the home of the brave – Barack Obama campaign offices, college student unions, fashion runways, to name a few. But this latest incarnation on such an icon of capitalist greed as the iPhone, is salt on the wounds of Humberto Fontova, whose family was devastated by Fidel Castro’s Marxist regime and its Guevara-led terrorist wing.
Fontova, with his unique appreciation for American liberty, has had a lot to say about the canonization of Guevara, especially by sycophantic, award-winning actors Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro:
“I hear of this guy, and he’s got a cool name, Che Guevara!” says del Toro. “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!’”
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Where’s the iReagan?
There must be a FReeper who knows how to do this!
Like wow man, who knew slaughtering untold thousands of innocent people could look so awesome! And to think he looked so far-out being a stooge for his soviet task masters and then being on his knees and begging for his life when justice finally caught up with him. Radical man, dig it!
Boycotting Fox News? Where?? I saw IPAD commercials all over Fox News just Monday.
I love these non boycott boycotts.
It`s Miller Time for marxists!
Benicia ,, why pluck the goo$e that feathers your nest?
Perilous times, indeed.
i would be willing to bet the 99% of the peope wearing this guys mug on their shirt have no idea who he is or what he did.
I actually owned a t-shirt in the 80’s only because it looked cool... I think I onlky wore it once though before I felt like an idiot for not knowing who it was.
Something about it felt slimy- maybe it is a genetic thing.
No iPad in my home...no use for more electronic nonsense.
Unfortunately, the same may be true for a significant percentage of those who voted for Obama.
What a brilliant app idea! It gets tons of free advertising by blogs and the MSM.
Like wow, man, you're like, so intelligent sounding, Benicio.
And so cooool!
I want to be just like you, except I'm too busy right now trying to be just like Barack.
Red?.................
Actually there is an iReagan, along with two apps that feature Reagan quotes and three that feature his notable speeches.
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| From The Vitamin Press |
- Dr. Douglas Young, Professor of Political Science & History at Gainesville State College February 10, 2009
Hollywood has dutifully churned out yet another cinematic agitprop paean to a leftist “martyr,” this time Ernesto Guevara. So let’s recall the real “Che” and try to discern why many supposedly democratic, civil libertarian liberals still swoon over this Stalinist mass-murderer.
The meticulous myth of Senor Guevara is of a handsome Argentine heroically helping Fidel Castro’s guerrillas liberate Cuba from Fulgencio Batista’s military dictatorship in 1959. Then he became a global revolutionary icon inspiring the downtrodden to rise up everywhere, even personally leading rebel warriors in the Congo before being executed doing the same in Bolivia in 1967.
The (communist) party line says Che personifies the selfless humanitarian courageously fighting for “social justice.” He’s the Marxists’ martyred Christ figure replete with pictures of his half-naked corpse riddled with bullet holes. And the classic poster of an angry young Guevara has scarred countless college dorm rooms for over 40 years, putting a face on the eternally young rebel for angry adolescents everywhere.
The real Guevara was a reckless bourgeois adrenaline-junkie seeking a place in history as a liberator of the oppressed. But this fanatic’s vehicle of “liberation” was Stalinism, named for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, murderer of well over 20 million of his own people. As one of Castro’s top lieutenants, Che helped steer Cuba’s revolutionary regime in a radically repressive direction. Soon after overthrowing Batista, Guevara choreographed the executions of hundreds of Batista officials without any fair trials. He thought nothing of summarily executing even fellow guerrillas suspected of disloyalty and shot one himself with no due process.
Che was a purist political fanatic who saw everything in stark black and white. Therefore he vociferously opposed freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, protest, or any other rights not completely consistent with his North Korean-style communism. How many rock music-loving teens sporting Guevara t-shirts today know their hero supported Cuba’s 1960s’ repression of the genre? How many homosexual fans know he had gays jailed?
Did the Obama volunteers in that Texas campaign headquarters with Che’s poster on the wall know that Guevara fervently opposed any free elections? How “progressive” is that?
How socially just was it that Che was enraged when the Russians blinked during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and withdrew their nuclear missiles from the island, thus averting a nuclear war? Guevara was such a zealous ideologue that he relished the specter of millions of Cuban lives sacrificed on the altar of communism, declaring Cuba “a people ready to sacrifice itself to nuclear arms, that its ashes might serve as a basis for new societies.” Some humanitarian.
Che was a narcissist who boasted that “I have no house, wife, children, parents, or brothers; my friends are friends as long as they think like me, politically.” This is a role model for today’s “post-political” voters claiming we should get beyond partisanship?
Adding to the ridiculousness of the Che cult is that he was virtually a complete failure. As a medical doctor, he never even had a practice. When put in charge of the Cuban economy at the start of Castro’s government, his uncompromising communist diktats ran it completely into the ground, from which it never recovered. Humiliated, and also angry that Castro wasn’t fomenting enough revolution abroad, he then tried to lead such quixotic adventures in Argentina, the Congo, and Bolivia, failing miserably everywhere while sacrificing the lives of scores of naïve, idealistic young followers as deluded pawns in the service of his personality cult.
Another reason he fled Cuba in the mid-1960s was the complete mess he made of his private life. Though he preached sexual purity to his colleagues, he was a shameless adulterer who abandoned two wives and many children, some legitimate, others not. As a grandson put it, “he was never home.” The public Che who supposedly had such great love for humanity privately couldn’t stand most folks.
Guevara’s promiscuous communist adventurism was the pattern of a terminal adolescent running away from his problems to get caught up in some heroic crusade against his eternal bete noir, “Yankee imperialism.”
So why do so many well-heeled American libs still admire this thug? Are the young simply ignorant of his execrable record and drawn to the image of the dashing young rebel? Do older progressives feel guilt for their free market prosperity, and showing solidarity with Che absolves them? Do hippies-turned-yuppies get nostalgic for their youthful protests and rationalize that the symbolism of Che as a “social reformer” eclipses his actual horrific human rights record? And are some American Guevaraistas truly dangerous leftists who seek to emulate their icon and destroy our free, democratic, capitalist society? Ask that guy wearing the Che t-shirt.
Why not Lavrenti Beria instead of Che, I wonder. It couldn't be because Beria looked like Bob Hoskins, while Che looked more like Antonio Banderas.
Oh settle down... there are a whole bunch of weird apps... heck, there’s an app for Mussolini ...
Talking to yourself?
Yes, Red State Red!
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