Posted on 12/14/2019 5:31:19 AM PST by Kaslin
“Sixteen-year-old activist Greta Thunberg has quickly risen to prominence with her clarion call for climate action and Time's naming her its 2019 Person of the Year this week.” (NPR, 12/12)
“So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” (President Trump tweet 12/12)
Interestingly, Greta Thunberg has recently become a darling of the media in Stalinist Cuba, a regime whose founders craved a pretty dramatic form of “climate change.”
And speaking of ridiculous Time magazine bestowing honors on people who desperately needed to chill:
The publication also honored Che Guevara among the world’s top 25 political icons. Che ranks No. 9, between Adolph Hitler (8) and Ronald Reagan (10.) Mao Zedong ranks 3rd, Genghis Khan 5th, and Mohandas Gandhi 1st.
So, OK, Time was obviously not making a moral judgment call on these rankings. “We look at world leaders whose legacies have stood the test of time,” they explain. Fine. Sounds perfectly reasonable and objective.
Time magazine’s last ranking of Che Guevara in 1999 as among “The 100 Most Important People of the Century,” at first glance also appeared objective. Until you read further and found that they placed Che in the “Heroes and Icons” section, alongside Anne Frank, Andrei Sakharov, Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa. On Fox News, the late Alan Colmes once scoffed at my claim for this—then gaped semi apologetically at my proof.
“Nothing could be more vicariously gratifying than Che Guevara’s disdain for material comfort and everyday desires,” read Time’s Encomium to Che Guevara in 1999 composed by Duke Professor Ariel Dorfman, whose “research” overlooked some important details. To wit:
“Che’s house was among the most luxurious in Cuba,” writes Cuban journalist Antonio Llano Montes about the Mansion-estate Che Guevara “acquired” promptly upon entering Havana in January 1959. After a hard day at the office signing firing-squad murder warrants and blasting teen-agers’ skulls apart with the coup-de-grace from his .45, Che Guevara repaired to his new domicile just outside Havana on the pristine beachfront (today reserved exclusively for tourists and Communist party members, by the way.) Until a few weeks prior, it had belonged to Cuba’s most successful building contractor. “The mansion had a boat dock, a huge swimming pool, seven bathrooms, a sauna, a massage salon and several television sets,” continues Llano Montes. “One TV had been specially designed in the U.S. and had a screen ten feet wide and was operated by remote control (remember, this was 1959.) This was thought to be the only TV of its kind in Latin America. The mansion’s garden had a veritable jungle of imported plants, a pool with waterfall, ponds filled with exotic tropical fish and several bird houses filled with parrots and other exotic birds. The habitation was something out of A Thousand and One Nights.”
The “austere idealist,” Che Guevara, hadn’t done too badly for himself in this real estate “acquisition” (hand over all your property Mr. Cuban contractor, or face a firing squad.)
“Che was the embodiment of a man true to his word,” asserts yet another Time encomium to Che Guevara by Dan Fastenberg, a recent graduate of Columbia School of Journalism.
Alas, the “research” by Time magazine’s “gallant crusader for the truth” (Columbia School of Journalism’s term for its graduates) again appears deficient:
“I am not a communist and have never been a communist,” was how Che Guevara gave his “truthful word” to The New York Times on Jan. 4th 1959. “It gives me great pain to be called a communist,” he continued truthing.
“Che was the embodiment of a man who never backs down and is willing to pay the ultimate price,” continued Fastenberg in his Time magazine fluff piece. “After Guevara was captured fomenting revolution in Bolivia in 1967, he said, “Go ahead and kill me, I am just a man.”
In fact, on his second to last day alive, Che Guevara ordered his guerrilla charges to give no quarter, to fight to the last breath and to the last bullet. With his men doing exactly that, Che snuck away from the firefight, and crawled towards the Bolivian soldiers doing the firing.
“Don’t Shoot! I’m Che Guevara! I’m worth more to you alive than dead!”
The details of Che’s capture are available in the official records of the men who captured him. Columbia School of Journalism graduates and Time “investigative journalists” are no more barred from reading those records than is this writer.
These documents record this “embodiment of a man who never backs down” dropping his fully loaded weapons on Oct. 8, 1967 and whimpering: “Don’t Shoot! I’m Che Guevara! I’m worth more to you alive than dead!”
But it was only after his (obviously voluntary) capture that Che segued into full Eddie-Hasquell-Greeting-June-Cleaver-Mode. “What’s your name, young man?!” Che quickly asked one of his captors. “Why what a lovely name for a Bolivian soldier!”
“You are a very special person!” Che then commended the soldier’s commander, Captain Gary Prado. “I have been talking to some of your men. They think very highly of you, captain Prado!..Now, could you please find out what they plan to do with me?....I don’t suppose you will kill me. I’m surely more valuable alive!”
His Bolivian captors viewed the matter differently. In fact, they adopted a policy that has since become a favorite among Americans who encounter (so-called) endangered species on their property: “Shoot, shovel, and shut-up.”
Justice has never been better served, Time’s encomiums notwithstanding.
There were some hopes the US could turn Che against Fidel, and use him to spark an anti-Castro movement.
At any rate, Castro abandoned him when he was in Bolivia, and may not have been too sorry to hear about his demise (regardless of his public mourning stance).
Gag
May Che burn in hell
He was complete scum. Then again so was Stalin, and we allied with him.
Che and others were fer sure “influential” in an evil way, Mao, Stalin, Adolph, disgusting horrible miserable excuses for humans.
Time magazine is just another waste of paper
there is the problem, the libs think time has only been around 100 years since the Russian revolution
An honorably deserved screed:
Thunberg is becoming St.Joan of Bark
By the Blather, Bun and Holy Boast of the Vatican.
See: “Vatican Calls Greta Thunberg ‘Great Witness’ of Church’s Environmental Teaching”
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3800771/posts
It will draw socialists back to the church which works to subvert national borders all over the world to illegal immigration.
The Vatican needs to be popular , you see, to stem the exodus of families who do not want to expose their children to the tender mercies of un-apprehended holy pedophiles.
All can bow and curtsy around the beginning canonization of St. Joan of Bark, a veritable anger filled, hate filled stand in for the victim character of William Peter Blatty’s block buster horror movie, “The Exorcist”.
Her demonic possession is a foregone conclusion to exhort the masses towards socialism everywhere, so that the freedoms and liberties of nations can become subservient in the minutest details of everyday life because of climate change. She even exhumes the putrid corpse of Che Guevara
to prick his balls in case they are not empty, in hopes of bearing his necrotic child to inflict on nations of freedom and liberty.
So who wants to be first to drink from the now sacred chalice of Saint Joan of Bark?
Time magazine editors have been poisoned by her ichorous beverage, fools for a young socialist psychopomp.
Thunberg can take her place in the dust bin of history as soon as possible or die of her insane self affliction, whatever works for our genuine humanity.
Yep; Time is nothing more than a communist run rag not even fit to line birdcages or wrap smelly fish.
And she wants to put world leaders up against the wall
That’s my understanding
as well and it pains me
to see a “Che” T shirt.
I bought a Pinochet t-shirt as a counter protest.
Me too.
TIME is still relevant how? LMAO.
She’s even been given a Che style line: “We will put world leaders against the wall”, which is a death threat.
But she’s just a little girl so you can’t say anything against her.
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