Posted on 09/10/2011 6:35:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
“I still have my Che Guevara poster. Che Guevara was a freedom fighter.” (Bob Beckel on FoxNews’ “The Five” Sept. 5th)
If Bob Beckel’s “freedom-fighter” had been allowed his fondest bit of “freedom-fighting” Bob Beckel’s incinerated remains would fit in a gin bottle today. “America is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination!...If the missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York City.”
For the record: Ernesto “Che” Guevara was second in command, chief executioner, and chief KGB liaison for a regime that jailed more political prisoners per capita than did Stalin’s during the Great Terror and murdered more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler’s murdered (out of a population of 70 million) in its first six. Many, perhaps most, of those murdered and jailed by the regime Che Guevara co-founded were Batista opponents.
The Stalinist regime Che Guevara imposed on Cuba also stole the savings and property of 6.4 million citizens, made refugees of 20 percent of the population from a nation formerly deluged with immigrants and whose citizens had achieved a higher standard of living than those residing in half of Europe. Many opponents of the regime Che Guevara co-founded qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period three times as long in Che Guevara’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s Gulag. Most of these had been Batista opponents.
“Don't put him in a list of fascists. The fascists (Batista) were the ones he was trying to get rid of.” (Bob Beckel on FoxNews’ “The Five” Sept. 5th)
For the record: According to the Cuba Archive Project, the Castro regime – with firing squads, forced-labor camps, torture and drownings at sea – has caused an estimated 102,000 Cuban deaths. According to the Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War, Nazi repression caused 172,260 French civilian deaths during the occupation. France was nation of 42 million in 1940. Cuba was a nation of 6.5 million in 1960. My calculator reveals that Beckel’s freedom-fighter caused an enormously higher percentage of deaths among the people he “freed” than the Nazis caused among the French they enslaved and tortured with the SS and Gestapo.
Beckel tells the “Fox Five” that the CIA killed many more people than Che and implies that in the 50’s the agency was Che’s enemy.
In fact during the late 1950’s the Castro brothers and Che Guevara had no better friends--and Fulgencio Batista few worse enemies--than the CIA. “Me and my staff were all Fidelistas,” (Robert Reynolds, the CIA’s “Caribbean Desk’s specialist on the Cuban Revolution” from 1957-1960.)
“Everyone in the CIA and everyone at State was pro-Castro, except (Republican) ambassador Earl Smith.” (CIA operative in Santiago Cuba, Robert Weicha.)
“Don’t worry. We’ve infiltrated Castro’s guerrilla group in the Sierra Mountains. The Castro brothers and Ernesto “Che” Guevara have no affiliations with any Communists whatsoever.” (crackerjack Havana CIA station chief Jim Noel 1958.)
“Listen, we (the U.S.) did not have the most stellar reputation in Latin America and South America during the 1950s and '60s….when the CIA was complicit in the assassination of Allende, that was killing a head of state.” (Bob Beckel)
Ground control to Major Bob: Allende died in the 70’s. But whatever. The leftist proverb that he was assassinated by the CIA was spun and spread only by the hardest of hard-left wackos. Not even Allende’s own family believed it. An investigation including an autopsy by Chilean authorities just last month confirmed that Salvador Allende committed suicide. Surely you read the New York Times, Bob?
“(Che) did help Fidel Castro get rid one of the biggest thugs and murdering bastards there ever was, and that was Batista in Cuba.” (Bob Beckel)
Batista was a mulatto grandson of slaves born on the dirt floor of a palm roofed shack in the Cuban countryside. As President (via honest elections 1940-44, bloodless coup 1952-58) he always enjoyed the support of Cuba’s labor unions. And under Batista, according to a study by the International Labor Organization, the Cuban workforce was more highly unionized than the U.S. work force, with Cuba’s Industrial laborers earning the 8th highest wages in the world.
“Cuba’s laborer’s always maintained a stony indifference to Fidel Castro’s movement,” admitted Cuba’s richest man and Fidel and Che bankroller Julio Lobo, who knew because he employed thousands of them.
So here’s Bob Beckel bashing a black politician of lowly origin who enjoyed overwhelming unionized labor support--while hailing the lily-white rich-boys, Fidel and Che, who outlawed labor unions and sent such as Richard Trumka and Jimmy Hoffa to the firing squad or prison. Where’s Trumka, Hoffa and Maxine Waters on this? Using liberals’ own standards Beckel sure sounds like an elitist--and a racist to boot.
No doubt Beckel picked up the leftist proverb about Batista as “one of the biggest murdering bastards there ever was” from a meme hatched in 1957 by a Fidelista Cuban magazine publisher named Miguel Angel Quevedo. The meme asserts that Batista’s police and army “murdered 20,000 Cubans” and is still parroted by the MSM/Academia axis.
For the record: Ten years after he hatched and spread the lie, Quevedo (from exile, he scooted out just ahead of a Fidelista firing squad) confessed to the lie and greatly regretted how the lie helped the propaganda campaign to put Fidel and Che in power. The regret for the calamity he helped bring upon Cuba was such that, that right after signing the letter, Miguel Angel Quevedo put a gun to his head and blew his brains out.
“The idea of picking Che Guevara and calling him a mass-murder is crazy.” (Bob Beckel)
“Certainly we execute!” boasted Che Guevara while addressing the hallowed halls of the U.N. General Assembly Dec. 9, 1964. “And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary! According to the “Black Book of Communism,” those firing-squad executions (murders, actually; execution implies a judicial process) had reached 14,000 by the end of the ’60s, the equivalent, given the relative populations, of almost a million executions in the U.S. “I don’t need proof to execute a man,” snapped Che to a judicial toady in 1959. “I only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him.”
Then I took the Mr. T Attitude: I pity the fool.
Seriously, the American Left is so deluded that I am tempted to feel sorry for them because I feel sorry for the mentally ill. But we need to remember that they are a danger to themselves and others and thus keep them from operating heavy machinery and any sizeable government entity.
I’m surprised that this moron even has a job anywhere near a microphone. And I have no idea why Hannity has any use for this Clinton hack and horrible racist. Beckel is a fool of the highest order. D’ya like his suspender crap he wears to kinda’ look homey?
If it weren’t for microphones, this jerk would be unemployed.
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Che would have whacked Beckel’s fat, well fed rump faster than swatting a fly.
These faux-socialists and cocktail party communists admire their pretty constructions of killers and systems that stamp and murder people and countries having never lived the reality of blood and dirt and neglect, starvation, forced relocation, and the anonymous grave of the inconvenient nonpersons or those who made the unforgiveable mistake of speaking against tyranny.
Beckel and his like are simply fatuous.
In my Army time, I spent one tour on the east west German border patrolling said border. I would stand there in West Germany, looking around and seeing what our way of life gave the West Germans, and looked across into the east and saw the same thing as if you went to downtown Detroit and the hood today. Nothing. Poverty as far as you could see. Run down houses, villages, towns and farmers using animals to plow. West Germans were using tractors and East German farmers were using animals to pull their plows! Communism has killed more people in their answer of total freedom than Hitler killed. Stalin himself KILLED over 50 MILLION of his fellow citizens. The commies in other countries caused probably that many. Sadly, stupid kids and they are now adults making decisions for this nation, think murderers like Che, Pol Pot, Stalin, Marx and Lenin are heroes.
At five o clock... I turn to another station.... I hate this freakin’ show. To much talking over each other and then there’s Beckel,a freakin’ liberal bass-turd.
Bob Beckel is pretty raw. I wonder how long before they have to fire him?
Hannity goes out of his way to defend that ahole all the time, always saying 'you don't know him like I do' and talking about his working with kids on drugs, etc.
He’s despicable. I can’t watch that show.
I actually like the show, especially since all the other host make fun of him and practically let him know how ridiculous he is.
He is a nasty character. That is OK occasionally, but as a regular he will wear thin quick.
Same goes for that dope Juan Williams. Juan does NOT belong on The Panel of the Bret Baer program. He can't compete and is more and more looking desperate and like he might jump on poor Charles K. and start wrestling him out of his wheelchair. You can tell Charles K. has about had it with old Juan and his inferior intellect...The eye rolling is happening more and more...But, I keep hearing what a “nice guy” he is, too.
I guess they have to have SOMEBODY from the left on these Fox programs...so they pick the nice ones. I mean...who else is there? Bill Press? Randy Rhodes? Mike Malloy?
Too bad they can't hire some Lefties with half a brain...I wouldn't care if they were “nice”. Make for better programming.
Beckel's "Che" remark was probably what he thought was a cheap throw-away line intended to antagonize the person he was "debating."
Beckel has reduced himself to the role of Liberal Clown, making the most outrageous and unsubstantiatied defenses of anything liberal, more as a parody than to be serious.
Watching Beckel these days is like watching Requiem for a Liberal. Maybe Beckel will even come on one night wearing a Che tee-shirt, just like when Anthony Quinn wore an indian chief costume in the final scene.
-PJ
does beckel think he is still a young guy? Does he think it is still cool to go against the grain? Why this guy gets a job like he has doing nothing is beyond me not to mention how repulsive he is sitting there like a bump on a log. Yuk.
My calculator reveals that Beckel’s freedom-fighter caused an enormously higher percentage of deaths among the people he “freed” than the Nazis caused among the French they enslaved and tortured with the SS and Gestapo.
I wonder how many French would have been killed had they not collaborated with the Nazis?
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