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Anita Dunn—Pots and Kettles By Humberto Fontova Friday, October 23, 2009 So Obama’s Communications director, Anita Dunn, bashes Fox as a “propaganda arm” for the Republican party? Considering that Gregory Craig serves as Obama’s chief White House counsel, Ms Dunn’s rant shames most accusations from pots to kettles. When a Republican administration uses their chief counsel to scheme with a Stalinist dictator to shanghai a little boy and then collude with a major network in a Potemkin TV show to bamboozle America—when we have any proof of anything resembling this criminal swinishness—then we’ll take Anita Dunn’s accusations quasi-seriously. To wit:...

Che Guevara: Assassin, Coward, Imbecile Humberto Fontova Thursday, October 8, 2009 “SENTENCE first – VERDICT afterwards,” said the Queen. “Nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. – Alice In Wonderland They say Lewis Carroll was a serious dope fiend, his mind totally scrambled on opium, when he concocted “Alice in Wonderland.” A place where the sentence comes first and the verdict afterward? Where people who protest the madness are sentenced to death themselves? What lunacy! If only Carroll had lived a bit longer. If only he’d visited Cuba in 1959...

CBS' Don Hewitt -- Fidel Castro Enabler By Humberto Fontova Forty years after his media advance-work helping install a Stalinist regime in Cuba the legendary Don Hewitt of CBS still seemed proud of his work as a Castro media auxiliary. During that interim, over 20,000 Cubans were murdered by firing squad and beaten or starved to death in forced labor camps. Another 70-80 thousand were ripped apart by sharks or drowned in the Florida straits (attempting to flee a nation that previously took in more immigrants per-capita than the U.S.) If Mr Hewitt had uttered a single word of remorse...

PETA: Murder boys but not flies! Posted: June 20, 2009 By Humberto Fontova "Human beings often don't think before they act," laments PETA while explaining their reaction to President Obama's unthinking fly "execution." "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals." Close on the heels of their consciousness-raising campaign for fly compassion, PETA has launched a vegetarian campaign using Che Guevara's 24 year-old granddaughter, Lydia, dolled up in commie beret and topless, though strategically covered by twin bandoliers of carrots. "Join the Vegetarian Revolution!" reads the campaign's slogan, which will debut in Argentina (no...

Where Else Are the Castro Spies? by Humberto Fontova Last week, the FBI arrested a well-born State Department intelligence analyst and his wife for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Castro regime. David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security, described the case against Walter “Kendall” Myers and his wife Gwendolyn as “incredibly serious,” and Secretary of State Clinton called it an “outrageous violation,” while ordering a top-to-bottom review of the State Department's security procedures. “Cuban spies can be especially difficult to catch,” lament U.S. intelligence officials, “because the Cuban government specializes in recruiting ''true believers'' rather than agents who...

Augusto Pinochet--Some Perspective By Humberto Fontova Tuesday, June 9, 2009 To read the mainstream media you’d think that in Sept. 1973 Augusto Pinochet’s villainous henchmen, while twirling their pointy black mustaches and snickering maliciously, overthrew a Chilean “president” (Salvador Allende) somewhere on the order of Jimmy Carter. Then these ghouls lined up 3,000 harmless sociology professors and innocent leftist parliamentarians and shot them—for the sheer heck of it. The real story, as you might imagine, is a tad more complicated—despite the media and academia’s Black Legend regarding Chile.

”So where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” Christina Aguilera Any connoisseur of Ditzisms that overlooks a recent interview WorldHum (a The Travel Channel subsidiary) conducted with the founders of a new Che Guevara fansite titled Chespotting, will miss out on Bimbo eruptions of Krakatoan proportions. Compared to the gals at Chespotting, the above-mentioned actress and songstresses come across as Madame Curie.

Lately hunters (primarily from the US) had been paying $30,000 for the chance of whacking a polar bear during a grueling hunt in the Canadian arctic on dogsleds and in subzero weather. If successful, then the hunter's taxidermist landed another $5,000 or so for converting the beast's epidermis into an infuriatingly politically-incorrect rug for the hunter to display to his politically-correct guests at dinner parties. Generally speaking, the most spirited reactions from guests came after uncorking the eighth bottle of wine. Most of these guests were usually his wife's friends from the local Art Council and Kayak Club and spittle...

Embargo?--WHAT Embargo? By Humberto Fontova Tuesday, May 19, 2009 A legislative scheme is gaining steam in Washington, greatly aided by lobbyists for Archer Daniels Midland, to “make it easier” for Cuba to “buy” from U.S. vendors. Despite all the scribbling and gabble about the “U.S. embargo of Cuba,” or “blockade” as termed by The Congressional Black Caucus and Castro lobbyists (but I repeat myself), the U.S. has done over a 3 billion dollars worth of business with Cuba the last few years and currently ranks as her biggest food supplier and fifth biggest import partner. Last year U.S. companies did...

For "fostering extremism and hatred " Britain's home secretary has barred the immensely popular U.S. radio commentator Michael Savage from setting foot in the U.K. "Coming to the U.K. is a privilege," explained Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, "and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life. Therefore, I will not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views as I want them to know that they are not welcome here." Fair enough, Ms Smith. But Che Guevara's daughter, Aleida, will be in Britain next month for...

America’s Great Betrayal By Humberto Fontova FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, April 17, 2009 "They fought like Tigers," wrote CIA officer Grayston Lynch, who helped train these Cuban freedom-fighters. "But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach." Lynch, knew something about fighting – and about long odds. He carried scars from Omaha Beach, the Battle of the Bulge, and Heartbreak Ridge. But in those battles, Lynch and his band of brothers could count on the support of their own chief executive. At the Bay of Pigs, Lynch and his band of Cuban brothers learned – first in speechless...

Black Activist and Punk Rockers Jailed and Tortured Near Florida Humberto Fontova Rude and shaggy punk rockers who sneer at their president as "a fraud and an a**hole!", who diss their national icons as "pr*cks" and "murderers!" have recently been arrested for attempting to visit a black civil rights activist who is being tortured in prison for quoting Martin Luther King in public. "Wait a minute?!" you say. "Should'nt all hip people be outraged by this?..How come I haven't heard about this in Rolling Stone Magazine, MTV, VH1, Time, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, People, Vanity Fair, OK, InTouch, InStyle, ABC, CBS,...

The gentleman second from the right in the picture below, Gerry Pasciucco, heads the AIG Financial Products unit. "We learned over the weekend,Che fan" reads a letter dated March 17 from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to Rep. Barney Frank, that AIG had, last Friday, distributed more than $160 million in retention payments (bonuses) to members of its Financial Products Subsidiary, the unit of AIG that was principally responsible for the firm's meltdown." This picture will surprise only those who take their Che Guevara cues from the MSM and Hollywood. On the other hand this comes from P. 24...

In perfect keeping with the Stalinist nature of the Cuban regime --and especially in keeping with Raul Castro’s rule, (Raul worked with a KGB handler as early as 1953)-- the more prominent among the purged (Carlos Lage, 56, VP of the Council of State, Felipe Roque, 44, Foreign Minister) have signed confessions seemingly lifted from the very template used by Zinoviev, Kanev and Bukharin in 1936.

Castro's propaganda ministry is not notorious for fawning over Republicans. But lately they've been gushing over the Ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Richard Lugar. "Changing Cuba Policy-Staff Trip Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate," is the title of the report Senator Lugar released on Tuesday February 24rd to delirious and unanimous acclaim from the mainstream media. This acclaim-- to the surprise of no Cuba-watchers--was quickly echoed in Havana. Typically, as with anything spoken or written regarding Castro and Cuba that receives such Beltway media acclaim, the report is a...

Mainstream Media Distort Castro's Record Monday, January 5, 2009 3:12 PM By: Humberto Fontova The Castro revolution's “achievements” have been much in the mainstream news lately. You will search these stories in vain for any mention of mass murder and jailings or torture — on the part of the Castros, that is. This type of "reporting" brings to mind a famous observation by Winston Churchill: "Truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people."...

Dictators' to the Right of me, 'Presidents' to the Left By Humberto Fontova From the AP to Reuters and from the New York Times to the Washington Post the MSM stories on the Cuban Revolution” 50th anniversary all mention a “dictator”-- but his name is Batista. The Castro brothers invariably appear as “Presidents.” Fidel Castro has ruled (unelected) longer than Hitler and Stalin combined and mandates what his subjects, read, say, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work. No matter. He's a “president” You will search these stories in utter vain for any mention of...

Cuban Stalinism at 50--and the Media Lies Continue By Humberto Fontova "Cuban mothers let me assure you that I will solve all Cuba's problems without spilling a drop of blood." Upon entering Havana on January 7, 1959, Cuba's new leader Fidel Castro broadcast that promise into a phalanx of microphones. As the jubilant crowd erupted with joy, Castro continued. “Cuban mothers let me assure you that because of me you will never have to cry." The following day, just below San Juan Hill in eastern Cuba, a bulldozer rumbled to a start, clanked into position, and started pushing dirt into...

Che Guevara; a Study in Stupidity, Sadism and Failure By Humberto Fontova Sunday, December 28, 2008 The Cuban freedom-fighters who faced Che at the Bay of Pigs and later in the Congo still laugh. The Bay of Pigs invasion plan included a ruse where a little boat packing a huge fireworks show and tape recording of battle sounds landed in extreme western Cuba as a diversion. Sure enough, the wily Che immediately recognized this as an Anzio-type “second front!” He snapped on his holster, cocked his beret at just the right angle, scowled for the camera and rushed over with...

When Cuban refugees by the thousands landed amidst "gun and religion-clinging people" with ingrained "antipathy to people who aren't like them," the potential for trouble was enormous. When young southern Americans just starting the travails (and joys) of careers and families suddenly found masses of excitable foreign-tongued, octopus-eating strangers applying for jobs besides them, working besides them, worshiping besides them, moving in next door--the potential for trouble was enormous. In our case especially. In 1961 we landed in New Orleans, deepest darkest Dixie, Red America with a vengeance. Worse, the city then hosted a huge NASA project, attracting blue collar...