June 07, 2006

So, um... did you all have lunch already? (Updated)

Were you real hungry? Did you enjoy it? Delicious and filling? Good.

How about a little purgante for dessert?

Via Reliapundit at the Astute Blogger, let me present to you all a little surprise from our British brothers and sisters across the pond:

The Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, not only will you get to see all those artistic interpretations of the Butcher of la Cabaña, but with a simple click here you can hear great podcasts of myopic homages to the murderous revolutionary.

But wait, there's more! Click here and you get pages and pages of uploaded images of the dead bearded pseudo doctor from people's homes all over the world!

But wait! There's still more! Not only can you, with a click here, purchase everything Che related, from books to che lip gloss, but if you act now and click here, you can win a one week trip to the island che himself helped destroy: Cuba!

Now, how does that lunch taste on the way back up?

Let the curators know exactly how you feel: Email V&A!

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Update by Pitbull: Here's the text of the email I sent to the museum:

To the Directors of the Exhibit:

I am in stunned disbelief that you would celebrate the life of a man that oversaw the murders of thousands of political prisoners (including children) and who personally executed many hundreds with his pistol. Since you are showing his handywork, I think the following show ideas for future exhibitions in your museum may compliment your che exhibit exquisitely:

  • "Reinhard Heydrich: Efficiency and Fashion in the Service of Humanity"

  • "Joseph Stalin: The Avuncular Destroyer of the Enemies of the Proletariat"

  • "Adolf Hitler: The Misunderstood, Unloved Artist with a Song in His Heart"

  • "Adolf Eichmann: The Art of Bureaucracy"

  • "Pol Pot: Skulls and Sandals - The Art of The Killing Fields"

  • "Mao: Images from The Cultural Revolution of Starvation"

That you display the memorabilia of a murderer in your "museum" is such a disgrace as to defy comment. I will be sure to avoid it when I am in London.

George Moneo
Miami, Florida

Posted by Val Prieto at June 7, 2006 01:01 PM



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Sickening, just sickening, please everyone send them an email and explain to these fucks exactly what they celebrate. Ask them when their Hitler expo is scheduled, ask them if the trip to the island includes a visit to the el paredón where their hero enjoyed the smell of blood. This is just too damn much.

Posted by: Ziva [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 7, 2006 01:58 PM

What's so surprising about some museum putting up an exhibit of this criminal? These folks didn't suffer in "carne propia" the effects of Communism and murderes like Che. All we need to do is find some crazy fanatic, just the way Castro supporters are, and vandalize the entire exhibit. Didn't they shout down Zoe Valdez in Dominican Republic? Well, these folks deserve something similar.

Posted by: apr_47@yahoo.com [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 7, 2006 05:05 PM

British lefties really do live in lalaland. A Brit at a barbecue I was at once was raving about his vacation in Cuba, the free health care, how the US embargo is the cause of the poverty, blah, blah, blah. And I reminded him that the UK implemented their national health care plan without a single firing squad. He didn't get what I was talking about. "What firing squads?" he asked. He didn't know about the Cuban firing squads.

Americans don't seem to understand something significant: Great Britain is the birthplace of communism - not Russia, and not Germany. Marx lived in London and worked at the British Museum. It was British industrialism that inspired the Communist Manifesto and Kapital - not European industrialism.

So the British left actually buys this shit. And don't forget that Tony Blair is the head of the Socialist Labour Party, who only in 1998 scrapped their demand that British industry be state-owned.

Posted by: Scott [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 7, 2006 06:17 PM

Hey George, maybe add this one to your list: "Uday and Qusay: Portraits of the Brothers in Harm."

It stuns me how clueless the artsy types can be. Yeah, I used to be an "art school girl of doom," but then I grew up.

Posted by: FL Mom [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 7, 2006 10:42 PM

Wish I had the money, time, and venue - maybe at the Guggenheim? - to mount an exhibit: "The London Blitz Understood - A Study of Anglo-German Symbiosis in the Field of Urban Renewal."

Posted by: Alberto-Q [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 8, 2006 06:59 AM

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