July 11, 2007

Fontova Gets Word Out Even Further About che

Humberto Fontova has been doing historic and frankly, heroic, work getting the truth out about Cuba's mass murderers like che guevara who's otherwise resurging in the mass media and on Tshirts. He's one of the few voices out there getting the word out ... and winning, because I think he's almost singlehandedly changing how the monster is looked at. At a hearing in Congress on June 28, a leftist union thug testifying on why Colombia needs to be shut of free trade had a photo of himself with a che poster presented to him by rightwing congressman Dan Rohrabacher of Orange County, California, and had to squirm out an explanation about just why he associated himself this Marxist monster. (I'll post the link soon as I find it.)

Now IBD Editorials asked Fontova, author of Exposing The Real (c)he (g)uevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him to pop the che myths and tell Cuban-Americans' real story, for its first podcast on the Web. He's the one they wanted. The business newspaper also gave a whole page in the editorial section of today's Investor's Business Daily, to Fontova's thinking, which can be read online here.

Cuba's late Marxist revolutionary, ernesto "che" guevara, is experiencing something of a revival these days. His fiery-eyed visage and rock-star good looks, immortalized in an iconic snapshot by photographer Alberto Korda in 1961, seem to epitomize the youthful idealism of revolution, rebellion and free-spiritedness.

Since then, the famous communist's face has shown up on T-shirts, car decals, wristwatches, baby clothes, CD cases, hubcaps, jewelry, backpacks, and in Manhattan classroom posters, ironically advertising value of his image to capitalist markets.

Hillary Clinton has been spotted at campaign rallies with che T-shirt wearers. Carlos Santana has paraded his shirt at award shows. Angelina Jolie reportedly sports a che tattoo. And Hollywood has idealized the Argentine-born revolutionary in glossy movies like "The Motorcycle Diaries."

The only problem with this romance is there's not a wisp of truth to it. guevara was a deadly "killing machine" whose legacy was to enslave and impoverish Cuba.

Cuban-American author Humberto Fontova researched the man behind the image, exploring why pop culture seems so enamored of che guevara. Speaking to dozens of Cubans who knew and fought with Guevara (1928-1967), Fontova pieced together a very different picture of guevara for his book, "Exposing The Real che guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him."

In the podcast, Fontova blew che aficionados apart, telling the truth about the Argentine mercenary for IBD's 300,000 readers. On the broader topic of communist chic, I think it's also sweet that Humberto defended Cameron Diaz, someone whom I wasn't nice to here on Babalu, saying that at least she had the decency to apologize when she showed up in Peru carrying a Mao bag and offended the locals who know communist terror all too well. He said that hers was a simple case of someone who just didn't know any better. Most che lovers are just as ignorant as Diaz was about Mao, but unlike her, not one ever had the decency to apologize.

Anyway, it's a long, expansive 48-minute interview where Fontova explains the totalitarian reality of Cuba, how his family got out of Cuba, how Cuban Americans are demonized in the mainstream media, how the supposedly free press Western in Havana gets corrupted and what castro's aims in using che really are. He also speculates on the reason che hasn't lost his romantic appeal among the young while most every commie thug elsewhere has, he had answers I'd never heard before. Fontova paints che as the slimey little coward he was, an incompetent, a sadist and a snob. Everyone I know who's listened to the podcast says he's really interesting. Fontova always is. Word is getting out.

Yeah, Fontova!!!!!!!!!

Read the whole thing here, or listen to the podcast here.

Posted by Mora at July 11, 2007 12:50 PM

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-"At a hearing in Congress on June 28, a leftist union thug testifying on why Colombia needs to be shut of free trade had a photo of himself with a che poster presented to him by rightwing congressman Dan Rohrabacher of Orange County, California, and had to squirm out an explanation about just why he associated himself this Marxist monster. (I'll post the link soon as I find it.)
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Here, courtesy of cipcol

Posted by: LaConchita [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 11, 2007 03:15 PM

I was listening to the Laura Ingraham Show this morning and she was praising IBD editorials. Now if we could only get her hooked up with Fontova...She has a huge audience!

Posted by: Ziva [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 11, 2007 05:20 PM

Thank you so much, La Conchita! I was going nuts trying to find it, I even called Rohrabacher's office I wanted it so bad. It was all for naught until you found it. Gracias, amiga, this gives us good ammo in the fight against Che. Look how defensive that jackass is - it's because deep down, thanks to Fontova, he knows that Che's name stinks.

Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 11, 2007 06:28 PM

Good point, Ziva. The Fontova piece has just been linked on Michael Savage's blog, that means big traffic and big exposure. I hope Laura Ingraham doesn't let this opportunity slip to her rival, she's great, too.

Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 11, 2007 06:30 PM

Mora,

Great post!

However, My humble take on Cameron Diaz "faux pax" is that she knew quite well what her shoulder bag meant and she displayed it with pride . . . as a good "limousine liberal"... She may very well admire Mao ... her ignorance was solely on Peruvian history and the relevance of the image and phrase to Peruvians ... I'm sure she will sport this shoulder bag again in the "right" setting ...

I wish you well :) Melek

"What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings." ~ E.Ebenezer

Posted by: Melek [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 12, 2007 11:35 PM


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