Cuban ‘Revolution’ lacks a laugh track. [Part 1]

Castro and Che in a pre-revolution conference huddle.

Castro: “You’re stepping on my foot!”

Che: “I’m sorry comrade. I can be so insensitive!”

Dear sports, this will be my feeble series on Che the child killer Guevara, Fidel the Pig and Cuba Inc. It’s a real killer and phony festival! A big hat tip to Humberto Fontova, one of the great sources of insight and information, among many other’s, for this and the following posts in this series. Fontova is a successful journalist and the author of ‘The Real Che Guevara: and the idiots who idolize him’, and ‘Fidel Castro: Hollywood’s favourite Tyrant’.

My motive for doing this in a series, is that this updated post from 2007 is so absurdly long. Not as long as Castro’s reign, but you know. Now Che love, the love that dare’s to speak its name, says almost everything you need to know about someone’s mind or the lack there of.

The equation goes something like the following: If one thinks Che is a great and heroic role model, you’re probably the kind of person who is er, passionate, though in quite the immature way. And being um, passionate, are more inclined to value emotions and self-image over anything else, especially any easily dismissed Himalaya of empirical evidence to the contrary. Rather problematic.

Thus one believes in anything but the facts. For the excitable, volatile and morally vain, reality and truth can be quite a damper and well, a real drag. So here is the first part, kids.

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