Che Goreva

Plenty of people seem to think the Gore poster can't be anything but satire. It isn't. It's the real thing on the Draft Gore website. But people such as the Lumberjacks have been getting ideas…

Star Gores

May the Gorce be with you!

As Al Gore wins a Nobel Prize, his fans seem to think he is a Jedi Knight come to save the planet…

Update: All that's missing is the moustache, says Spiny Norman (thanks to Ringo the Gringo), while the Lumberjacks, seeing Soviet-era poster "art", add Ché Guevara to the equation and while McGehee and Dave Runyan compare Al Gore to Xenu and even to God himself; in the meantime, Mamapajamas emits her own version…

Pourquoi pas, le ridicule ne tue pas

French citizen posts an online petition calling for a referendum before any French involvement in military actions against Iran. Although the text is meant to deal with French foreign policy, it is loaded with the usual anti-American agit-prop.

Is Bernard-Henri Lévy a Pretentious Fool?

…asks John Rosenthal, noting that the sometime darling of America's conservative circles is not that far to the right nor that pro-American after all…

…it is not unlikely that they would want to agree with [Henri] Guaino's assessment of "BHL" [as a petit con prétentieux] if they knew more about him…

Dude

Liberals are sewing the seeds of their own long-term defeat

This political affiliation will probably end up on the endangered species list within two or three generations

writes Ben Duffy.

Perhaps my great-grandchildren will inherit a world without liberals. What a glorious day that would be.

Hey you dirty bum, stop drooling on my granola

Intolerance in Frisco.

A la Cabaña, lorsque les familles rendaient visite à leurs proches, Che exigea qu'on les fasse passer devant le mur d'exécution maculé de sang frais

Oubliées, les purges, oubliées, les exécutions sommaires, le plaisir sadique des tortures: Che Guevara est un mythe, et un mythe ne peut être que parfait. En réalité, même si la légende à commencé à se fendiller, enfin, à l'occasion du quarantième anniversaire de sa mort ("Che Gevara n'était pas toujours héroïque", ai-je entendu à la radio...) le travail de vérité — sans parler de mémoire — ne fait que commencer.

Ainsi écrit Stéphane.

…Fidel Castro sut exploiter les pulsions sacrificielles de son ancien compagnon en l'envoyant exporter la guérilla dans le vaste monde — et surtout, coupé de tout lien officiel avec le régime. Che Guevara finirait bien par mourir sur un champ de bataille ou un autre; resterait de lui son image inspirée et intemporelle, contrastant avec une dictature cubaine qui n'en finit pas de pourrir encore aujourd'hui. L'homme devint légende grâce à d'innombrables intellectuels de gauche cherchant à éviter l'erreur du soutien passé à Staline: mieux vaut rendre un culte à la personnalité d'un révolutionnaire mort qu'à celle d'un dictateur vivant. Son histoire fut soigneusement épurée et revue, les moments de gloire mis en avant et les périodes sombres gommées ou effacées.

Oasis tell the French, who only expend energy to think about their retirement schemes, "I hope I die before I get old"

“the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust”

The Land of the Moral High Ground.

Commemorating the Death of Che Guevara the Baf Way

While the mainstream media commemorates the 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, members of La Baf, who are fed up with seeing his face all over the place, celebrates El Barbudo's death with a speech, an ode to Felix Rodriguez, a song, and (last but not least) a reconstitution thereof in a Paris park.

Felix Rodriguez meilleur que le Che
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Filthy Peasants

Typical 'sophistication' in the land of the great, thoughtful, educated, wizzened, oh-so superior masses mob...

Those Damn Fans Will Never Leave You Alone!

In spite of his shades, one of your webmasters is recognized in the Rue de Rivoli, and a pesky fan of No Pasarán asks to have his picture snapped with him.

There is more optimism about success among the battlefield soldiers than present with analysts in Baghdad

Victor Davis Hanson gives us "a real view of the war" (turban tip: Christopher Cook's" The left cares about NOTHING but its own perpetuation post).

"A Militant, a Communist, and a Revolutionary, She Claims to Speak in the Name … 'of All Cubans, Because That Is What They Deserve'"

Nicolas Bourcier treats Le Monde's readers to a typically hagiographic piece on Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Che Guevara.

Bon, Mais C'est Charmant !