my connection with the tea party

[Jester]

Fontova has no reason to be objective, and yes, he is not writing as a historian but more of a witness for the prosecution against Che. He is biased, as any exile who has lost family to the firing squads would be. He paints a more accurate picture of the bloody and ruthless mass murdering revolutionary guerrilla Che, than does the usual liberal sop painting him as the romanticized pop icon adorning t-shirts and inspiring college radical wanna-be's.

(Okay, maybe you ARE trying to drive me crazy. You do realize the article you just linked to as supporting the "accuracy" of Fontova's position cites, as evidence for Che's brutality (wait for it...) FONTOVA? This just goes around in circles, doesn't it.)

Fontova, a witness for the prosecution? When the Cuban revolution happened, he was five years old. (Seven by the time he left Cuba.) Try "polemicist grinding his axe."

Regardless, whatever one thinks of him, neither he nor anyone else is allowed to pollute the historical record by making up "quotes" and putting them in the mouth of his enemies. One does not paint a "more accurate picture" by making stuff up. The credibility of the rest of his interpretation is called into question, as it would be for anyone fabricating evidence.

Che is a particularly touchy topic, because, like Twain, he seems to have said about 500% of what we can source, but unlike Twain, most of it comes from his ideological enemies. Making up Che quotes is something of a cottage industry for the Miami exiles.

-Jester