It is a wonderful thing when I come across something in the media genuinely surprises me. Unfortunately, those moments come few and far between.
Not surprisingly, surprising me today is maverick filmmaker John Waters, who sees right through the myth of Che Guevara, as revealed in this interview with the Charlotte Observer.
Q. If United States is destined to be the world's policeman, where should we send our troops next -— and why?To Cuba, to find the people who were mean to gay people and locked them up and punished them, just the way we (went after) the Nazis. We're supposed to forget that? I can't, and that's the only thing I'm right-wing on; Che Guevara was horrible to gay people. And something about my rich liberal friends going to Cuba rubs me the wrong way, because Cuban people can't do what we do there and spend the money we spend.
Considering how far Waters is out of the Hollywood mainstream, and the mainstream in general — just read the rest of the interview — maybe it isn't so surprising that Waters would call Che Guevara, one of the idiot left's grand icons, out of the closet, and denounce him for the terrorist he was, and always will be.
(H/T to Alberto at Babalú.)
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