Castro regime opens “Hemingway’s Bar” in Washington D.C. (only Cuba-”Experts” allowed)
"Castro's Revolution is very pure and beautiful." (Ernest Hemingway, 1960)
"Castro's embassy (euphemized as "Interest Section") in Washington D.C. will soon open and in-house "invitation-only" nightclub named "Hemingway's Bar." The news comes courtesy of The Atlantic Magazine -- the same Atlantic that a year ago smugly predicted Communism's immediate end in Cuba. Fidel Castro himself had vouchsafed the scoop to a smug Atlantic editor visiting his fiefdom at the time.
"I plan to go and will want a Hemingway Daiquiri," smirks the Atlantic magazine's senior editor Steve Clemons regarding the upcoming Hemingway's Bar, "double the rum, and no sugar." (All drinks will be on the house, actually. Buying from Castro's regime remains illegal in the U.S.)
That Cuba's Stalinist regime names a bar after a KGB agent who accompanied a beaming Che Guevara while watching his beloved firing squads murder hundreds of men and boys seems fitting. That the Atlantic magazine's senior editor should smugly anticipate an invitation to the Stalinist regime's exclusive bar also seems fitting. That he plans to order its namesake "Hemingway Daiquiri," must fill Atlantic readers with vicarious smugness.
"More McCarthyite rubbish from this Cuba-exile kook!" snarl liberals.
Our friends at American Thinker help inform with items perhaps partly unknown even with the borders of Miami-Dade.
"Castro's Revolution is very pure and beautiful." Translation: I'm so full of shit, or booze, or both, that really, I might as well shoot myself." And so he did.
asombra,
Hemingway was have been a brilliant writer but a drunk, too and could not expect any less from him making such stupid remark.
It was obvious that his drunkenness clouded his judgement...
correction,
Hemingway was a brilliant writer but a drunk too, and could not expect any less from him making such stupid remark.
Drunk or not--the comment perfectly befits a KGB agent.
on a very different note - we were made to read tons of Hemingway back in high school and college and, for the life of me, I was never quite bright enough to figure out why profs kept inculcating admiration for his brilliance; so he wrote a couple of simple and nice novels post-war .....duh; always found his prose his prose cut + dry ~ while teachers insisted it was a sign of genius, I found it a dull display that the man didn't have any great mastery of the King's English that other American writers have had; after pouring over Faulkner and Dickens, I couldn't stand having to shift gears and screech down the literary highway to read him; I can't remember any of the stuff he wrote, but I can certainly tell you what I remember of Joyce, Steinbeck, Orwell, e.e.cummings ....
that he ended his own life is tragic enough, and I hope he is resting in peace; but this guy continues to be overrated; his old house in Key West is a bit of a haven for cats, which appeared to run the place years ago; that's quite a comment on a person's legacy
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The fact that these communists of shit continually use Hemingway as a tool of propaganda for their stalinist sect-camp, like the old Cadillacs, is truly an oxymoron if you will, more like a contradiction. It is true that Hemingway lived in Cuba for about 20 years but in pre-Castro capitalist Cuba, during the republican period, not under Castro's communist regime. Just like the old Cadillacs, Hemingway was capitalist Cuba.
Despite whatever stupid crap Hemingway may have said against Batista and in favor of Castro (like a good American) the fact is that he was there enjoying the Batista period very much and as soon as Castro took hold he got the hell out faster than a running cat. And although he obviously resented having said such comments and later felt stupid about them, the least he could have done was make a clear and public statement against Castro before blowing his head off. Had he done so, Castro would not be shamelessly cashing on his legacy today and using his moronic statements to frivolously legitimize in romantic fashion, and promote, his unpardonable betrayal of the Cuban nation.
Nonetheless, coming from destructive and slavish frauds who claim Jose Marti would have been one of them, anything goes... After all, as long as these "experts" get their pay check from the interest section the obvious is all of the sudden not at all obvious.