Barack Guevara episode makes it into the MSM

FINALLY!
Jeff Jacoby in today’s Boston Globe:

IN 1963, John F. Kennedy was murdered in Texas by a fervent admirer of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. In 2008, a large Cuban flag emblazoned with the image of Che Guevara, Castro’s brutal henchman, is prominently displayed in a Barack Obama campaign volunteer office in Houston…
President Kennedy, a stalwart anticommunist, despised Castro and his gang of totalitarian thugs. But when word broke last week that Obama’s supporters in Houston work under a banner glorifying Che, the campaign’s reaction was to brush it off as an issue involving volunteers, not the official campaign. After two days of controversy, the campaign issued a statement calling the flag “inappropriate” and saying its display “does not reflect Senator Obama’s views.” Would JFK have reacted so mildly?
In December 1962, Kennedy offered a blunt summary of the Castro/Che record. “The Cuban people were promised by the revolution political liberty, social justice, intellectual freedom, land for the campesinos, and an end to economic exploitation,” he said. “They have received a police state, the elimination of the dignity of land ownership, the destruction of free speech and a free press, and the complete subjugation of individual human welfare.” Eleven months later, in a speech intended for delivery on the day he was assassinated, Kennedy regretted that Castro’s “Communist foothold” in Latin America had “not yet been eliminated.”
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The lionizing of Che, a sociopath who relished killing and acclaimed “the pedagogy of the firing squad,” is not just “inappropriate.” It is vile. No American in his right mind would be caught dead wearing a David Duke T-shirt or displaying a poster of Pol Pot. A celebrity who was spotted with a swastika-festooned cap or an actress who revealed that she had gotten a tattoo depicting Timothy McVeigh would inspire only repugnance. No presidential campaign would need more than 30 seconds to sever its ties to anyone, paid staffer or volunteer, whose office was adorned with a Ku Klux Klan banner. Yet Che’s likeness, which ought to be as loathed as any of those, is instead a trendy bestseller and a cult favorite.
Like totalitarians of every stripe, Che didn’t scruple at the death of innocents. “Quit the dallying!” he ordered Jose Vilasuso, a conscientious government lawyer who was seeking evidence against several prisoners. “Your job is a very simple one. Judicial evidence is an archaic and secondary bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! We execute from revolutionary conviction.”
Time magazine once called Che the “Brains of the Cuban Revolution,” and saluted his “icy calculation, vast competence, high intelligence, and . . .perceptive sense of humor.” A better description comes from journalist Humberto Fontova, who observes in “Exposing The Real Che Guevara” that Che was for Castro what Heinrich Himmer was for Hitler and Lavrenty Beria for Stalin – “the snarling enforcer.” Fittingly, a massive drawing of Che adorns the headquarters of Cuba’s secret police in Havana.
That this sadistic thug’s face also adorns the office of a US presidential candidate’s supporters is appalling and disgraceful. That the candidate couldn’t bring himself to say so is even worse.