Our good friend Jay Nordlinger responds to Sean Penn’s creepy love for tyrannical dictators in National Review:
Alternatives for T-shirts
Ian, I was in a park over the weekend and passed a soccer practice. The practicers were about four or five years old. One of the coaches had a Che T-shirt. The kids may well think that the guy on the shirt is pretty special. He was: a specialist in murder and murderous tyranny. I thought, “What a better world it would be if the coach’s T-shirt bore the image of Oscar Biscet.”
Biscet is a Cuban dissident, a democrat, and a great man. George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, when Biscet was in prison. (W. was that kind of president.) There are others — lots of others — you could put on that T-shirt. How about Leopoldo López, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, who is now in prison? He could use the publicity.
I’m pretty sure that the soccer coach doesn’t know any better. He hasn’t a clue who Che was. This August, as I have for many Augusts, I will stay in a guesthouse in Salzburg, which has some of the loveliest people you can imagine. They have a picture of Che on the walls. They haven’t a clue.
Sean Penn? He knows. And he supports and admires the Castros, the chavistas, and the rest of those tyrannical thugs. Funny thing is: Penn lives in the freedom and comfort of America. There is almost no one worse than the person who wants dictatorship for others but lives in freedom himself.
Yes, Bush was that kind of president and I wish more Americans knew it.
Instead of someone so proud of herself when she accosted Jeb Bush and told him his brother caused Isis, wouldn’t it be refreshing if someone announced to Hillary that she and Obama caused Isis?
Yes Bush was that kind of president.
Instead of some rude silly woman so proud of herself as she accosted Jeb Bush to tell him that his brother caused Isis, wouldn’t it be nice have someone go to Hillary and tell her she and Obama caused Isis?