DNC Rips Politico Story Tying Polanski To Obama: “Silly,” “Amateur Hour”
In another sign of the Obama operation’s zeal for playing rough with the media, the Democratic National Committee is taking an unusually hard shot at Politico for posting a much-criticized story today linking Roman Polanski with Obama and the DNC.
“This story is just lowbrow, and it’s amateur hour,” DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse told me. “It’s one of the silliest stories that I’ve ever seen.”
The story, titled “Roman Polanski backers Gave $34K To Barack Obama, DNC,” reported that Hollywood types urging Polanski’s release shelled out that amount to the DNC and to Obama’s presidential campaign. It took a beating in the blogosphere for concocting a link between Polanski and Dems that seemed almost comically tenuous.
I’d heard people at the DNC were mightily ticked by the story. When I checked in, Woodhouse uncorked an unusually harsh tirade — the sort the DNC normally reserves for unabashedly ideological right wing outlets.
“You could find a certain number of [our donors] who believe in Scientology,” Woodhouse fumed. “You could find a certain number who are even Redskins fans.”
“It’s a silly story that’s just meant to try to generate a sensational headline and a lot of clicks,” he continued. “It’s really unfortunate that it was written, period. But also, we were blindsided by it. They didn’t contact us. We raised $750 million, and they found that $34,000 of it that was raised by people who know Roman Polanski.”
“We will look for the political angle in virtually any story,” responded top Politico editor Jim VandeHei. “This short blog item was done for the Click page — where we run a lot of entertainment and personality items. It was quick item based on FEC data alone.”
The aggressive Dem response is another sign of the harder edge that Woodhouse has brought to the increasingly combative DNC. It’s also a reminder that the fractured new media landscape — and the multiplication of outlets the Obama operation has at its disposal to get its message out — has diluted the power of individual outlets and turned them into easier targets for aggressive pushback.
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I really love it when they push back and make mincemeat of these ridiculous connections to Obama. I think as more of their assertions are brought under the light of truth everyone begins to understand their strategy and it becomes less and less effective.
Please don’t tell me that that philanderer David Letterman gave Obama money. Or that fraudster Anthony Marshall.
This is such inside baseball it’s crazy. Bigger risk for DNC for drawing more attention to it? I don’t know, I guess I have a tendency to stomp out the roaches when I spot them.
Good!
Obama is painfully aware of how screwed up our media is – he’s said so. I think this is awesome. It’s about time.
Politico should really lose all cred for that – that was outrageous.
Oh, Good grief! How about some real news?
@Greg= For Happy Hour, new Pew poll:
“One of the more surprising findings of the current survey is the expressed willingness of the opponents of health care reform to compromise on this issue. A clear majority of opponents (62%) – many of whom say they very strongly oppose health care reform proposals – say they would prefer to see opponents compromise with supporters to make the legislation better, rather than try to prevent a bill from passing.
Notably, supporters of health care reform – who are less likely than opponents to register very strong opinions about the proposals – are less inclined to compromise.”
http://people-press.org/report/551/
@lmsinca: “I think as more of their assertions are brought under the light of truth everyone begins to understand their strategy and it becomes less and less effective.”
Are you saying that Politico is out to get Obama? (But Greg’s friend works there!)
Greg: can you get the poop (scoop?) from your pal? I mean, isn’t Politico and upscale Drudge Sludge?
Good.
I don’t know if anyone has ever looked at the comment section of Politico but it’s turned into an all out race war full of bigots over there. Now, I know they don’t write all the comments but you would think a wannabe reputable site would at try and keep things decent.
That site is a disgrace and an embarrassment for Politico.
@mike: Hey, hey, hey! Let’s not judge Politico by the quality of its comments…
sbj
I have no idea if Politico is out to get Obama, but clearly their “story” made an effort to link him to Polanski. And I am saying these kinds of ridiculous connections feed into the right wing strategy of de-legimizing our President and they should be called on it.
And then I am saying by shining a light on these non-stories undermines the credibility of those “reporting” them, whether they are media personalities, bloggers, reporters, politicians or right wing conspiracists.
And then I am also saying I’m glad the White House is hitting back because it has gotten ridiculous.
Does that clarify my earlier statement enough for you?
How does this story even make any sense? It’s this DOJ – the one under the aegis of the Obama Administration, that is trying to extradite him – after all these years. And they’ve known where he was all these years.
sorry…de-legitimizing
Here’s some real news for you stupid boring jerk:
Someone forgot to remind Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that it’s the Democrats’ job to make Granny’s life tougher. On the Senate floor yesterday, Coburn blocked a vote that would have prevented a reduction in Social Security payments next year.
Coburn stood in the way of unanimous consent to a House bill setting 2010 Medicare premiums at 2009 levels. As the National Journal reports (sub. req.), Coburn’s move means “seniors are facing uncertainty over Medicare costs next year” and that “would see a net reduction in their Social Security benefits.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/coburn-pulls-the-plug-on-grandmas-checks.php?ref=fpb
It doesn’t make any sense Tena, that’s why this stuff is so easy to de-bunk.
“@mike: Hey, hey, hey! Let’s not judge Politico by the quality of its comments…”
Aw jeez I hate it when you do this – I actually agree with this.
I am a long time backer of President Obama, and I also own a DVD copy of the movie, Chinatown.
God, I hope Politico does not get a hold of that connection!
Imsinca – whew – I’m glad to know it’s not just me.
G-O-Politico has ZERO journalistic integrity. And the comments section is at minimum 3-to-1 dead-ender neocons to normal folks.
A waitress at one of President Obama’ favorite restaurants, uses the same brand of toothpaste as Roman Polanski.
Some one pass that dirt on to Politico.
“Does that clarify my earlier statement enough for you?”
Why yes. Yes it does.
That’s what Politico should really investigate: how many members of the Obama administration have seen either Chinatown or Rosemary’s Baby or, god forbid, both.
I bet a lot of those socialist rapist-lovers have seen them.
This dumbass story would only be something if Obama had pardoned Polanski or something – not tried to bring him back to go to prison.
Jeez – Politco is not bright.
I find this story hilarious — Democrats taking time to lash out at “one of the silliest” stories they have seen. They love to rake in the money from Hollywood elites, but they don’t like to be publicly associated with Hollywood’s values.
What I really appreciate, though, is the DNC’s reminding everyone of the huge amount of money Obama raised — with virtually no qualtiy control — as a result of BREAKING HIS PROMISE to accept matching funds.
That is something the public truly should be reminded about. Obama broke his promise to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Or perhaps it was not so much breaking a promise as telling a huge lie.
Obama wants to control the media directly like Hugo Chavez. You know Hugo Chavez likes to pal around with Bill Ayers too. Coincidence?
“as a result of BREAKING HIS PROMISE to accept matching funds. ”
Seriously – [fallingoutofchairlaughingrollingonfloorlaughingtilcan'tbreathe..d.]
No you dinnn’t – LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!
“Obama wants to control the media directly like Hugo Chavez. You know Hugo Chavez likes to pal around with Bill Ayers too. Coincidence?”
O get your radicals straight, dumbass – it was ACORN that elected Obama and told him to take over the media.
ACORN is going to end up running your lily white rear end.
Republicans are the ones who elect actors to high positions.
Senator George Murphy.
Ronald Reagan.
Sonny Bono.
That goof from Love Boat.
Arnold. because he was so good at picking up heavy things, and putting them down.
Fred Sleepy Thompson.
They also elect former baseball players and football players.
Bunning.
J.C. Watts.
Jack Kemp.
Steve Largent,
and so on.
They also hang around with the likes of Chuck Norris, Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, and the late Ron Silvers.
Strange how the Republicans never seem to notice all those entertainment elites that they snuggle up to.
so what’s the outrage did hollyweird freaks that want the charges drop on the child rapist who fled the country NOT donate to the DNC and Obama?
whaa whaa the $DNC# is backed all kinds of freaks, criminals, Acron, SEUI so deal with it! If I remember correctly 2 DNC donors have been indicted just in the last year. Then when have Rangel, Murtha ohhh the corruption knows no bounds.
Hell the DNC is full of freaks who like nothing better than stomping all over freedom of speech and the Constitution.
But hey poor little whiners I know the truth hurts ya!! yippie to that!
Let’s see Holder drop the charges on the hollywood child rapists like he did the Black Panthers!
Except more truths to come out about your beloved criminal enterprise you bow down to called the DNC!
whaa whaa they are picking on us!! stop freedom of speech yeah that’s the DNC ticket!!
“Strange how the Republicans never seem to notice all those entertainment elites that they snuggle up to.”
What they do is project it all back onto us cause that’s what they do and that’s what they’ve done for years. You’d think it would get old. What would the GOP do without us to project onto? Do you suppose they’d finally have to admit how screwed up they are?
Nah, it would be like two mirrors facing each other – reflections into infinity.
What was the name of that Republican Congressman who was reported to be engaging in sexual behavior, with under age pages, and Speaker Hastert kept covering it up.
Mark Foley, was that the name.
Republicans only get upset about pedophiles, when they are out of power. They never bothered to have Polanski arrested, just like they never bothered to stop their congressman from stalking congressional pages.
A steroid freak bodybuilder for Governor,
And a B Movie Actor for President, and yet the Republicans complain about La La Land. What a bunch of delusional Maroons!
“Republicans only get upset about pedophiles, when they are out of power.”
Well, considering how many on the right have gotten caught being pedophiles themselves, or right next to it…
Yes, indeed. Good thing this blog is not judged by the quality of its comments. You go tena and Liam!
yeah right desperate housewife with the lilly white rump Tena. What did Obama just sign at the UN? What did his Czar Sunstein say in his second bill of rights?
you freaks hate free speech unless it is your speech. matter of fact you HATE anything and everything that does not bow down to your pitiful agenda to enslave others.
so tena you may kiss my lilly white rump and I can’t wait until we are done exposing all the corruption the DNC has forced on America! Then we will be moving on to the RNC and finish them off. America once again will emerge without your sick idea and corrupt ways and will no longer take from others to line their pockets! smooch
Chuck freaking NORRIS!
HIYAH!
Friends of Eric Holder!! Gee how nice$$$$$$
LOS ANGELES — While a backlash emerged Tuesday among French politicians of all stripes about whether their government and others should have rushed to embrace the cause of the jailed film director Roman Polanski, his American legal team picked up an influential new member: the lawyer Reid Weingarten, a well-known Washington power player and close friend and associate of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
…The recruiting of Mr. Weingarten was a strong signal that Mr. Polanski’s legal team intends to push hard on the Washington end of the case. Mr. Polanski was arrested on his way to the Zurich Film Festival after Swiss authorities received a letter from the Department of Justice requesting that he be held for possible extradition to the United States.
Liam: Don’t forget the jock blowhard, pitcher Curt Schilling, famous for his bloody sock during the ‘04 playoffs. He used his World Series celebrity to shill for Bush, then McCain/Palin, and tried to run for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat until it became clear that it wouldn’t fly. Oh, BTW, he was enrolled as an independent, and didn’t have enough time to register as a Republican and run in January. Incidentally, he’s a native Alaskan. Whooda thunk?
There are people lurking here who have no sense of humor, that’s pretty obvious. Thanks for the laughs Liam, I needed it.
Ethan, it’s clear Coburn must be confused, I thought he liked the old folks. What a hypocrit. Does he think people won’t notice and do you know did he give a reason for his vote, or was it just his turn to be the jerk in the room?
Let’s see we have already endured the “fishy” tip line from Obama. Before the election the folks in Missouri endured the Obama Truth Squad. Now we are enduring this Admin calling out only the media outlets that don’t get tingles up their legs when Obama speaks.
Our troops are being slaughtered in Afghan will the pompus arse jet sets around the globe and laughs with the pervert letterman. you people really suck!!
Liam | October 8th, 2009 at 06:32 pm
What was the name of that Republican Congressman who was reported to be engaging in sexual behavior, with under age pages, and Speaker Hastert kept covering it up.
Mark Foley, was that the name.
Republicans only get upset about pedophiles, when they are out of power. They never bothered to have Polanski arrested, just like they never bothered to stop their congressman from stalking congressional pages.
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you are so full of it. Repugs had him step down and he was tried in a court of law. Now what about Rangel or the other tax cheats in this admin that did not step down and never faced prosecution?
huh huh oh so smart one? your comments show what a failure you are and have nothing to counter the corruption you support!!
>>>you HATE anything and everything that does not bow down to your pitiful agenda to enslave others.<<<
Holy **** is that hilarious.
there is more than enough facts to show that money talks with the Obama admin. Big labor is the shinning proof they even got to illegally be put before primary lenders.
I think head in the sand is the appropriated pose for you idiots on this blog!
“We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it,” boasted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to the Las Vegas Sun this week. The behemoth labor organization’s leadership is getting its money’s worth. Whether rank-and-file workers and ordinary taxpayers are profiting from this ultimate campaign pay-for-play scheme is another matter entirely.
The two-million-member union, which represents both government and private service employees, proudly claimed that its workers “knocked on 1.87 million doors, made 4.4 million phone calls and sent more than 2.5 million pieces of mail in support of Obama.” It dispatched SEIU leaders to seven states in the final weekend before the election to get out the vote for Obama and other Democrats.
Through a series of local chapter takeovers and bully campaigns to destroy the reputation of executives who refuse to submit to their will, Stern and his scandal-plagued lieutenants have consolidated low-skill service workers to create a 21st century labor empire. The ubiquitous Stern now enjoys a prominent seat at the table of every major policy discussion at the White House, including economic recovery and health care radicalization.
Obama champions the SEIU’s top legislative priorities: expansive government health care (paid for with regressive sin taxes) and the “Employee Free Choice Act” to do away with private-ballot union elections in the workplace. He has SEIU-blessed bureaucrats installed in every corner of his administration to carry out the agenda.
The SEIU scored not one but two Cabinet appointees: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. The SEIU pitched in with maximum donations to Solis’ first congressional campaign and lent her nearly 300 canvassers and ground troops. “I wouldn’t be here, were it not for my friends in the labor movement,” she gushed. Indeed, over four terms in Congress, Solis has pocketed more than $900,000 in union campaign contributions.
Also, I don’t think “amateur hour” is a phrase the DNC or Administration should be throwing around right now, not this soon after the Olympics debacle. Or the recent claim by the White House that they didn’t know what McChrystal meant by “counterinsurgency”.
it’s been amateur hour since Jan. 20th.
Here you go Ethan straight from this blog showing the tolerance and love the DNC has for those in their own party.
The DNC should let the voters know that any Dem elected to the congress or senate is NOT there to represent “we the people” but to represent the DNC’s twisted agenda!!
“Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care.”
FREEDOM the DNC way!! Learn from their buddies Chavez, Fiidel and Che!! woohooo ring the liberty bell!!
“Also, I don’t think “amateur hour” is a phrase the DNC or Administration should be throwing around right now, not this soon after the Olympics debacle.”
I don’t think that the failed Olympic bid is something republicans want to point out, especially after cheerleading 8 years of a Barney Fife presidency.
“FREEDOM the DNC way!! Learn from their buddies Chavez, Fiidel and Che!! woohooo ring the liberty bell!!”
dude. Can y’all not come up with some newer boogiemen? Those are worn smooth out.
““Also, I don’t think “amateur hour” is a phrase the DNC or Administration should be throwing around right now, not this soon after the Olympics debacle.””
Yeah I know – the ratwing, which celebrated the United States LOSING the olympics bid, think it’s the greatest diplomatic failure since Chamberlain offered Great Britain to the Nazis.
Y’all really want to talk about the Olympics, when the ratwing went completely batshit and was rooting AGAINST the United States of America? Just cause you hate Obama so damn much?
Really? Cause you look like petty fools.
I hate to tell you this, yippie, but Che and Fidel are both dead.
You can quit looking for them under your bed now.
ah super genius Tena when did Castro die?
Also I don’t look at bonifide enemies of freedom as boogeymen. They are simply enemies of freedom.
TENA! Long time no hear from.. Still bumping Hip Hop?
“Still bumping Hip Hop?
”
O baby. The only thing I bump. I saw Atmosphere live this summer in Santa Fe and last December, I saw Weezy F. Baby and T-Pain in Dallas – best show I’ve ever seen.
Hi!
lol have you folks who cheer on defeat in Iraq for 8 years no shame? are you frickin brain dead?
I am glad the olympics went to Rio and that Obama’s arrogance while our troops are dying failed him like everything else he has tried to do. The man is a huge failure along with Pelosi, Reid and all their followers.
Just look at the state of this country since the 2006 take over of the DNC way! The DNC’s journey this time will take us deeper into collapse then Jimmy Carter every dreamed of.
keep up the good job brownie!
Humanity Critic:
And goddamn it – Free T.I.!!!!!!!
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The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale – a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing – an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama’s former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.
Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama’s state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.
“No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.
Obama’s campaign, in a written response to Globe questions, affirmed the candidate’s support of public-private partnerships as an alternative to public housing, saying that Obama has “consistently fought to make livable, affordable housing in mixed-income neighborhoods available to all.”
The campaign did not respond to questions about whether Obama was aware of the problems with buildings in his district during his time as a state senator, nor did it comment on the roles played by people connected to the senator.
Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers – including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko – collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.
Butler and Davis did not respond to messages. Rezko is in prison; his lawyer did not respond to inquiries.
Jarrett, a powerful figure in the Chicago development community, agreed to be interviewed but declined to answer questions about Grove Parc, citing what she called a continuing duty to Habitat’s former business partners. She did, however, defend Obama’s position that public-private partnerships are superior to public housing.
“Government is just not as good at owning and managing as the private sector because the incentives are not there,” said Jarrett, whose company manages more than 23,000 apartments. “I would argue that someone living in a poor neighborhood that isn’t 100 percent public housing is by definition better off.” Continued…
Man I’d give a lot to have Che Guevara in MY anxiety closet.
It’s not anxiety that would produce. There has yet to be an actor protraying Che who is as handsome as Che actually was.
God he was gorgeous.
Even Gael Garcia Bernal didn’t get there. He’s gorgeous in his own way god knows, but if you compare him to the pictures in Che’s book The Motorcycle Diaries, he’s just not there. Che was better looking.
Tena | October 8th, 2009 at 08:08 pm
Man I’d give a lot to have Che Guevara in MY anxiety closet.
It’s not anxiety that would produce. There has yet to be an actor protraying Che who is as handsome as Che actually was.
God he was gorgeous.
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Of course you would he’s just your type and could have lead the DNC!!
Che was a narcissist who boasted that “I have no house, wife, children, parents, or brothers; my friends are friends as long as they think like me, politically.” This is a role model for today’s “post-political” voters claiming we should get beyond partisanship?
180 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA: 1957 TO 1959
From: Armando M. Lago, Ph.D., Cuba. The Human Cost of Social Revolutions, unedited
Manuscript pending publication. Information provided by the TRUTH RECOVERY ARCHIVE ON CUBA
an undertaking of the FREE SOCIETY PROJECT, INC.
The exact number of Che’s Cuban victims has not been verified, but include people he personally
executed and those put to death under his orders. Che’s biographers consistently report that he sent
thousands to the firing squad. Over 4,000 deaths are documented to have taken place in Cuba, mostly
firing squad execution, in the first three years after Fidel Castro’s takeover (1959-1962). Che Guevara
was one of the regime’s chief executioners during this period and is said to have acknowledged ordering
“several thousand” executions. All took place without affording the victims fair trials and due process of law.
The following list is not exhaustive and only includes cases for which historic reference is known. Names are
cited as reported; dates and additional details for most are available. Combat deaths caused by Che in Cuba
and killings in countries where he led guerrilla operations have not been tallied.
14 executed by Che in the Sierra Maestra during the anti-Batista guerrilla struggle (1957-1958):
1. ARISTIDIO 2. MANUEL CAPITÁN 3. JUAN CHANG 4. “BISCO” ECHEVARRÍA 5. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #1
6. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #2 7. EUTIMIO GUERRA 8. DIONISIO LEBRIGIO 9. JUAN LEBRIGIO 10. “EL NEGRO” NÁPOLES
11. “CHICHO” OSORIO 12. ONE UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER (“EL MAESTRO) 13.-14. 2 UNIDENTIFIED PEASANTS
10 executed in Santa Clara at Che’s orders in only two days (January 1959):
1. RAMÓN ALBA 2. JOSÉ BARROSO 3. JOAQUÍN CASILLAS 4. FÉLIX CRUZ 5. ALEJANDRO GARCÍA OLAYÓN
6. HÉCTOR MIRABAL 7. J. MIRABAL 8. FÉLIX MONTANO 9. CORNELIO ROJAS 10. VILALLA
156 executed at La Cabaña Fortress prison at Che Guevara’s orders:
1. VILAU ABREU 2. HUMBERTO AGUIAR 3. GERMÁN AGUIRRE 4. PELAYO ALAYÓN 5. JOSÉ LUIS ALFARO
6. PEDRO ALFARO 7. MARIANO ALONSO 8. JOSÉ ALVARO 9. ANIELLA 10. MARIO ARES POLO
11. JOSÉ RAMÓN BACALLAO 12. CEVERINO BARRIOS 13. EUGENIO BÉCQUER 14. FRANCISCO BÉCQUER
15. RAMÓN BISCET 16. ROBERTO CALZADILLA 17. EUFEMIO CANO 18. JUAN CAPOTE FIALLO
19. ANTONIO CARRALERO 20. GERTRUDIS CASTELLANOS 21. JOSÉ CASTAÑO QUEVEDO 22. RAÚL CASTAÑO
23. EUFEMIO CHALA 24. JOSÉ CHAMACE 25. JOSÉ CHAMIZO 26. RAÚL CLAUSELL 27. ÁNGEL CLAUSELL
28. DEMETRIO CLAUSELL 29. JOSÉ CLAUSELL 30. ELOY CONTRERAS 31. ALBERTO CORBO 32. EMILIO CRUZ
33. JUAN FELIPE CRUZ 34. ORESTES CRUZ 35. HUMBERTO CUEVAS 36. CUNY 37. ANTONIO DE BECHE
38. MATEO DELGADO 39. ARMANDO DELGADO 40. RAMÓN DESPAIGNE 41. JOSÉ DÍAZ CABEZAS
42. ANTONIO DUARTE 43. RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ OJEDA 44. RUDY FERNÁNDEZ 45. FERRÁN ALFONSO
46. SALVADOR FERRERO 47. VICTOR FIGUEREDO 48. EDUARDO FORTE 49. UGARDE GALÁN
50. RAFAEL GARCÍA MUÑIZ 51. ADALBERTO GARCÍA 52. ALBERTO GARCÍA 53. JACINTO GARCÍA
54. EVELIO GASPAR 55. ARMADA GIL Y DIEZ CABEZAS 56. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ MALAGÓN 57. EVARISTO GONZÁLEZ
58. EZEQUIEL GONZÁLEZ 59. SECUNDINO GONZÁLEZ 60. RICARDO GRAO 61. BONIFACIO GRASSO
62. RICARDO JOSÉ GRAU 63. OSCAR GUERRA 64. JULIÁN HERNÁNDEZ 65. FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ LEYVA
66. ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ 67. GERARDO HERNÁNDEZ 68. OLEGARIO HERNÁNDEZ 69. SECUNDINO HERNÁNDEZ
70. JESÚS INSUA 71. ENRIQUE IZQUIERDO 72. OSMÍN JORRÍN 73. SILVINO JUNCO 74. ENRIQUE LA ROSA
75. IGNACIO LASAPARLA 76. JESÚS LAZO 77. ARIEL LIMA LAGO 78. RAÚL LÓPEZ VIDAL 79. ARMANDO MAS
80. ENERLIO MATA 81. ELPIDIO MEDEROS 82. JOSÉ MEDINAS 83. JOSÉ MESA 84. FIDEL MESQUÍA
85. JUAN MILIÁN 86. FRANCISCO MIRABAL 87. LUIS MIRABAL 88. ERNESTO MORALES 89. PEDRO MOREJÓN
90. DR. CARLOS MUIÑO, MD. 91. CÉSAR NECOLARDES ROJAS 92. VICTOR NECOLARDES ROJAS 93. JOSÉ NUÑEZ
94. VITERBO O’RREILLY 95. FÉLIX OVIEDO 96. MANUEL PANEQUE 97. PEDRO PEDROSO 98. RAFAEL PEDROSO
99. DIEGO PÉREZ CUESTA 100. JUAN PÉREZ 101. DIEGO PÉREZ CRELA 102. JOSÉ POZO 103. EMILIO PUEBLA
104. ALFREDO PUPO 105. SECUNDINO RAMÍREZ 106. RAMÓN RAMOS 107. PABLO RAVELO 108. RUBÉN REY
109. MARIO RISQUELME 110. FERNANDO RIVERA 111. PABLO RIVERA 112. MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ
113. MARCOS RODRÍGUEZ 114. NEMESIO RODRÍGUEZ 115. PABLO RODRÍGUEZ 116. RICARDO RODRÍGUEZ
117. JOSÉ SALDARA 118. PEDRO SANTANA 119. SERGIO SIERRA 120. JUAN SILVA 121. FAUSTO SILVA
122. ELPIDIO SOLER 123. JESÚS SOSA BLANCO 124. RENATO SOSA 125. SERGIO SOSA 126. PEDRO SOTO
127. OSCAR SUÁREZ 128. RAFAEL TARRAGO 129. TEODORO TELLEZ CISNEROS 130. FRANCISCO TELLEZ
131. JOSÉ TIN 132. FRANCISCO TRAVIESO 133. LEONARDO TRUJILLO 134. TRUJILLO 135. LUPE VALDÉS BARBOSA
136. MARCELINO VALDÉS 137. ANTONIO VALENTÍN 138. MANUEL VÁZQUEZ 139. SERGIO VÁZQUEZ 140. VERDECIA
141. DÁMASO ZAYAS
*15 additional executions were reported by The New York Times (on 2/6/59, 2/8/59, 3/16/59, and 4/2/59),
but names are unknown.
TRUTH RECOVERY ARCHIVE ON CUBA an undertaking of the FREE SOCIETY PROJECT, INC.CubaArchive.org
Tena | October 8th, 2009 at 08:12 pm
Even Gael Garcia Bernal didn’t get there. He’s gorgeous in his own way god knows, but if you compare him to the pictures in Che’s book The Motorcycle Diaries, he’s just not there. Che was better looking
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I’m sure that innocent 14 year old girl he brutally murdered, was thinking the same thing! I bet her mother had no grief once she saw the good looks of the man that murdered her daughter.
you are one sick lady no way in hades do I want anyone like you or your ilk in charge of my freedom.
So this sites sensors the posts of the crumbling housing project in Obama’s district, the one he funneled millions to his buddies to make livable?
figures truth hurts!! oh silly me I’m sure it’s just a glitch!
more of Obama’s America!He did such a fine job with Chicago!
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I sure got you going, you idiot.
nice try Tena you can’t hide your true colors you wear them on your sleeve! all your mouthing off on here points to one direction and it’s the opposite of freedom! do I need to send you a mirror?
One morning the horrible sound of that rusty steel door swinging open startled us awake and Che’s guards shoved a new prisoner into our cell. His face was bruised and smeared with blood. We could only gape. He was a boy, couldn’t have been much older than 12, maybe 14.
“‘What did you do?’ We asked horrified. ‘I tried to defend my papa,’ gasped the bloodied boy. ‘I tried to keep these Communist sons of b**tches form murdering him! But they sent him to the firing squad.’”
Soon Che’s goons came back, the rusty steel door opened and they yanked the valiant boy out of the cell. “We all rushed to the cell’s window that faced the execution pit,” recalls Mr. San Martin. “We simply couldn’t believe they’d murder him! Then we spotted him, strutting around the blood-drenched execution yard with his hands on his waist and barking orders � the gallant Che Guevara.
“Here Che was, finally in his element. In battle he was a sad joke, a bumbler of epic proportions [for details see "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant"], but up against disarmed and bloodied boys he was a snarling tiger.
“‘Kneel Down!’ Che barked at the boy.
“‘ASSASSINS!’ We screamed from our window. ‘MURDERERS!! HOW CAN YOU MURDER A LITTLE BOY!’
“‘I said, KNEEL DOWN!’ Che barked again.
“The boy stared Che resolutely in the face. ‘If you’re going to kill me,’ he yelled. ‘you’ll have to do it while I’m standing! MEN die standing!’
“COWARDS! MURDERERS! Sons of B**TCHES!” The men yelled desperately from their cells. “LEAVE HIM ALONE!” HOW CAN …?!”
“And then we saw Che unholstering his pistol. It didn’t seem possible. But Che raised his pistol, put the barrel to the back of the boy’s neck and blasted. The shot almost decapitated the young boy.
“We erupted. We were enraged, hysterical, banging on the bars.’MURDERERS! ASSASSINS!’ His murder finished, Che finally looked up at us, pointed his pistol, and BLAM-BLAM-BLAM! emptied his clip in our direction. Several of us were wounded by his shots.”
Cuba was a very violent and cruel place under Batista, and the ruling Oligarchs, most of whom ended up in Miami.
They let the America Mafia do what ever they wished to in Havana.
Those are the exiles who are writing their version of what happened. Considering what a rotten bunch of murdering scum they were, when they were in power, and the peasants were being used like slaves, I doubt if they are capable of documenting the truth.
OMG! Those of you who watch Rachel Maddow and watch Kent Jones’ segment at the end of each show and in particurlarly the “Weak In Review Segment” will know what I mean when I repeat Kent’s montra…WEAK! WEAK! This story from the politico which I consider the fauxnews annex was just that “WEAK! WEAK!
WEAK WEAK WEAK
jailed film director Roman Polanski, his American legal team picked up an influential new member: the lawyer Reid Weingarten, a well-known Washington power player and close friend and associate of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
…The recruiting of Mr. Weingarten was a strong signal that Mr. Polanski’s legal team intends to push hard on the Washington end of the case.
“…the sort the DNC normally reserves for unabashedly ideological right wing outlets.”
Politico IS a right-wing outlet. I’m just waiting for the people who cover politics to realize this. The evidence is right in front of your faces.
The best evidence is on the comment threads. Apparently, the media doesn’t read them. You should. Just the first 20 comments of a few articles will give you a taste of the Soros conspiracists and the asserters of the belief that all Democrats are “libtards” and the people who believe that Obama is working to tear down this nation “from the inside,” and that’s just the beginning! The threads — all of them — are overrun with vicious right-wing commenters.
A media outlet doesn’t attract such lopsided attention, unless it consistently writes articles that support such partisan (i.e., right-wing) viewpoints. Individuals who are highly partisan tend to seek out media outlets that support, not challenge their viewpoints. Indeed, Drudge frequently links to Politico. Do people in the media really believe that’s a coincidence? You shouldn’t. Politico’s content is consistent with Drudge’s agenda-pushing information presentations.
and this site is not partisan?
give me a break you folks are the biggest lopsided babies
wahhh wahhh other people don’t have my exact political views and they dare speak out wahh wahhh
@yippie: No, this site isn’t partisan. If you use the metric that I mentioned above — the comments on posts — to gauge the type of people who visit this site, you’ll find that it seems to be fairly balanced. There are liberals, moderates and conservatives posting here at seeming parity. Again, most people tend to seek out media that supports, not challenges their viewpoint. Considering the mix of people here, I would say that this site falls in the straight-forward range.
It’s all relative though. If one spends most of his/her time on Fox Nation, then most other sites will SEEM “liberal,” even though they are actually quite balanced. The same can be said of frequenters of Daily Kos; it makes other outlets seem “conservative.” That’s one danger of excessive consumption of partisan news. People should get a good mix, and never believe that only ONE news source actually tells you the truth, which is what Fox says… Now, THAT’s truly partisan news (and brainwashing), and many people don’t even realize it.
The last three letters of Polanski’s name are S-K-I.
He is a pedophile.
Therefore, anyone who likes to ski is also a pedophile.
Hasn’t Obama been skiing before? OH MY GOD! OBAMA IS A PEDOPHILE AND SO ARE ALL DEMOCRATS!
If you rearrange the letters in Roman Polanski’s name you come up with “spank man or oil.” That certainly sounds dirty and perverted. Anybody who has ever seen one of his movies must also be a pervert. I’m sure that Obama has seen at least one of them.
Such is the impressive brainpower of today’s GOP. Is there nothing that they find too ridiculous to assert? How stupid is too stupid for them? They are the political answer to the Weekly World News.
Hey, I heard that Obama is actually Bat Boy all grown up! He went to Kenya to have the surgery to make him look normal. They did their best with the ears, but they could only take off so much. He actually sleeps hanging upside down in the White House. He may look normal, but he’s still a bat at heart.
It won’t surprise me to see that bandied about the conservative blogoshpere.
Greg, why do you use the term “the Obama operation” as a synonym for the DNC? Would you please post your evidence that this Woodhouse spox is controlled by Obama. Thank you.
Travis | October 9th, 2009 at 01:02 am
@yippie: No, this site isn’t partisan.
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uh huh sure
that’s why Greg had how many threads about Rangel’s ethic investigation being widened yesterday.
ZERO like a good little yes man!!