“Cheryl Hines is a successful actress, director, producer, and podcast host, but the Hollywood starlet may be gearing up to add First Lady to her long list of impressive roles,” reports the Daily Mail this week. “The 57-year-old’s husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced this week that he’s officially challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for the upcoming 2024 presidential election.”
This is interesting enough without the following: “She (Hines) even once had lemonade with Fidel Castro at his house in Cuba. ‘We went to Cuba, this was probably 10 years ago, while we were there, my husband wanted to see if we could visit with Mr. Castro’….
“‘When we got to the hotel, there was a guy in a white linen suit who said, “El Presidente will see you.” ‘They came and picked us up in a van, it was a nice van; I was like, “Woah, what’s happening?”
“‘We got to his house, and he was wearing a tracksuit. We sat down with him, [my husband], and he spoke in Spanish for a while. They talked about assassination attempts, as one does when you’re drinking lemonade. He was sweet. It was the best lemonade I’ve ever had, I don’t know what was in it, but it was fantastic.'”
As luck would have it, we discussed those (mostly bogus) assassinations attempted here just last week. But naturally, RFK Jr. swallowed Castro’s hoary propaganda hook, line, and sinker. To wit:
“Despite its poverty, Cuba has managed some impressive accomplishments. Cuba’s government boasts the highest literacy rates for its population of any nation in the hemisphere” ….blah…blah…blah.
I’ll spare you the rest of RFK Jr’s regurgitations of Castroite propaganda in his article for the Inter Press Service from Jan. 2015, which also predictably denounces one of the crown jewels of post-war U.S. foreign policy: the phenomenally successful “Cuba embargo.”
We’ve discussed this so-called embargo at length here at Townhall, primarily how it’s not a bonafide embargo by any stretch of the word’s definition, since for over two decades, the U.S. has been among Cuba’s top food suppliers. The main provision of this “embargo” is that the relentlessly deadbeat Castro-Crime-Syndicate (mislabeled “Cuba” by the Democrat/Media Complex) pay cash up front for U.S. imports. This has made the U.S. taxpayer among the very few on earth spared fleecing for millions by the Castro-Crime-Syndicate…..speaking of which!
From just this week: “A British judge ruled that Cuba’s National Bank can be sued by lenders who are owed 72 million euros.”
And speaking of the Kennedy family’s historic affection for the mass-murdering, terror-sponsoring Stalinists who have run Cuba; remember when RFK Jr’s mother, Ethel Kennedy was discovered to have decorated both her Florida home and the Kennedy family’s estate named Hickory Hill in McLean, Virginia, with pictures of Che Guevara?
And remember how even before the shrieks of “Fake News!” from sophisticated liberals against “deplorable” could commence for spreading something so patently absurd as a famous American political matriarch decorating her homes with pictures of an epic America-hater whose lifelong craving was to incinerate the U.S.—even before any of this, Robert Kennedy Jr himself boasted for the public prints that “My mom loves Che Guevara! Her dog is named Che!”
According to Pinterest, the Che Guevara picture at Hickory Hill was (is) located in the late Robert F. Kennedy’s very home office!
This makes the Che Guevara family presence all the more “fascinating,” considering that these Kennedys were America’s twin “commanders-in-chief” during the Cuban Missile Crisis and during the infamous Bay of Pigs treachery, which took place 62 years ago this very week.
More “fascinating” still, the Hickory Hill office picture is the original uncropped version. The famous Che Guevara pic seen on t-shirts and posters was a cropped version of one taken by Alberto Korda in March 1960. Korda’s real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, and he was a KGB agent, as revealed by Soviet-Bloc intelligence defector Ion Pacepa. The cropped picture was spread throughout the world by I. Lavretsky and Giangicomo Fetrinelli, respectively, full-time and part-time KGB agents, as also revealed by Pacepa.
Hence, every person you see sporting that t-shirt or poster is a genuine “Russian colluder!”— though probably unwittingly in about 80 percent of the cases, when they qualify merely as morons.
Several fascinating questions now arise: Was that Che pic present in RFK’s office in the early 1960s, when he was head of the famous Operation Mongoose, purportedly a Kennedy/CIA plan to assassinate Fidel Castro and overthrow his regime? If so, there’s no indication the Che pic was used as a dartboard, as it sits alongside what are (presumably) revered Kennedy family members.
Now, if the man (Robert F. Kennedy) tasked with overthrowing the Castro regime kept a cherished picture of Che Guevara in his home office, are there any more questions about why Fidel Castro died peacefully in bed at 90?
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Humberto. Tragic family, the Kennedys.
Mo de Profit says
This is worth ten minutes of your time:
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-running-for-president?r=26enbv&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Cat says
Rather portrayed as tragic by yesteryears MSM and today’s too, perhaps Maybe the first that we know of to steal a presidential election. And although no one seems to know what a woman is these days, Kennedy men knew and were infamous rapists, killers too. Ruthless is a better word than tragic.
No one much cares today, but I still do.
If the people on the non-left could stop being manipulated by big tech to only focus on anti-vax, anti-vax, maybe, just maybe, they can avoid putting a far far left Hollywood-connected nutty guy like RFK Jr. in the White House, famous “tragic” name or not.
J.J. Sefton says
It is rather kind of paradoxical that RFK jr. has been such an opponent of the junta vis a vis the Chinese Coronavirus as well as free speech issues.
We cannot and should not ignore his past, but given the state of the nation and the (anti) American Left today, should we at least give him a break at least in the interest of political expediency?
The wolf is at our throat, and so people like him as well as Greenwald, Taibbi and Naomi Wolf I think should be embraced. At least in the interest in the preservation of whatever the heck is left of our republic and civil discourse and tolerance.
If we do come out the other end with this madness defeated, then we can get debate and question him about his past positions and “Che” the puppy..
Mo de Profit says
There’s a lot of leftists who have learned that they were wrong about government during the World pHarma Organisation created hysteria.
Those that have learned will never go back to being leftists.
Sadly they are outnumbered by sheep.
Cat says
I respectfully disagree. These newfound heroes have clay feet,. We sure don’t need a far leftist with a far left Hollywood connected wife in the White House just because he criticizes Fauci (but not as much as he blames and hates President Trump). He has the far left policies that we are already suffering from. Yikes, no!
HaDaR says
Total B.S.
Fidel Castro, immediateLY after the Cuban Revolution, chose to travel FIRST to Washington, DC, where the US Administration REFUSED TO MEET WITH HIM even through low-level personnel, thus not giving him any choice but to ask for help where they would give it. To Soviets were all too happy to oblige.
May be someone should be old enough to remember the so-called “Bay of Pigs” and the naval blockade – or at least study History – and avoid BS propaganda
Tortoise Herder says
Found the Totalitarian Shill.
Part 1
“Total B.S.”
Then prove it.
“Fidel Castro, immediateLY after the Cuban Revolution, chose to travel FIRST to Washington, DC, where the US Administration REFUSED TO MEET WITH HIM even through low-level personnel, thus not giving him any choice but to ask for help where they would give it. To Soviets were all too happy to oblige.”
This is gratuitously stupid on multiple levels.
Firstly: It completely ignores Castro’s pre-takeover life, and in particular his contacts. During the arrest in Mexico Che was the only one of the party to admit he was a communist, and that was in 1956. That dovetails with who trained him, such as Alberto Bayo (who was apparently not a Communist but had close ties to several) and Nikolai Leonov (a career “Chekist”). So these ties were already implemented in the mid 1950s, long before the revolution against Batista started.
Secondly: The claim that the Eisenhower Administration refused to meet with him – “even through low-level personnel” – is provably false, and indeed many State Dep’t officials greeted Castro at the airport on April 17th, 1959.
But this lie is convenient because it serves to shift blame. To paint Castro as the victim of the Yanquis, rather than an aspiring tyrant with years of contacts with Soviet intel that Eisenhower (for all his flaws) correctly recognized.
Tortoise Herder says
Part 2
“May be someone should be old enough to remember the so-called “Bay of Pigs” and the naval blockade – or at least study History – and avoid BS propaganda”
By all means, let us discuss both.
The Bay of Pigs was a direct response to Castro’s purging of the non-communist, non-totalitarian elements of his party and formal declaration of adherence to Moscow, in which Eisenhower, Nixon, and JFK recruited an army of Cuban Exiles that were purposefully selected to be anti-Batista as well (and indeed, headed up by a man who tried to assassinate Batista, was imprisoned, and was released when Castro won). Unfortunately they did not receive the US support Kennedy had promised, and so were left to rot. This led to Castro seeking Soviet nuclear weapons, ostensibly to defend Cuba, which led the US to blockade while Castro tried to goad his patrons into launching a first strike on the US.
It eventually got so bad that (around the same time as the Soviet Navy was telling Khruschev they could not hope to effectively push through the blockade) Khruschev received reports from his personnel that the Red Cubans were doing something weird near the strategic nuclear missiles, and he feared they might try to seize them to launch a first strike. So Khruschev realized he had to come to a deal immediately, and Kennedy was willing to let him keep defensive nuclear missiles (ie those incapable of reaching the US) in order to get the strategic ones out.
Tortoise Herder says
Part 3
The Castros are utterly evil, and the fact that you are carrying their water and apparently do not know the history you preach of is staggering.
The fact that you think you can lie on their behalf in so transparently stupid and incompetent a fashion and get away with it also says nothing good about your judgement.
Also: FPM FIX THE DAMN SYSTEM. It’s telling me my messages are “too long” in spite of routinely using half or less of the post space, which is SUPPOSEDLY 5,000. But obviously isn’t.
Spurwing Plover says
Even when they(Castro and Che)tried to set off bombs in our major Dept Stores back then yes in the company of fools
Mike says
The irony is that RFK Jr is far more moral than Biden or Trump on the Covid 19 vaccine, which is weapon of genocide. The bodies are dropping. By 2024 enough of America may be so shell shocked and traumatized by what Biden and especially TRUMP did to them (he authorized the vax) that RFK, JR the commie lover might be president.
Ugly Sid says
Emergency Use Authorization versus a mandate.
Not even close to the same.
Deborah Gaile Clemence says
What will be interesting is to see how the Democrats respond to RFK Jr’s candidacy.
Miranda Rose Smith says
Let’s give RFK, may he rest in peace, the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps the Che pictures were introduced by Ethel Kennedy, after her hisband had been murdered. He’s been dead for getting on to 55 years, remember
Tortoise Herder says
Part 1
Found the Totalitarian Shill.
“Total B.S.”
Then prove it.
“Fidel Castro, immediateLY after the Cuban Revolution, chose to travel FIRST to Washington, DC, where the US Administration REFUSED TO MEET WITH HIM even through low-level personnel, thus not giving him any choice but to ask for help where they would give it. To Soviets were all too happy to oblige.”
This is gratuitously stupid on multiple levels.
Firstly: It completely ignores Castro’s pre-takeover life, and in particular his contacts. During the arrest in Mexico Che was the only one of the party to admit he was a communist, and that was in 1956. That dovetails with who trained him, such as Alberto Bayo (who was apparently not a Communist but had close ties to several) and Nikolai Leonov (a career “Chekist”). So these ties were already implemented in the mid 1950s, long before the revolution against Batista started.
Secondly: The claim that the Eisenhower Administration refused to meet with him – “even through low-level personnel” – is provably bullshit, and indeed many State Dep’t officials greeted Castro at the airport on April 17th, 1959.
But this lie is convenient because it serves to shift blame. To paint Castro as the victim of the Yanquis, rather than an aspiring tyrant with years of contacts with Soviet intel that Eisenhower (for all his flaws) correctly recognized.