Stone’s thesis in a film designed to appeal to middle America is as follows: the military-industrial complex, allowed free reign under Eisenhower, killed Kennedy because he was trying to end the Cold War, especially in Cuba and Vietnam (the latter extremely important to the obsessed Stone).  Their point men were apolitical snipers, vengeful anti-Castroites, and a manipulated Oswald.  Far from being an angry leftist loner, Oswald was in fact a perpetrator for the more dovish elements of the American government’s schemes.  The low-level plotters included Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman, and David Ferrie, a member of the Operation Mongoose team, a CIA operation in constant efforts to kill Castro.

Like all history lessons, the yardstick is whether further evidence has proved him correct.  On Shaw being a CIA agent, Stone was on sure footing: CIA Director Richard Helms admitted that the New Orleans defendant was an agent.  On Shaw and Ferrie knowing each other (a charge Shaw denied under oath at his trial in New Orleans), evidence in  the form of a car loan for Ferrie co-signed by Shaw has vindicated Stone.

But other revelations have not been so kind.  Far from being a patsy four  floors down from his supposed sniper perch, Oswald was shown in documents released after the film by the Dallas Police that his fingerprints were on the trigger of his Manlicher Carcano.  Re-created shooting by world-class snipers has shown that the head-shots did in fact come from the Sixth Floor Depository.  Computer analysis applied to the grassy knoll reveals that in order for a shot to have come from there the sniper would  have to have been on a forty-foot ladder (a stance that would have attracted notice).

Stone made much of the hobos rounded up by the DPD as being part of the assassination team (he even has the leader of the plot walking by and signaling them).  His evidence for this was in how they were never booked and were quickly released, but documents released by the DPD after the film revealed that the men in question were, in fact, hobos.

On Kennedy the dove, Stone has been invalidated.  He makes much of the American University speech in which JFK called for a reexamination of American attitudes toward the Soviet Union, but he says nothing about the bellicose anti-communist speech months later  in the “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” address.  Regarding Cuba, Kennedy was following a two track policy in the last days of his life.  On one hand, he was using intermediaries to seek normalization with Castro.  On the other, he had intensified efforts to kill the dictator (one congressman in the loop was shocked at how matter-of-fact Kennedy was when he told him).  And Kennedy had authorized the military to begin preparations for an invasion of the island in December 1963.

Stone, in his effort to hammer home his thesis, omits certain key elements known at the time.  Nowhere in the film is there any mention of Oswald’s efforts to kill the far right military man, General Edwin Walker–odd, because Oswald missing him from a grassy knoll-type perch would have bolstered Stone’s portrait of him as poor shot.  To do so would have shown Oswald’s ability to plan an assassination.  He never shows Kennedy’s complicity in allowing a coup to remove South Vietnam leader N’Go Diem–proof that the president was seeking a more receptive leadership in order to secure the conflict’s key goal–to win popular support.

In a key moment in the film, Stone has a Deep Throat-esque journalist character pose the real questions that should be asked about Kennedy’s death: (1) Why was Kennedy killed? (2)Who benefited? (3)Who has the power to cover it up?

In light of recent evidence, the answers are as follows : (1) Not only the frustrated anti-Castro Cubans, but also target Castro, his sympathizers, including Lee Harvey Oswald;  (2) Beneficiaries were  Castro (especially since the new president, Lyndon Johnson, horrified at Kennedy’s “goddam murder inc. in the Carribean,” turned Mongoose off; (3) The American government, but they could have done so less from their participation in the assassination and more from their participation in using the mob to kill Castro or fears of nuclear war should the truth come out.

Similar questions could have been applied to Stone.  Why did he make this film?  Answer: to continue his cinematic efforts to exorcise his Vietnam demons.  Who benefited?  Answer: The Hollywood Left, with their love affair with Castro and the aged Camelot mythifiers.  Who had the power to cover up alternative theories of the assassination  and ones at political odds with the film?  Answer:  scriptwriter Oliver Stone.

Like most Camelot propaganda merchants, Stone laments what might have been had the assassination failed.  His “American Gorbachev” might have stymied the right-wing madness of the sixties.  But Kennedy’s pattern was to assure the worst of all possible worlds.  Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, he assured Castro’s position by promising Kruschev that he would never invade and horse-traded away the US missile defense for Turkey.  He then continued assassination efforts, and his plans for a December 1963 invasion would have violated his promise to Kruschev and triggered an even more dire reprise of the Cuban Missile Crisis.  With Vietnam, he allowed a coup to remove Diem in order to continue the doomed US support of the South.    Because of Kennedy’s risk taking, “what might have been” might have been worse than under Johnson.

The trouble with propaganda masquerading as film is that facts keep up with and invalidate it.  The documents keep on coming, says George Orwell.  In the case of JFK they did, but without an equally skilled director, they may never filter into the consciousness of moviegoers.

Allow me to calmly explain:  neck to neck with Hugo Chavez’ subsidies Castro’s Stalinist regime lives off tourism. And Cuba’s Intelligence and Military sector owns 80 per cent of the Tourist Industry, as documented to Congress by retired Defense Intelligence Agency Cuba analyst, Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons.  Henceforth, yet another Travel Channel infomercial (Zimmern visited in 2009) for Cuba was a godsend to the Stalinist nomenklatura—especially right now with their Venezuelan Sugar- Daddy in perilous health.

Those charming, smiling hosts who escorted Bourdain around Castro’s fiefdom were all regime apparatchiks.  Immediately upon applying for his Cuban visa, well before Bourdain even set foot in Cuba, Castro’s intelligence had Bourdain completely sussed and his future escorts completely briefed. The procedure started the day he applied for Cuban visa, as also explained by Lieut. Col. Christopher Simmons. That your official “guides” while officially visiting a Communist nation were regime apparatchiks was common knowledge even to proto-imbeciles all during the Cold War.  Bourdain was born in 1956. 

“Big deal! So who’s this Simmons guy?! Some Birther- Bircher-Crackpot you rich Republican Cuban exiles pay off!”

Read the full piece at Big Peace.

First off,  I would be remiss if I did not thank Associate Editor Alex Marlow and all the contributors who gave me great peace of mind during my cross-country move. Big Hollywood didn’t miss a step while I was away. A great job was done by all.  Also, a big, BIG thanks to Andrew Breitbart and his business partner Laurence Solov for simply saying “yes,” when I asked about moving home and, most importantly, for creating the kind of work environment I was eager to return to.

The Morning Call Sheet is planned as a new Monday through Friday feature that will be a sort-of summary/round up of the day’s big news from Hollywoodland, as well as other things as they come up. While the marquee is mostly devoted to the intersection of pop culture and politics, the Morning Call Sheet will give you a rundown of that as well as the day’s straight entertainment news. The hope here is to eventually turn this into a regular newsletter. With help and input from others, the Morning Call Sheet is likely to change and evolve over time. Meaning: tips and suggestions can either be noted in the comments or emailed to jnolte@breitbart.com.

But for now, it’s inauguration time…

–BOX OFFICE:

Transformers, Horrible Bosses, and The Zookeeper are doing well. As if movie stars aren’t already having enough trouble (see below), two star-driven vehicles have flopped miserably. The duo of Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks has already collapsed in week 2 and Jim Carrey’s latest is DOA in week 4.

–ANDREW KLAVAN’S FINAL CHAPTER OF HIS “HOMELANDER” SERIES, “THE FINAL HOUR,” IS ALREADY AVAILABLE AT AMAZON. SOME EARLY REVIEWS HERE.

The Homelander trilogy is not only an exciting, extremely well-written, page-turner of a series (even though they’re written for young adults, I read the first two with little difficulty), it’s the rare fiction novel any parent who believes in God, America, and the evil of terrorism can hand to a child without worrying that after they close the back cover, they will demand you throw away your 100 watt light bulbs.

Conservatives looking for quality entertainment that fits their values, need look no further. Read chapter one here. Even better news … a film version is in the works.

–CUBA SHOOTS ITS FIRST ZOMBIE MOVIE ‘JUAN OF THE DEAD‘

Supposedly the story has something to do with immigration, which is probably the least of Cuba’s worries.

In the film, Havana is overrun by Zombies while’s Cuba’s Commie leaders insist it’s just a plot by US-backed dissidents to bring down the government. It is up to the hero Juan to rid the island of the undead for money. But as the zombie outbreak begins to spread, he is left with no choice but to fight for his own survival.

According to Bruges…

“It’s a zombie film but it’s about Cubans and how we react in the face of a crisis because we’ve had a lot of them here over the last 50 years[.]“ 

“It is a social comedy, it has a bit of everything. It has horror, it has action and it pretty much laughs in the face of problems.”

In other words, hilarity ensues.

Watch the trailer here.

–OH-SO LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD UNDERCUTTING UNIONS?

Say it isn’t so:

Judging from this summer’s output of star-free studio movies, the major difference between the sports world and Hollywood is that showbiz moguls have actually found a way to promote their product without having to rely on the costliest element in the talent equation — the star. “X-Men” and “Transformers” are saleable brands, even without a big name on the marquee. The studios are operating a lot like small-market sports teams like the Tampa Bay Rays — they’re building box-office behemoths using younger, comparatively underpaid talent. …

“It may not be as dramatic as what’s happening in sports, but we’re seeing a steady effort on the part of the studios to erode the status and union power of writers, actors and directors,” he said. “In the feature-writing business, quotes don’t mean anything anymore – -now the studios work backwards from what they’re willing to pay for a job, and if you don’t take the offer, they move on. The size of writing staffs are smaller. The studios are chipping away at everything involving talent.”

More proof, that the era of the movie star is coming to an end. Other than Adam Sandler, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, and Sandra Bullock, stars are no longer the draw. Concept is. One reason for this is that America simply doesn’t like their movie stars as much as they once did. It’s just a fact that they lack the powerful charisma and mystery stars of the past possessed in ways that made them immortal. There are many reasons for this, but just for starters, rather than simply advocate for their own beliefs, too many of today’s celebrities openly insult those who dare disagree — which has done permanent damage to the overall brand.

John Garfield might have flirted with communism, but he never called me a Nazi.

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QUICK HITS

–TRAILER FOR THE NEW ADAM/MADAM SANDLER FILM? OR… IS SANDLER PUNKING CRITICS?

–PRODUCTION VIDEO FROM “THE HOBBIT”

--”DARK KNIGHT RISES” TRAILER TO SCREEN AHEAD OF “HARRY POTTER”?

–COOL POSTER FOR “SHERLOCK HOLMES” SEQUEL

–INTERNATIONAL TRAILER FOR STEVEN SPIELBERG/PETER JACKSON “TINTIN”

–ANOTHER IMMORTAL PIECE OF CINEMA HISTORY SCHEDULED TO BITE THE DUST

–THE SITUATION HAS A SITUATION

–‘GI JOE 2′ HAS A VILLAIN: FIREFLY

–HAVE WE REACHED THE END OF ‘TRANSFORMERS’?

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CLASSIC PICK FOR TUESDAY JULY 12TH

Turner Classic Movies:

6:00 PM  EST Jailhouse Rock (1957) –  After learning to play the guitar in prison, a young man becomes a rock ‘n roll sensation. Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy.  BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

Tomorrow evening, Turner reminds us that before celebrity and narcotics and Hal B. Wallis got a hold of him, once upon a time Elvis Presley was not only a promising young actor but also the coolest man on the planet. Marvelous soundtrack, and it’s been reported that Elvis himself choreographed the immortal title number.

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Again, the Morning Call Sheet is going to morph and change over time. Please drop a comment or send any tips/suggestion to jnolte@breitbart.com.

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Superman was created by the sons of Jewish immigrants – Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and they had a love for America.

When I was growing up as a kid on Long Island, we couldn’t wait to see
the next episode of Superman on TV or get the latest comic. I wanted a Superman costume for Halloween. I proudly wore my red cape and believed I was fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. So did most of my friends. Years later, my two sons – years apart – alsowanted to be the Man of Steel for Halloween.

This may no longer appeal to the bright eyed youth of America. Never will Superman be part of the lexicon for American pop culture. DC Comics, for whatever reason, turned its back on America. Will Superman now fight for Sharia Law to be adopted into England, France, and Germany? This act shows more than anything else the depth that a socialistic based education system has indoctrinated minds and created a cultural battleground for the soul of America.

Who came up with this idea? I would love to know the background of who made this decision? I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting that took place at DC Comics when they agreed to make Superman denounce America. Was it economics? “Let’s make the Man of Steel reject America and we can sell more comics in Turkey, China, North Korea, Iran, Ireland, England, Germany.” What made them do it? Is it because a directive has been given from unseen forces to advance a global agenda? Why not just create a whole new character? Globalman. The Adventures of Globalman. Imagine an iconic comic figure from another country denouncing their adopted country? Who owns DC comics? Who are the major stockholders?

The arrogant cleverness behind this decision is one of the biggest cultural attacks on America. This seemingly minor act is MONUMENTAL. America is an ideal – “that shining city on a hill, the last best hope of mankind.” There is nothing wrong with America. Sometimes the men we put in office let her down, but inevitably she corrects herself, because of all of US. And it is this ideal that Superman has protected, even from the United Nations.

Did Jor-El send his son to Pakistan or Cuba? No, AMERICA. Like the early pilgrims in search of FREEDOM, a small spacecraft sent Kal-El to America, land of the free and home of the brave. For over seventy years, Clark Kent/Superman has been a proud American. Superman didn’t denounce America; He has been kidnapped, hijacked, and it’s time to send the Navy SEALS in to get him back. Or better yet, let’s denounce Superman. The new Men of Steel are Navy SEALS and the all those who serve and protect the American Way. I’m sure some will say, “What’s the big deal?” or “You’re overreacting.” Well, in the 900th comic of Superman, he was killed – not by Kyptonite, but by pen and ink.

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In closing, take a moment to watch the above Youtube clip. If you don’t have much time, skip ahead and start watching at around 6:30 in. Forward the link to friends. Download the clip to your phone and play it for people. Now more than ever, these words are very significant.

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BIG HOLLYWOOD: Tell us about Dr. Biscet.

ALLOTT: Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet is President of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights based in Havana, Cuba. He is a medical doctor and is considered by many to be Cuba’s leading opposition figure. Dr. Biscet was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Castro regime for his non-violent promotion of human rights and democracy in Cuba. Oscar was recently released after spending about nine years in prison. Before this sentence, Dr. Biscet had spent three years in prison for a number of crimes including, Disrespect and Dishonoring National Symbols. Dr. Biscet only enjoyed 36 days of freedom in between these two unjust imprisonments.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Have you spoken with Dr. Biscet, or with his wife, Elsa Morejon, since his release?

ALLOTT: I have not talked to Dr. Biscet directly since his release. I would like to give him some time to get adjusted to life outside of prison and I realize many people around the world are attempting to contact him. The day after his release Oscar watched our “Oscar’s Cuba” documentary and was very humbled by it. He liked the documentary very much. About six weeks ago I was able to have a quick three-minute phone conversation with Dr. Biscet from his prison outside Havana. During this conversation he sounded strong as he thanked the international community and human rights groups in the United States for the continued support.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Obviously, you didn’t make this documentary with the blessing of the Castro brothers. Did you have any run-ins with the Castro’s repressive apparatus?

ALLOTT: I went to Cuba as a tourist and not a journalist. Because I went alone, had a relatively small amount of equipment and was careful about where I went and when, I was able to not raise too much suspicion. At one point I was stopped and questioned by the police in Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the country about 500 miles from Havana. The police were very angry as they overheard me asking questions about the Revolution to the locals. They even took my camera to review my recordings but, luckily, let me go without detaining me further. It was a wake-up call for me to act as discreetly as possible. A reminder that anything is possible in Cuba.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Were you afraid when you were in Cuba? Did you perceive the Cuban people to be afraid of their government?

ALLOTT: I was cautious but believed I was on a mission. So, in a sense, I felt like no matter what happened, I was doing the right thing. At the same time, Cuba is a different world, cut off from the norms and international laws we sometimes assume will protect us. I most definitely believe that among the Cuban population there is a sense of both hopelessness and fear. I believe it has invaded the Cuban mind and soul for decades. The Cuban government’s number one concern is keeping power. Conversely, in most free countries the government’s first priority is to protect the individual rights of its citizens. In Cuba, any dissent is stamped out immediately and met with a disproportionate response.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Something that I’ve heard from dissidents who have left the island, and that Dr. Biscet himself recently communicated by phone to some friends of mine at a luncheon here in LA, is that the regime is afraid of the dissidents. Obviously the regime has had fifty years to refine the art of instilling fear in others, but what we are hearing now is that the regime itself is afraid. Did you get a sense of this, of the fear the regime has of the Cuban people, while you were in Cuba?

ALLOTT: The sense I got was that the people of Cuba, although still fearing retaliation from the government, are always skeptical of what the government says. In the past, Cubans were told to fear the outside world, the United States, democracy, etc. This kept many people happy with the status quo. Now, because more people are informed, the average person doesn’t fear the outside world and therefore doesn’t fear change as much. This is an important variable, one that will make a transition to democracy much more possible.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Could you tell us a little about the conditions that Dr. Biscet was kept in?

ALLOTT: Dr. Biscet has been kept in a maximum-security prison for his entire sentence. He has been forced to live among common criminals, except for those times when he has been put in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement in Cuba, for a political prisoner, can mean lack of basic necessities like light, clean water, human contact, etc. Unfortunately Cuba does not allow international human rights groups or medical groups into Cuba’s prisons to inspect the situation. The health of most political prisoners in Cuba deteriorates quickly.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: The repressive apparatus of the Castro brothers failed to break Dr. Biscet. What makes him so strong, what keeps him going?

ALLOTT: Dr. Biscet has always maintained that his faith in Christ is what keeps him strong. His faith allows him to feel peace in knowing that he is living out the mission God has given him.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Why do you suppose the Castros released Dr. Biscet?

ALLOTT: It is difficult to say why they did this. I believe, as has always been the case, that the Castro government received some sort of economic concession from the international community. In any case, I believe that the international community needs to send a message to the Cuban government that Dr. Biscet should not be returned to prison, as we was nine years ago after only 36 days of freedom.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: You also interview Gorki Aguila in your film. Interesting guy. What can you tell us about him?

ALLOTT: In a very different way, Gorki, his band Porno Para Ricardo, and other young people have expressed their desire for a change in the system in Cuba. During a stay in prison years ago, Gorki was encouraged and inspired by his conversations with Dr. Biscet. There is a unity amongst the opposition in Cuba, despite the wide variety of individuals involved.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: How has “Oscar’s Cuba” been received?

ALLOTT: Oscar’s Cuba has been received extremely well at the over 25 screenings we have had in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. I am most excited about the number of non-Cubans we have touched with Dr. Biscet’s story and message.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Where can people see the film, and if they can’t attend a screening, can they watch it online or buy a DVD?

ALLOTT: We have a website, www.oscarscuba.com where there is more information. We sell copies of the DVD, both in English and Spanish on the same DVD, on the website.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: “Oscar’s Cuba” screened in Washington, D.C. at the Czech Embassy, I believe, and the Prime Minister of Hungary was involved in nominating Dr. Biscet for the Nobel Prize. Have you seen a lot of interest in Dr. Biscet and your film from former Communist countries?

ALLOTT: Definitely. Many of these countries have been very supportive of the opposition in Cuba and specifically Dr. Biscet. The Czech and Hungarian Embassies have been very supportive of our documentary as well. There needs to be a greater sense of this solidarity amongst nations working for freedom and democracy.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: I happen to believe that “Oscar’s Cuba” contributed greatly to Dr. Biscet’s fame, his nomination for the Nobel Prize, and eventually his release. I don’t mean to put you on the spot, but what do you think?

ALLOTT: Many people have said this to me. But I believe every individual and organization has a role to play and these roles don’t completely change now that Dr. Biscet has been released. Others still remain unjustly imprisoned, Dr. Biscet could be returned to prison at any time and Cuba itself remains one giant island prison for those who live there. So the work continues. I look at the situation in a similar way as Dr. Biscet. God has a mission for all of us, once we feel we know what that mission is, we work at it tirelessly. When positive results come, thanks goes to Him!

BIG HOLLYWOOD: What led you to become a filmmaker?

ALLOTT: When I was in college I saw the ability film had to change people and to allow the filmmaker to really express himself. I was really drawn to that. Having studied political science and philosophy, I saw film as an opportunity to extend my inquiries into these areas in a visual way. Film can also be very therapeutic. Challenging and inspiring an audience is a bonus.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: What would you say to aspiring filmmakers who despair that film just doesn’t make a difference?

ALLOTT: I would say that film, as much as any other mode of communication or means of expression, has the chance to directly affect change and make a difference. I feel that compared with 20 years ago the opportunities for individuals to make a difference through film and get their work shown has changed greatly for the positive. Distribution is really the key. The changing trends in distribution has allowed individuals outside the mainstream to get their work in the hands of viewers who are looking for something different, something unique and inspiring.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: You’ve named your production company In Altum Productions. Could you tell us what that means?

ALLOTT: “In Altum” is Latin for “into the deep.” Jesus Christ commanded his disciples, and thus all of us, to “go out into the deep to become fishers of men.” Sometimes the world, like a large body of water, can be a scary and overwhelming place. But we are commanded to set aside our fear and overcome this challenge for Him and each other. This is one of the goals of In Altum Productions, to take on projects and subject matter that is challenging, both to the filmmakers involved and the audience.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: What is your next project?

ALLOTT: I am currently editing a new project focusing on the youth of Cuba, their involvement in the opposition, as well as their daily joys and sadness. It was shot in January of 2011 and has a “day in the life” type feel as we follow a number of young people during their daily activities. It has a very difficult look than Oscar’s Cuba, but should compliment it well. We hope to have it finished by mid-May, 2011.

BIG HOLLYWOOD: Anything else you’d like to say?

ALLOTT: No, I think I am all set. Thanks, Joe!

Enter Mr. Wikileaks, Julian Assange.

Any enemy of America has a friend in Michael Moore and what better way to get a little ink and feel the warm glow of those MSNBC studio lights than to post part of Julian Assange’s bail and offer up his own website as an outlet for any and all of this brave truth-tellers leaks. But because there’s a God and because He is a good and noble God with a delicious sense of humor, the best laid plans of rat and liar have just completely blown up in Michael Moore’s face — twice in a single week.

For starters,  in his knee-jerk zeal to defend America’s enemies, Moore brought a public relations nightmare down on his and host Keith Olbermann’s head late last week, earning the label “rape apologist” even from many of his own fans after dismissing some pretty serious rape charges against Assange as nothing more than ”hooey.” 

Then — just when you thought it couldn’t get any better — Moore’s own hero dropped this bomb on the anti-American director regarding his 2007 documentary “Sicko.”

 All hail Wikileaks:

Cuba banned Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” favourable picture of Cuba’s healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a “popular backlash”, according to US diplomats in Havana.

The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.

But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so “disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room”.

Castro’s government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it “knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them.”

Whether or not this is true, we don’t know — at least for now. (Rumors about “Sicko” being banned in Cuba aren’t anything new. Lacking the sex appeal of Wikileaks, they just weren’t given much attention until now.)

But the result is that for the second day in a row, Micheal Moore is over at the HuffPo playing Wikileaks’ defense, claiming the leaked “Sicko” cable was nothing more than Cuba telling the world what it wanted to hear and that “Sicko” was in fact broadcast on Cuban television. But Moore’s mouth is moving, so who knows. When it comes to truthfulness, asking us to choose between Michael Moore and a murderous Communist government is asking too much.

While the irony here is is so obvious one need not point it out, I’m still going to. Moore bailed this scumbag out of jail, hailed him as some sort of brave truth teller and now Moore’s the one whose reputation is taking a harsher beating than anyone in the American government he so despises. It’s Michael Moore who’s having to explain himself, not the NSA or CIA. 

And this just one day after Moore was forced to again hit the HuffPo in a desperate attempt to talk his way out of that hearty helping of rape apologia he cooked up for his hero Assange in what was such a disastrous appearance on “Countdown” for both Moore and his host that Keith Olbermann’s been forced to suspend his Twitter account to avoid the only kind of outrage the former sportscaster can’t deal with — outrage from his own supporters.

Michael Moore: Rape Apologist.

Michael Moore: A socialist liar whose propaganda is so out there even murderous Communist dictators don’t believe it.

It must be true, Wikileaks told me so.

There just isn’t enough popcorn in the world.

After an eternity, the gorgeous, young boobs leave and I resume my tale, ” …the greatest thing about this crucial moment in history is the fact that I am meeting the greatest people on earth…David Saucedo was in jail three years ago…he met Jesus, had an about-face and is now a Christian conservative rapper on the Tea Party Express IV.  

His new rapper name is Polatik.  He owns a construction company and runs a ministry in Waco, TX.  Spending two days with him is like being at a 48 hour Bible study.  He can’t stop talking about his new faith, his new life, his recent reading of the Federalist papers and The Constitution, the Bible, his new wife and two babies…one of which has leukemia.  Yes, Lianna has leukemia and is getting chemo right now and losing her hair.  David is trusting God for her healing. He shows me her picture on his I Phone. He put his life and now, his precious daughter’s life into his Father’s hands.  He is vibrant and real and shimmering with enthusiasm for helping others and helping our country get back on track.”  I’m glowing just from being near him.  Paul nods. We both think about Romans 8:28.

The beautiful 20 year old breasts return and I am distracted from my story again.  My husband pretends not to notice the breasts. The owner of the breasts places our food on the table.  I notice her third button has been strategically unbuttoned.  I clear my throat and continue, “Paul, I sent my letter to the Miami Herald.  Do you want to read it?”  Paul knows he must pay attention to me so he pushes his plate aside, slowly places his glasses on his nose and reads…

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October 14th, 2010

Dear Gloria Estefan,

Miami is my hometown.  When I was born at Hialeah Hospital in 1959, you were 2 years old and moving here from Cuba, to escape Communism. America and its freedom, free enterprise and capitalism gave you the opportunity to become a superstar, to be financially and vocationally successful.  

America is now under siege by a Marxist, progressive, leftist, radical, socialist, communist dictator drunk with power.  His name is Obama. You invited him to your home on April 15, 2010, for a Democratic fundraiser.

1. His parents were communists. His grandparents were communists. His childhood mentor Frank Davis was a communist.
2. He had “Marxist professors.” He taught a class on Saul Alinsky whose book “Rules for Radicals” is dedicated to Lucifer.
3. His college records are sealed.
4. He claims to be a Christian yet ridicules Scripture, denies Jesus is the only way to salvation, supports partial-birth abortion and attended a church for 20 years pastored by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who did not teach Christianity but “Black Liberation Theology,” which is Marxism disguised as religion.
5. He is friends with radicals and communists like William Ayers and has appointed many of them to positions of power – Sunstein, Jarrett, Van Jones, etc. 
6. He told Joe the Plumber on the campaign trail that his philosophy was to “spread the wealth.” This is a direct quote from “The Communist Manifesto” written by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels.
7. When he entered office he immediately took over the banks, the auto industry, health care (by bribery) and is intent on ending freedom of speech on the Internet, radio and TV by fees and fines. He is intent on using the myth of human-caused global warming to usurp control over our energy by Cap ‘n Tax, which would limit the number of minutes we take a shower and the kind of light bulbs we use.
8. His arrogant, excessive spending, with his stimulus laws and over-taxation, is destroying our economy, the middle class and our children’s future quality of life. 

You had the audacity to invite this communist over to your home to raise money for the Democratic Party, which is controlling Congress and giving him unlimited power to achieve his goal of making our once-free country a welfare state, just like the Cuba you left. You are either uninformed, ignorant or crazy. 

Estudio Espanol dos anos en mi escuela secundario, y I think you are loco en la cabeza. I ask my Cuban friends and neighbors what happened to you. Don’t you remember where you came from?  Your father in a Cuban communist jail? They shake their heads sadly. You spit on the free country that gave you the American Dream.  

I urge you to educate yourself on what is happening in America today.  Nov. 2 is the most serious vote of our nation’s history.  We will vote in either liberty or tyranny. How can you vote in tyranny when your family and friends risked their lives on rafts to escape it?  

I don’t understand you.  

Sincerely,  

Victoria Jackson (“Saturday Night Live” cast member 1986-1992 because of capitalism/freedom)

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Paul takes his glasses off, places the letter carefully to the side and moves his lunch plate in front of him.

I say, “So, what do you think?”  Paul says, “It’s confrontational.”

I am doing all I can to inform my fellow Americans.  I spent the first 50 years of my life ignoring the political system.  Ignorance is bliss.  I awakened to find a horror movie playing out in Washington, D.C.  It’s never too late to fix a broken relationship.  Let’s vote Nov. 2.  Let’s be informed voters, not emotional voters.  I’m talking to you, my friends D, M, K, B, B and B.  Don’t brag that you have to vote Democrat because you’ve always been a Democrat and will die a Democrat. News flash.  The meaning of the word “Democrat” has changed along with the meaning of the word “hot/sexy,” “fat/phat,” “gay/happy” and “Republican.”  Everything has shifted left.  When you say, “Democrat,” it now means “Socialist/Communist.”  ”Republican” means “Democrat.”  But, forget labels. Care about facts, reality, truth and the future of our children.

Our waitress returns with our check and I force my eyes to look past her cleavage and into her eyes.  I smile and realize there is a soul under that chest and… she is a potential conservative voter.

Save the Castroite Terrorist-Murderer! has become Danny Glover’s latest cause, though he words it a bit differently.  The Cuban convict Gerardo Hernandez, who Glover visited in jail last week, “has been unjustly imprisoned,” asserts Glover. “His sentence is unusually harsh,” bemoans Glover while reciting his Castro-propaganda ministry handout

“His crime was simply acting in self-defense of his sovereign nation, and his family,” anguishes Glover before the cameras, shortly before the “Cut!” and the whoops and high-fives from the Castroite director and film-crew.

Leave Gerardo ALONE! wails Danny Glover, in a manner to shame Chris Crocker himself.  Glover also echoes his Cuban case-officers in accusing U.S. jailers of visiting horrific torture upon Hernandez.

Below please find a few items that somehow didn’t make the final cut of Danny Glover’s Castroite videos and press releases:

On September 14, 1998, the FBI uncovered a Castro spy ring in Miami and arrested ten of them. Four others managed to scoot back to Cuba. These became known as the “Wasp Network,” or “The Cuban Five” in Castroite parlance. According to the FBI’s affidavit, the convicted Castro-agent who Danny Glover champions was engaged in, among other acts:

• Gathering intelligence against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead, Fla.
• Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command’s top officers, along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica.
• Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command.
• Sending letter bombs to Cuban-Americans.
• Spying on McDill Air Force Base, the U.S. armed forces’ worldwide headquarters for fighting “low-intensity” conflicts.
• Locating entry points into Florida for smuggling explosives.

Danny Glover’s poster-boy also infiltrated the Cuban-exile group Brothers to the Rescue, who flew unarmed planes to rescue Cuban rafters in the Florida straits, also known as “the cemetery without crosses.” The estimates of the number of Cubans dying horribly in the “cemetery without crosses,” run from 50-85,000. Brothers to The Rescue risked their lives almost daily, flying over the straits, alerting and guiding the Coast Guard to any balseros, and saving thousands of these desperate people from joining that terrible tally. (Prior to the Glorious Revolution, by the way, Cuba took in more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., including the Ellis Island years.)

By February of 1996 Brothers to The Rescue had flown 1,800 of these humanitarian missions and helped rescue 4,200 men, women and children. That month Danny Glover’s current cause célèbre’ passed to Castro the flight plan for one of the Brothers’ humanitarian flights over the Cemetery Without Crosses.

With this info in hand, Stalinist Cuba’s Top Guns, saluted and sprang to action. They jumped into their MIGs, took off and valiantly blasted apart (in international air space) the lumbering and utterly defenseless Cessnas. Four members of the humanitarian flights were thus murdered in cold blood.

Three of these men were U.S. citizens, the other a legal U.S. resident.  Among the murdered was Armando Alejandre Jr., who came to the U.S. at age ten in 1960.  His first order of business upon reaching the age of 18 was fulfilling his dream of becoming a U.S. citizen. His next was joining the United States Marine Corps volunteering for service in Vietnam. He returned with several decorations. As a member of Brothers to the Rescue Alejandre often dropped flowers over the sea, in memory of the thousands they’d been unable to rescue in time. A man with a weapon or with both hands free to fight has always palsied Castro with fright. The notion of Fidel Castro facing a U.S. Marine in combat mode is simply laughable, in a pathetic sort of way. So Castro waited for Armando Alejandre Jr and his Brothers to be carrying flowers–and made his move, murdering them in cold blood. MIGs against Cessnas, cannon and rockets against flowers.

This is a Castro specialty. In high school Fidel got into an argument over a debt (he was always a deadbeat) with a schoolmate named Ramon Mestre, who pounded him like a gong. Fidel cried uncle and slunk away whimpering that he’d go fetch the money he owed Ramon.

Instead he came back with a cocked pistol, hoping to surprise and murder the unarmed Mestre, who’d already gone home. There’s your gen-you-wine Fidel in all his macho splendor. He does have a long memory however. Six months after he grabbed power, Castro had his goons grab Senor Mestre, who then suffered 20 years in Castro’s dungeons and torture chambers. 

The premeditated atrocity against Alejandre and his brothers is what added the “manslaughter” and “conspiracy to commit murder” charges (on top of the ones listed above, 26 charges total) against Danny Glover’s most recent propaganda assignment from Fidel Castro.

Regarding prison-related tortures, here’s Ariel Sigler Amaya, a Cuban journalist just released from Castro’s dungeons. Please note what Mr Sigler looked like upon his arrest in 2003. This arrest, by the way,  was for attempting to write things about Fidel Castro in Cuba similar to what Danny Glover says about George Bush in the U.S.

His “this” refers to the couple’s new song “Fidelity.” The song and title, they’re proud to announce, bubbled into the puppy-lovers’ consciousness during a recent pilgrimage to Stalinist Cuba, where the cheeky free-spirits and human-rights champions “saw pictures of Fidel Castro everywhere!”

Imagine that!

“I found my perfect lover, but he’s only half my age, “sings Hynde about JP Jones in another recent recording.  (Weren’t Liz Taylor and even Madonna less exhibitionist in these matters?)

At any rate, dutiful  to a maxim  more predictable than the sun setting in the west after rising in the east, champion of  Cuban Stalinism (and segregation) Chrissie Hynde was a  noisy  opponent of South African segregation. You’ll find the identical “inconsistencies” from Charles Rangel to Maxine Waters, from Danny Glover to Jack Nicholson, from Sidney Pollack to Steven Spielberg, from Francis Ford Coppola to Norman Jewison and from Ry Cooder to Bonnie Raitt.

And speaking of Bonnie Raitt, she’s not quite up to Chrissie Hynde’s exacting standards in naming improbable offspring after Stalinist (and segregationist) Fidel Castro. But the anti-apartheid and peace activist Raitt did compose a song in honor of the mass-murderer, segregationist and war-monger who came within a hair of nuking her nation.  “Say hello to my little friends!” Fidel Castro prepared to yell right before the mushroom clouds from those “Missiles of October” in October of 1962.

But don’t take it from me. Take it from his famous sidekick, “If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S., including New York City,” boasted the t-shirt icon of peaceniks and flower children in November 1962. “The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.” Che Guevara thought he was speaking “off-the-record” to Sam Russell of Britain’s Daily Worker at the time. I note that Benicio Del Toro and Stephen Soderbergh left out this surefire dramatic quote from their recent drama on Che. 

Bonnie Raitt titled her paen to the dictator who craved to incinerate her, her family and her countrymen, “Cuba is Way Too Cool!” and performed it in Fidel’s very fiefdom in March 1999 during a star-studded musical extravaganza titled “Music Bridges over Troubled Waters.”

With Woody Harrelson gyrating drunkenly beside her, the rapidly oxidizing chanteuse, she of the big red hair and the famous gray roots (even then), rasped out her ditty at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater. A beaming, waving Jimmy Buffett came on after Bonnie. Joane Osborne, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, former Police-men Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland all made the groovy scene and took the stage in turn, delighted to croon, strum and strut as guests of a regime that jailed Cuban “roqueros” en-masse. 

These Cuban “roqueros’ ” crime?  Why growing long hair, wearing blue jeans and listening to “yankee-imperialist rock music.” The testimony of one such Castroite-victim might be considered particularly noteworthy:  “In Cuba freedom is nonexistent,” the rock guitarist told Mexico’s Proceso magazine. “The regime demands submission. It persecutes all hippies, homosexuals, poets and free thinkers. It employs total repression against them.”

This “roquero” divulged the truth only because he’d managed to escape the nation-prison Bonnie Raitt, Chrissie Hynde, Jimmy Buffet, Andy Summers, etc. all herald. That escapees name is Canek Sanchez Guevara– Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s very grandson! The regime co-founded by his grandfather jailed and tortured Canek for the crime of trying to play Rock music!

A crowd of 5,000 Cubans huddled before Bonnie, Jimmy and friends that day in March ‘99, swaying and clapping. Most were Cuban Communist Party members and their families. Let’s step back and contemplate the scene: here are these troubadours for human rights. Here’s the same smarmy gang who boycotted South Africa (“I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City!” thunders Bonnie Raitt herself alongside Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Darryl Hall and scores of similar political imbeciles on the 1985 recording titled, “Artists United Against Apartheid.”)

But she’ll GLADLY play in Havana’s Karl Marx Theater and bask in the applause of an audience pledging proud fealty to the most murderous ideology in human history. Indeed she’ll happily compose a song in their honor–and all on the house!

Here’s Bonnie, Carole, Jimmy and other shrill foes of capital punishment happily crooning love songs to card-carrying members (literally!) of an ideology who’s minions shot, starved, strangled, drowned, hacked and worked to death 100 million human beings in the 20th century. According to researcher Dr. Armando Lago, many in Bonnie and Jimmy’s very audience had a hand in almost 100,000 of these murders. Here are these do-gooders playing (free-of-charge) because of an invitation from Stalinists!

These musical hipsters composed gushy odes to coolness and happiness of a nation with the highest (youth) emigration, incarceration and suicide rates on the face of the globe.

When Cuba’s suicide rate reached 24 per thousand in 1986–making it double Latin America’s average, making it triple Cuba’s pre-Castro rate, making Cuban women the most suicidal in the world, and making death by suicide the primary cause of death for Cubans aged 15-48–at that point the Cuban government ceased publishing the statistics on the self-slaughter. The figures became state secrets. The implications horrified even the Castroites.

In Fidel Castro’s fiefdom Jimmy Buffet and Bonnie Raitt proudly authored paeans to the coolness and happiness of a place that also criminalized Beatles’ and Rolling Stones’ records, and where long hair, blue jeans, and/or effeminate behavior got tens of thousands of youths yanked off the streets by secret police and herded into prison camps at Soviet bayonet-point.

“Way Too Cool!” indeed, Ms Raitt.

“OK?  And dog bites man?  So where’s the story here?”

The fundraiser at the $10 million Biscayne Bay island estate of internationally-acclaimed and multiple Grammy-winning pop-star Gloria Estefan featured a $30,400 a couple “cocktail party” that helped raise $2.5 million for the Democratic Party!

….. “OK,…. and?”

Obama’s hostess at the posh event, Gloria Estefan, is Cuban-American!

…… “OK…and?”

The Fundraiser has raised a ruckus in South Florida of such proportions that even the Associated Press and Reuters are reporting the details!

……….. “Hunnnh?…. But why?  Isn’t such behavior perfectly typical—indeed, almost obligatory—for folks in her line of work?”

OK, a little background might help. Exit polls show that Cuban-Americans voted against Obama by the highest margins—and by far—of any U.S. ethnic group, including “anglos.” We’re going on almost 50 years of their exile but not all the King’s Horses nor all the King’s Men have been able to bring Cuban-Americans around to follow the lead of the majority in their adopted country and register Democratic. Even with the third generation registering to vote, a measly 13 per cent of these incurably obtuse and unenlightened people register with America’s majority political party. This is the most diminutive Democratic registration of any ethnic group in the U.S. And 72% of these obviously incurable reactionaries are registered with America’s minority party (Republican).  This is the highest for any ethnic group in the U.S.

“Wow!  I didn’t know that…Now, why is that?”

In brief:  What we hear from Democrats sounds too much like a lite version of what we (or our parents and grandparents) fought against and suffered from in Cuba.

Even worse, the legacy of being used, swindled and cast away like an empty wrapper or otherwise “mislead” by snickering Democrats weighs heavily on Cuban-Americans. .

“If we have to get rid of these men, it is much better to dump them in Cuba than in the United States, especially if that is where they want to go.” That was JFK finally rationalizing his (tardy) go-ahead for the Bay of Pigs invasion. (49 years ago this very week, btw.)  Not what you’d call a “Churchillian” send-off  for a fight against Stalinists who jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin himself, murdered more political prisoners than Hitler’s regime pre-ware, and  who the following year threatened the U.S. with Nuclear obliteration. Gloria Estefan’s father was among those “dumped” by JFK, by the way.  For details of the entire Bay of Pigs swinishness and betrayal see here.

More disappointing for many is that “Our Gloria” had traditionally comported herself above and apart from the typical hypocrisy and grandstanding of the celebrity herd.  Note how many in the Cuban-American community traditionally referred to her: “our Gloria.” If you know any Spanish you’ll notice the term can refer to her personally as well as translate into “our glory.” Many of her millions of fans identified with her penniless-refugee-from Castroism-to riches Cinderella story, which spoke to (and for) many in that community, and grabbed them by their hearts.

The media reports “rage” among Cuban-Americans for the Estefan’s “betrayal.” But it’s really more of a hurt at their error. Val Prieto of Babalu blog is among the harshest critics of the Estefan fundraiser. But as he explained it recently to the Associated Press:

“They represented our community with much dignity and class throughout their entire career. But now I’m disappointed…It just leaves a real bad taste in my mouth and in among a lot of the people in the community.”

Contributing to the glory, Gloria’s late father was a military hero. As-mentioned, he volunteered for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and was wounded during the desperate battle against overwhelming Soviet firepower. A few years later he volunteered for two tours of duty in Viet-Nam and was wounded again. He died a lingering death (Agent Orange was suspected) while nursed by his loving and devoted daughter.

Imagine how the typical leftist celebrity Diva might have parlayed that tragedy into some America-bashing! 

Gloria Estefan would have none of that. Instead she again caused her fan’s hearts to swell, and many eyes to dampen. “My whole family paid a heavy price for freedom,” she explained. “My father fought for those freedoms both in Cuba and in Viet-Nam..I’m not about to let anyone stomp on his ideals..How can I forget what Communism did to my country and my family?”

Well, in the view of many, that’s precisely what she’s forgotten, as evidenced by the fundraiser. After all, the Democrat she hosted and funded weren’t exactly Harry Truman or Scoop Jackson. Bill Ayres, Van Jones, Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, etc.—the list of Obama’s Castrophile “acquaintances” is awfully long.  No one questions the Estefan family’s right to host a U.S. President, for goodness sakes, or begrudges their pride in doing so. Many simply question whether, in light of the Democratic record with regards to Castro, and their currently Socialist (by any dictionary definition of the term) domestic agenda, helping raise $2.5 million for them makes sense for someone with her background.

In his book Spirit of Enterprise George Gilder titled a chapter, The Cuban Miracle. “No other immigrant group so quickly and successfully transformed a city, while achieving such multifarious business breakthroughs as the fugitives from Castro’s regime who made Miami their home after 1960.”

Will a flurry of entrepreneurism like the one that propelled the Estefans and so many of their fellow refugees to prosperity be possible under the enterprise-stifling conditions Obama and the Democrats are installing at breakneck speed? Many doubt it. We greatly admire your climb to the top, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, and wish it upon many others. But your fundraiser is helping those who traditionally pull up the ladder after themselves.