And the winner is........by a distance- Simon Heffer in today's Daily Telegraph.
"To wear a T-shirt with his (Che's) image on it has also seemed to me like wearing one with a picture of Hitler on it: although there is more evidence for Che's psychopathic tendencies even than of those of the Führer."
Yes, Simon is comparing a man, who even if we accept the figures of his critics, was guilty of the summary execution of "hundreds" of former supporters of the Batista regime, with a man who started a world war in which 72 million people lost their lives.
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That's not a patch on Heffer's most deranged Nazi analogy, though - when asked last year whether he'd bothered to actually watch Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley before fulminating against it, he replied:
"No, I haven't seen it, any more than I need to read Mein Kampf to know what a louse Hitler was."
That said, Che Guevara was a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work, and I'm baffled by his canonisation by people who should know better.
It just goes to show that image is everything - if that photo hadn't been taken, where would his reputation have ended up.
What happened to my first comment?
Nothing. I published it as soon as I got it.
I mean the one about Simon Heffer comparing Ken Loach to Hitler.
My mistake diarmuid- I didn't see it, I thought it just confirmation that your comment on another thread had been published.
great comment, btw. I had missed Heffer on Loach.
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