Who said this?
“Just because Che became a chic brand for the capitalism he tried to destroy, it doesn’t mean he’s worth honoring on Galway Bay.”
Maureen Dowd said it.
I kid you not!
She said it in her column Gaelic Guerrilla (h/t Babalu),
Cameron hopes the city council takes the memorial matter up soon. Meanwhile, he sees the totalitarian rainbow. “The ultimate fruit of all this is that Che will be known as having the Irish blood and the Galway connection,” he says. “And that is an achievement in itself.”
Certainly Cameron is checking out Pol Pot’s genealogy, in case someone from Galway turns up.
Prior files on the proposed monument to Che here.
