I already knew that.
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But, the thing is, Che was so absolutely incompetent in everything he did except - the one thing he succeeded at in life - the mass murder of defenseless men and boys. I remember, right after 9/11, I think Dan Rather called Osama bin Laden "the Che Guevara of Islam," and I said, I wish we could be so lucky, because then it would be a cakewalk, because Che was so completely and utterly incompetent. In fact, there is reason to believe - I spoke to some of the people who tracked Che down in Bolivia - that he was incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. And this is a man people put on a pedestal with Mao Tse Tung, the leader of the 8,000-mile Long March. You really develop a sense of humor at the imbecility of some people.
He is the Ringo Starr of revolutionaries. It has dawned on me that what I have written is actually an inspirational book and that what I give are inspirational talks. Because if Che Guevara - a coward, a sadist, an imbecile - can see his picture become the most widely reproduced picture of the century, then folks, there's hope for all of us. It is astounding that a man who was so completely worthless should become so idolized. And that only happened because he hooked up with Fidel Castro, the most effective propagandist in modern history, and he's still at it.
Yes, let's face it. If you see it from afar, his image, and you're not very knowledgeable in history - and most people in this country are not - you say, "hey, that's a cool picture, that's a cool-looking guy." And then you hear, vaguely, that he was an anti-establishment rebel and you say, "that's pretty cool." I tell kids, you know, that they may hear that Che Guevara "fought The Man, he fought The Man." No, no, no, he was The Man
