MSM Remains Incurious About Obama Volunteer With Che Guevara Flag

MSM Remains Incurious About Obama Volunteer With Che Guevara Flag

By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive)
February 14, 2008 - 09:36 ET

Imagine the uproar in the mainstream media if it had been discovered that a supporter of a Republican presidential candidate had a picture of Augusto Pinochet in his campaign office. Chris Matthews would feel a bolt of outrage running up his leg as he called upon the candidate to denounce his supporter. So what happens when a Barack Obama supporter hangs a Cuban flag with the image of Che Guevara superimposed upon it? A collective yawn from the MSM. However, this video showing a clip from a Fox News 26 report of the opening on an Obama campaign office in the Houston area has stirred up quite a bit of controversy because of that Che Guevara flag hanging on the wall.

The woman in the red pants and in the photo above is Maria Isabel who was later questioned about that Che Guevara flag. Here is the transcript of the interview but to fully appreciate her incredible squirming under pressure you need to see the video:

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REPORTER: ...flag or aware of that...

ISABEL: I don't listen to the internet. I don't watch the news. I'm sorry. I'm just on the news. I just don't watch the news.

REPORTER: Do you think it is something that has been blown out of proportion?

ISABEL: Uh, what is it?

REPORTER: The Cuban flag. Having a Cuban flag out of the office.

ISABEL: It's a distraction. I don't have time to talk about the Cuban flag. There is so much going on. This whole town is just bursting at the seams. My phone won't stop ringing. America wants a change and they really trust Obama and everyone seems to think, that I'm talking to, that Obama can bring that change and it's just awesome. It's just...I am so proud of the people of ...um, everywhere. That people are voting for...

REPORTER: In order to give yourself a chance to respond because there has been a lot of criticism out there...

ISABEL (interrupting): I don't have time to talk about the flag...

REPORTER: What is your connection to Cuba?

ISABEL: I am Cuban. I was born there. Cuban-American.

REPORTER: So do you see a problem with...

ISABEL (interrupting): I don't to talk about...I am so busy really. You want to talk about the Cuban flag? Uh...(nervous laughter)...and I am really busy. I have an appointment in about a half an hour. And I got to talk to these people here. My posse.

REPORTER: But do you realize that there are over 2000 blogs angry at you right now?

ISABEL: Uh, I don't have time to talk about that right now. And I don't pay any attention to that. I'm sorry. You know what? You need to call my publicist. There is someone in charge at cammes (?) that can talk to you about that. Okay? Got to go!

REPORTER: Do you want to apologize though?

ISABEL: Apologize about what?

REPORTER: Do you think it was a poor judgement?

ISABEL: I think this is a waste of time. That this is a...

At this point Isabel took off her mike and walked off the interview. A bit of investigation online of Maria Isabel shows her to be no mere obscure Obama volunteer who made an "error" in hanging that Che Guevara flag on the office wall. In fact, Isabel has been flying (at least until this controversy) a larger version of that Che Guevara flag from the balcony of her apartment according to the Houston-based Rice Crispy Blog:

The Che Guevara flag that is flying in the Barak Obama Houston Headquarters is no doubt the work of Maria Isabel, who I have talked alot about in this blog. She and her husband Barry Norman fought the historic preservation regulations that Old Sixth Ward residents were pushing hard for. They demolished the historic 1890 Valentine house.

...I have seen the flag flying over their apartment on Washington Avenue. You can see it from Center street.

It turns out that Maria Isabel is a real piece of work. Here is a video revealing her as a complete hypocrite in her rationale for opposing local historic preservation zoning efforts including this money quote by Isabel:

It’s wrong to try to implement restrictions in my private property. I own this piece of land. This is America. I should be able to do anything I want with it.

One wonders if Maria Isabel ever considered just how much property rights she would have had she remained in the Cuba of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.

Although the MSM continues to ignore the controversy stirred up by Maria Isabel, you can find in-depth coverage of this issue at the Babalu Blog. Once again, the blogosphere leads where the MSM fears to tread.

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

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Is there more than one office with the Flag? This picture

February 14, 2008 - 09:49 ET by Dee Bunk

looks different than the other one. Isabel is an idiot just like many of Obama's blind followers. They cling to charismatic figures like Che Guevara and Obama with no real understanding of them.

Cuba si, America no!

February 14, 2008 - 09:55 ET by pocomoco

Most probably it’s because they have the same flag hanging in their offices such as The New York Times, an unabashed supporter of Fidel Castro, even to this day.

Puzzled

February 14, 2008 - 10:25 ET by owlpellets

They are puzzled that it's even an issue. After all, expensive Che bags, shirts, and hats are all the rage on their cocktail circuit

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Doesn't have time

February 14, 2008 - 10:35 ET by ThisnThat

She constantly states she doesn't have time to discuss the flag.

Busy little bees, they are. Gotta plan the insurrection, and put together the revolution. Gotta spend quality time in her communist party "cell". Gotta make time creating the propaganda; and the protests, flag burnings, and other destructive acts in case the propaganda doesn't work. Gotta spend a lot of time dissing America's culture and values; and destroying America's traditions, histories, and institutions. Yep, outstanding citizen she is. Kinda represents the type of so-called "immigrants" America seems to be attracting these days. Sad, and disturbing.

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Che'

February 14, 2008 - 10:54 ET by Mr. Terry

Che' was a revolutionary, guilty of killing many of his own people with Fidel. What he did was criminal but I remember reading that he left Cuba when he realized that it was becoming a communist dictatorship after Fidel visited Nixon and didn't get backing from the U.S. Fidel then made friends with Krushev and the rest is history. Che' moved to Bolivia and was killed for starting revolutionary activites there.

The left cannot even conceive that a flag like that is out of the ordinary. I would really, really like to hear B. Hussein Obama specifically address this flag issue. He never says anything, have you noticed?

“A nation that cannot secure its borders is not a nation.” Ronald Reagan

YES WE CAN!

February 14, 2008 - 10:57 ET by timzank

Is all I ever hear him say. Truly a man of substance, eh?

Mr. Terry... Actually,

February 14, 2008 - 13:30 ET by futbolisgreat1

Mr. Terry...

Actually, Che Guevarra left Cuba because of a power struggle that started happening between him and Castro.

Also, he didn't leave Cuba because Castro was trying to make an alliance with the Soviet Union. Castro sent Che Guevarra to the Soviet Union to make a trade deal and arms deal with the USSR.

While Castro came to the United States after his coup of Cuba and claimed that he was going to be friends with the USA, he had sent Che Guevarra to the USSR to broker a deal with them.

El Che, this monster, was a truly an evil man, if he had the money and man power that Usama Bin Laden had during 9/11, the USA would have seen a lot of terrorist attacks carried out by Ernesto Guevarra and his terrorist friends back during the 60s.

He was full of hate, rage, anger and he murdered hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children because he believed that the ends justified the means. His end was to destroy capitalism in the world, bring down the USA and brind down any government/nation that was not communist.

His death was poetic justice.

I'm sorry if they don't want

February 14, 2008 - 11:18 ET by danbo

I'm sorry if they don't want to talk about it. But, apparent this is about who they, their candidate and their party, are.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

This is really sad, the day

February 14, 2008 - 11:28 ET by DCC1

This is really sad, the day that the American flag is disgraced and flown next to and with equal stature to a communist cuban flag with a picture of a murdering terrorist on it, IN THE CAMPAIN OFFICE OF THE FRONTRUNNER TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!

What ever happened to treason?

Terrorists want change too

Moron or bufoon?

February 14, 2008 - 11:35 ET by landshark

Her adoration of Che is even more obscene when you consider that she's Cuban-born.

Um... why, exactly, did your family leave Cuba?

She claims to be at least,

February 14, 2008 - 11:47 ET by DCC1

She claims to be at least, though I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she is lying about that. In fact I would not be a bit surprised if she is an illeagal allien. I think congress should be investigating these un-American activities more, and baseball less!

Terrorists want change too

"What he did was criminal

February 14, 2008 - 13:19 ET by Don Miguel

"What he did was criminal but I remember reading that he left Cuba when he realized that it was becoming a communist dictatorship after Fidel visited Nixon and didn't get backing from the U.S. Fidel then made friends with Krushev and the rest is history."

You remember wrong or read a bunch of crap. Che was as hard-core or even worse than Castro. He was Castro's chief executioner and liked to sign some orders as "Stalin II." You can read in Che's own words that he was a communist even before they took over. Look up what he said at the UN when he and Castro went to NYC right after they took over with their dictatorship.