What do Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover, Chevy Chase, Norman Mailer and Naomi Campbell have in common?
They're all charter members of the Fidel Castro fan club.
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Appearing on the Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" Tuesday night, author Humberto Fontova detailed the Castro-loving proclivities of America's literati-glitterati class, as described in his new book, "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant."
Fontova laid the groundwork for why the "Hollywood pinheads," as O'Reilly called them, think Castro is so great: because Castro is "the cool anti-American."
And, as we all know, Hollywood is a firm protectorate of the 'blame America first' crowd.
Fontova added, "Those guys [Castro and his revolutionaries] came down from the hills in 1959 with long hair, with beards ... and they still have a coolness cachet."
Always wanting to be "hip" and "cool," it comes as no surprise, then, that there is no shortage of Tinseltownwers who have offered bon mots for the brutal dictator:
Unfunny funnyman Chevy Chase praised Castro's totalitarian brand of governance, noting: "Socialism works. I think Cuba proves that."
Actor Danny Glover called President Bush "a racist" for not lifting the four-decades-old U.S. trade embargo of Cuba, and signed a letter of support as recently as two weeks ago.
Jesse Jackson hailed Castro as "the most courageous politician I have ever met" - before raising his arm and yelling, "Viva Fidel!"
Writer Norman Mailer gushed that Fidel was "the first and greatest hero to appear in the world since the second World War."
Even airhead supermodel Naomi Campbell cooed that meeting the mass-murdering dictator was "a dream come true."
Jackson's and Glover's support for Castro is particularly offensive, noted Fontova.
"The longest- serving black political prisoner of the last century was not Nelson Mandela," he told O'Reilly. "His name is Eusebio Penalver. He is a Cuban who served his time in Castro's gulag."
O'Reilly said, "I wonder if Danny [Glover] knows that.
Fontova said, "I wonder if Jesse Jackson knows that."
O'Reilly summed up perfectly: "They don't care."
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