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1. The picture and quote apparently were put together by Buzzle, not the EPA.
Yes...and in my OP it openly says that it was stolen from that website.
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2. There is nothing to indicate that the EPA commemorated Hispanic Heritage Month in any way, much less by honoring Che Guevara.
REALLY? Did you follow the links?
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An internal email obtained by BuzzFeed and distributed to agency employees marking the start of the celebration of Hispanic culture this Saturday, featured the above image of a horse and buggy passing a billboard of the Marxist revolutionary
Here's excerpted email content (from the link):
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To: OSWER Everyone, OPP ALL, Eugene Green/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, ORD-NCER
From: Susie Goldring/DC/USEPA/US
Date: 09/13/2012 02:51PM
Subject: Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic news you can use!
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 16, and Chile on September 18.
So it sure looks to me as if they were indeed marking the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and that the email did indeed feature that image.
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3. The picture is of a person driving a horse and buggy in front of a building with a Che Guevara mural on the wall. Pictures of Che Guevara abound in Latin America.
Ummmm...do ya think it was prudent to USE one is the question?
What patriotic capitalistic American working there at the EPA, a US Government organization, decided that was the perfect photo to top your email off with about Hispanic-American Heritage Month with one which featured Che Guevara...a mass-mudering Marxist who hated the USA?
Maybe a photo of a heroic or patriotic Hispanic doing something great for America may have been a more appropriate photo, eh?
Che Guevara wasn't some romantic figure at all you know. Many Hispanics in the USA today probably have relatives who could tell you they fled from Che and his type TO America to get away from them!!
But this shows you the type of people we have heading the EPA under Obama.
Grandparents of Hispanic Americans who fled from Che and other Marxist murderers....you don't think they've told their stories to their heirs?
And their heirs are now Americans, grew up in the U.S., educated in the U.S., and generally have little interest in that history. The grandchildren now are much less conservative.
Yes...and in my OP it openly says that it was stolen from that website.
REALLY? Did you follow the links?
Here's excerpted email content (from the link):
So it sure looks to me as if they were indeed marking the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and that the email did indeed feature that image.
Ummmm...do ya think it was prudent to USE one is the question?
What patriotic capitalistic American working there at the EPA, a US Government organization, decided that was the perfect photo to top your email off with about Hispanic-American Heritage Month with one which featured Che Guevara...a mass-mudering Marxist who hated the USA?
Maybe a photo of a heroic or patriotic Hispanic doing something great for America may have been a more appropriate photo, eh?
Che Guevara wasn't some romantic figure at all you know. Many Hispanics in the USA today probably have relatives who could tell you they fled from Che and his type TO America to get away from them!!
But this shows you the type of people we have heading the EPA under Obama.
From your link: UPDATE: An EPA spokesperson sends this statement on the email:
"The email was drafted and sent by an individual employee, and without official clearance. Shortly after sending the email in question the individual apologized to her colleagues for the inadvertent error."
Now unknot your knickers and get on to posting your next made-up, overblown accusation.
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