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Glenn Beck showed an absolutely damning video of Anita Dunn on his show yesterday. As everyone knows, she is the White House communications director who has declared war on Fox News. The video shows Dunn giving a speech in which she highlights the two most important political philosophers shaping her outlook on politics: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa. The first ?political philosopher? Dunn is praising was a tyrannical dictator who imprisoned, tortured, and killed millions of his own people. In fact, it is estimated that the Chinese Communists ? led, inspired, and controlled by Mao ? have killed 65 million Chinese citizens since 1949 through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Gulag system of slave-labor prisons (the ?Laogai? system) that Mao implemented.

Imagine what would happen if a White House communications director cited Adolf Hitler as one of her favorite political philosophers. Not only would it be an above-the-fold, front-page story in every major newspaper in the country, but there would also be outraged howls in the editorial pages. Mao killed more people than Hitler ? they were two of the three worst mass murderers of the 20th century (the third being Joseph Stalin). However, the revelation of Dunn?s comments will probably be greeted by the mainstream media with a big collective yawn.
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Given Obama's past associations, should we be surprised to find Communists in his administration?

There is obviously a lot of ignorance out there in the voting public.

 

Being ruled by Communists should help eductae them.

Mao's a great philosopher.  If you want to understand how to run an insurgency, Mao's the guy.  Actually running a government, not so much.  Better off with Locke or Franklin or Mill or...oh wait.  Those are all dead white guys, so they're not important.

 

Actually, she's probably never even read Mao.  She just said that because she remembers one of her college profs saying something about Mao, so she's trying to be trendy.  Personally, I'd go with a Che shirt.  That's very hip these days.

 

Either that, or it's all a conspiracy.  Obama must get his czars into the Oval Office every morning and say, "Folks, let me be perfectly clear.  This administration isn't a success unless we can get Glenn Beck's head to actually explode like that dude in Scanners.  So say something unbelievably stupid today."

 

Her previous career was as a Democratic political consultant, not a showbiz figure. I suspect she's not only read Mao, she's heard of the body count attributed to Mao.

 

Imagine what would have happened to a Republican staffer if he had said that his favorite philosopher was Hitler. Imagine what would have happened to the GOP's reputation...

Well, we know the GOP loves the religious strictness of Islam, but calls it "good family values".  But I doubt Anita Dunn has read any real Mao stuff, Chinese people probably fill her with fake Mao sayings when she goes there. 

 

Chinese people will fill a visitor's head with BS stories about what Mao or someone else did or said.  Like Mao swimming across the Yangtze when his only daily activities were eating, screwing pre-teens and being carried in a sedan chair.

 

Not exactly a good training regimen for swimming across that river. If you were to ask someone what season when he did it, they'd probably say "springtime" just to elaborate on the difficulty.

 

GOP love for Islam? You must mean the love that made Bush the most hated American president in the Islamic world.

 

 

A political operative who knows nothing about Mao? If Buchanan had said his favorite philosopher was Hitler, who would accept as an explanation the statement that he knew nothing about Hitler?

I heard that story too, from a Chinese professor.  He kind of halfway grinned when he said it; I don't think he believed it either, but some of the other profs nodded sagely and remarked on Mao's commitment to physical fitness.  Well, yeah, I suppose the survivors of the Long March probably were pretty physically fit.  As I recall, however, Mao didn't look like he missed any meals.

 

That aside, I'm trying to remember when the GOP started saying that women should be barefoot, pregnant, and wearing burqas, and that anyone who opposes the GOP's agenda should have their heads chopped off.  I'm also trying to remember when the GOP said something about "death to the Jews."  Oh wait.  That's probably because they haven't. 

 

For that matter, neither have the Democrats, though if Ms. Dunn is familiar with Mao's sayings, she probably knows the one about power and guns.  Which scares me a little.  I'd be far happier with her being an idiot who heard something about Mao while smoking a bong in the sorority. 

 

And what's up with putting Mother Teresa and Mao in the same sentence?  Mother Teresa would totally kick Mao's fat ass.

Some sources reported that Anita "Mao my favorite philosopher" Dunn resigned yesterday. The guy who took over the office seems to be a very young insider of Obama's political team. Not sure what's going on there, but it seems that Rahm Emanuel now has even more influence.

Speculation.

 

Apparently Dunn was only an interim appointment, but I think it's a safe bet that, with the Kill Fox News campaign going very badly for Obama and her comments on Mao, it became really interim really fast.

 

If you hadn't been able to accuse Mao of "show trials", you'd be accusing him of "secret trials."

 

Nobody in China says the guy was perfect. Some do note however that between the time the Brits forced China to legalize nationwide sales of opium up until 1949 when Mao took power, the national population had fallen by 40 million. By 1953, drug addiction was gone: the big dealers had fled to Taiwan with Chiang, those who stayed were shot, jailed or sent to rehab along with mainstream addicts. The population went from 450 million in 1949 to 1,300 million today. How many lives did that save and enable? Free education became a fact too. So did "barefoot doctors", essentially paramedics trained to treat the most common killer diseases and refer the rest. Nobody mentions the saved lives.

 

And then you drag out Hitler and Stalin, today's favorite patsies for smearing somebody you happen not to know much about.

 

Have a great day Zhang! 

 

 

 

 

Oh, sure, Mao was a great thing for China.  Aside from 22 million people who starved to death during the Great Leap Forward, anyway. (Those are official Chinese government stats, by the by.  Western historians stop guessing at twice that number.) 

 

You're right, though...it's not correct to compare Mao to Hitler.  Hitler only killed 12 or 14 million in the Holocaust. 

 

Yeah, right. Mao's great achievement in eradicating opium abuse in China, which was after he took power. Before that happened, he ordered massive plantation of poppy flower and opium production in NW China and smuggled it all over China, which was the way he funded his army before and during WW2. He doesn't really care about opium abuse among Chinese, but rather as a measure to prevent other people from accumulating wealth and power through drug trade, like HE DID.

 

On the country,  Chinese Nationalists, or KMT,  have adopted gradual and nonviolent means to reduce drug abuse in China. One of the ideology by Sun Yet-San is to eradicate drug abuse. Calling them the big dealer is the biggest lies spread by commies.