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Anita Dunn: Why is being a fan of Mao more acceptable than being a fan of Hitler?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 15th, 2009 at 11:31 PM  | 

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Following up on Moe’s post you just cannot parody these Obama appointees.

Anita Dunn is Barack Obama’s Communications Director.

She tried starting a war with Fox News that left even leftwing commentators scratching their heads calling Obama a wimp. Claiming that Fox News is part of the right wing echo chamber, Dunn ran to CNN to complain about Fox News not offering sexual favors to Obama like . . . well . . . CNN and the other networks.

How dare it maintain its integrity!?!

Well, thanks to our friend Glenn Beck, we have Anita Dunn on tape declaring her favorite philosopher is Mao — the Chinese Hitler. Mao led the communist revolution in China and became China’s dictatorial and insanely paranoid leader.

Hitler sought to exterminate a whole race of citizen. Mao decided to exterminate all of his citizens, or at least significant classes of citizenry, driving many to suicide to avoid ritualistic violence at the hands of Mao’s red brigade. Mao’s response? “China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”

Mao’s political and philosophical writings read like Hitler’s Mein Kampf. He drove the educated classes to starvation. Kids were put in charge of adults. Educated workers were forced to work in fields. He fostered a cult of personality that affects China even today.

She describes Mao as not just her favorite political philosopher, but one of the “two people I turn to most.” The other, tragically or humorously depending on your frame of mind, being Mother Teresa. I can bet you that between the two it is not Mother Teresa who Anita Dunn looks to for guidance on abortion policy.

How in God’s name is it acceptable for the woman in charge of the White House’s communications shop to declare Hitler her favorite philosopher? The answer is that it is not. Why then is Mao acceptable?

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  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamgainey billg

    Chairman Mao had his “little Red Book”. Did you ever read any of his “little Red Book”? Check it out and see if you can agree with his philosophy like poor Anita Dunn does! As Anita said about Mao, go get your own war?
    We need our troops home in the USA to take care of all of Chairman Mao’s followers!

  • revivefederalism

    This obviously doesn’t morally justify it, but the same party is still in power in China. Can you imagine Hitler’s corpse on display in Berlin? How about Angela Merkel’s government making a propaganda film praising Hitler? Can you imagine a modern Germany in which criticism of Hitler could land you in a secret prison?

    Where are the stories of escapees who met their former tormentors living a new life in the United States, and then turned them in for prosecution? There have been no war crimes trials held at the Hague for military police who ran concentration camps in China. Even if an outside military force had toppled Mao’s government to stop its crimes, China is too large and linguistically inscrutable for it to be practical for trials in international courts.

    As a nation, they have not held themselves to account in the same way as Germany. I could delve into the differences between societies that have individual versus collective senses of honor, but I’ll leave it at this. In order to preserve China’s standing in the world, they do not admit or seek to atone for the crimes against themselves. As long as those outside the group do not know negative things, there’s no need to admit them.

  • http://norunnyeggs.com steveegg

    Either Iosif Stalin was right when he said that the greater the number killed, the less likely it is that it is an outrage, or this White House actively supports Communists.

  • GregInFla

    on glennbeckclips.com website. It’s like having a DVR. I just keep wondering when it will stop, what more we’ll find out, and of course, will that telephone ring. Glenn points out that the kids do not learn about the atrocities performed in other countries anymore. Instead, they are fed material on how bad America was, and is. Those are high-school kids that Dunn is talking to, not Harvard seniors (because those would already agree with Dunn, to some extent).

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    hey, zingy – zingy – zingy….

    Sorry, was channeling The Ghoul for a moment….

    As usual, the Liberals won’t bother to let the Inconvenient Facts of people being caught on Audio, Video, their own Words in Books they wrote, etc…. ever get in the way of their Politically Brain-dead DENIAL. Yet more of the KEEP IT UP LEFTIES you are finally proving what we’ve said all along to the few (hopefully enough) finally beginning to open their eyes and ears.

  • funnominal

    First time I read someone who I agree with.

    Let’s LOCK AND LOAD and save our bullets for Mr and Ms. Lefty here on the homefront. The civil war here is already going on isn’t it?

  • izoneguy

    Just ask Rush…..

  • ciscoguy

    The answer is twofold:

    For as ignorant as the general American electorate has become, any idiot knows who Hitler was but few know anything about Mao. Most people only really care about the prevailing sentiment irrespective of the atrocities committed by the tyrants of the world.

    Look at Iraq. By the way most liberals describe the Iraq war, you’d have think we’d have ousted a benevolent humanitarian in Saddam Hussein. Ask them to talk about the rape rooms, stealing brides off the altar, gassing the Kurds, murderous witch hunts of political dissenters, etc.,etc…they want no part of that discussion.

    Second, no media outlets but conservative blogs and maybe FNC (we’ll see) have any interest in reporting something that could lead to another Obama administration official getting ousted.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    No, I have no intention of telling you what they were.

    Shoo, moby.

  • Xasteius

    It goes back to the Kennedy administration signing off on the CIA plan to oust a pro-Soviet dictator (General Abd al-Karim Qasim) – who got the brilliant idea of nationalizing the oil industry and invading Kuwait – with Saddam Hussein, an exile from his own land.

    Typical if you ask me: liberals make the mess, conservatives clean it up, although Kennedy was quite conservative compared to the Joker in office now.

  • Third Street

    (Eight, if you count his projection.)

  • DONTTREADONME

    did anyone know why she used Mother Theresa to soften the blow in a Church (yes she was in a church) of bringing up her admiration for Mao. As Beck said, the whole shell game to move the butcher as far away as possible, but the link is still there.

  • geraldstephens

    There is NONE! You either have cash in hand or do the best one can chewing rhino horn with some DIY acupuncture in the mix..

    Anita Dunn is apparently intent on besting her sage, Mao or is it our Great Leader with Bamacare?

    It may also be that she is sucking up for a place at the table by pumping up our National Debt obligations to the Chinese.

    In any event it is comforting to know GL has such an illustrious group of the ‘knowing’ gathered about.

    Gerald Stephens
    Hartford CT

  • badnewzbearz

    is desperate and coming unhinged. I mean, Obama has the entire state-run media literally repeating his talking points, but he still launches a planned attack against the one network that will do some balanced and objective reporting.

    To Obama and this thugs, the enemy is not the Taliban and is not the Islamo-fascist regime in Iran. The enemy is you and I – conservatives who dare to stand up and tell the truth!

    As far as Dunn, if these radicals surrounding Obama keep getting exposed, one day the people still sleeping out there are gonna wake up!

  • Ausonius

    because his tens of millions of murders were in the name of a socialist paradise, i.e. to quote BIG BRObama: “It’s about fairness.”

    If you are a racist like Hitler, then killing millions is bad. But if you are a “champion of the proletariat” like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc. then “sacrifices have to be made.” The character Strelnikov, who massacres peasant villages in the name of freeing the peasantry, in “Dr. Zhivago,” epitomizes this kind of skewed thinking.

    This is also parallel with the irrational Che Guevara idolatry, another devil in the Communist pandiabolon.

    Will Anita Dunn be forced to resign like Van Jones? Or as mentioned above, does the Mother Teresa comment counter-balance Mao?

  • redpens

    and their moral equivalence. Mother Teresa is turning in her grave at Anita Dunn’s verbal idiocy. One prayed for people, one slayed 70 million of his own people. Anita Dumb should be in a mental institution
    alongside Cass Sunstein.

  • badnewzbearz

    ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC pretty much repeat Obama admin talking points when covering legislation, and they cover it like it’s a football game. You know, can Obama get this win; does Obama need to show leadership, etc.

    The biggest impact in the media since Obama’s inauguration has been by the conservative blogosphere. Andrew Breitbart made an impact with the ACORN tapes and pushed them up to Beck and Fox. Gateway Pundit also played a role in exposing Van Jones. Michelle Malkin has been all over ACORN since before the GE started.

  • throwback59

    Isn’t that what Obama said during the campaign? Well, then, he has surrounded himself with Maoists, Marxists, socialists, radical homosexuals, America haters, anti-white racists, domestic terrorists, criminals, one worlders, Clintons,
    …and worst of all, Nancy Pelosi.
    I’m sure I left a few out.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    All these wild radicals he has put into power are where he comes from. He was a far left academic just like them, then he became mired in Chicago’s corrupt party machine.

    That is what he is, an Ivory Tower radical and partisan hack.

  • conritwng

    Why don’t you add John Holgren and Mark Lloyd to the mix

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamgainey billg

    It is not about “Healthcare”, it is about gathering, grabbing, usurping, seizing, complete and total power through control of “Healthcare”. Once they control your “Healthcare” and what you can eat, the beverages you drink, they already control “student loans”, etc., etc., they have you! Please show me in the U.S. Constitution where, how and why what is being done in Congress and in the White House is valid under the Constitution. Trust but verify!

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamgainey billg

    the way we are going, there will be no 1st Amendment or any other amendments nor our Constitution. Wake up and take your blinders off! Can’t you see and understand what is going on! They are “fundamentally transforming the USA” into their own image of how thing ought to be. Words are nice be we need immediate action.

  • misterbill

    Mao was a patriot–he only killed his own people.

  • baldego

    but Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice et al weren’t talking about “stealing brides off the alter” leading up to the Iraq war. They first incorrectly suggested there was link between Iraq and 9/11 before trotting out the mushroom cloud/nuclear holocaust imagery. Don’t get me wrong…Saddaam was definitely a very very bad man who committed atrocities against his people, but it’s hard to believe the American people would have supported a full-scale war to liberate Shia muslims in Iraq.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    When he was asked by a lefty if he could find anything positive to say about Stalin, he paused a second and said, “Well he did kill a lot of communists”.

  • ecroper

    When I was young-er ,My Father would somtimes mention things about them commie so- n- so’s. He woud say they will suck you dry and then kill you or leave you to die. He would alway tell me not to do drugs cause thats one of the ways they get control of you individually. He would say that there is not one GOOD thing about them. His greatest fear was that someday they would infiltrate this Great Country and if we were all hopped up on drugs they would just take our country from us without firing a shot. I thaught to myself, there is no way this could possibly happen Not my country ,Not The United States of America. So I asked him how could this be. He said son. just dont do drugs and always stay ready and learn everything you can about your country. you will be able to tell who they are by what they believe and what they want.Tthey will want everything you have,they will want to change every thing you believe and they will want to take away your country. They will want to control you and everything about you.The worst thing is they want to take away your Freedom. Seems this is already taking place and we kn ow who they are.They arent like us. Now , lets get rid of them. Thanks Dad.
    I love you and I miss you.

  • badnewzbearz

    This Dunn tape is an example of subtle indoctrination of those kids. She presents Mao as a positive role model and puts Mao=good into their minds.

    Listening to her example though, she really sounds like an idiot. Where does Obama find these people? She states that during Mao’s mission to take over China, he was asked how he could do this against such great odds. Mao replied, “you fight your war and I’ll fight mine.” The lesson to the kids is “Do your own thing.”

    Of course she doesn’t tell these kids that in Mao’s little mission to take over China, he murdered 70 million people along the way. Then he imposed something called The Great Leap Forward that basically impoverished the people and spread tyranny and misery throughout the land. What a guy!

  • chong

    I believe that all Americans are under attack, if you believe in the Constitution and our freedoms. Democrats really have to wake up on this. Trying to control the press is our freedom of speech, when we are quiet then we can be control easily. The whole is stronger than the individual. Within this blog, I read the hate from “right wingers” to their counter part which makes me believe what I am saying even more. We have to stop the hate with our neighbors and countrymen, most of us believe in the Constitution. Don’t let a few people make you paint all oppositions the same way. “One Nation under…” that is what made this country strong.

    Message to Democrats, when your neighbors(conservatives) are beaten or eliminated, you will win but you will also be rule or govern. I might be in a paranoid state or I might be more open minded since I just got involve in this politic game.

    I am afraid our government has consider us(citizens) the enemies especially the ones that oppose them. They had successfully divided us, now they are on the move to conquer. If we all don’t start accept our neighbors with their different views (but still believe in the Constitution), then they will succeed.

  • badnewzbearz

    from January through April 2008. The fact that he was an Alinsky trained organizer, and sat in a Marxist Black Nationalist Church for 20 years really tells us all we need to know. Too bad nobody would listen and the media would basically cover its eyes when his background was mentioned.

    Now we’re facing a Marxist regime with Chicago thug politics thrown in.

  • dogcatcher1

    I mean, look at the pitiful interview she had on CNN and convince me I am wrong. Look at her twisted reasoning in selecting the people she admires most – Mao and Mother Teresa are as different as
    light and darkness. Look at the whineyface, flimsy, trumped-up accusations she made vs. FoxNews. She is UN-believable!

    I am reminded of a comment former Senator Alan Simpson made concerning some person whose name escapes me at the moment, when he said that the person was “one taco shy of a combination
    plate.” We can spare the nation of any further boring interviews by providing her with a space suit and letting her steer her rocket ship to some far-away planet.

  • badnewzbearz

    For someone new to politics, sounds like you got a pretty good handle on what we’re facing.

    But conservatism is on the ascendancy and we will stand up and fight for our country. Our founding principles of individual liberty, private property, free market capitalism, faith, limited government, the Constitution and the rule of law . . . will prevail.

  • taliesin319

    Mao had his Little Red Book and our esteemed leader seems to be without one. How did we ever let this happen ? Lets have a contest and submit designs. How about a black and white checkered cover, bright red
    pages, and yellow print. That should maintain political correctness while
    covering all the ethnic bases. The first three chapters will be comprised of the words HOPE, CHANGE, and TRANSFORMATION. All together now ,
    can you say, “YES WE CAN ? Oh and just to honor Gore he can write
    a foreward on papyrus that can be used as a really green bookmark.

  • Joshua Persons

    “They first incorrectly suggested there was link between Iraq and 9/11 …”

    False. To argue this, one would have to both misconstrue the Bush Administration’s argument for the War in Iraq, and ignore the connections that DID exist between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Just because the left misunderstood (willfully or no) the Bush Administration’s arguments doesn’t mean we have to follow along.

  • baldego

    They found “no credible link” between the Iraqi government and the terrorist attacks on 9/11. As recently as last June, Dick Cheney himself admitted as much at a National Press Club event. Sadaam, as horribly dispicable a dictator he was, was not involved in planning or executing the attacks.

  • ZZMike

    This woman is Obama’s Communications Director. Watch the YouTube video of her talk to see what a powerful and moving presenter she is.

    The other question is, since there’s already a Press Secretary, what the heck do they need a Communication Director for?

    Except maybe to give jobs to the otherwise unemployable.

  • Joshua Persons

    And you’re once again misconstruing both my argument and that of the Bush administration. You’re overstating the Bush Administration’s position and understating the connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. The Bush Administration, the 9/11 Commission Report and I all claim that there were significant if unofficial links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. None of us claim that Saddam Hussein had a direct connection with 9/11. Don’t conflate the two.

    The Bush Administration’s argument for war was that Iraq under Hussein was a state sponsor of terrorism in general and of Al Qaeda in a few instances. This sponsorship in connection with Hussein’s attempt at reinitiating his WMD program made Iraq a threat to global stability and to the American people.

    Stop arguing against the “Saddam was in on 9/11″ strawman. It’s disingenuous and deceptive.

  • Streiff

    you can peddle this lie some other place.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    No, the Bush administration never said there were direct ties to 8/11 form Saddam, their argument was really much broader. it was the following:

    1. Saddam supports terrorists, (undoubtedly true, he paid the families of hamas terrorist bombers, he had several wanted terrorists living in Iraq and he had at least one al queda cell in the north sunni zone. What part of War on Terror do you not understand

    2. We don’t KNOW if Saddam has WMD, but we cannot be sure since he threw out the inspectors. And you cannot afford to be unsure about such a thing.

    3. Saddam destabilizes the region by twice invading his neighbors.

    Therefore all these arguments lead to his ouster.

    The arguments given by the left are strawmen.

  • aesthete

    China has changed quite radically since the “glory days” of Mao and his crew: it has certainly adapted more successfully to a mixed market system than Russia. That, however, is as far as my praise of the regime there will go: it goes without saying that, though Mao is gone, his influence remains through the repression and economic serfdom inherent in Communist China.

  • aesthete

    all told. Sure, we had to go in and fix the messes that he caused, but all told, it was still a better outcome than if the Soviets had gotten their hands on the country.

  • patriciakelley

    Shame on Anita Dunn. Her admiration for Mao next to Mother Teresa is revolting.. Dunn is nothing more than an apparatchik of the White House leftist insane asylum. These people are fomenting rebellion and they ignore what is happening in the United States right now. How dare she use Mao as one she champions before high school students, in a church no less. Mother Teresa was tansparently added to assuage her audience. Mother Teresa would not want to share this spot light. She would leave this stage to Mao.

    Perhaps we should all send pictures of the millions of Chinese that where bludgeoned to death, shot in the head, left to die of hunger, hung, savagely beaten , forcing people to be machines and machine slaves, providing no wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, brutal perversion, brutal “suicides”, infanticide, quackery, demagogy, revolutions, putsches, electric chairs, sabotage, famine, diseases, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses. She admires this man! We are talking about 70 million people that are dead. My God what an pathetic example of a human being, let alone a member of the White House staff.

    The fact that she has the audacity to utter the name of Mother Teresa in the same breath is dispicable. She typifies a member of the Obama administration . They are an embarrassment to all decent law abiding American citizens.

    All you need to start an insane asylum is an empty room and provide chairs for the members of the Obama admiinistration. I rest my case.

    Patricia Anne Kelley

  • Xasteius

    Republican warmongers” historical farce that is taught in public school.

  • aesthete

    It’s rather ironic, coming from the party that took us out of isolation in WWI and WWII, and that established as a goal of foreign policy to oppose Soviet expansionism. (Not that I disagree with all of those ventures, but the Democrats have certainly been anything but inactive on the foreign policy front.)

  • jolinarofmalkshur

    This is a ploy, to excuse the traitors of the American people, like president Clinton (in most recent years) who sold state insurance bonds(public debts of USA)???(I am a financial knowledge disaster), to China, i.e. to Mao (the exterminator of the Chinese people). So, Clinton sold USA in bond-age to Mao. Exactly how Churchill and Roosevelt delivered the Eastern block countries to stalin, after WWII, to transform them in its (I do not consider stalin a human being: in the denominations set in the movie “Invitation to hell” he will be classified nonhuman malignant) private gulags and the blood money put in the Swiss bank accounts, Clintons(and Obama), RESET the relationship with Russia(i.e. KGB) and take money from Mao on the costs of the people of these 2 countries, because Russia said clearly that if Obama/USA wants friendship with Russia, they should not speak about the poor human rights record of Russia, today and, already, she-Clinton told the Chinese, when she visited them, that “USA”(i.e.Obama administration) will put aside disagreements with the Chinese. In other words, they deliver the people of these 2 countries to their tormentors: KGB and Mao. This administration wants to bring the living standard of US people to that of Russia and China and they might just succed with the help of the financial meltdown, provoked for this very purpose.
    I spoke more about these isues in my blogs:

    http://jolinaredelweiss.spaces.live.com/blog/

    http://electionsusamaccainvobama.blogspot.com/

    Ileana Eliza Paunica, London UK, born to watch movies and fight lost causes (i.e.human and animal rights). Absolute favourite Saint is St.Jude, Judas Thadeus, the patron saint of the fighters for lost causes. This reminds me of the line delivered by Jimmy Durante:”I found the lost cause”

  • jolinarofmalkshur

    How right your father was!!! Everything that you wrote above, escroper, is sooooooo true!!!!
    I was born and raised in a red terrorist dictatorship and both parents raised me as a (constitutional) monarchist and (multiparty) democrat zealot. My parents were viciously anticommunists(communism= red terrorism) and they raised me as such, with the purpose to combat the propaganda and the brainwashing which took place during the red terror years of stalin and causescu. Your father taught you well: he showed you the TRUTH.

    Ileana Eliza Paunica, aka Jjolinar of Malk-Shur

  • jolinarofmalkshur

    “It’s about fairness”. Agreed!!!! But their kind of fairness is to pauperise the rich and never mind that the poor are still poor. My kind of fairness is to elevate the living standard of the poor to the living standard of the rich. But what the red terrorists did and I suspect the Obamas will do is to lower the living standard of the rich to the living standard of the poor.

    Ileana Eliza Paunica