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MSNBC’s ‘Lean Forward’ Ad Unwittingly Alludes to Communist 'Great Leap Forward,'
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Posted on 03/18/2013 7:02:09 PM PDT by chessplayer

MSNBC’s newest ad features weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry unwittingly -- or at least one hopes-- referencing the Communist Chinese economic program known as the “Great Leap Forward” which left an estimated 18-45 million Chinese dead. The 30-second ad featuring Ms. Perry is narrated as follows:

No fight began just in the years preceding victory. The struggle for civil rights didn’t begin in the 1950s. African-Americans had been demanding representation since the 1880s. Women didn’t just start fighting for the vote in the 1920s. That began at the founding of this country. Immigrants to this country have been since its founding fighting for safe and legal status. It’s a change in the political climate that creates the moment for that great leap forward. The time has come. [See video after jump. MP3 audio here.]


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; communists; coup; forward; greatleapforward; leanforward; melissaharrisperry; mslsd; msnbc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; progressiveagenda
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Lean forward... fall on face.


21 posted on 03/19/2013 4:58:30 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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