Posted on 10/16/2009 3:19:34 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron
White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
"The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me," Dunn told CNN.
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Man, I'm glad she cleared that up, I was a bit concerned there for a while.
they flinched.
The Mao quote wasn’t the issue. The issue was that she named Mao as one of her favorite political philosophers.
Typical lying liberal defending herself against an attack that was never made.
Dunn’s response amounts to a “Tsk, tsk.”
BS, That lady spoke to those high school seniors with conviction in her voice. She’s not fooling me and I dare say anybody else on FR who’s heard it.
Beck’s getting into your little Marxist head and life, is he? Choke on it, commie!
It’s ALWAYS someone elses fault.
Democrat/socialist Responsibility is only for good things,
bad things are the oppositions responsibility.
And yet, the RED PHONE never rang.....
How odd..... /sarc
Typical lib response...blame somebody else for your own actions. What a POS!
I didn’t hear any quote of a quote made by someone else quoting Mao. All I heard was her say Mao was one of her favorite political philosophers. That was enough for me.
I do not believe her.
Plagiarist.
How convenient for her. to say she got it from a man who id dead.
She sure had amazing detail about Mao for something she read back in the 80s.
She is, like them all, a lying POS
Two days and teams of interns running Lexi-Nexis searches.
Mao Tse Dunn.
First of all, let’s see the proof of what Atwater actually said.
Second of all, so was she being sarcastic about Mother Teresa?
“The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa “
She WAS a Carter staffer- read her bio
The fact that the Whor* House is in an on going argument with radio/tv talk show host is too funny, sad but too funny.
These people in the WH are light weights.
Really wanna cringe , read the ‘comments’ on the site this story comes from. And I’m gonna do myself the favor of actually looking up whether Lee Atwater uttered the same Mao quote in the same context. Yeah, Anita Dunn, you may have more than your “progressive friends” mad at you.
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