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.
That was pretty sneaky of Beck to get a Dunn look and sound alike. He even got the whole school to reenact the speech listing to his words through the puppet impostor. Glad she cleared that up. I didn’t think anybody could really be that much of a moron. /sarcasm
This is actually good, because while even not using the "Beck Red Phone" (a BRILLIANT ploy by the Good Guys I might add), the White House has stepped into the trap by responding. Now we can punch holes in what they said and search for additional evidence, which will emerge, connecting this high Obama aide to Mao Zedong Thought. This is how we brought down Van Jones. It did not happen with the first swing, we needed the first denial out of the White House to then go on to show them up as liars. Had they not responded at all, that would have made our work more difficult. Now it will be a cake-walk. Here is where I am going:
Unfortunately for them, they are in a corner in one critical area regarding her comments, which they are conveniently ignorning but from which they cannot escape. I devoted another thread to it. And it is this.
Anita Dunn could get away with this, calling it a "joke" or "tongue in cheek" (in her case, the snake tongue makes quite an appearance). This would work if she had only stopped when she said that she considered Mao Zedong as one of her two favorite political philosophers. Here is where she screwed up:
She THEN went on to CONTEXTUALIZE her like or respect of Mao as a philosopher. She referenced him, in a specific historic context. Her point to the students was clearly that "even if your back is up against the wall, no matter what the odds, you can be sure if you stick to it you will suceed, such as the case of Mao Zedong". She then rolled out the specific year 1947 and illustrated his internal political problems within the Communist Party. This speficially represents the year that Mao begin major purges within his Party to gain complete control, these were carried out through murder, assassinations, and further he also strongly ramped up political violence in the areas seized by his Communists from the Nationalists in 1947. THAT IS WHY ANITA DUNN SAID "IN 1947". By it, she SPECIFICALLY contextualized her relationship with Mao, in that she is in awe or somehow considers Mao's political activity against odds even within his own Party, as worthy of attention or note. Again, that engendered some of the bloodiest, revolutionary behavior WITHIN the Communist Party of China.
She cannot laugh this off. The White House cannot laugh it off. They cannot spin it as a joke. And they cannot say it was taken out of context, because she SPECIFICALLY framed and contextualized ("1947") murderous Chairman Mao Zedong with her very own words. See the tape again. It is true. This woman is in big trouble. She cannot get out of this philosophical head lock.