The left knows no shame. They have a direct quote, in their own words, and they still deny they said it and characterize any telling of the truth as an “attack”. I hope Beck, and Rush, who played her BS today, both bring this up again.
atwater appears to have thought of Sun Tzu as his favorite philosopher. There is even an old post on DU about it.
So it boils down to the fact of whether Atwater ever sarcastically use the phrase in reference to Mao.
They must have dug this up somewhere in order to use it as an excuse. It might play in the public for those that don’t listen to the tape...but anyone who listens to the tape knows she wasn’t being sarcastic.