That vile woman was clearly trying to establish a moral equivalence between Mao and Mother Teresa. Her simplistic version of Mao’s “taking control of China” neglected to mention how Mao was helped by Owen Lattimore and Communists in our State Dept. like John Service and even Soviet Agents like Deputy Secretary of The Treasury Harry Dexter White. People very much like Anita Dunn.
Every blog, every news organization is now desperately digging to find some link between Lee Atwater and Mao.
Here is the illustration of how our MSM licks the backside of liberals and works hard for their defense while accepting wiki articles at face value about Rush.
The “quote” is not the problem. Who cares who she stole it from. The problem is that she stated that Mao is her favorite philosopher.
I think Ms. Dunn totally confused Lee Atwater’s hero Sun Tzu (The Art of War) with Mao.
ML/NJ
Mao, as are all Communists, is an utter failure in economics and common decency. Nevertheless, he does get some things right, and does know a thing or two about “asymmetrical warfare”.
Political power does indeed flow from the barrel of a gun, for instance. (Which is why so many governments seek to disarm and render helpless their subjects - but I digress) e.g. In our present circumstances the guns are media and all other nodes of indoctrination a/k/a “education”.
Another is Mao’s observation that guerrillas fighting an occupation force need not worry about securing weapons and ammunition. The enemy will keep you in constant supply - you just have to kill them and take it. e.g. “Fairness” doctrine; government support - via tax payers’ confiscated labor - directed to ACORN et al.
Mao’s study of guerilla, liberation war by a large, dispersed population against a small, urban, foreign elite with superior conventional resources is a classic in military theory and history. He was an early and profound exponent of the concept that “we surround them”.
Some things are worthy of study, and where conceptually applicable - incorporation. Here is a site that I like to use, based on the principle of letting one’s enemies keep one in supply:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/military-writings/index.htm
All of this is of course, I must emphasize, underscore, clarify, urge and insist is solely for historical and academic analogy only. Otherwise people might get hurt.
Not intended for any practical uses whatsoever.
Exactly.
Let it be noted that I also quoted Mother Teresa, but no one is accusing me of being a saint!”
Any one that would use Mother Teresa AND chairman Mao
as political philosophers is no saint.
It’s so nice that most of the people in the white house now are inspired by a bunch of communist murderers /s
But once video of that HS commencement speech is made public, and it makes her look really bad... now she's trying say it was a joke gone wrong, and to blame a dead Republican for the words that came out of her mouth.
Needless to say, that dead Republican cannot defend himself against her claims.
I'm seeing a trend... Say something really offensive, and then blame it on a conservative (Rush, Lee Atwater); preferably a dead one who isn't around to call you a liar and demand a retraction and apology.
It's not working, Mz. Dunn. They are your words; you own them. Mao is your favorite philosopher.
Not only does this dunce plainly say she admires Mao, but then sullies the name of a brilliant, dead GOP strategist in the process by claiming that he too “admired” Mao. We have nothing but pure scum running this nation now. It is to weep.
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Based on her tongue movements I’m thinking Anita must have chemo receptors on it, possibly used to detect animal body odor or to sense the presence of nearby warm-blooded mammals.
Anita, are you saying that your worldview is not worth putting on public display, declared by you openly and honestly without ambiguity?
You’re telling us you have no confidence in your ability to choose a worthwhile ideology.
This provides it.
What an idiot, but good for our side. I am glad she said this, and tried to give context in such a lame way. This sounds like a 16 year old responding to something, trying to laugh it off. BAD MOVE on her part. It is the crack in the wall we needed to get in order to start peeling off more parts of the concrete and eventually bring it crashing down.