From Dennis Prager H2 today: "Anita Dunn, the White House Communications Director, the one who started the Fox News feud, told a graduating class of high school students that Mao is one her favorite philosophers. One of her favorite philosophers? He didn’t have a philosophy. He was a power mad mass murderer and a serial rapist? The director’s view of Mao is a perfect example of liberal naiveté and ignorance about evil."
Mao was responsible for the deaths of about 75 million Chinese.
On Thursday night’s program, Beck showed exclusive video of Dunn discussing the communist leader, who was responsible for a cultural revolution in 1966 that included re-education camps and setting the army and students on witch hunts against his opponents.
Millions of Chinese suffered or died, most notably teachers, writers, political opponents or anyone deemed a "reactionary."
Dunn, taped in a speech in what appears to be a church, said the leader’s philosophies were a guidepost for her own strategy on politics. She also praised the philosophy used by religious icon Mother Teresa.
"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is ‘you’re going to make choices; you’re going to challenge; you’re going to say why not; you’re going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."
The comments set Beck into a tirade.
"It’s insanity. This is her hero’s work," he said. "She thinks of this man’s work all the time?
"It would be like me saying to you, ‘you know who my favorite political philosopher is? Adolf Hitler.’ Have you read Mein Kampf? [She wants to] fight your fight like Hitler did," Beck said.
HERE’S THE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY ON A 2005 BOOK ON MAO:
Mao: The Unknown Story (2005), an eight hundred and thirty two page biography written by the husband and wife team, writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, depicts Mao Zedong (1893–1976), paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China and chairman of the Communist Party of China, as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.
In conducting their research for the book over the course of a decade, the authors interviewed hundreds of people who were close to Mao Zedong at some point in his life, used recently published memoirs from Chinese political figures, and explored newly opened archives in China and Russia. Chang lived through the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, which she described in her earlier book, Wild Swans, and her experiences gave vividness to her writing and engagement to the analysis.
The book became a best-seller in the United Kingdom and North America. Initial reviews gave warm praise, later reviews from China specialists included both support of the book’s general conclusions and, from some, criticism of the book’s documentation and selective use of sources.
