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Does Obama's communications czar know the bloody truth about Chairman Mao?

By: Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Editor. The Washington Examiner, 10/17/09

[Excerpt] ...the murderous truth about Dunn's hero. First, Johnson describes Mao's actions in the weeks immediately after winning the civil war: "Mao's first act was to extend his 'land reform,' already begun in the North, to the entire country, It was aimed at 'local bullies and evil gentry' and he urged peasants to kill 'not one or two but a goodly number of each.' At least two million people perished, half of them the tyrannical owners of less than 30 acres."

[Excerpt] During the years between 1951 and 1953, for example, Mao conducted these campaigns with what Johnson describes as "great savagery." Millions died after being convicted as "counter-revolutionaries," an all-purpose criminal classification used to make short work of anybody who came under suspicion. (link)

Comment: There are those on the fringe of the right who believe that President Obama desires to turn America into a totalitarian Communist dictatorship. They see his power grabs, nationalizations, and enemies list as warning signs. I am not yet among those who think President Obama has these grand designs. However, when President Obama appoints an admirer of Mao as his Communications Czar he is feeding the paranoia and the concern of his critics.

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The Liberal Love Affair with Communist

Anita Loves Mao

It is beyond my comprehension to understand why it is acceptable for respectable people to profess their admiration for Mao Zedong. If you have watched the news recently, you are probably aware that Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, gave a high school commencement speech in June in which she identified Mao as one of her two favorite political philosophers.

While Hitler is nearly universally reviled as the epitome of evil, Hitler’s 13 million civilian dead pall in comparison to Mao’s victims. Massive annihilation of segments of the population, the Chinese Gulag, strategic planned starvation, failed economic blunders like the “Great Leap Forward,” and the madness that was the Cultural Revolution total to more than 70 million peace-time victims. Since Mao was not as good of a record keeper as Hitler, the Mao numbers could be even higher. Seventy million is a conservative estimate.

Can one imagine the outcry if a White House appointee had praised Hitler as an example of a man with a vision who rose to power by perseverance and overcoming incredible odds? Can one imagine the outcry if a high-level White House appointee at a High School commencement address had listed Hitler as one of their two favorite philosophers? It is unthinkable, yet one can similarly praise the world most murderous tyrant and the White House, the mainstream press, Hollywood, and everyday Democrats never bat an eye.

Liberals have always had a soft spot in their heart for Communist. Following the Russian Revolution, American liberals flocked to Russian to praise the new Communist regime of Lenin. Following Lenin’s death they loved, praised and excused Stalin up until Stalin fell out of favor when he formed a pact with Hitler. Many Americans liberals loved and respected Ho Chi Minh and carried his picture in anti-war demonstrations and chanted “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh.” They not only wanted America out of the war, they wanted a Communist victory. Liberals thought we were wrong to support the freedom fighters in Nicaragua. They sided with the Communist. Liberals still love Communist. You often hear expressions of admiration for Cuba’s Castro and you can count on the liberal establishment to side with the Communist in any Latin American conflict. About the only Communist that American liberals have not accepted and loved is Pol Pot. I don’t know why Pol Pot never got shown any American Liberal Love.

The current administration apparently doesn’t think being a Communist should disqualify one from serving in the administration. Van Jones was a self-avowed Communist and was made a “czar.” The administration is comfortable with those who admire murderous tyrants as long as they are Communist murderous tyrants.

To see more about the current controversy involving Anita Dunn and see excerpts of her commencement address in context, follow this link: The New York Times.

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