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Anita HEARTS Mao!!!!

OH ANITA, MY DEAR LADY, SAY IT AIN’T SO!

The statements made by Anita Dunn about Chairman Mao to a group of high school students (at a graduation ceremony, no less) are truly appalling. To paraphrase, she considers Chairman Mao one of her two favorite political philosophers and turns to him in her hour of need…or… er…oh, something like that…you get the point…Why, according to Ms. Dunn, the Chairman is held in similar esteem to  Mother Theresa!

WOW is all I can say! What  ignorant and fatuous statements on Ms. Dunn’s part… Her message would be laughable if it were not so dangerous for impressionable young students. I would hate to indulge in character assassination by calling  Ms. Dunn a stupid woman, but I find myself sorely tempted.

I shouldn’t be surprised, actually.  As I said, Ms. Dunn’s words indicate to me that she could be  ignorant, or should I qualify and say she’s perhaps simply un-educated or mis-educated (did she attend an Ivy League School?) Nor would I be surprised if, perhaps like some of her colleagues at the White House, she is infatuated and held in great thrall by the collectivist economic and social agenda of communism and is thus incapable of seeing Chairman Mao for what he was. Mao was a cruel and vicious dictator, who had no respect for human life and  engaged in a completely degenerate lifestyle filled with all kinds of physical greed, including disgusting sexual excesses with people of both genders, the younger the better.

As Ms. Dunn suggests, Mao DID “do it his way,” regardless of what convention told him—oh yes did he ever “do it his way,”  Ms. Dunn! In fact,  doing it his way was one of the most strongly held tenets of his “philosophy”. Mao prided himself on living his life in direct opposition to the dictates of convention, sleeping at all hours of the day and night, staying awake for days, eating the peasant fare to which he was accustomed (and plenty of it while his people starved,) sleeping with whom he chose, never bathing, taking his chamber pot on international visits, forcing his entourage to wait upon him in ways that were highly inconsiderate if not actually detrimental to their health, and indulging in the written word (his own and others) in a manner  which was  nothing more than a diversion from the facts of his dictatorship—can you say “propaganda?” etc. etc. In short,  Mao led a life of virtually total abandon with no moral constraints. The only constraints he did acknowledge were those necessary for him to  maintain absolute power.

Anita Dunn’s comments have come to my attention while I’m in the process of reading “The Private Life of Chairman Mao,”  written by the man who was his personal physician from 1954 to 1976. Reading this book has been a long and somewhat arduous process— in fact I have been reading it for months because many times I have had to put it down in utter revulsion. The portrait Dr. Li Zhisui paints is of a vile and gross man with a talent for words and showmanship who pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of Chinese and inspired them to venerate him and then…killed them.

I would highly recommend people read this book (if they can stand to) because it is more than a little thought provoking in the year 2009. Here is a quote from Dr. Li that I found particularly so:

‘And the Chinese people? The Communist party  had taken “the people” and praised them to the sky while these very people were being oppressed and exploited, forced to endure every hardship, accept every insult, merely to survive. “The people” were nothing but a vast multitude of faceless, helpless slaves. This was the “new society,” the communists’ “new world.”‘

So much for the good works of Anita Dunn’s beloved political philosopher.

October 22, 2009 - Posted by neighhay | Politics, neighhay | , , , , , , , , , ,

9 Comments »

  1. Maybe she was a member of the Mickey Mao club lol And Obama has surrounded himself with people at the white house who think like this. Van Jones self proclaimed communist. Maybe this explains all the czars.

    Comment by iowanforabetteriowa | October 22, 2009 | Reply

  2. Anita Dunn is a disgrace. I hope she moves to China. She would fit right in. And, she has a bunch of cronies that could go with her and America would be much better off!

    Comment by Leroy | October 22, 2009 | Reply

  3. I never heard of this book so I looked it up on Amazon. They say only three subsequent books cite this book. That’s not much for an old book claiming to have insider information about one of the major figures of the century. Are you sure it’s reliable? When someone gets a book deal to dish dirt on a famous figure and has no evidence beyond his own memory, I’m surely skeptical.

    Comment by Jerry | October 23, 2009 | Reply

  4. “The Private Life of Chairman Mao” by Liu Zhisui, Random House 1996, foreword by Anthony Nathan of Columbia University.

    The book had “the ring of truth,” whatever that may be LOL and I believe it to be credible, although naturally there is a point well taken in the adage, “Don’t believe everything you read.and only half of what you hear.”

    I learned of this book when I read a review in The New York Review of Books where it piqued my interest.The book had enough credibility at the time to have been taken seriously and reviewed by people at MIT (“from now on no one will be able to pretend to understand Chairman Mao’s place in history without reference to this revealing account,” ) The NYT (“Dr. Li clarifies numerous longstanding puzzles”), The Wall Street Journal (“One of the most provocative books to appear on Mao”), The Washington Post , etc.etc. The author of “China in Our Time” wrote that “our view of Mao will never be the same again.”

    As always, consider the source, not all of whom are necessarily credible to me because I don’t know enough about them. Maybe subsequent books haven’t chosen to cite this one because it doesn’t further the agenda of those authors? It is not for me to say but only wonder.

    P.S. I ordered the book from Amazon….

    Comment by neighhay | October 23, 2009 | Reply

    • OK, I concede. The mere fact that it was reviewed by all those publications gives it some credibility, assuming they weren’t all debunking the book.

      Comment by Jerry | October 23, 2009 | Reply

  5. Jerry are you a Maoskateer ? Why would you try to defend Ms. Dunn? when they have her on video tape at the graduation saying how she looks to Mao for inspiration.Why didnt she throw in Stalin or Lenin to. Wow well maybe i look to Charlie Manson for inspiration least his followers killed millions less than Mao did of his own people. Was Charlie just misunderstood to? The White House is crawling with self proclaimed Mao supporters and socialists. Joesph McCarthy would be losing his freaking mind today. Im sure hes done a few dozen flips in his grave by now.

    Comment by iowanforabetteriowa | October 24, 2009 | Reply

    • I didn’t say a word about Dunn, only about the Mao book.
      If “The White House is crawling with self proclaimed Mao supporters and socialists,” perhaps you’d like to play McCarthy and show us your list of them? Or did you just make that up, same as ol’ Joe did? I believe he did lose his mind already, that drunk SOB.

      I understand Dunn said she admired Mao’s quote “You fight your war, I’ll fight mine.” Big deal.

      Even I admire some Reagan quotes, like “Trust, but verify.” But don’t jump to any conclusions about my admiration for RR.

      So you look to Charlie Manson, eh? What is it you admire about him?

      Comment by Jerry | October 25, 2009 | Reply

  6. Well, Jerry, you can imagine that the sources from which some of these people came do not necessarily have credibility with me…but I actually did work for many years at one of these venues and found the professionals there to be extremely meticulous as to fact.

    Comment by neighhay | October 24, 2009 | Reply

  7. I think it’s one thing to quote Mao and another to say he is a favorite political philosopher— I see that even Ann Coulter is cutting Ms. Dunn some slack on this because it turns out Ann has also quoted the Chairman!

    Maybe I am being too harsh, but although I wouldn’t necessarily described the Obama administration as crawling with commies, the number of people he has around him who seem at least sympathetic to communism does give me pause…My point is simply to emphasize some of the extremes to which communism seems to have taken people over the years.

    And frankly, I wonder if some in the Obama administration are well versed enough in history to be aware of these extremes. I know from firsthand experience that those in the Ivy League and other similarly liberal/left wing environments were enamored of Mao in the sixties and seventies and eighties and may not have investigated his record perhaps as thoroughly as they should have.

    Comment by friendsofdavidhoward | October 26, 2009 | Reply


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