Comments on: Anita HEARTS Mao!!!!

By: friendsofdavidhoward

friendsofdavidhoward — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:23:48 +0000

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.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:06:47 +0000

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?

By: neighhay

neighhay — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:41:14 +0000

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.

By: iowanforabetteriowa

iowanforabetteriowa — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:49:49 +0000

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.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:57:14 +0000

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.

By: neighhay

neighhay — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:50:34 +0000

“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….

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:52:59 +0000

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.

By: Leroy

Leroy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:02:36 +0000

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!

By: iowanforabetteriowa

iowanforabetteriowa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:56:37 +0000

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.