Posted on 10/17/2009 9:44:48 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
The war of words between the White House and Fox News is intensifying — and getting personal.
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In an e-mail message, Ms. Dunn said, “My source for the Mao quote was actually the late Lee Atwater, either in an article or bio I read after the 1988 election. Now that I’ve revealed this I hope I don’t get Keith Olbermann angry with me. Let it be noted that I also quoted Mother Teresa, but no one is accusing me of being a saint!”
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Outstanding!
I think Ms. Dunn totally confused Lee Atwater’s hero Sun Tzu (The Art of War) with Mao.
Bingo!
ML/NJ
I find it hilarious that 18 years after his death, the communists smugly hold up Lee Atwater as a conservative icon and dare any of us to diss St. Lee, whom they consider the Devil Incarnate.
I wonder who and how many people under the age of 30 even know who Lee Atwater was and why he is considered an icon and why the left hates him to the point of shaking, spitting fits and snarky rejoinders.
However, I hope this stupid non-excuse prompts many of the brain dead youth to look him up. The man was totally cool and hip in a youth culture sort of way. Had he been a Democrat, he would have been canonized by now, his birthday would be a mandatory holiday and there would be buildings, freeways and airports named after him.
Personally, I loved the guy and have always wished that one of his many students had actually understood his coolness and his take no prisoners approach.
RIP Boogie Man.
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.
All that lascivious lip-licking tells all you need to know.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, it looked like some of the symptoms people suffer when they have tardive dyskinesia, which can be caused by use of psychotropic medications.
More severe cases are shown here: Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale.
I don't wish such a condition on anyone.
Wait: Atwater said "Mao is one of my favorite political philosophers?" Because I'd be surprised to see that.
These bastards in the White House don't even understand that as being the source of the problem. They think that merely quoting Mao's words is why we're upset.
I'll quote Mao all day long. Hitler too, and Stalin. But you'll never hear me saying they're my "favorite" anything, unless I start making lists of favorite satanic murderers.
This is a typically adolescent way of arguing: throw back some statement that has zero relevance to the charge or issue at hand.
Mom: You can’t go to the game because you didn’t clean your room by dinner, as asked.
Kid: But the game isn’t until tomorrow!
Thank you for posting that.
While looking under every rock for a connection between Atwater and Mao, the Establishment Media misses AGAIN the real story.
Who cares what Lee Atwater said. This woman idolizes Mao, and finds his philosophy inspiring, and she’s in our White House.
Exactly. We read about Hitler, not to idolize him, but to avoid men such as him in the future.
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.
You design needs to be on a tee shirt . . . including the Che’ wearing the 0 tee with ‘hope’ on it.
Then underneath that one word needs to stand out.
NOT!
Freepmail me and I’ll purchase the first one.
It's been years since I saw the film, but the Wiki entry sort of hits on some of what I took away, and what applies to Ms. Dunn:
Godard likewise portrays the role that certain objects and organizations — such as Mao's Little Red Book, the French Communist Party, and other small leftist factions — play in the developing ideology and activities of the Aden Arabie cell.
These objects and organizations appear to become ironically fetishized as entertainment products and fashion statements within a modern consumer-capitalist society — the very society which the student radicals hope to transform through their revolutionary project.[citation needed]
This paradox is illustrated in the various joke sunglasses that Guillaume wears (with the national flags of the USA, USSR, China, France and Britain each filling the frames) while reading Mao's Little Red Book, as well as the sight gag of having dozens of copies of the Little Red Book piled in mounds on the floor to literally create a defensive parapet against the forces of capitalist imperialism, and a jaunty satirical pop song, "Mao-Mao" (sung by Claude Channes), heard on the soundtrack.
Godard seems to suggest that the students are at once serious committed revolutionaries intent on bringing about major social change as well as confused bourgeois youngsters merely flirting with the notion of radical politics as a fashionable and exciting distraction.[citation needed]
It’s so nice that most of the people in the white house now are inspired by a bunch of communist murderers /s
Anyone, particularly in a commencement address to high schoolers, but otherwise in any serious (and it was serious) speech, who is going to quote something to learn from from Mao, MUST know that she MUST couple that “teachable moment” with a full and robust condemnation of all about Mao that is condemnable.
Also it is not like whatever insights Mao had were unique to him and that some other more suitable and less ironic source could not be found.
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