Reading Mao is NOT the same as praising him, CNN.

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar

More moral equivalency by CNN in reporting on the Glenn Beck segment that exposed White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s commencement speech for St. Andrews Episcopal School at the National Cathedral; there she praised Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa as her “heroes.”  The CNN article uses Media Matters as a source to say that Republicans too are guilty of referencing Mao.  Newt Gingrich quoted him in 1995, they say.  Karl Rove wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that President Bush encouraged him to read a biography of Mao.  So now does that mean that if I read Mein Kamp that I like Hitler?  Dunn, in contrast, was praising Mao.  Commie News Network distorts with Alinsky-style equivalency (in Rules for Radicals Jesus and Stalin are both presented as social reformers).  Like Alinsky they bank on the ignorance of the audience.  The fact that Dunn’s speech back in June did not draw any outrage from school officials and parents demonstrates the appalling ignorance and complicity of our educational system.  And this is at a private school.  As I’ve written before, I’ve had college students who had never heard of communism, much less Mao Tse-Tung. 

 As a mind experiment, substitute Hitler for Mao. 

 BTW: I encourage everyone to read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, not because he is my “favorite philosopher,” but because we need to know who the enemy is.

Tags: Anita Dunn, Communism, Mao Tse-Tung, Obama administration