Obama aide fires back at Beck over Mao remarks

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/becks.dunn/index.html

updated 2:43 p.m. EDT, Fri October 16, 2009

By Ed Hornick
CNN


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
White House communications director Anita Dunn she picked up Mao Tse-tung from a legendary Republican.


"The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me," Dunn told CNN.

As for Beck's criticism: "The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing."

They hate Mao for what he did after getting into power but they admire him for his wisdom. Read about the long march and you will understand that Mao was no idiot.