{"id":33717,"date":"2009-10-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:09","slug":"white_house_communications_director_anita_dunn_praises_mao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/10\/16\/white_house_communications_director_anita_dunn_praises_mao\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Communications Director Anita Dunn Praises Mao"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: I just checked the e-mail while I was on a call, and I got a couple naysayers, &#8216;Come on, Rush! See, this is what you always do, what you always do. So somebody says, &#8216;We don\u2019t want to have a ruckus or any trouble in Texas,\u2019 and you say, &#8216;Of course not! We\u2019re not allowed to protest the Dear Leader in North Korea. We\u2019re not allowed to protest the Dear Leader in Cuba or in Russia.\u2019 There you go, Rush, comparing the Obama people and so forth to communists. Why do you always do this? This is why, Rush, people think that you go too far.\u2019 Oh. Okay. Well, I have a sound bite here from June of this year in Washington at the Washington National Cathedral during the Potomac, Maryland, St. Andrews Episcopal school graduation. White House Communications Director Anita Dunn this past June. Here is a portion of her remarks.<\/line><BR\/><embed align=\"right\"\/><\/line><BR\/>DUNN: The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other. In 1947, when Mao Tse-tung was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over, the Nationalist Chinese helped the cities, they had the army, they had the Air Force, they had everything on their side. And people said, &#8216;How can you win? How can you do this? How can you do this? Against all the odds against you?\u2019 And Mao Tse-tung said, &#8216;You fight your war and I\u2019ll fight mine,\u2019 and think about that for a second.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Folks (stammering) Get ready, Mike, because I\u2019m going to play this again. This is the White House communications director, Anita Dunn, speaking to a graduating class at the Washington National Cathedral in June. One of her favorite political philosophers is Mao Tse-tung. &#8216;When Mao Tse-tung was being challenged within his own party on his plan to take over China,\u2019 all the other people said: Look, your enemies have the cities, they got the jets, they\u2019ve got the military, they got the army, how can you do that? You fight your war&#8230; She is saying one of her favorite philosophers is a guy who brought communism to his country and took it over, and she is Obama\u2019s communications director! So don\u2019t tell me that I\u2019m going too far when I say, &#8216;We can\u2019t protest the Dear Leader in Texas. Why, they don\u2019t do that in North Korea. They don\u2019t do that in Cuba. Don\u2019t do that in Russia.\u2019 Who\u2019s got the Army in the cities today? Obama doesn\u2019t have to take them over. They\u2019re under his control. I know people don\u2019t want to face this. &#8216;I can\u2019t believe this, Rush. This is just too much.\u2019 Here, listen again and believe it. <\/p>\n<p>DUNN: The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other. In 1947, when Mao Tse-tung was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over, the Nationalist Chinese helped the cities, they had the army, they had the Air Force, they had everything on their side. And people said, &#8216;How can you win? How can you do this? How can you do this? Against all the odds against you?\u2019 And Mao Tse-tung said, &#8216;You fight your war and I\u2019ll fight mine,\u2019 and think about that for a second.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A question I have for Anita Dunn who admires Mao Tse-tung. Anita, is Mao Tse-tung your favorite murderer, too? How many did he kill, 30 million, 70 million? The numbers vary here. It\u2019s politically incorrect to call Mao a murderer. How many did he kill, 30 million people or 70? I think 70 million might be the Soviets. Still, we admire him, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I just checked the e-mail while I was on a call, and I got a couple naysayers, &#8216;Come on, Rush! See, this is what you always do, what you always do. So somebody says, &#8216;We don\u2019t want to have a ruckus or any trouble in Texas,\u2019 and you say, &#8216;Of course not! 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