Chairman Mao Ze Tung and Mother Theresa....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJjoruQs0Y

Oh God, NO!  Not Mother Teresa!

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Mother Teresa, the most socialist person ever?  That explains everything.

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Beck may be a loon, but as John Lennon once said, "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow..."

She's a fan of Mao Tse-Tung? (a.k.a. Mao Zedong)  ???

Damn, even the commies disowned that sucker's policies decades ago.  He was responsible for the deaths of millions of his countrymen, approximately 2 million via assasinations alone.  As a comparison, deaths under "peacetime Red China" under Mao's rule dwarfed the number of Russian citizens who died during all of WW2 fighting a war.

Anita's interest in Mao was somewhat influenced by the suggestion of Lee Atwater.

Anita's interest in Mao was somewhat influenced by the suggestion of Lee Atwater.


There is a difference between having an interest, and naming Mao as a "favorite political philosopher" in the same breath with Mother Teresa....

She's a fan of Mao Tse-Tung? (a.k.a. Mao Zedong)  ???



Chairman Mao was a righteous dude.  He'd fill a swimming pool full of nekkid teenage girls and jump right in the middle!

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There is a difference between having an interest, and naming Mao as a "favorite political philosopher" in the same breath with Mother Teresa....


True.... but the Right's rejection of Dunn's apparent endorsement of Mao would go a lot further if they weren't so supportive of trade with China.

I realize China has changed a lot since Mao's reign, but we essentially reap many benefits from the China that Mao helped to build.

I realize China has changed a lot since Mao's reign, but we essentially reap many benefits from the China that Mao helped to build.


Mao never would have accepted the capitalism going on in Red China today.  If he were alive today (doubtful as that would make him 110 years old I think), he would conduct a purge on an unprecedented scale.

Chairman Mao was a righteous dude.  He'd fill a swimming pool full of nekkid teenage girls and jump right in the middle!

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Yeah, but were they alive or dead???  :o :o :o

Mao never would have accepted the capitalism going on in Red China today.  If he were alive today (doubtful as that would make him 110 years old I think), he would conduct a purge on an unprecedented scale.


Considering that the power structure still favors the wealthy few now as it did during Mao's reign, I'm not so sure about that.  Mao may have been the foremost Communist leader in China, but over time, Communists began to realize that you could retain a Communist state while implementing a capitalist economy.

There is a difference between having an interest, and naming Mao as a "favorite political philosopher" in the same breath with Mother Teresa....


Warning: rant coming on...

Not really.  Mao and Teresa both had a contest to see who could kill the most poor people with the best of intentions.  Mao won on points by a factor of several thousand to one, but Teresa - with her stance on contraception and poverty - made up for it on style. 

Seriously.  Sure, she only condemned a few thousand to death and a few tens of thousands to poverty, but man, she felt righteous about it...  Mao was the "hey, wanna make an omelet, gotta break a few million eggs" kind of butcher, but for Teresa, grinding poverty wasn't something to be overcome through the butchery of millions.  Poverty and suffering weren't even the means to an end.  No, for Teresa, a world of grinding poverty was an end in itself. 

"It is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot. The world is much helped by the suffering of poor people."
  - Mother Teresa.

By taking Catholicism even more seriously than Mao took Communism, she went completely off the deep end -- she positively reveled in suffering, viewing it essentially as a pathway to the divine.

"You are suffering like Christ. Therefore Jesus must be kissing you."
  - Mother Teresa to cancer patient

"Then I wish he’d stop."
  - Cancer patient in rebuttal.

Funny thing was, she had her own crisis of faith for the better part of her life.  As I see it, the poverty schtick was projection and transference: it was her way of bringing about her vision of gotterdammerung upon the rest of the world.

And to bring this back into current political discourse... of course she got a Nobel Peace Prize for it.

(Hey, I warned you this was a rant in the first line, right?)