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Obama aide fires back at Beck over Mao remarks

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Anyone who thinks she was joking should listen to that tape of her speech before they make a comment.

Trust me. The woman was NOT joking.

Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-10-18 00:52|| 2009-10-18 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Here is a perfect opportunity for Obama to say Dunn acted stupidly. Think he'll do it? Me neither.

Posted by ed 2009-10-18 01:59|| 2009-10-18 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 No sale.

1) Who uses ironic references to political strategists when speaking to a high-school audience?
2) How many 17-18 yr olds know who the hell Lee Atwater was? Why should they even care?

I trust that the ~~right-wing hate machine~~ people doing reporters jobs are trying to hunt down ANY reference to Atwater and Mao... by anybody. What was this book? 1 gets you 10 that NO such quote exists.

Posted by Free Radical 2009-10-18 04:36|| 2009-10-18 04:36|| Front Page Top

#4 under the bus, Anita.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-18 07:48|| 2009-10-18 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Guys, if your wife ever catches you with The Other Woman just tell her she's 'missing the irony' of the situation.

Everything will be just fine then.

{8^0

Posted by Parabellum 2009-10-18 09:40|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-10-18 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Anita Dunn reminds me of the villainous Russian Colonel Rosa Klebb in "From Russia with Love". She successfully poisons James Bond by means of fugu venom tipped dart hidden in her shoe.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-18 10:18|| 2009-10-18 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 She is who she is and that quote was not irony--she meant it no matter how you spin it or nuance it or how you pass the buck back to Beck and FOX. She is an admirer of Communist thug who killed millions. I recall some quote about putting lipstick on a pig back during the election season.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-18 10:23|| 2009-10-18 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 She is an admirer of Communist thug who killed millions.

That's the real point, isn't it -- not that she looked up Mao in the Book of Famous Quotations for a zinger, but that she doesn't have a problem with all that Mao did.

Lee Atwater might have used the quote, but he never admired the murder of millions of people.

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-18 11:12|| 2009-10-18 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 After watching her speak on U-Tube, I get the impression that we have been invaded by an Alien Species from Outer Space, that Geco/Lizzard Tongue thing is a dead give-a-way

Posted by Gleling Mussolini6224 2009-10-18 11:26|| 2009-10-18 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Ms. Dunn needs to work on her lying skills if she wishes to continue her role in the Obama Politboro.

Posted by DMFD 2009-10-18 11:26|| 2009-10-18 11:26|| Front Page Top

#11 I heard her audio and was amazed to hear of Mao and Mother Theresa in the same breath. Glenn Beck may be over the top at times, but ad hominem attacks by the WH is SOP for criticisms of their policies by anybody.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-10-18 15:49|| 2009-10-18 15:49|| Front Page Top

#12 AP - the audio doesn't do justice. Watch the weird lizard-like lip licking presentation to get the whole icky feel

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-18 16:12|| 2009-10-18 16:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Over-statement is inherent to heated rhetoric. That is why statesmen declare clear positions that negate rant. Or maybe Hussein O isn't a statesman?

I can't say I like Beck, but I don't go ape-shht when I disagree with him.

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Grerelet4852 2009-10-18 17:14|| 2009-10-18 17:14|| Front Page Top

#14 At WikiAnswers, the question was posted, did Lee Atwater say sarcastically that Mao was one of his favorite philosophers. The answer was no. Lee Atwater quoted Mao to make a point but he never said sarcastically that Mao was one of his favorite philosophers. Dunn is bald faced lieing.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Angomoting3589 2009-10-18 19:02|| 2009-10-18 19:02|| Front Page Top

#15 "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.

At least she didn't claim it was "pillow talk."

*gag*

Posted by Pappy 2009-10-18 22:20|| 2009-10-18 22:20|| Front Page Top

#16 Notice that Ms. Lizard Lips keeps bringing up the dead (Mao, Mother Teresa, Lee Atwater)? None of them are available to comment if she even got their remarks correct, much less in the proper context. I'm guessing....nope, not even close.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-18 23:08|| 2009-10-18 23:08|| Front Page Top

#17 After watching her speak on U-Tube, I get the impression that we have been invaded by an Alien Species from Outer Space, that Geco/Lizzard Tongue thing is a dead give-a-way

Like Nancy's eye blinking.

Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-10-18 23:19|| 2009-10-18 23:19|| Front Page Top

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