A MASS MURDERER AND MOTHER TERESA
By Rick Scarborough
What sort of person cites a man who murdered millions in cold blood as an example of how to get things done? Answer: interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.
On his FOX News show, Glenn Beck played a video of a June speech in which Dunn cited Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa on the need to make choices. She described the monster and the symbol of compassion as “two of my favorite political philosophers.” That’s quite a pairing. Given Mother Teresa’s avowed Christianity, had she lived in China under Mao, she too would have been murdered by his odious regime.
The communist tyrant who ran China for almost three decades certainly knew how to get some things done. Mao knew how to murder, imprison, starve and torture the Chinese people. His policies are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 70 million (which included some of the greatest Christian missionaries, teachers and pastors of the past 100 years. One of those martyrs was Watchman Nee — whose writings, smuggled out of China, greatly shaped my own understanding of Christianity.
By backing North Korea in the 1950s and the North Vietnam in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Mao was also responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of American servicemen.
In the face of mounting criticism, Dunn issued a statement complaining, “The use of the phrase ‘favorite political philosophers’ was intended as irony.” Really? I’ve listened to the tape carefully, several times, and did not detect a note of irony in Dunn’s voice.
And why did Dunn reach for Mao as an example of decision-making? Why not cite Truman, Reagan or Margaret Thatcher – who advanced the cause of freedom and free enterprise, not tyranny and collectivism — as examples of how to make tough choices?
Dunn is only the latest example of Obama’s radicalism. From Bill Ayers (former Maoist terrorist) to recently resigned Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, from palling around with Castro and Hugo Chavez to trying to reinstate Honduras’s Marxist president – Obama naturally aligns himself with communists.
Dunn is in charge of mapping out White House strategy for attacking FOX News. How’s that for irony? With all of the media behaving like obedient lapdogs of the Democratic Party, it drives the president crazy that’s there’s a media outlet that’s not in his hip pocket.
It seems that everyday a new revelation surfaces of our president’s radical associations. Those who were paying attention during last year’s campaign are not surprised. Thankfully, more and more Americans who voted for “Hope and Change,” are awakening to see what Barrack Obama really meant when he mouthed those words. This is not the change Americans want.
We must stand up and make our voices heard. Please select here and send a personalized fax to all 535 members of Congress, as well as the President himself, and express your outrage over the pro-Communist leanings of the White House Director of Communications, calling for her immediate dismissal!
Dr. Scarborough is the president of Vision America Action and pastor of the Harvest Point Church in Nacogdoches, Texas. Select here to make a non tax-deductible gift to Vision America Action to assist us in standing firm for your values in the Public Square. Select here to make a tax-deductible gift to Vision America.
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