Only a Liberal…

Conservatives decided to engage in the intellectually dishonest debate tactic of taking a liberal out of context. Of all the times that Conservatives have been taken out of context, or been (falsely) accused of taking others out of context, they finally did. Whether the liberal outlets jumped on it, I don’t know, as they have in the past every time they have parotted the reports of Media Matters telling them Rush was a racist, with zero proof.

So follow the timeline… White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said this…

[T]wo of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to most to basically deliver a simple point which is ‘you’re going to make choices; you’re going to challenge; you’re going to say why not; you’re going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before

Understandably, conservative pundits jumped on this, and rightly so. She compared Mother Theresa to Mao. Any intelligent person can see her point, but its like celebrating the ambition of Hitler. Mao killed millions. The fact that he was ambitious is not a reason to admire him.

But then the conservatives went too far. In an attempt to ride the “Mao Tse-Tung” wave, they jumped on another quote by an Obama appointee, Ron Bloom, from last year:

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun

I agree with this statement. I agree with it the same as I would agree with Hitler if he said the earth orbitted the sun. Political power is similar to criminal power. People get what they want regardless of laws and ethics. The fact that Mao Tse-Tung thinks it and Ron Bloom agrees does not make Ron Bloom a communist. To pretend it does is childish and lowers conservatives to the intellectual level of most liberals: childish and weaponless. Ron Bloom is not a communist because he recognizes the reality of politics. He IS probably a communist because of the statement he said right before he mentioned Mao:

Generally speaking we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense.

Now this is the statement that Hannity and Beck should have focused on. Not the shit about Mao. I realize they were going with the Anita Dun/Mao theme, but I have no interest in themes. It was a stupid. This is the kind of shit Olbermann does. Ron Bloom is a moron, and likely a socialist or a communist with his anti-free-market nonsense, not his occasional agreement with a stopped clock (Mao).

Stick to the facts, and keep your good record going. You weren’t taking Jeremiah out of context so don’t start doing it now.